• Vanda Scaravelli (1908 - 1999) is known for her contribution to the practice of yoga in the West. She learnt yoga as an early student of two of Tirumalai...
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  • yoga with Desikachar and Iyengar in India, and with Dona Holleman and Vanda Scaravelli in Europe. Yoga Journal called Schiffmann one of the "innovators" of...
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  • & Cravens 1998, p. xix. Wishner, Nan (5 May 2015). "The Legacy of Vanda Scaravelli". Yoga International. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved...
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    Iyengar visited the west regularly. In Switzerland he also taught Vanda Scaravelli, who went on to develop her own style of yoga. He taught yoga to several...
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  • lawyer, First Lady of El Salvador Vanda Scaravelli (1908–1999), yogi and yoga teacher Vanda Semerádová, Czech canoeist Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir (born 1965),...
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    reasons, in Italy. A pioneer of modern yoga as exercise in Italy was Vanda Scaravelli (1908-1999), author of the "classic" 1991 book Awakening the spine...
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    Makaranda T. K. V. Desikachar A. G. Mohan Indra Devi Srivatsa Ramaswami Vanda Scaravelli c. 1948 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga K. Pattabhi Jois Mysore style Tim Miller...
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    asana practice as a vehicle for transcendence." He cites yoga teacher Vanda Scaravelli's 1991 Awakening the Spine as an instance of such transcendence: "We...
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  • became a leading yoga teacher in her own right. Wildcroft likens her to Vanda Scaravelli, a yoga teacher who like Farmer studied directly under B. K. S. Iyengar...
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  • example of Vanda Scaravelli, whom he described as one of Iyengar's few female pupils who were not intimidated by him. Remski wrote that Scaravelli taught...
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    led him in 1986 to an intensive engagement with the Yoga-school of Vanda Scaravelli. His personal teacher at that time was Sandra Sabatini. Since 1987...
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