Atman therapy was born from the idea of leading the person on the path of healing, going to work deeply on himself beyond the specific symptoms, looking for the cause of the discomfort that generates the imbalance. Working with the person as a whole, guiding them and exploring therapeutic resources together to find alignment with their essence. The physical body manifests an emotional or energetic imbalance through pain or tension. A constantly active mind contributes to increase the stress level of the individual and biochemically the body produces a response that in the long run becomes pathology.
08/05/2020
::: Open your ❤️ with Camatkarasana :::
There are two options to get into the pose:
1) From downward dog, lift the right leg up and move it behind you. Then push into your bottom hand and arch the back. Press down to lift your hips and chest toward the ceiling. The right knee stays bent while the left leg is extended.
Slowly lift your right hand off the ground and over your head.
Draw your shoulder blades toward each other and away from your ears.
2) from side plank, lift your top leg and move it behind you.
Then follow the same steps as if you were beginning from downdog☝️
Leave a comment to let me know what’s your favorite between the two 😊
Also guess which one is mine 😆 🐕
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07/05/2020
ॐYOGA INSIGHTS ॐ
Camatkarasana is a joyful pose to open the chest and shoulders while improving balance.
One translations of camatkarasana is “the ecstatic unfolding of the enraptured heart.” Because of its ability to stimulate the heart chakra, practicing this pose is said to bring feelings of love, peace, acceptance, and confidence. By leading with our hearts, we live fearlessly and without restraint.
To enter the pose:
•Start from side plank, bring your top leg behind you and then push into your bottom hand and arch the back.
•At the same time:
1. Gently lower your right foot toward the ground behind you.
2. Slowly lift your right hand off the ground and bring over your head in Gyana mudra.
•When the ball mound of your right foot connects to the ground, press down to lift your hips and chest toward the ceiling. The right knee stays bent while the left leg is extended.
•Press down into the knuckles of your grounded hand and draw your shoulder blades toward each other and away from your ears.
•your gaze is opposite to your extended leg.
•To release, lower hips to the ground or unwind back to downward facing dog. Pause for a few breaths then repeat on the other side.
Tomorrow I’ll show you a tutorial for this pose. Stay tuned 😊
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05/05/2020
To find stability in life we need to be strong from the centre of our being. In the yoga practice it’s the same. We can build stability beginning to strengthen our core. Here is a fun practice to work on your abs.
🇮🇹 Per trovare stabilità nella vita, abbiamo bisogno di essere forti dal centro del nostro essere. Nella pratica yoga è lo stesso. Per creare stabilità dobbiamo iniziare a rinforzare il centro del corpo.
Qui una divertente sequenza per gli addominali, da provare!
04/05/2020
❀ᴍᴏɴᴅᴀʏ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
WHY SHOULD YOU START MEDITATING? (From a scientific point of view)
As a PT I used to work in Neurorehabilation and I was extremely fascinated by the way our brain operates.
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s capacity to rewire itself through experience and learning. Our brains are molded through external stimuli. The brain actively grows and rewires itself in response to stimulation and new learning.That’s why stroke patients can relearn skills after brain damage.
Any mental exercise stimulates the brain and keeps it resilient. A learning/stimulating environment maintains, builds, and remodels neural connections. Several regions of the brain that are involved in memory, reflection, decision making, and planning have cells that can mature into functioning neural cells.
A recent study, Structural plasticity of the social brain, found that different forms of meditation can have different positive effects on the mind, from improving attention span to making an individual more empathetic, reducing stress levels, or helping a person stay calm in the midst of pressure.
Meditating is a mental exercise (through different techniques) that creates structural changes, providing impressive evidence for neuroplasticity in adults through brief and concentrated meditation practice.
Also engaging in regular aerobic activity leads to structural changes in the brain resulting in improved cognition.
So the combination of meditation+yoga might be the elixir formula to a sharper mind for a better life.
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01/05/2020
HOW TO PREPARE FOR WARRIOR 1
A good stretch for this pose is low lunge. It helps to prepare your hips and your thighs. It also gives you the understanding of your body in the space.
To enter the pose (warrior 1):
• Begin from mountain pose. Step one foot back. The front heel should be in line with the centre of your back foot, which is on the floor with an angle of 45-60 degrees.
• Your front knee is 90 degrees angle with your ankle.
• Your hips are squared facing forward
• While pressing down with your feet, engage you inner thighs building the strength to the middle line.
• Once you foundations are stable, lift your arms up, engaging your core to preserve your lower spine and draw down your ribs and shoulder blades.
Stay as long as you feel .
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30/04/2020
Slow down, Breathe, Meditate.
But how?
Here a beautiful practice for you to start you meditation: Nadi Shodhana.
It is an alternating nostril breathing to balance the right/left hemispheres of the brain, to increase the focus, to reduce stress and anxiety bringing balance.
The practice: begin in a seated position with the spine straight.
