Is experiencing deep union something that happens once in a lifetime or can we feel it in a single yoga class or dinner with friends or waiting for a train or while we cook? Internal union and synchrony with the rest.
I won't hide the fact that many of my overseas friends, when they hear about a festival entirely dedicated to yoga, laugh.
"What does it mean?" I understand why they ask. To some of them who have been practicing taiji and yoga for years seems like a rip-off, it seems something fake and false, like a festival of the soul, how do you do it? After all, it's easy to become a showcase and that's it. But I have to say that several editions have been revealing something, not a mere "market" of teachers hungry for students or eyes.
There are moments for comparison, for discovery . Then I try to explain to my friends that you should go to these events with the spirit of village festivals, where you go, know, taste.
Let us extrapolate for you some interesting events of the 2013 Rome Yoga Festival program which will take place on June 14th, 15th and 16th, inviting you, of course, to look at it a bit. Because, perhaps, you find something, any declination of the practice, which will take you elsewhere (as, incidentally, happened to the undersigned).
The program of the Yoga Festival of Rome 2013
Friday 14 starts laughing.
Laura Toffolo leads a special event at 11.00 on breath and laughter . At the same time Antonio Nuzzo takes you in the dimension of the energetic discs that live there, the chakras. Of course, the transition from contact to two to practice seems interesting to us, Lorena Pajalunga brings it to life at 3:00 pm.
After about three quarters of an hour, you will be hungry. And we might as well hear about those who are raw and raw, the chef Elena Dal Forno (the meeting is open to everyone; the next day the chef will make us dive into the proper finger food, which takes care of the soul and all the rest). Children and adults together at 5.15 pm are called for a workshop between yoga, animals and nature by Francesca Palombi, promises well.
About Saturday 15 June we were intrigued by the sweetness of health that Simone Salvini will propose, at 11.00. An hour later, we're going to move and what better idea than to explore with Vicente Immaculada a practice that merges the 5 elements theory? I know Lu Jong but I've never practiced it (so I don't know it), a good opportunity. The 12.15 meeting on yoga, shiatsu and disability is very appealing, led by Silvia Mauna Paludett o. We do not know anything about Anukalana yoga, but we will be able to repeat it by going to do some ad hoc questions to Jacopo Ceccarelli. Go ahead for the vocal cords with "Free the voice" by Igor Ezendam . Djoharikian Philippe introduces us to Himalayan yoga. The highly anticipated event will take place at 6.00 pm: the meeting with Sri Tathata .
Sunday, June 16, when you will be full of inner union and will almost soar in the air, it will be the case to touch some peaks: Paolo Ricci makes us do Trekking yoga in the park. We report at 11.00 for the true lovers of the sacred texts of yoga, for those who like to explore the foundations of the discipline, Antonio Nuzzo takes us to the dimension of Patanjali also through the practice of singing. The Vyniasa Yoga for Benedetta Spada's travelers intrigues us. It closes with sound: the gong yoga conducted by Saribjit Singh Carucci, with Elisabetta Lupano and "L'Uno nel suono ", multi-instrumentalist concert by Oscar Bonelli .
Remembering that this is only a series of suggestions that refer to a portion of the program, we invite you to probe it all, without missing out on something that may possibly open up totally new perspectives on the practice.
