Bio28 Sunday

Yoga and Graham Experience

Maria is a 400 certified yoga & meditation practitioner, teacher, but most of all life-long learner. She is born & raised in Germany, but actually lived abroad for most of her adult life. After many years in France, short intermezzos in Italy & the US & a couple of years back in Germany, she settled now in Italy with her half German half Mexican Family.

Maria started her yoga journey almost 20 years ago, learned & trained in Berlin, Paris, Mexico & the US and teaches since over 8 years now, off & online. She is trained in Hatha/Vinyasa/Pranayama & Kundalini, but her approach today is very free, non-dogmatic & incorporates elements from different styles. Her practice is shaped by all the incredible teachers she had the chance to learn from, but also by everyone she practiced with.

Her teaching is based on the thousands of year-old yoga philosophy, in a very humble way, but she allows herself to follow her instincts & people’s needs. She offers a mix of somatic movement, breathwork & different meditation techniques that include both meditation in movement, but also immobility, both stillness & sound (vocal toning, humming, mantra chanting).

Maria sees herself as a facilitator to help people re-find the connection with their bodies & minds in order to open up spaces within where stress, fear & worries keep them tight to ultimately remember the "I" beyond the ego & the "We", the true connection to each other & that in the end “we are just all walking each other home” (Ram Dass).

She began studying dance at the age of 4 and deepened her study of ballet and contemporary dance at the Liceo Coreutico Azuni in Sassari. Here she has her first work experience as a dancer for the production of the opera "Turandot." She then moved to Milan to pursue a professional career in contemporary dance at "M.A.S. Music, Arts & Show," where she graduated in 2023. Here she began to study Graham with Giulia d'Antoni and became passionate about the technique, which led her to attend a Summer Intensive of 3 weeks at the "Martha Graham School" in New York. Parallel to her academic studies, she attends a professional teacher training course "ACSI d.e.e," becoming a certified Level I instructor for ballet propaedeutics. She performed as a dancer at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan with two productions: "RAVEL.suite" under the artistic direction of Virginia Spallarossa and "Miraculous - The Musical Show," an internationally produced musical.