Tuesday evening teaching yoga in Milan : voice assists

Last week on tuesday I taught in english italian a full vinyasa class in Milan. It was a great experience. But I asked to my colleghes do you think it is right to change language during a yoga teaching? In a nutshell, many of them told me not to answer because they never had to. A few of them told me not to feel like teaching in another language. My friend and colleghe Belinda said to me it is right to be understood by students.

My personal feeling is not to touch too much students (verbal guidance) so if I need to express in a few seconds to change a foot position to improve the posture, I need to say it as quick as possible. And possible means if I communicate a first assist and the student does not understand, I will change my teaching language for him or her at the next one. The best book I red about assisting is Yoga assists of Sharon Gannon. In this book it is suggested to teachers to know how to adjust but to decide if to do it or not. I guess thatmis the point. Freedom of speech, to get a result. Action on the contrary.

Jivamukti yoga with Sharon Gannon Italian tour 2015 Milano Roma Cervia

Sharon Gannon is back in Italy next November 2015, (2015 events are here)
for the presentation of her last translated cook book in italian Recipes of Joy. Read more here http://www.simplerecipesforjoy.com/sharon-gannon/

I am so happy to introduce to italian yogini in case they dont know her. I met Sharon in 2008 in London for Yoga Journal italia to interview her and David Life and partecipate to my best yoga workshop ever. Our meeting led to the organization of the first event in Milan in 2009 with 100+ yoga fans from Italy, southern and central Europe. Great success before another success in Rome with the Jivamukti school of Nieves. Here more info about Nieves http://www.nivesyoga.it

Then in 2010 I went in Berlin for the only european workshop with others hundreds of yogini. I cant remember to have practiced with such a number of people, and will always remember that Sharonji say hello to anybody before the practice together. A way to say hello, to say thanks that I learnt from her. Our last meeting was in 2011 for the last presentation of Book in Italy and workshop with Yoga Festival and Eifis (we actually have the same publisher). Great moment of yoga and yoga life.
Now she is coming back so please after reading reserve HERE!
Milan, Rome and Cervia (Venice).


If you read italian I have an article for you writen by Maria Laura Giovagnini, a chief editor in IoDonna with whom I have collaborated as testimonial of Yoga tour 2015 and once practiced yoga.
Here about Yoga tour 2015 with Sharon Gannon
Here about Article about Sharon Gannon 2012


And have a great time.
With great love all is possible.

Yoga and tenderness: the gentle side of yoga

Next event in Antibes on August the 2nd 2015
9:30 am - 12
Euro. 35

Yoga and tenderness

The yoga work (atelier) is focused on finding tenderness (douceur) while practicing dynamic yoga. After practicing with mindfulness, after practicing with breathe awareness, I will present in anteprima her next workshop for Yoga festival Italia "Practicing with tenderness". The daily tenderness teaching (please check www.casadellatenerezza.org for more information) is included into a vinyasa yoga sequence which empower the body and strenghten the mind. The guided meditation will broaden the horinzons to the advanced or beginners. Multilevel and french/english spoken.

Some more details later.

Good food for mindfulness in Antibes for summer events 2015

The book of Mahiya Zoé Matthews includes the words I was looking for. After a year, working with macrobiotic cooks, authors and speakers, I was seriously thinking about the what is there after macrobiotics?! I got the best from Ohsawa, and its followers, some new generation authors I was daily using the books, but something was missing to me in order to explain how to eat. So I red further more! And Philippe Sionneau with tao explaination about how to cook were enlightening. Then I decided to meet one of this master called Carlo Guglielmo, nearby Torino wgere he found a macrobiotic food company and helped hundreds of people with TCM. Since then, I applicate in my alimentation the 5 transformations cycle and pray before eating. The what was clear to me, and I finally found the How to eat in this Ananda's work. The title of the book was clear : soul full eating. Eating was an action to change the world and my individual and the soul was the motor. The full use of my soul was the condition to make eating a prayer, a mantra or a meditation. Sometimes in my life I met people successing in make a great plate for my soul, silently and personally felt good, but these happy few were in trouble to explain me how to proceed. In a nutshell, the best part of the book is while including prayer, meditation, friendship, mindfulness, engagement. Eating, cooking are the same doing as they say. While Eating/Fasting and Digesting, our inner strenght and character determine our ability to be a peaceful person at home and in the world. Like a training focused on yama practice. I recently called this practice with Mindfulness words instead of yoga words. I include into my evening vinyasa therapy yoga classes, 30 minutes of mindful practice to prepare to diner. With my husband we have done some meetings (called M-eatings) called "Good Nutrition, Good emotions and mindful life can change our life!" because 

