Angela Cipollone
Angela has started to practice Ashtanga in 2007 in the AYRI Institute in Rome.
In March 2015, being already deeply involved in the Ashtanga Yoga practice, she started her training in this institute as Ashtanga teacher. She started off with assisting in Mysore lessons, adjusting in the primary series and gaining first valuable experiences as a teacher.
In 2016 she attended the In-Depth-Study with Lino Miele attaining the authorization to teach the first Ashtanga Series in the tradition of Sri Pattabhi Jois. Lino Miele has been committing himself to this form of practice for many years in order to preserve it and pass it on to his students.
Since 2013 she has been going to Lino Miele’s shala, in India, once a year for about 6 to 8 weeks. There she works next to the master, helping to assist his students. This gives room for a continous learing process that is quite unique in comparison to others Teacher Training Courses which follow the Indian tradition of knowledge transmission.
In December 2017 Angela went to Mysore to study Pranayama with Guruji BNS Iyengar at Krishnamacharia Yoga Foundation Institute of Mysore, India.
At the moment she intensifies her practice with Tina Pizzimenti. Being a devoted student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Tina dedicated her whole life to Ashtanga Yoga, teaching and promoting it accordingly to the tradition.
From 2013 to 2019 attended 6-8 retreats of Lino Miele
On December 2017 attended pranayama studies with Guruji BNS Iyengar in Krishnamacharr Yoga Foundation Mysore, India.
Sharmila Desai – Ashtanga Yoga Morjim – Goa
Dic 2022-Gen 2023 staying 2 mesi
Dic 2023-Gen 2024 staying 3 mesi
Gen 2025-Mar 2025 staying 3 mesi
Ott 2025-Dic 2025 staying 2 mesi
Teach regularly at Ashtanga San Saba, Roma
Occasionally she has teached:
Rossella Amedeo
Rosella has always been interested in yoga, particularly in Ashtanga Yoga. In 2010 she attended a course at the Yoga Vidya Gurukul in India. Since 2011 she has been practicing regularly in the AIRY Institute of Rome. She also took part in several retreats with Lino Miele, Vijay Kumar, Prem Carlisi, Susanna Finocchi and Peter Sanson in Italy and abroad. In 2017 she started practicing with Tina Pizzimenti regularly.
Jagriti Bisht
“Visiting teacher” from the 15th of September to the 20th of October
She started practicing Ashtanga yoga at kpjayi Mysore India in 2013 with Saraswati Jois, later that year she continued to practice with Sharath Jois. Over the years she traveled to practice with several renowned teachers i.e, Sharmila Desai, Mark Robberts, Deepika Mehta, Lino Miele, Louise Ellis, Harmony Slater, Kamal Singh, Nathalie Daou both in India and abroad. At present she teach Ashtanga yoga & Prenatal yoga in Kuwait and also works as a holistic health & wellness coach.
Photos by Elisabetta Nottola
Iwona Rasinska
Iwona has been a yoga teacher for almost 20 years. Her path is Ashtanga Yoga, which she learned in India from Sharmila Desai. She completed a 500-hour yoga teacher training course, compliant with the Yoga Alliance standard. For 10 years, she has run the Samadhi School of Yoga in Dzierżoniów, Poland. She also enjoys visiting Rome to lead workshops on asana technique.