About this way of working
The lineage
Vanda Scaravelli is legendary in the world of yoga. She was J. Krishnamurti’s best friend for 60 years and began to explore yoga and movement at age 50 to help him develop more ease in his body. Her initial study was in music as a classical pianist. This understanding of music, reflected in her yoga, shunned methodology and celebrated the creative.
Vanda’s longest student
Diane Long was born in North Carolina and moved to Italy in the early 1970s. While living in Florence, Vanda invited her to work with her. Diane was a devoted student for the next two and a half decades, until Vanda’s death in 1999.
Since then, Diane has spent her life on the road and in the skies, planting the seeds for this deep way of working all around the world.
Diane’s meeting with Vanda introduced her to a new form of consciousness in the study of yoga and body mind awareness.
Working one on one with a teacher, who continually questioned the simple biomechanics of the body until she was brought to a more profound understanding of the breath and spine, looked nothing like the usual systems of yoga or movement that have become the norm today.
Vanda taught her that methods interfere with authentic exploration.
If our practice becomes a consistent willingness to start anew, the sure road is no longer.
Our practice becomes an absence of any known way and we are filled with wonder, experiencing how spine and breath might become a physical liaison to another realm or world, a world where the ever present possibility of profound wholeness and healing is manifest.