Tenderness is: preparing ourself to eat good (holy and yummy)

Don Carlo Rochetta, from a conference in Perugia.

Events organized with a spirit of dediction to create a knowledge and counsciousness about food.
August 7th 2015
Next event in Arts Thés Miss in Antibes, for a vegan diner plus an experience of mindfulness. More info below

https://www.facebook.com/events/439195036283755/

Italian yoga book tour summer 2015 with Benedetta Spada and Yogadinamico 2015

- Milan the 20th of June 2015 in libreria Esoterica @6 pm

  

First Yoga meditation inside international airport was done by An italian yoga teacher

After the first experience in San Francisco airport, Venice airport has gone all out for realizing the first live morning yoga sessions in an international airport. The event will consist of having a yoga teacher at your beck and call for a guided 15 minutes mindfulness session insisting on anti panic technics and some exercises against travel stress. Benedetta Spada, an experienced yoga teacher from Milan who has spoken to hundreds of persons as a motivational speaker, and also wrote a book about this, she is the one choosen to bring travelers of the day 4th of April 2014 to relax. She says " Venice airport 15 minutes yoga sessions is the major experiment in the world of free guided wellness as a service to passengers. As I wrote in Yoga in viaggio my last book, travelers need better general conditions on the one hand VIP lounge less overcrowded and public areas less stereotyped but on the other hand more silent in open spaces and valuable experiences to do self relaxation instead of only paid wellness experiences."

Save the children, save the queen or simply practice yoga and love to change your life?!

At home my father often quotes Adorno, Jung  but I found in Dostoyevsky the light about my Love focus of the day. I wrote "l'unico inferno è l'incapacità di amare", that I freely translate by the english words "Hell on earth is the incapability to love!". I believe that before to speak about Save the earth, the children or the whole humanity, one need some more love, the world needs spirituality! And this focus, begins now with you and me, choosing life, choosing to involve ourself in goodness, fairness, truth for truth, consistency... I love english language because it does not allow to interpretation like italian language. CONSISTENCY is my political programme. I guess I wrote too much  words, although I wanted to mean love, to mean respect. Life is a gift so what do you wait to put ourself on the job!

Jivamukti jules Febre in Milan 2nd of April 2015

A few words as requested to me to present Jivamukti Jules Febre next event in Milan (Italy). In 2009 with Sharon Gannon and David Life and in 2011 with Gabriella Bozic, Benedetta Spada was the city tour partner, but in 2015 I will have a partnership with Federazione Italiana Yoga e Sport, a new taskforce of italian yoga teachers. Thanks to all. Enclosed tou will find the event description and the few information I collected about Jules Febre.

Jivamukti Yoga - Hip Hop Asana™

Fun sequencing distinct to the Jivamukti Yoga method will warm you up and keep you cookin'. Come prepared for an upbeat session with great music and sequences. This is classic Jivamukti: original, sequential, inspired with spirit, and a little wild. A vigorous Jivamukti Yoga class for all levels of practitioner.

Bio: Jules Febre, nephew and closest student of Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life.

