Elena De Martin arrived to Ashtanga Yoga almost by chance in the late 1990s. She had a general interest in yoga and enrolled in a class in Milan, where she encountered Ashtanga, which immediately became a great passion for her. The sudden desire to investigate further this discipline, brought her to a retreat with Lino Miele, a teacher trained by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

Between 2000 and 2001, she had her first experience in India, first in Kovalam to study with Lino Miele, then in Mysore with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Back in Italy, she began to assist Lino Miele in his seminars and in may 2001 she opened classes in Milan.

Combined with the classes, that saw an increasing number of students from Milan becoming interested in Ashtanga Yoga, between 2001 and 2005 she continued to follow and assist Lino Miele many months per year, in his workshops and retreats in Italy and abroad (Northern Europe, U.S., India). She was willing to deepen her yoga experience at the source of its tradition and in 2005 she spent the whole summer in Mysore, absorbing the teachings of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Sarasvati and his nephew Sharath Rangaswami., an intense experience which she repeated enthusiastically the following year.  In 2007, she decided to take a year out and move to Mysore with her son for over a year. Taking with her more and more intensity, towards that path of knowledge and deepening of the endless discipline of yoga she began to study Sanskrit, the philosophy of Yoga, the Writings and their Chanting with the masters of Mysore M.A. Jayashree and M.A. Narasimhan. The proximity of these extraordinary teachers and the intensive study in India lead her to a deep inner change renewing the comprehension of Yoga and the real intrinsic value of great depth that must be applied to everyday life. Elena travels to Mysore constantly, several times a year always  keeping her passion alive and the love for Yoga that has brought so much to her life and which she shares everyday through her teaching.

In the early ninties, Lucia began a path of research and deep personal transformation that took her soon to study and practice Shiatsu and Ashtanga Yoga under the guidance of Sri.K. Pattabhi Jois.

She was certified a professional Shiatsu Therapist by the Italian Federation of Shiatsu while at the same time she  was deepening the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

In 1999 she started out on the yoga path: she first followed Lino Miele in almost all of his workshops and retreats in Italy and, later on, in 2003 in Denmark and in 2004 in Kovalam, India, where she also assists him during his classes.

Lucia has followed Lino Miele in his workshops and retreats, first in Italy and then in Denmark (2003) and at Kovalam in India (2004); at times, she assisted him during his classes. Soon after starting out on this path, Lucia met Elena De Martin. Since then, they have shared the same spirit and enthusiasm for the practice and spreading of this discipline. In 2001, she worked together with Elena at the opening of Ashtanga Yoga classes in Milan. The union goes on and today Lucia assists Elena during yoga classes in Milan and during the workshops and retreats they organize in Italy and abroad.

In September 2007 she traveled to India  where she attended the Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute of Mysore and where she receives the last  teachings by  the great yoga master who recently passed away. In 2008 she took part in Training Teacher Course held by David Swenson in Bologna

She is a co-founder of the Mi As Yo Milano Ashtanga Yoga that diffuses the practice of this discipline in the area of Milan and allover Italy.

Barbara Lunardon discoverd Yoga after a deep personal modulation within the realm of bodywork, in particular dance (classical, jazz and contemporary), as well as a long-term experience in teaching different physical disciplines.

After graduating in Physical Education at the ISEF Institute of Lombardy, she proceeded to learn Matwork Pilates technique, of which she is a certified instructor. Barbara integrates her own knowledge with the study of postural aspects, techniques of relaxation, applied kinesiology and reflexology.

Her activity articulates carefully, in an in-depth way, about body dynamics, until she discovers the Ashtanga Yoga method, following a retreat with Lino Miele.

Because of her athletic preparation, her open mental attitude and of her self-discipline that allow her to meticulously apply the yogic practice, Barbara’s path within Ashtanga brings her quickly to reach an advanced level of practice; also thanks to the continuous attendance at Lino Miele’s seminars and to the important work done through the teaching of Elena De Martin, whom she followed since the beginning, and of whom she becomes a serious and assiduous student . The relationship of trust that develops between them, sprang a collaboration in the teaching practice too; Barbara assists Elena in her lessons and retreats and began to teach classes herself in 2006.

During the last years  she took part in several seminars with successful Ashtanga Yoga teachers such as Kino Mc Gregor , Tim Feldmann and  Paul Dallaghan and she attended the teacher training with David Swenson in Italy. She traveled  to Goa, India, in December 2008 where she studied with David Swenson and with Dena Kingsberg. She is studying with teacher Gabriella Cella following a path aimed at deepening the symbolic aspect of yoga bound to the feminine universe and she is also attending a specialisation course for teachers that focuses on the study of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Moiz Palaci and Renata Angiolini at the Italian Association of Raja Yoga of Milan.

Francesca Bona discovered yoga in 1997, when the practice of Ashtanga began to spread in Milan with Lino Miele.  In Yoga, she recognized the natural possibility to bring together her own philosophical studies with the bodily harmony that results from a physical activity, elements that she had always felt to be inseparable.

For several years, she passionately commits to the practice of Ashtanga Yoga, by taking part in retreats and seminars with Lino Miele in Italy, and by having an experience abroad with Eddie Stern in New York.  During these years, she begins to share her experience by teaching Ashtanga to groups of students, interested in deepening their path within yoga.  What fascinates and drives Francesca’s research most is the state of mental presence associated with body postures; an experience that she finds particularly clear in yoga as in mountaineering, and especially in rock climbing, two other great passions of Francesca.

Some significant personal events take her away from practice for some years and bring her to focus on parenthood and on her professional activity that develops within the realm of communication.

She continues to practice Ashtanga Yoga according to her possibilities, without the guide of a teacher, always keeping contact with Elena De Martin, companion from the beginning and in whom she recognizes, more than a decade later, to be a seriously formed and aware teacher. Thanks to the reception and the friendship of Elena, Francesca rediscovers the possibility of yoga in a group setting, until finally, she returns to the experience of assisting students, correcting their postures, and thereby back to teaching, rediscovering that great opportunity of growth with the yogic path, interrupted many years before.