19/02/2026
✨ Let’s Do “As If”: Fictions and Representations in the Practice of Hatha Yoga ✨
🎙 Practice with Lorenzo Aristodemo
“As if.” How many times have we heard this in a yoga class? Linguistic fiction acts as an analogy for the representation a yoga practitioner enacts on the mat. To paraphrase Pessoa: “The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely that he ends up pretending that the pain he really feels is pain.” Similarly, the yogi, through fiction, cultivates deeper listening to themselves and the reality around them. The practice reflects your relationship with life, and the mat becomes a privileged space for learning and awareness.
This is a Hatha Yoga practice, inspired by European masters such as Van Lysebeth and Hahoutoff, focusing on postural phrasing guided by the breath to reach postural silence.
Lorenzo Aristodemo, born in 1983, started yoga in 2003 with Portuguese master Jaime Silva and continued his studies with Giovanni La Salvia in Calabria. He carries forward this tradition and founded Il Giardino di Shiva in Cosenza. Lorenzo also trained in India and earned a diploma from the Mediterranean Yoga Federation, in the Van Lysebeth tradition, attending seminars in the Hahoutoff tradition as well. He follows the teachings of Wanda Vanni and is a teaching member of the Federazione Mediterranea Yoga.
📅 Date & Time: Feb 21, 2026 | 10:00 – 11:30
🌐 Online Event – registration via the link in our bio!
🗣 Language: English
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