Yoga with Marco

I first came into contact with yoga when I was nine years old – I had borrowed a book from the library called ‘Yoga for Children’. I was intrigued. In my room I secretly practised the postures, copying the pictures in the book. My favourite posture was padmasana, or lotus posture. I practised that posture ever since.

Two decades later I took my first yoga class – I was hooked immediately. Now, almost fifteen years later, my yoga practise is steady, calm and very pleasant. This I want to pass on to other yoga practitioners, beginners or advanced. I thank Teresa Caldas for making this possible by allowing me to teach a regular class in Studio Asana.

Yoga is an ancient tradition which, over the millenia, has developed many streams of philosophy and practise. The yoga I teach focuses mainly on the body cultivation (kaya-sadhana) pursued by the siddhas (yoga adepts) and maha-siddhas (great yoga adepts) of India. This means the exploration of the hidden potential of the human body, transforming the body into a bodily vehicle that withstands the ravages of time as much as possible.

I thank all my yoga teachers and yoga friends, especially Teresa Caldas and Orit Sen-Gupta. Teresa Caldas for all the years of brilliant yoga classes and her persistent enthousiasm, showing me the way even when I sometimes had the illusion that there was no way. Orit Sen-Gupta for showing the softness and ease which transformed yoga into a daily treat for me, and for reviving my interest in the yoga scriptures and explaining these in such a manner that they finally really made sense to me.