Lino Miele

Lino Miele

Lino Miele began his studies with Guruji in 1989. The previous year he and his wife, Tina, had spent six months travelling India trying to find an appropriate Yoga Master to fulfil our needs and expectations.

Lino describes how, on the last day of their trip, they found Guruji.

 

We left Bangalore and on arrival in Mysore it took no effort to locate him. He was well known by local people and had the reputation of a Great Yogi. When we arrived at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute and home of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, it was a wonderful and rewarding experience. We knew that we had found our Master. With a smiling face he welcomed us inside. It was ironic that we were unable to stay, our time in India had run out. We now return to Mysore year after year and our love and faith in Guruji continues to grow.

 

Lino is now one of the most senior and most respected Ashtanga Yoga teachers in the world. He and Tina have both been blessed by Pattabhi Jois with his International Teaching Certification, something given only to very few of Guruji's most devoted students. He is also responsible for producing the definitive text giving the precise method of the correct Vinyasa system of the Primary and Intermediate Series, which he put together after painstaking questioning of his Guru in private sessions over many years.

Lino has dedicated his life to passing on the teaching he has received from his Guru, faithfully and precisely. He teaches workshops and retreats internationally, and is the founder of Schools of Ashtanga Yoga in his native Rome, in Helsinki and in Copenhagen. His simplicity and dedication to the practice and his devotion to his Guru mark Lino out as a very special Yogi himself.

I met him in July 2002 when he was giving a two-day workshop in Miami, and after it I went to ask him some questions about the practice. There had been many people at the workshop and although Lino had not worked with me directly during it, he knew my name and was able to tell me exactly about what I was doing in my practice, as intimately as if we had had a private workshop. I knew straight away that I had found my teacher. Since then Paula and I have travelled to study with Lino whenever we can, taking in workshops and retreats in Italy, Finland, Denmark and India, and through his encouragement we now go to Mysore to study directly with Guruji.

Our aim in the School is to maintain the tradition and clarity of the practice, which Lino received from our Guru and passed on to us.

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