I went for a yoga class and that day changed me. He had screamed at me: you are crazy - you need yoga.
The real change happened when one day, after a terrible fight with my ex I decided to just walk in a yoga studio on my way to the gym. I wanted to move and back then those classes felt too slow for me. Despite how ecritic and complicated my life was back then, everytime I was taking a yoga class I was feeling a little better. Those classes were designed for dancers but I remember enjoying them very much. Mostly ballet and modern dance but they offered also yoga so I started to take classes to fill my requirement. In order to do that I enrolled in a dance academy. I used to be into fitness but in order to be able to live in USA I had to obtain a student visa. It was more that I kept stumbling into it and in the end I could not ignore it anymore. I did not have one moment when I found yoga. People started to follow me and slowly I built up a relationship with different brands till in 2018 I became one of the Alo Yogi and started not only to work with their athletic brand but also to teach at their stores and on the online platform Alo.moves. In 2014 I became the founder of ode to the moon a foundation that used yoga music and art to bring awareness on the topic of domestic violence and with that, I started to regularly post on IG. While teaching I started to collaborate with different yoga magazines, writing articles and modeling for athletic clothing lines.
I enrolled in a dance academy to obtain a student visa and there I discovered yoga, fell in love with it, got a certification and started to teach it full time (obtaining a regular O1 visa which allows me to work in USA based upon the achievement in my yoga career). In 2007 I decided to leave everything behind and move to New York City. In 2003 I graduated at the IED in Milan and I started to teach Fashion Design At the Art Academy of Milan but I kept teaching Fitness on the side adding to my resume Pilates and Spinning instructor certifications. Little did I know back then that fitness will become such an important part of my life. When I was in Italy, in order to support myself while I was studying Fashion Design at university, I decided to get a certification as a personal trainer and Aerobic instructor. I am a body movement specialist, yoga teacher, author, model, and influencer. Ponte di Legno is also well known as one of the most infamous stages of modern Giro history, the one that involves the Gavia and Stelvio.ĭuring the summer we were leaving Milan and stay at our summer home in Punta Marana, a little village on the emerald coast. I was lucky enough to be able to spend every weekend and winter break during the school year in Ponte di Legno, a little village in the Alps where my father was born. I spent my childhood in between Milan, Ponte di Legno and The Emerald Coast in Sardinia. Images by Fabio Filippi and John DeFiora.