Updated 1/7-10


Guest teachers

Elena De Martin, Astanga Yoga Milano

Elena & Dalton at Sharath's conference August 2009 Elena has been teaching in Milano since 2001 and is long term friend of Susanna and Jens. She will be guest teaching on the mysore classes here at the school one week starting Thursday 22nd of April 2010. She will also be giving special classes in the weekend 24th and 25th of April. See the programme under workshops

Elena De Martin arrived to Ashtanga Yoga almost by chance in the late 1990s. The desire to investigate this discipline brought her to a retreat with Lino Miele, a teacher trained by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. In 2000 and 2001, she had her first experience in India, first in Kovalam, and then in Mysore with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

In 2005, she spent the whole summer in Mysore, absorbing the teachings of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy, an experience which she repeated enthusiastically the following year. In 2007 she decided to take a year out and move to Mysore with her son for the entire year to pursue the path of knowledge and deepth of yoga.

Side by side with the study of Ashtanga, in 2001 Elena approached Vipassana meditation in the teaching of S.N. Goenka which has been a strong help to bring awareness to her practice.

Massimo Ferretti
Massimo has been practising Astanga yoga since 1999 under the guidance of Tina Pizzimenti and has assisted her on workshops and retreats in Italy and France. He has also practised with Guruji, Sharath and Saraswathi in Mysore both in 2005 and 2010 as well as participated on their workshops to Helsinki in 2001 and Copenhagen 2006 and 2009. Massimo was teaching in the Astanga Yoga School of Rome from 2002 till 2008 and is a guestteacher here at the he school in Copenhagen since August 2006.

Massimo is teaching regularly at Ashtanga Yoga Roma together with Gabriele Severini.

Elisa & Massimo

Elisa and Massimo at Guruji's workshop in Copenhagen

Elisa De Santis
Elisa has been practising Astanga yoga since 1997 and her main teachers have been Tina Pizzimenti and Lino Miele. She has also had the opportunity to practise with Guruji, Sharath and Saraswathi in Mysore and met them during their visits to Helsinki in 2001 and Copenhagen 2006. She has been teaching in the Astanga Yoga School in Rome from 2002 till 2008.

Elisa is regulary guest teaching here at the school in Copenhagen and has been here several times since 2006.

She has for many years also been practising Vipassana meditation following the teachings of S.N. Goenka and is currently following the Theravada Forest tradition (Ajahn Chah - Ajahn Sumedho).
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