1)Place you right thumb on you right nostril
2) 2nd & 3rd fingers between your eyebrows.
3)Breathe in through your left nostril, hold the breath at the top of the inhalation.
4) close your left nostril with your ring finger and open the right nostril to exhale. Then inhale from the right, hold at the top, close your right nostril and exhale through your left.
That’s 1 round. I recommend to try at least 21 rounds to see the benefits 🕉 .
🇮🇹 Piano, Respira, Medita.
Ma come?
Qui vi lascio una pratica semplice da usare per la meditazione: Nadi Shodhana.
Il respiro alternando le narici equilibria gli emisferici cerebrali,favorisce l’attenzione, riduce stress ed ansia portando equilibrio.
La pratica: siedi comodo con la schiena dritta, poi
1)chiudi con il pollice la narice dx
2)posiziona il 2^ e 3^ dito tra le sopracciglia.
3)Inala profondamente dalla narice sx mantenendo il respiro alla fine.
4)chiudi la narice sx con l’anulare, libera la dx ed espira. Inspira dalla dx, trattieni il respiro,chiudi la dx con il pollice ed espira liberando la narice sx.
Questo è un ciclo. Suggerisco almeno 21 cicli per vedere i benefici della pratica 🕉
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30/04/2020
ॐYOGA INSIGHTS ॐ
When we stand in a “warrior” pose, we are simply taking the stance of Virabhadra, a fierce warrior who was at the command of Shiva. In the myth, a powerful priest named Daksha made a ritual sacrifice but neglected to invite his youngest daughter Sati or her husband Shiva. When Sati discovered her father had left her out, she decided to crash the party. Angered and hurt by her father’s insults, Sati no longer wanted to be associated with the body her father gave to her so she threw herself into the fire.
Shiva was devastated when he heard of his wife, Sati’s death. In response, he pulled out a lock of his hair and beat it into the ground. The lock of beaten hair transformed into
a powerful Warrior. Shiva named this warrior Virabhadra.
Virabhadrasana are the poses that explain the Warriors action. In Warrior I, the Virabhadra arrives at the sacrifice with two swords in his hands.
This mythical story signifies our posture as fallible souls who all engender completely natural human responses to emotions. We all make mistakes. Sometimes, life gets confusing. At times, we think that in the interest of becoming of true yogi, we must be devoid of all negativity. But, we’re all human. Things happen. Eliminating all hardship from our lives just isn’t feasible.
Being a “yogi” isn’t about existing in a permanently blissful state. Being a “yogi” means being able to successfully navigate the often complicated world of relationships and emotions. We become true warriors when we understand how to fight our battles with the proper weapons.
Along with the extraordinary range of emotions we exhibit as humans, we also have the unbelievable capacity for reflection. And so, when our battles scale beyond our control, we possess the most important tools of the “spiritual warrior”, which is compassion and forgiveness.
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30/04/2020
::::ANNOUNCEMENT:::: .
I am so thrilled to share with you something that has been a baby to me in the last month or so.
I have been working hard with dedication, putting my heart into that, to deliver the message I carry in my practice.
Soooo here for you:
My new website is finally ready!
You will find all the details about my offerings and my path.
Just can’t wait to see how I can serve you ❤️ .
With love and gratitude to everyone that has inspired me to get where I am.
Special thanks to for the help in the creation ✨
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30/04/2020
❀ᴍᴏɴᴅᴀʏ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
Who said that meditation has to be quiet?
There are forms of meditation that include sounds to take you into a deeper state.
Chanting has been used for a long time in different cultures as a way to alterate state of consciousness.
Through the sounds we have access a subtle vibrations that resonate in our brain, and take us out of our thinking mind.
It has been study how chanting stimulates different cerebral pathways to unlock our consciousness.
In yoga the chants are composed by mantras. Mantras are words with a certain vibration. As in the matter these frequencies already exist, the mantra itself represents a specific frequency related to something already present in the Universe. So when you chant a mantra, you tune into the vibration of that presence, moving from a Individual consciousness to a Universal consciousness.
Also, we find the power of chanting, in indigenous cultures which use spirit songs to tap into different dimensions.
Through the rhythm and the vibrations of these songs, the shamans get into an alterate state of consciousness (changing the brain waves) and receiving messages from the Spirit World. In other words, again, they move from their single human perception to the wholeness. .
To start to use this kind of meditation, pick a sacred song or a mantra, and just start to sing.
It would take you a minute to get out of your way, but once you start to find your voice, you will experience pure joy in an ecstatic state. .
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30/04/2020
ॐYOGA INSIGHTS ॐ
Prasarita Padottanasana stretches your hamstrings, calves, and hips; strengthens your feet, ankles, and legs; and builds awareness of how to protect your lower back. This pose is also a mild inversion, as it lowers your head and heart below your hips. The combination of the inverted shape and the forward fold tends to bring a wonderful feeling of calmness. Also, this pose will build strength in your shoulders and upper back, and it will give length and ease to your neck muscles.
