Eva Ugolini
Her deep love and dedication for Yoga have their roots in her Ayurvedic studies when, over 20 years ago, she started to immerse herself into the understanding of the Indian traditional medicine and its way to look at the human being from a broader perspective, and since then both disciplines are central parts of her daily life.
In 2009 she leaves Italy and moves to Amsterdam to give her life a new sense of purpose and proper space where to cultivate and deepen her studies on Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda.
Until 2022 she lives in Amsterdam where she holds for over 10 years an Ashtanga Mysore Program with Claudia Pradella at the prestigious school Delight Yoga and works as Ayurvedic massage therapist.
In those years her interest, curiosity and dedication to the practice brings her to travel around the world and have the opportunity to study, deepen her knowledge and assist some of the most world renowned Ashtanga Yoga teachers and enrich her practice and teaching experience taking inspiration from different sources.
Her main guides are Petri Räisänen who has a great role in bringing to her practice and teachings the elements of contemplation, inner quiet, safe and caring touch, and a broader perspective towards practicing and teaching Ashtanga yoga and towards its evolution over the past decades.
And Eddie Stern who has opened a big window into how to experience the practice as a source of inner steadiness and self observation and as a tool of expansion of awareness in all aspects of life and being.
The practice is a ritual for her, a sacred time to commune daily with her body, her breath, her inner sense of self and to maintain inner quiet.
It is her main tool to get to understand who she is and what is her purpose in life.
Today she very happily teaches Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda between Rome -where she moved back- and Amsterdam, she has collaborations with Petri Räisänen in offering summer yoga retreats and occasionally teaches in New York at the Broome Street Ganesha Temple.
Teaching is for her a way to share her love, inspiration and dedication for these so unique disciplines that can enrich our lives with extraordinary vitality and creativity on all levels and a tool to transmit them in a way that is inclusive, profound, accessible and open minded.
