Gabriella Cella was teaching in India in the ‘70s when she realized how yoga was crafted by men for men.

Yet, traveling and meeting the Indian culture, she found out how their mythology and recent history is full of heroines and warrioresses who embody more aspects and archetypes of our humanity: taking poses from the representations of the temples and creating some anew from her intuitive approach to the form,
she crafted Yoga Ratna.

In this Hatha Yoga practice, the forms are embodied in comfort, and kept with the attention to their inner meaning: it’s not a casual pose, or a casual goddess, but it’s the one that wins all the time, or the one who is responsible for sustaining the world, or …

By staying in the symbol, in stillness, we connect our interiority to the meanings of that image, for us, and invite a deep process of healing to take place