How to get into the pose: * From mountain pose, step the feet wide apart, feet as close to parallel as feels comfortable. You are looking for stability and grounding.
* Lift your inner arches by drawing the inner ankles up. Firm the outer edges of your feet and big toes into the floor. Engage your thighs by drawing them up. Place your hands on your hips.
* Lengthen your spine and open your chest as you inhale.
* Fold forward from the hips, keeping your back long and your chest open, as you exhale. Go half-way down with a straight back and place your hands underneath your shoulders onto the floor, or on blocks. Take a few breaths here.
* If you feel you can still go further without rounding the back, walk your hands back as you fold deeper from the hips, keeping your hands underneath your elbows, elbows pointing back, with your forearms perpendicular to the floor and your upper arms parallel to the floor.
* In the full forward bend release your head down. If it’s available to you, with a long neck place the crown of your head on the floor.
* Stay in this pose anywhere between 5 and 10 breaths.
* To come out of this pose, walk your hands forwards to position them under your shoulders as you inhale, still with a long spine and straight arms. Place your hands on your hips as you exhale and come back up with a straight back, as you inhale. Walk your feet back into Mountain pose. 🇮🇹 per italiano nei commenti 👇🏻
30/04/2020
❀ᴍᴏɴᴅᴀʏ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
One of the hardest challenges in the Western World is living in the Here and Now.
Being fully present and embrace life each moment.
Meditation is a wonderful tool to teach us to be present bringing awareness, and one of my favorite practices is Mindfulness.
Mindfulness meditation is a mental training practice that teaches you to slow down racing thoughts, let go resistance, and calm both your mind and body. Mindfulness techniques can vary, but in general, mindfulness meditation involves conscious breathing, mental imagery, awareness of body and mind, and muscle and body relaxation.�It can be defined as a mental state that involves being fully focused on "the now" so you can acknowledge and accept your thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment.
Start by finding a comfortable seat in a quite space with no distractions.
You can set a timer or you can just practice as long as your attention keeps the focus.
Become aware of your breath, attuning to the sensation of air moving in and out of your body as you breathe. Feel your belly rise and fall and the air enter your nostrils and leave your mouth. Pay attention to the way each breath changes and is different.
Bring your attention to your body and feel the tensions you may have. Try to relax and let the go.
Watch your thoughts with no attachment or judgment. Be only a witness as you were watching a movie.
Stay into the practice as long as you feel.
Mindfulness is on going practice. It’s not done once you finish your meditation. It’s a practice that you can constantly training in everything you do in life.
Once you bring your full attention to what you are doing or thinking, you are being mindful.
Join me & today at 7:30 pm (MDT) for a free Meditation & Sound Bath.
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My Story
I am Giulia, a physiotherapist, yoga teacher and reiki master. I deal with the rehabilitation and care of the person in its three components: body, mind and spirit. My aim is to guide you in a deep knowledge of yourself through the alignment of your body and the relaxation of your mind, promoting a general improvement in your life.
I chose the name Atman because it represents the message of my practice. Working with the person as a whole, guiding them and exploring therapeutic resources together to find alignment with their essence. The physical body manifests an emotional or energetic imbalance through pain or tension. A constantly active mind contributes to increase the stress level of the individual and biochemically the body produces a response that in the long run becomes pathology. Atman therapy was born from the idea of leading the person on the path of healing, going to work deeply on himself beyond the specific symptoms, looking for the cause of the discomfort that generates the imbalance. If you have come this far, it is because you are ready to embark on the most transformational journey ever, the one within yourself, and you are ready to begin to walk your healing-liberation path.
PERSONAL BIO
I was raised in a medicine family, my dad a doctor and mom a psychologist––which made me curious about the study of the human being. I studied medicine and graudated as a top student at Sacred Heart university, and then worked as a Physiotherapy in Rome for 4 years. Meanwhile, I traveled and studied meditation and Reiki, becoming a Reiki Master. I took part in international research projects in the field of neuromotor robotic rehabilitation with the Campus Biomedico in Rome, and at the same time I got involved in international volunteering projects in Africa with "Neuromuscular Taping", becoming the coordinator of the volunteer division.
It is during one of my trips to Africa that I decided to quit my job in Rome and travel the world to deep my knowledge in alternative healing methods and open my mind to new cultures and experiences.
In the birth place of yoga, Rishikesh (India) I completed my 200hr teacher training at Sattva Yoga Academy by Anand Mehrotra.
In India I also attended the 10 day course-retreat of silence (Vipassana), that opened my understanding of meditation and mindfulness.
My passion for teaching yoga led me to work internationally like Los Angeles, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru.
Finally I completed my 300hr Yoga teacher training and Yoga Therapist training in 2019 at Inbody Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah.
