Enjoy & deepen your Ashtanga practice with Emanuele & Bella.
Energising Morning Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga Classes will give everyone from complete beginner to advanced practitioners the chance to experience the vitality and harmony of Ashtanga Yoga in the beautiful, peaceful surroundings of Yoga in Salento.
You will benefit from two experienced teachers giving guidance, hands-on adjustments, alignments and individual attention.
There will also be 3 early evening classical Hatha Yoga Classes & pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation, kriya (cleansing techniques) and gentle asana (postures).
This retreat is designed to give proper attention to the yoga practice, whilst enjoying lots of relaxed, restorative free time during which there is plenty of scope to independently explore not-to-be-missed Puglia – sandy beaches, crystal clear blue seas, countryside, whitewashed villages and elegant towns and cities.
This is la bella Italia at its summer best!
Emanuele Rossi & Bella Galt
Emanuele Rossi
ASHTANGA YOGA RETREAT IN SALENTO ITALY WITH EMANUELE AND BELLA.
Began practicing Astanga yoga in 1997 in Italy with Francesco Sangalli. In 1998, he started to practice under the guidance of Lino Miele and continued constant daily self–practice for several years, discovering step by step the benefits and transformative power of Astanga Yoga. He began teaching Astanga Yoga in Tuscany in 2001.
The teachings of Lino Miele inspired a dedication to Astanga Yoga, which led Emanuele to India in 2004 and meeting his Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2005 when studying at the K. Pattabhi Jois Astanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI) in Mysore, India. He studied at KPJAYI for extended periods again in 2006 and 2008. Other influences have been Manju Jois, David Swenson, Nancy Gilgoff and Gaby Pascoli, who have led him to a deeper consciousness and awareness of the practice and life.
In 2006 Emanuele moved to London where continued his practice and self discovering at Astanga Yoga London with Hamish Hendry, who daily inspired him as a model of dedication and faith and showed him the reality of this practice.
In London Emanuele has taught morning Mysore Style Astanga Yoga at The Life Centre and The Fulham Yoga Shala as well as teaching individuals and other classes across the city.
I 2009 with his partner Bella started teaching daily Mysore Classes in Oxford at Yoga Garden.
“Bless my family for their eternal support and unconditional love, thanks to my partner Bella for her pure energy, thanks to all the teachers who share with me their knowledge and joy for the practice, thanks to Sri K. Pattabhi Jois for dedicating his life to keep in life this precious practice for humanity and thanks to God for every breath I take.”
Bella Galt
Bella was introduced to yoga by her grandmother in the Cotswolds, England, inspiring her to explore yoga in the ashrams of Rishikesh, India in 1997. Later that year she began working in education and environmental conservation in Laos, staying there for nearly four years, fully immersed in Buddhist and traditional culture. The gentle society, compassionate people and natural way of living fundamentally changed her outlook on life. Through the grace of Sally Sizemore, her yoga teacher in Laos, Bella began teaching yoga in Vientiane in 1999.
In 2000, she undertook teacher training and karma yoga for a few months at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Val Morin, Canada and then moved to London to begin teaching yoga full time for 9 years. She apprenticed in the traditional Mysore Style Astanga Yoga method under the inspiring guidance of teachers Hamish Hendry, Roberta Giannotti and Denise Christian, training with them, assisting and teaching classes at Astanga Yoga London between 2001 and 2008.