What is Yoga?

YOGA is the practice of quieting the mind

Yoga is philosophical teaching from India and is more than 2000 years old. The word Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word and means unity and connection.

In Yoga Sutra Patanjali write in Sanskrit that Yoga is:

Citta Vritti Nirodha and means when the thoughts come to rest and he writes Atha Yoga Anusasanam translated only in the moment of now can Yoga begin.

The crazy monkey mind that is often in our head and makes flip-flops is always active in the head and Yoga helps this monkey mind to rest in our body.

The goal of Hatha Yoga is to see an inner transformation technique and attitude to life that can make the world a warm place and helps you to master the challenging situation in your life.

Ha is the sun, the light, as a symbol of strength and is masculine. That is the silver light of the moon and belongs to the intuitions, emotions, and is feminine.

The true meaning of Yoga goes behind the physical aspects.
Most people link Yoga with certain postures. It is only one aspect of Yoga.
You can relax your muscles through Yoga and develop power but the final goal is to
travel through yourself in your inner heart.

Yoga gives you mindfulness and love.
The path of Yoga leads you to yourself.

In my classes, I will guide you through 3 phases:

By keeping certain body positions (Asanas), you will feel a change because all the traumas that you had in your life are spilled in our Fascia and you will learn how to release them.
We will learn different breathing techniques, the breath in Yoga is called Prana, cosmic energy, Prana is the essence of life. The breath is important for the body but also for our mind and soul. BENEFITS: it releases anger, anxiety, panic attacks.
We will do different meditations. Meditation is more effective than sleep in stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system(when we sleep we take in 8% of the Oxygen in meditation 10% to 17% in just 3 minutes)it slows our brain waves, it clears the mind.

The body benefits from movement and the mind benefits from stillness.

The benefits of Yoga

It helps you learn to breathe.

It makes you more mindful.

It builds confidence.

It relieves anxiety.

It helps to reduce stress.

It helps to reduce depression.

It helps to reduce panic attacks.

It boosts your strength.

It makes you more aware of your posture.

It helps you to find your inner self.

It helps you to love yourself.

YOGA is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

What are the benefits to do yoga every day?

Yoga gives you more energy

Yoga makes you feel better

Yoga helps you to sleep better

Yoga can reduce anxiety

Yoga learns you how to be grateful in your life

Yoga increases strength

Yoga improves your balance

Yoga boosts your metabolism

My Yoga Journey

I am teaching Fascia and Vinyasa – Hatha Yoga classes in Bassersdorf and online via Zoom.

I am originally from Italy, born in Genova. When I was 9 years old, my father died of lung cancer although he was a really sportive man. Due to my stepfather, I had the chance to live in various countries. So besides other cities, I lived in Zagreb and in Teheran. My time in Iran was very special as I stayed there during the last four years of the war between Iran and Iraq. I really loved to be there but we were living with the feeling of fear day by day.

Since I was young I always did sports, so starting at the age of 6 years until 11 years I practiced gymnastics and classical ballet, jazz dance, and Hip Hop. My passion for dance and gymnastics led me to become a Zumba teacher.

When we came here to Switzerland I worked for 20 years at two international banks. It was a very nice time because as I was a client advisor and I had the chance to work with international teams and international clients. In this period of my life, I got married and we had the wish to become parents. Unfortunately twice I lost the babies. After this drastic experience, I needed something to calm me down and bring me back to the Cecilia that I was before – because I felt so lost and nervous inside…
So I started to take a Yoga class in Zurich during lunchtime and there I fell in love with Yoga for the first time.

As life goes by, you can be struck in a short time by various strokes of fate in terms of health and this is what happened to me.
Besides a serious skiing accident, the two abortions I had I was so happy to give birth to a healthy son. I was breastfeeding him for 2 years, and after that time he began to take one virus after the other, and my body was feeling really tired. I did not have the strength to do anything, and in the end, I was afflicted by fears and panic attacks. Last but not least two years ago I had serious liver surgery due to a very big good tumor.

I was looking for inner peace and restoring balance in the body.
Yoga and proper nutrition helped me a lot during these times to recover.

Yoga means for me an inner transformation technique that you could experience for yourself.
By holding certain positions, blockages and tension can be released and increased strength can be developed in the affected areas. But the ultimate goal of yoga for me is a journey through myself into our heart.

Through various breathing techniques and meditations as well as accompanying asanas we can regain our inner peace and strength.

My biggest wish is to help many people in their situations and bring their joy back to life.
In addition, I would like to bring back an atmosphere of trust in body, mind, and soul.

The goal is to balance the body and the mind as much as possible in order to become the temple of the soul.

Training / Experience:

Reiki One practitioner

Fayo / Fascia Yoga 2017

Uplifted Yoga Teacher Training 200 Hr

Uplifted Yoga Teacher Training 300 Hr