Jules Febre is an internationally acclaimed Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher. He began his practice at the age of 6. In his early teens, Jules spent time traveling in India with David Life. During that time he was invited to share satsang with Swami Nirmalananda and Shyam Das, two radical yogis, as well as studying Ashtanga Yoga with Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois - three great beings that have each helped to add to the progression of yoga in the West. Jules travels the world teaching Jivamukti Yoga, Hip Hop Asana, as well as immersion programs and retreats.  He leads the 300-Hour Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Training Programs in addition to mentoring in the 800-Hour Jivamukti Apprenticeship Program. With a desire to serve the community in which he was raised, Jules also teaches in youth development programs, prisons, and probation centers in New York City and around the world. He is a featured teacher at the US Yoga Journal Conferences and many international yoga festivals throughout the world. Having appeared in multiple magazines, on television and radio, he is recognized for his unique self-expression and a progressive teaching style that is filled with fun, humor and inspiration. Jules teaches a rigorous class with creative sequencing permeated by yoga philosophy with joyful wisdom that inspires, uplifts and serves all those he meets. Jules gives thanks to his Gurus Sharon Gannon and David Life and life long mentor Yogeswari.

With great love ALL is possible

MILAN Organization for the 2nd of April 2015
MILAN location : Spera Bikram

last minute reservation on phone 3924935761
last minute article about us : http://www.yogafestival.it/blog/hip-hop-asana-workshop-un-workshop-da-non-perdere/

Reservation webpage here: http://bit.ly/HiPHoPYOGA

Information contact here: padmayoga@benedettaspada.com

Some more events coming in Europe: Rome, Berne, Zurich, Barcelona, Eindhoven, Amsterdam watch out and partecipate  http://www.julesfebre.com/schedule/

Yoga for pregnancy a simple 5 hours training

Yoga for pregnancy and birth is a great goal and I guess business but is not a solution to pick up a few months before giving birth. I would say it is like a gift to receive during pregnancy (specially first pregnancy) as breath awareness and some yoga postures are important during the work to give birth. Indeed my first lesson focus on breath and body awareness, my second and third on the postures which can be helpful to prepare the body and during the delivery. In the end I would say 3 lessons of 1 hour and half can be useful for exercices and postures basis in order to know them and pratice home, can be helpful to find your posture if you decide to give birth naturally and to bring into your delivery a stronger breath and some yogic elements to your delivery room and that it. If you need more (because of past tragic experience of yoga or of delivery, because of hard baby posture or any complication, because you are afraid of or completely new to give birth) I would suggest to you a yoga meeting every 2 weeks for 6 months.

In the end aiming at giving birth is nice to prepare (get a toolkit and be happy) but nothing is more useful that to let go during the delivery your basic instinct.

Some people need yoga because they lost their body and mental balance. So the first easy thing to communicate to pregnant women is to educate their breath with a simple body scan you can check with them a breath dynamics. I personnaly use body scan technics from a medic called Bohle (yogatherapy). It consists of using hands on the side of your upper body to understand that breath is or is not regolar. That breath is a sound and a home which is a doorgate to a mindful life. Taking care of our breath, educating or reeducating our inhalation and exhalation is a good job to do while waiting for our baby. Breath awareness bring to body awareness for exemple. At the end of the first lesson women would get a new breath/body awareness and some advises how to use breath during delivery.

Some others come to yoga for the discipline of asana and the body discovery while practicing unusual postures. For the second lesson I taught some of the relaxing postures recommended for pregnant women in any books: for lower back pain release (cat pose...), for pelvic gym (chair agint wall, use of bandas...), heart burn and indigestion pain (stik pose, body side awareness...), ankle strenghtening (warming up on feet and massage) and the most important resting postures.

