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Yoga in Italy is the practice of
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, whether for exercise,
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, or other reasons, in Italy.


History

A pioneer of modern
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in Italy was
Vanda Scaravelli 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 Krishnamacharya's pupils, B. K. S. Iyengar who taught her the asanas, and T. K. V. Desikac ...
(1908-1999), author of the "classic" 1991 book ''Awakening the spine''. Another pioneer, Carlo Patrian (1930-2008), began studying yoga in 1950 and founded the yoga institute that still bears his name in Milan in 1965. In the 21st century, yoga is growing steadily in Italy, and the
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(21 June) is celebrated across the country each summer. By 2017 there were some 830 recognised yoga schools in the country. The 2018 Coop report (compiled by Nielsen in 2017) stated that 11% of the women of Italy and 3% of the men practiced yoga or Pilates; 32% of those consulted said they intended to practice in future. Among the forms of yoga in Italy are hybrids such as
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and
Acroyoga Acroyoga so they're not being ignored--> (also written ''Acro-Yoga'' or ''Acro Yoga'') is a physical practice that combines yoga and acrobatics. Acroyoga includes many types of (mostly recreational) partner and group acrobatics in which at least ...
. An approach to spiritual and social growth through yoga and meditation is being developed by the mountaineer and yoga teacher
Heinz Grill Heinz Grill is a German mountaineer, author, and yoga teacher. He has opened many new climbing routes in the Alps and Dolomites. In 1977 he won the Golden Carabiner award from the German Alpine Club. In 2012 he shared the Silla Ghedina prize fo ...
. Italy is a popular destination for
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, with yoga retreats and holidays taught in various languages.


Regulation

By 2019,
yoga teacher training Yoga teacher training is the training of teachers of yoga as exercise, consisting mainly of the practice of yoga asanas, leading to certification. Such training is accredited by the Yoga Alliance in America, by the British Wheel of Yoga in the U ...
was still not regulated in Italy despite the country's 3 million yoga practitioners, resulting, according to Bianca Carati writing in ''
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'', in excessively "accelerated" courses, some taking as little as 2 months to deliver 150 hours of training at a cost between €1500 and €3000. Carati reported that the ''Associazione Italiana Iyengar yoga'' considered this inadequate; it required at least 3 years of training. It, along with the ''Associazione Italiana Insegnanti Yoga'' and the ''Associazione Yoga Satyananda'', has created a set of proposed standards for yoga teacher training in Italy, requiring at least 500 hours of training over a period of at least four years, and to have taught for at least four years.


See also

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European Union of Yoga The European Union of Yoga (EUY) is an international non-profit organisation which co-ordinates a network of yoga teachers, training schools and yoga federations. It was founded in 1971, and has since 1973 held an annual congress at Zinal, Switzerla ...
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Yoga in Britain Yoga in Britain is the practice of yoga, including modern yoga as exercise, in Britain. Yoga, consisting mainly of postures (asanas), arrived in Britain early in the 20th century, though the first classes that contained asanas were described a ...
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Yoga in France Yoga in France is the practice of yoga, whether Yoga as exercise, for exercise or other reasons, in France. The relaxation technique of yoga nidra was pioneered by Dennis Boyes, whose 1973 book preceded Satyananda Saraswati's popularisation of the ...
* Yoga in Germany *
Yoga in Russia Yoga has been practised in Russia since the actor Constantin Stanislavski made extensive use of Hatha Yoga in his system for training actors in the 1910s. A beginning was made when Catherine the Great had a translation of the ''Bhagavad Gita'' ...
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Yoga in Sweden Yoga in Sweden is the practice of yoga, whether for exercise or other reasons, in Sweden. The form of yoga practised in the Western world was influenced by Pehr Henrik Ling's system of gymnastics. Sweden is home, too, to Europe's first yoga school ...
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Yoga in the United States Yoga in the United States has a long history, foreshadowed in the 19th century by the philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose poem "Brahma" is a statement of the Hindu philosophy behind yoga, and Henry David Thoreau, and starting in earnest with ...


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