A short tutorial video that helps you understand and improve your downward-facing dog. Adho Mukha Svanasana is a foundational pose in any yoga practice, so this tutorial will help ensure you are doing it correctly.
Eva Ugolini
“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.”
“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.”
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Eva’s passion for Yoga and Ayurveda started almost 12 years ago while taking a course in Ayurveda-Yoga massage in Rome, her hometown. After experimenting with traditional Hatha Yoga and Pranayama, she went to Southern India on a few trips to deepen her yoga practice and Ayurvedic studies.
Marichyasana B
A pose tutorial that helps you understand and build into the twisted seated posture of Marichyasana B. This pose is featured in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.
Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana
Eva guides you through how to do Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana correctly.
Virabhadrasana A (Warrior 1)
A short tutorial to experience Warrior 1 more fully. This is a foundational standing pose which we will break down step by step.
Jumping Back From Lotus
A short tutorial guide to practice this advanced transition of jumping back from lotus. Take your time to build into this step by step.
UTPLUTIH (LIFTING UP)
A short tutorial video that helps you understand and build safely and effectively into Utplutih. Utplutih is the final pose in the Ashtanga yoga primary series. It's a challenging posture, so smile and be patient.
JUMPING THROUGH
In this short tutorial video Eva explains how to smoothly make the transition from downward facing dog to a seated posture. You will find yourself making this transition many times throughout the ashtanga yoga practice. As it can be quite a challenging transition, Eva takes you step by step through the different options: from simply stepping forward to the full "flying through".
JUMPING BACK
This short tutorial video will help you with one of the most challenging movements, Jumping Back. Eva will show you how to guide the transitions using your breath. Try to be patient, and don’t forget to bring some humor into the practice.
Eva Ugolini's story
Once back in Rome, she completed a two year Masters in Ayurveda Massage at the Atharva Veda Center, in cooperation with the Center for Study and Research of Naturopathy and Ayurveda of New Delhi, India. Here she met Denis Sciannimanica, who introduced her to Ashtanga Yoga. It was love at first sight and since then Ashtanga Yoga is part of her daily life, a tool for self-development and a mirror through which she can honestly look at herself every day.
This unique yoga style changed her life and transformed her way to see things so greatly that she naturally felt it was time to give space to a new fresh start.
It is then, in 2009, that she moved to Amsterdam and started working with Ayurveda in massage centers and yoga schools. As she continued to deepen her yoga practice at Astanga Yoga School Amsterdam, she decided to join the 200hrs Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training.
This very important step in her yoga journey changed profoundly her way to live and feel her practice that she started to integrate into her daily life both as a student and as a teacher.
That has consolidated her passion and dedication for this unique yoga style as a life tool for Self-development. Since then, every year, she travels to deepen her practice and teaching with Lino Miele and David Swenson, her guides along the path and beloved Ashtanga yoga teachers, who greatly influence her practice and teaching particularly in the areas of breath awareness, inner alignment and devotion.
She is very happily teaching Ashtanga Yoga, as a way to share her love, joy and dedication to this powerful practice, which can enrich our lives with extraordinary vitality and creativity on all levels.