Lastly some people discover with yoga a natural way of life, a yogic lifestyle on and off the mat. Bringing all your knowledge about yoga into your delivery room is not easy specially if you have opted for an assisted delivery for any reason you have decided. Last lesson (open to future fathers) focus on compassion practice and emergency or instinctive postures (in case of natural birth preparation). I am 37 years old and in the last 15 years I have assisted many friends and students a small time before and after the birth. I Noticed that something was lacking for and from women, from their partner and family: family compassion practicing and woman instinct valorization. In order to bring mindfulness to my students of the pregnancy yoga course, I like to speak to the male partner to stimolate his protective attitude towards his female partner. Male usually need to see/listen to (more than to feel) so I introduce them to some simple postures to assist their partner to memorize in order to understand how the baby is positioned. Checking the position of the baby (normal birth position or any others) the man is aware of the engagement of his baby and can help to keep a natural position or to bring back his baby in a normal birth position. Last important thing about baby positioning but not least is to let understand if baby is arriving from left or to the right side. Lastly the most interesting thing about body awareness is to bring mindfulness and instinct to rise. As I use to say to stop your mind, to shut up the dancing monkey, feel free to practice a simple Come back to your breath exercize. Feel instead of think. Inhale I am here alive and exhale Let go what is useless. While giving birth you will need a few things, a few thoughts to do what you have to do, so train to be grateful for who you are and let go what is useless. Last lesson finish with chanting as it could be helpful to use it while giving birth.

This course has been done for the first time in Sohum yoga shala in Antibes. Copyright free with permission of Benedetta Spada mentoning your source.

Books:

On Amazon.com http://tinyurl.com/n5qyjze

On Google suggestions http://tinyurl.com/ksja7ac

My suggestion is Olivia H Miller book Prenatal yoga

Global meditation as an experiment of peace

http://globalmeditation.chopra.com/

Why am I teaching yoga?

Holiday is a new opportunity to discover your life and have a mindfulness experience.

So I want to share with you my last yoga class in French Riviera specially the final mantra I have writen to my students:

Kabat-Zinn says in Full Catastrophe Living, " it is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself. That is the reason for practicing yoga in the first place". The worst thing you can possibly do is to look around and compare yourself to somebody else, whether it is in yoga or any other field of endeavor.

To be yourself is more simple like to drink a cup of tea but we forget how to do it in our life and we find ourselves busy trying to be like somebody else and comparing us to somebody else who has more beauty, more flexibility, more strongnesss, more anything than us.

Here is my first point, nowadays I have difficulties to find in yoga shala and in life enough moments where someone ( a teacher, a lover, a friend, a yoga mate...) say to another: " try to be yourself" or just to find somebody who loves you like you are, or even better "try to walk in your life respecting yourself and knowing that you can recieve love just because you are you(rself), not because you are somebody else"! 

In many case I have heard people talk about yoga-mindfulness but I keep asking for myself do they really know what is yoga or mindfulness... Sometimes I met acrobatic yogi or some others who practice daily meditation on the rocks and so many others, but outside of their mat they start to be so different, like to be someone else into life or with their family, so I asked for me why should it be like this?

The answer I have given to me for the moment is that one is too much outside of oneself and too much in competition, too less inside oneself, too much in conflict and so on.

In many cases the first step to fond ourself is to find more compassion for our fears and our feelings. So while you meet one of this fears comes you can choose to start to create a new tension because you don't accept this limit or fear and just after increase tensions and pains (or you can decide not to do so).

If you want to change your life you have to come back to a simple option: to be in love with yourself, with your fears, body and mind limits, pains, tensions. If you start to accept who you are, you can help yourself in many moment of your life when may be something not so good happen. At the same time, when you start to reconnect with your breathe, with your heart and yourself you can love your partner with his/her fears, limits, stress, tensions, pains, this is my way to love. My beloved Thich Nhat Hanh would have said if the fear come into your mind just say "Hello my dear fear (inhale). I say you Good bye (exhale). As many times you need".

I like so much to practice Jivamukti yoga or Ashtanga yoga but I believe that in this society there is too much space for our body and competition and there is not enough space for mind, heart, mindfulness... also when you go to the yoga shala and practice you can forget what does mean this practice, not only how use your breath or performance but how to accept yourself, how to love, how to use your tenderness and only throught this way to change your life! This is the power of yoga and mindfulness, not to be perfect, but to give a new opportunity to you and your life. Yoga and mindfulness starts when your vinyasa yoga workout ends up.

