One day my friend, Karen Abend, an American Illustrator who joined my Yoga Studio in Sicily, inspired me to write down my teachings I share with my students while they are moving through the postures, Yoga Asana, during class. She appreciated my unique way of relating our daily mental struggles to the difficulties we encounter on the mat, my passionate talks about Yoga wisdom that takes the practitioner beyond the physical experience, and the tools for life she took home after each class.

"If we diminish the word Yoga to a purely physical practice on the mat, we miss out on a crucial aspect".

Each Asana not only has an effect on our physical bodies, but also has an underlying connection with some aspect of our lives, relationships, and spiritual selves. Nowadays, body image and competition seem to play a big role in Yoga, even though the actual aim of Yoga is to distance yourself from your body and mind so that you can live in total freedom.

I feel that it is my duty to honor the full scope of Yoga's sacred wisdom and share it with my students. It is my duty to teach them not only about their bodies, but especially how to balance their minds in daily life, because this is the ultimate goal of YOGA COACHING.

Think Happy Be Happy – A Yoga Coaching Pocket Guide is an enlightening introduction to the science and philosophy of Yoga that can help anyone seeking to live a more peaceful and fulfilling life.

A daily companion full of affirmations, life teachings and tools to start you on a motivational path of self-inquiry to bring you in greater alignment with living your best life now, free from suffering caused by external events and inner turmoil.

Using the affirmations and tools on or off the mat will leave you feeling empowered and capable of determining your own state of mind, where true happiness and unconditional balance are your birthright and available to you every moment of your life.

Every day, pick up your pocket guide, open a random page, read a paragraph, allow the message to resonate with you and raise your energy to the frequency of joy and freedom!

Yoga Coaching is an invitation to explore a vision of life that is based on the idea taught to us by the ancient Yogi Masters - that you are a devine soul, coming from a dimension of unconditional peace. You have been given the opportunity to live a human experience on this planet, and you have been gifted a human body as your vehicle and a human mind as your instrument.

The goal is for us to enjoy total freedom, which can only be achieved when we accept that our inner peace and the state of our inner world does not depend on life events or how others treat us. When we embrace the perspective that we are not our bodies or our minds, but divine souls that have been granted the great gift of spending a short period of time in a human body, equipped with a human mind, we are able to approach life differently.

I want you to remember that you are here to enjoy this gift, to make the best out of it, and that this is only possible when you learn how to use your instruments, your body & mind.