Winter Yoga

Lessons of Vinyasa Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga Flow, Meditations and Relaxation.
Courmayeur elementary school auditorium in Viale Monte Bianco, 41.

From 27 December – 6 January 2024
Hours: 5pm to 6pm – €15

JANUARY 1 –  GONG MEDITATION
“For a year of renewal”
with Cristian Favre
Opening hours: from 5pm to 6.30pm – €20
Reservation required LIMITED PLACES – We will go in order of registration

BRING comfortable clothes mat, water and blanket or shawl for relaxation

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Biographies

BETTA FRERA Yoga and meditation
Before meeting yoga and the mountains I worked in fashion/advertising, collaborating with the best agencies and the best photographers in the world and living for years between Milan and New York. Then I met love and Mont Blanc. I have lived in Courmayeur for 37 years, where I managed a historic company that produces mountaineering equipment. I have been practicing meditation for over 40 years, I have studied with various masters (Siddha Yoga with Swami Muktananda and Swami Chidvilasananda) in India, England, France and Italy. I have been practicing Kundalini Yoga for more than 20 years, according to the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. I have been a first and second level IKYTA International certified teacher for 18 years. I have been a YANI member since 2017. I obtained the Accessible Yoga diploma and continue my training with teachers from different schools. In 2022 I obtained the trainer’s diploma in “Bioenergetic Activations”. For ten years I have been organizing Yoga Mountain Festivals, Yoga Mountain Days, courses and seminars in various locations in the Aosta Valley.

LAURA SANTAMARIA Vinyasa – Yin yoga
Laura Santamaria encountered yoga in 2001 in Bologna, her hometown. In 2005 she began traveling to Asia and India and practicing different styles of Yoga with excellent Indian masters. In 2011 she achieved the 200 hours RYT certification with Yoga Alliance International. A path that allowed her to combine the benefits of various yoga styles and create a varied and open practice, trying to transfer the improvements of yoga into daily life. In recent years she has lived between India and Italy continuing her training and participating in numerous seminars, the last of which in 2017, lei Yin Yoga Level 1 Yoga Alliance (C.E.P). She is approaching teaching yoga to children after meeting Shana Meyerson (mini yogis). She currently lives, practices and teaches in Valle d’Aosta.

VIRNA BALLERIO Vinyasa Yoga Flow
Virna is a yoga and meditation teacher, holistic energy and sound therapist. In 2013 she began her spiritual journey in Thailand, where she approached the discipline of yoga. She continues her training, practice and teaching in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. She teaches Hatha yoga, Vinyasa, Yin, Prenatal, Aereal and her tantric approach explores the spiritual energetic dimension of the individual.
After years of traveling around the globe, she decides to share her experience and the gift of yoga with her authentic philosophy in Valle d’Aosta, where in 2020 she opens her studio OmMerakiYoga. Virna is Yoga Alliance 650+ hour E-RYT certified.

CRISTIAN FAVRE GONG MEDITATION
“For a year of renewal”
Cristian Favre is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, massage therapist, Sat Nam Rasayan therapist, Gong therapist, expert in shamanic paths, and has been practicing Vipassana meditation according to the teachings of Ajahn Chah for over ten years, also organizing intensive retreats: many “labels” that they summarize a long personal journey collected around the world and matured in our mountains, many facets of a journey aimed at Awareness and Healing, which are transformed into tools.