In this summer yoga time I'm here in Antibes to teach in a new studio, after many days I'm thinking what I want to introduce in my life and in my yoga classes and I think we need more compassion, more patience with ourself that means for me need to give more space to what happen inside not outside and give more space to our family with the same patience and love everyday.

So if this summer you want to share your yoga with me, please write to me your story, why did you start to practice yoga and mindfulness in your life? Or why not?

Is it possible that you can start to love yourself throuht your limit and fears now is right time!

Benedetta Spada

Thanks to Marc A. Vincent for the english translation.

Photo credit: Marvin

Love 2014 - Part 2

How to pass from romance to love?

Jeopardize, free your choice! One day a maestro, a kind of guru told me: love is a choice of every moments, so take your responsability and love!

The tricky idea is that there is no rule, but I could advice on the contrary: where there is worry there is no space for love.

To my two friends who are getting married:

I wish the best life and to find anytime the willing to choose themselves into irregularities of life.

I wish them to find the right quantity of irony to finish the daily problems.

I wish them to take the responsability not to loose time for unuseful affairs (unuseful to love)

I wish them to find freedom not to look for external confirmations also to be strong as a seal

Here a word for all this called Namaste which means: I glory into you the place where all or the world, if you are in that place we gonna meet there because I am in that space waiting for you, so to be one a d only (una cosa sola).

Love,

Benedetta

La Fontaine maxim remix of mindfulness

 

with courtesy of @francoislange here is a modern maxim to begin your day. Benedetta on holiday think about you: @festivalyoga @yjit @yoganomics

Best 5 Ashtanga vinyasa books

Best book means that the 5 books give you a complete librairy about vinyasa yoga
1- A collective book about Sri Pattabhi Jois
Where does my yoga comes from?!
2- Maehle's ashtanga theory
What does my yoga means?
3- Long's book about anatomy
Where are body joints and channels?!
4- Life and sharon Gannon's book
What is the difference between sequenced yoga and freestyle yoga?
5- Scott's book with sequence illustration
One of the few books with ashtanga primary serie sequence

Yoga season detox (from cold season to warm)

For 3 days in our family we have done a fast time. Fasting with light centrifuge of veggies and fruit, fresh organic infusion, bouillon of veggies from our garden. This time gone away in silence, meditation, gardening, walk and more has given more complicity, and help us to find new mindfulness and new tastefulness.

At this point I want to say: dont eat to lose weight or to get more weight, but eat to feel better, to take care of us and our loved ones.

Anyone can choose freely what to eat, but sometimes our choice is unaware or even worst when to have a lunch has becomen a routine. 

While reducing food portion for a few days, we understood that fasting (including only fresh juice and bouillon) is awakening our senses again from a state of hibernation, and may be finding our body coordinates, reseting our taste and our mind so to sudden restart with mindfulness our own life.

I would say someone who is all-counscious vegan or even openminded macrobiotic can be epicurean.  I do believe in the possibility to change our food education and habits. At 30 years old for exemple, we have many pieces of food education (including fetal, infantil, childhood and adulthood diets) and we have a food pattern made of some really creative fabrication!  I remember myself at 18 eating almost nothing (low fat yogurt and fruit) which had no sense except to be fashionable and beloved. And after a period of being pissed of food, a new way of eating. In a nutshell, it is possible to shut up emotion chaos and having care of yourself for a few days facing your food pattern while fasting. Objective: reset your senses and feelings about food to genuine taste (infantil taste?) and slowly recognize new taste. In a few words tactics is decrease to increase.

You asked (facebook, twitter @mammayoga and radio) me for fasting:

- what to do when happen some signs on the peel?

I personnally use antisectic cream called Kimuli (biosophia)'made of tea tree oil.

- how to prepare fasting?

Classical ayurvedic remedy called triphala (biosophia or any other) for 15 days before. I drink it with water. It can be used also to prepare deeper cleansing.

- what to do when against headache for fasting?

During first 24 hours headache is normal as if you quit drinking coffee. I personally use umeboshi plum.

- how many times do you fast during a year?

