21 Day Intensive 200Hr Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training

Marco Mandrino is an E-RYT 500 registered Yoga Teacher, with a certification of Experienced Teacher by Yoga Alliance, Coni, MSP and CSEN. He studied and experimented different approaches to Yoga and spirituality.

Through the Teacher Trainings, Workshops and Retreats he teaches in Italy, Australia, India, Costa Rica and United States. Marco promotes an integral spiritual practice without boundaries of style and tradition.

Marco is the founder of the school of yoga, a non-dogmatic, inter-spiritual, intense yet light, approach with no center or goal rather than sustain the individual to fully live the wonderful simplicity of daily life. Marco Mandrino collaborates with different Yoga magazines and is the author of several publications and a book.

He is also the coordinator of the registered Yoga teacher trainings, which release an internationally recognized certification. As he said, "The only goal is to have no goals. To welcome the present as it is."

Since an early age, Max felt attracted and influenced by the vision and teaching of Mystics, Masters and Yogis like Rumi, J.Krishnamurti, G.I. Gurdjieff, R. Tagore and P. Yogananda, among others, which shaped the spiritual path to follow.

By the age of 20, he was traveling to India where he spent several years in the Osho Rajneesh Ashram, participating in many workshops, seminars and meditations influenced by the Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, deepening the practice in the Jnan, Bhakti and Karma branches of Yoga.

Extensive travels throughout India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, North Africa as well as the Americas, Australia and Europe brought him in contact with different spiritual paths widening the spectrum of ways in the quest of Human Consciousness Growth.

In the middle 90's, he  co-founded and contributed in the creation and realization of Samasati Nature Retreat, a Sustainable Ecological project in the South Caribbean rain-forest of Costa Rica where Workshops, Retreats, Seminars and Teacher Training Programs have been held since.

Inspired by gifted teachers like Glenn Black among others, in the last 18 years, he ventured into the journey of the practice and study of Hatha Yoga, experiencing different styles like Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, and Yin. He attended classes, retreats and teacher trainings in Costa Rica, U.S., Italy and Australia where he got certified in the oldest school of Byron Bay under the guidance of John Ogilvie.

Max currently teaches YTT in Costa Rica, Italy and the US. He combines a wide repertoire of Asanas and sequencing with Pranayama, Meditations, talks... and fun.

Emanuela is an artist, university professor of visual arts and independent curator, Advanced Hatha Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance), Emanuela has designed a method that combines the visual and performing arts and yoga. Always attracted by the theory-practice relationship, she teaches art practicing it, producing installations, performances and works in which the contemplative moment often turns into action and vice versa.

From 2001 to 2015 she has been Lecturer in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Communication at IED in Turin, and since 2004 to today, at the University Paris in France where she graduated in Science and Technology of the Arts.

Since 2013, she is part of the yoga faculty, since 2015 she is part of the Studio YogaNomade in Alba (CN) and since the beginning of 2016, she offers courses and workshops in her Yoga & visual-art center in Cherasco (CN).

In recent years, she has turned her daily Hatha Yoga practice into an experience to be communicated through workshops that combine the visual arts, yoga and movements from Tai-chi and Qigong.

The propensity for theory together with the tendency to applied testing, the assiduous study on the perception and creativity as encouragement to the knowledge of the self, are the extremes that join the activities in the field of contemporary creative languages and yoga.

Melissa started practicing Yoga while living in Istanbul, Turkey. At the time, her goal was to increase her flexibility and body weight strength, while healing certain problem areas of her body that resulted from playing elite level collegiate volleyball.

The practice of asana was a gateway to the deeper levels that Yoga penetrates and thus opened Melissa’s curiosity into meditation, pranayama, mind-body connection, and so much more. With her profound and life-changing experience at the teacher training, she realized that not only did she want to deepen her study of Yoga on the mat, but equally important, expand who she was off the mat as well. Melissa is a dedicated student of meditation, pranayama, and alignment-based Hatha Yoga, using it as a guide and influence to bring her focus inward to reveal the hidden and authentic areas of the Self.

Melissa believes that both in life and in our Yoga practice we must be at peace in mind and body, maintaining a meditative calmness, while at the same time being strong, active, and standing up for truth. Her classes reflect this as she aims to lead you through a dynamic and challenging sequence, focusing on alignment to reveal inner strength and energy, and cultivating awareness and control of the breath to keep you clear, present, and focused.

Melissa is also extremely passionate about traveling and seeing the world.

Melanie is a clinical psychologist with a degree in art, music and cognitive-behavioral therapy. While she was getting her degrees, she fell in love with yoga; its practice, philosophy and the way it impacted her life and lifestyle.

Ever since she began her journey through yoga, she has found herself living a healthier, happier and more meaningful life.

Today, she is a certified 500RTY. She enjoys practicing just as much as she does teaching. Sharing her passion with others honors and humbles her, and provides a grand experience. One of her favorite moments is when she is a witness of how her students find their sense of calm, joy and satisfaction.

Her Classes are dynamic and challenging, she encourages you to listen to your inner teacher honoring and respecting your body and focusing on the magic of the breath to go deeper and have a strong and stable asana practice.

Elisa Fantini’s yoga journey began in 2004, first as a practitioner, and then as a teacher.

Since a very young age she has had an interest in dance in its many facets, from ballet to rhythmic gymnastics and modern dance. This exploration reflects her constant search for the ideal way for the body and inner self to express themselves. But it is only through the encounter with the practice of yoga that her search has found its perfect form.

Elisa has always been guided by a strong interest in human nature, that lies at the centre of her quest. Fascinated by oriental philosophy and western psychology, in 2010 she got a diploma in Yoga Counselling, but she then chose to focus exclusively on yoga, which she found to be her ideal means of establishing contact with people. She was instructed by several teachers in different styles (including Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga). In her more recent explorations, she has begun to complement a Yang practice, more muscular and energetic, with a Yin practice, more subtle and gentle, which she got to know in Sweden, thanks to Biff Mithoefer’s Yin Yoga Teacher Training course.

Research is an essential part of Elisa’s life, and she undertakes it with the curiosity and the playful, childlike enthusiasm of a person who is still eager to explore the world. She finds her greatest joy in moving, dancing barefoot and with her eyes closed, and letting her body speak freely and with energy.

She is currently a member of the Vayu Association of Forlì, where she teaches weekly yoga classes.

Since her childhood, she has shown great interest in music, rhythm and movement. Her training started with pantomime, theater and ballet but the encounter with contemporary dance has led her to a new way of feeling the body and to being able to express itself through the movement.

She graduated at the Iwanson School for Contemporary Dance in Munich as a professional dancer and dance teacher, and took part in different productions with international choreographers. It was during her dance education that she first met the yoga practice, which led her to work on the movement of her body in a different way, related to the breath, by discovering a new range of colors that she could both use while dancing and practicing yoga. She therefore decided to start her yoga formation by first taking part to a Teacher Training in India, Goa and then continued  in Italy. During the years of education, she has always been fascinated by the various facets that yoga could propose, and she experimented by trying out all that captured her curiosity, from Kundalini to Ashtanga Yoga. She defines yoga as a continuous discovery, a true journey related to dance and movement, a journey through the body and one's own person. She is currently dancer and choreographer of the young dance company In.Da.Co. and teaches in Bolzano in her Yoga Studio Wanderlust - Yoga & Movimento.