“Your freedom is to know
that every goal of victory, every expectation of applause is servile.
Your beauty is not ashamed of abasements or spitting.
Other, other is its modesty.
And your unparalleled grace, ultimate, is that your beauty does not concern you.”
Elsa Morante, Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini

In my path, yoga and dance exist in the same space. They are often practiced in the same room, and the notes I take end up in the same notebook. Sometimes, when I start a new notebook, I try to divide its pages: the front for dance notes, the back for yoga. But this division never lasts long, and everything inevitably begins to intersect. Intersecting or getting mixed up — which immediately gets a bad reputation! I suffer from it myself when, at the beginning of a notebook, I insist on order and separation.

Yet I find this verb fascinating: from the Latin cum-fundere, close to “overlap” and “cross,” which reflects much more how my life truly works, where the two are indeed inextricably linked. Dance is everywhere. And every time I notice it, I want more of it — I want it to be seen more clearly, or to express it in my own way. Yoga is dance seen from within, from underneath: a way to calmly observe dance in the particular, in the very small, in the subtle.

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sara yoga bio: Dancer, choreographer, movement researcher, in 2006 she starts the study of yoga which has an important influence on her artistic path and everyday life. In 2014 she graduated in Iyengar yoga and started to give yoga lessons and workshops, linked with her artistic activity. She deepens the yoga’s practice thanks to Meera Mascia, Sharat Arora, Stephane Lalo and Nuno Cabral.