Once upon a time the season were 4... Fasting was done during the fifth season, twice a year when changing from cold to warm season and the opposite. But nowadays I would say once during a period of 3/4 days of cold before a warm period, before summer. And some other times as you feel to do it.

- what to do if fasting bring in mind mental fixations and nightmare?

I would say meditate and dont analyse tour nightmare.

Thanks.

External link:
- http://www.biosophia.eu

Summer in french riviera july yoga event 2014

More info later...

Endorse the best people you know to heal the world

Yoga world is a small world where you meet good and bad persons like anywhere else, but I decided to focus on good ones.

If you come in Italy You may meet one day Guido Gabrielli, an openminded and pro publisher, a yoga student and since now a foreveryoung movie actor/director.

Guido has becomen a spiritual sparring partner of mine as We lived both in Milan and be part of a small yoga community.

Lastly I loved Guido Gabrielli' video doc (noi non siamo come James Bond, with Mario Balsamo) and I discovered a young photograph's website reading the leaflet inside the dvd box. Usually Guido call me for photo shoting about yoga so I was very curious to see his photos from Jim Campbell

Looking at his photo gallery, watching for the film, and Reading more about Leukemia, I discovered inbetween the great activity of Guido a few messages to share with anybody such as "life and emotion come before picture or a motion", or "pratice yoga is better than selfish activities but shoting people while praticing yoga is yoga", and "whenever we have low energy on our mat, at any time we carry on a mental, physical or spiritual disturb just then putting more  counsciousness we start to cure itself".

http://www.omlightphotography.com/gallery-list/gallery-guido-gabrielli/

Thanks to the photograph and to the photographed for showing the way to emotion, to sensation and intuition from another prospective.

T find more about Guido:

http://it.linkedin.com/pub/guido-gabrielli/9/350/380

http://www.yogajournal.it/

http://www.pulsapublishing.it/index-1.html

More about Jim Campbell:

http://www.omlightphotography.com/

More about me:

http://it.linkedin.com/in/benedettaspada/en

Yoga festival merano and travel detox programme in Bolzano

Workshop con Benedetta Spada

Our yoga meeting will focus on detox and relaxing techniches, very simple to bring into your dauly life, while traveling and working. Be happy is possible now!

Benedetta Spada was born in Milan, where she has studied Geography and Anthropology at the University, in the meantime she has worked with italian dancers and theater performers, before to dedicate herself to yoga and to alternative therapy. Since then she has worked in Radio Montecarlo, yoga festival and italian tv to promote yoga for the people anywhere.
At 21 years old she become a certified yoga teacher, after a few travels around the world to meet masters of life such as Carlo Patrian, Alejandro Jodorowski, she met in 2009 Sharon Gannon. At 28 she has done a few experiences of yoga studio management, then decide to teach for theater performers during her shows to improve stress management and, at the office during the week to desacralize the work time and place. She also teachs at home, and traveling.
She collaborate with Yoga Journal italy, Yoga festival Milano, she wrote 3 yoga books including Yoga in viaggio (Eifis editore).

Durante l’incontro, saranno spiegate ed eseguite sequenze, esercizi, tecniche detox e rilassamento utili non solo a vivere meglio ma anche a ridurre stati di stress, curare corpo e mente:
imparare ad essere felici e sani si può!

Benedetta Spada insegna yoga dinamico, meditazione e alimentazione consapevole (etica, sana, amorevole, naturale). Collabora come giornalista per Yoga Journal e altre testate, con Radio Montecarlo e Tv private promuovendo uno yoga svincolato da dogmi o spazi... il suo mantra e': "lo yoga e' per tutti!” Da anni tiene corsi per artisti, aziende, privati e tour- workshop in tutto il mondo. Nel 2013 nasce il suo progetto intitolato "Yoga travel detox ", il cui fine è quello di avvicinare allo yoga più persone insegnando che yoga è consapevolezza del respiro… al lavoro, in famiglia, a casa da soli, mangiando, cucinando.

