Francesca approached Yoga more than 20 years ago. Since then, Yoga has been a recurring and trusted companion for her. She studied Ashtanga Yoga during her professional training at the National Dance Academy in Rome, which deeply inspired her daily practice of flowing Vinyasa-based sequences. During the four years she lived in London, she experienced Hatha, Flow, Yin & Yang, Iyengar, and Aerial Yoga. In 2020, Francesca qualified as a Hatha Yoga teacher at Yogalife. Since then, she continued her professional development with the qualifications in Somatic Intelligence: cueing for Vinyasa (50 hrs), Advanced Yoga Anatomy (100hrs), Yoga Nidra (60 hrs), Prenatal Yoga (80 hrs), Antastha & Yoga Philosophy (100hrs).
Now she is a 200 hours Registered Yoga Teacher at Yoga Alliance, on her path towards the 500 hrs training attended.
The joint practices of dance and yoga offered to her a very fertile ground for enquiry and research on the connection between mind and body, imagery and quality of movement, developing her expertise of meditation-based somatic practices. She found that a regular practice of yoga and meditation has a calming and clearing effect on her mind, easing the process of decision making and sharpening her attention and focus.
Since January 2022 Francesca is the founder of Sati Bliss Yoga, a yoga school based in Leuven, Belgium.
CLASSES
Francesca loves sharing her knowledge of yoga through playful and restoring classes infused with yoga philosophy for the everyday life. Her main styles include Vinyasa flow, Antastha (blindfolded practice), Prenatal, and Yoga Nidra. Her aim is to raise awareness of mind and body state and, through yoga practice, tune into a blissful state of gratitude and connectiveness. Classes are open level and a broad range of modifications is available to fit students’ requirements.
Francesca offers group Yoga classes in English (and once a week in Italian!) in Danstuin in Tiensestraat, 47 – 3000 Leuven as well as corporate, private classes, workshops, and retreats in Belgium and Europe. For more details about the full offer visit her Yoga website Sati Bliss.
FREE YOGA VIDEOS
Francesca is happy to share her practice thriugh her YouTube channel Sati Bliss Yoga where she publishes free yoga videos to spread even further the joy of practising Yoga and deepen the connection among the yoga community.
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