Eat vegan at easter yes we can!

Eat vegan at easter yes we can!

Some of the places I have been to eat vegan anywhere you are in Italy are in the article.

My Vademecum is:

- google before and use the vegan link popularity

- make call the day before and in the meantime you reserve speak about your vegan diet

- when you enter the restaurant say that you red the good reviews about vegan plates and you are happy to be here

- when you sit and speak with the waiter tell himm you are vegan for a week because your doctor said so

- dont ask for grilled veggies (they could be done on the same grill than the meat) and no fresh pasta as it contains eggs (in most of the cases)

- choose a kind of gastronomy vegan friendly like Grande cuisine, world cooking (kosher), or Vegan/vegetarian only

- when you pay stand up and tell the owner you are happy or not before to settle the bill

- write on review website before to go home

(Italiano)

Premessa quando viaggio faccio una grande fatica per prenotare e mangiare come voglio, ecco il mio vademecum personale:

- fate ricerca su territorio chiedendo si alla direzione del vostro hotel, ma sopratutto cercando sui web forum e le recensioni online.

- telefonate per fare la prenotazione chiedendo della cucina o della direzione. Di solito si trovano a fine turno di servizio precedente verso le 15 oppure verso le 23.

- entrando al ristorante citate le vostre fonte "abbiamo letto tutte le recensioni su di voi e per questo abbiamo pensato che ci trattererete bene."

- una volta seduti parlate al cameriere di "intoleranza" e non di scelta vegetariana o vegana se siete in un posto qualunque.

- scegliete altre cucine che sapete essere in linea con la gastronomia e la dieta vegetariana/vegan (VG/VGA) come alta Gastronomia (AG), e la world cooking come Kosher, Ayurveda (WCO). Siate curiosi.

- non chiedete mai vedure alla grillia, le grille rovente sono le stesse dove si cuocce  la carne. Preferite tutte le altre cotture. 

- non prendere pasta fresca che spesso contiene uove.

- al momento del conto fatte presente che anche se sembra che avete mangiato solo contorni siete contenti. Ve la spiego dopo.

- fatte anche voi una recensione veritiera per lasciare alle persone che verrano dopo di voi un resoconto, i nomi delle persone incontrate.

Sources:

- http://www.viverevegan.org/web/guida/ristorantibar-intro/ristorantibar-vegan

- http://www.veganhome.it/ristoranti-locali/

- http://www.happycow.net/reviews/

- http://www.tripadvisor.com poi >Ristoranti>vegetariani e cittá

And veganblogger.

PIEMONTE: uso http://www.tripadvisor.it/RestaurantSearch?geo=187855&q=Torino%2C+Italia&cat=40&pid=

Tried for you:

Villa Soleil (Colleretto Giacosa) di Alberto Domenighini (AC) for the best local cooking.

Soul kitchen (Torino) su 4sqr ( https://it.foursquare.com/v/soul-kitchen/4df74597483b96f73159ad5f ) (VG/VGA)

VENETO: uso questo sito http://veganzi.blogspot.it/p/ristoranti-veg-friendly.html

Tried in Mestre:

Centrale pipl ( http://www.centraleplip.it/ ) di Davide Marchiori and his fantasy!

A Jesolo il magazzino delle scope ( http://www.ristorantedonclaudio.it/chicheteria/team.php ) veg and cheaps.

A Padova: 

Osteria fuoriporta ( http://www.osteriadifuoriporta.it/ ) ask for Matteo for starters and first meals.

ROMAGNA: I used http://www.tripadvisor.it/RestaurantSearch?geo=187801&pid=&q=Bologna%2C+Italia&cat=&src=

Tried for you:

In Parma new opening of Ratatouille ( http://www.happycow.net/reviews/ratatouille-cucina-naturale-parma-39468 ) 

ROMA: I used http://www.tripadvisor.it/RestaurantSearch?geo=187791&pid=&q=Roma%2C+Italia&cat=40&src=

Huge number of good restaurants for vegetarians and vegan.

Tried for you ghetto restaurants (cucina kosher).

Last opening:

Grezzo ( http://www.grezzoitalia.it/ ) di Vito Cortese per un dopo pasto o un regalo di cioccolato.

Firenze: I used  http://www.firenzeturismo.it/i-ristoranti-informano/vuoi-mangiare-biologico.html

Tried for you:

Dolce vegan ( http://www.dolcevegan.it/ ) of Helena Deza Linares with 100% vegan surprises like her "cheeses".

The restaurant of Hotel Savoy of Remo Vannini (and Petrangelli) "buona alla prima".

Ruth ( http://www.kosheruth.com/ ) of Tomas simcha Jelincek. My prefered one.

Milano: i used  http://www.tripadvisor.it/RestaurantSearch?geo=187849&pid=&q=Milano%2C+Italia&cat=40&src=

Is ther anybody in Milan open at easter?!

TOSCANA:

Ristorante of Adler Spa Resort ( http://www.adler-thermae.com/it/ ) il maitre si chiama Raffaele Porceddu chiedete di lui.

Orvieto:

Minù ( http://www.minubistrot.com/ ) with his famous seitofu 

BAT:

Antichi Sapori ( http://www.pietrozito.it/home.php ) of Pietro zitto. Vegetarian menu to agree with.

Ostuni:

Masseria il frantoio ( http://www.masseriailfrantoio.it ). My favourite place in Puglia.

Lecce:

dalle Zie for veggies and fresh pasta without eggs. ( http://www.lezie.it/ )

And in historical restaurants such as Vecchia Osteria e daAngiulino.

Summer 2014 board on my Yoga Van from Rome to Venice to Milan

Guidelines to my next project:

 yoga and crowdfunding

Why yoga why a van?
Yoga Van is a project to help people around Italy and Mediterranean to learn yoga tecniques and meditation, mindfulness.
The project has been created by Benedetta Spada after her book tour experience to present her last book “yoga in viaggio” (travel detox book). The book is an opportunity to help people to learn yoga and meditation out of mat and yoga shala. Everybody can practice everywhere in every moment during life journey. Benedetta expanded the meaning of “yoga in viaggio”, not only a book but a lifestyle to be happy, to have good relations, to approach calm and wellness in every moment of our life. anyway Benedetta started to share the meaning of yoga in viaggio so this book became a blog, a fb page a broadcast Radio, and travel detox workshop with Benedetta on the road.

Why yoga in viaggio is different from other yoga progect?
Because yoga in viaggio wants to share yoga & meditation for modern people a society with low cost and with “happenings”. Benedetta is an antiguru and a modern teacher with a editorialist experience, is a speaker who works in front up to 500 people with natural style and simple approach, she collaborates with Radio Montecarlo from 2007 and she is the first yoga teacher to teach yoga and mindfulness in Radio. Her approach is an unconventional yoga opportunity to put in contact every human with wellness and meditation respecting modern way of life, if you want to be happy and try a new wellness this not means that you have to go to India… but you can now change your life every day where you live, work and travel.
Our project has his own social media&press office.
This is a new opportunity to spread a modern yoga life style. Everybody can practice this simple tecniques but it is important to share. Yoga in viaggio is how you eat, you work, you love, you cook and yes how you practice…

Why me ?
We need only a few partners giving euros (private financing project) which give them the opportunity to help european people to learn more about yoga in viaggio. They support our project, we spread yoga spirit around our world. I like to spend money with purprose.
Creative and makers show cases every week released on a Youtube channel video in italian with english subtitles to follow the tour.

Where and when?
italy/france/spain
From July to September 2014

Offering free or donnation yoga classes, workshop and conference…

So far, this project has been self-funded out of yoga-consciousness need further funding to cover start-up fuel costs, administrative & marketing costs to get the word out, and to purchase more yoga mats.

Min. Budget to start euro. 5,000 (including the yoga happy van to pay)

Thanks for getting the wheels rolling!

“May my life contribute to all beings living healthy, happy and free.”