#31 – Yoga is a Mirror – Yoga in Italy with Michela Maltoni

Welcome to Episode #31 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Michela Maltoni onto the show, a yoga teacher from Italy. She’s also the founder of the online yoga school Let it Yoga.

My conversation with Michela Maltoni was so delightful as we spoke about how different types of yoga align with people’s different rhythms, and how yoga is a mirror, a reflection of our daily life. We also talked about how yoga can heal a destroyed body, and how flexibility of mind a necessary element for yoga teachers everywhere— especially in these unique times!

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about the yoga practice on and off the mat, then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Michela Maltoni

Michela Maltoni started her career as a professional dancer, and then worked in Italian TV and with theater companies around the country, including international shows in America and on cruise ships like Royal Caribbean. During her career as a dancer, she trained as a Personal Trainer and a Pilates instructor, and then, yoga finally arrived. After years of practicing, Michela became a yoga teacher, and in January 2020 she founded my online yoga school called: Let it Yoga, a digital platform with over 350 lessons, in which she regularly holds lessons live and on demand. She is certified in Vinyasa, Yin Yoga, Prenatal and Postnatal yoga and lives in Rome, Italy.

What to expect in the Yoga In Italy episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

With a life spent as a dancer, Michela Maltoni she suffered from sciatica for years and was in a lot of pain. She tried everything, and when she finally tried yoga she didn’t like it. She found it too slow and boring.

When her body was destroyed and had nothing else to turn to, she found vinyasa yoga— a dynamic style that she hadn’t tried before, and she fell in love. Vinyasa yoga was her therapy. It helped her body to heal. As Michela says, “Yoga was a necessity.”

Michela believes that yoga is a mirror, a reflection of our daily life. And she strives to meet her students exactly where they are and to develop a relationship with them so that she can guide them through everything that comes up on and off the mat.

At the end of our conversation, we talked about yoga in Italy and how beautiful Roma is!

Connect with Michela Maltoni

https://www.michelamaltoni.com/

https://www.letityoga.it

https://www.instagram.com/michela.maltoni/

https://www.instagram.com/letityoga_official/?hl=it

https://www.youtube.com/c/MichelaMaltoni

https://www.facebook.com/michelamaltoniyoga

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Episode #31 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast, Yoga in Italy with Michela Maltoni 

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. I’m your host, Lily Allen Duenas together. We’ll talk about the world of yoga and we’ll talk to people from around the world. I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be teaching yoga online this year—classes will be live streamed and also available on demand.

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Namaste family! Welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. Today. I am so excited to welcome Michela Maltoni onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Italy who actually started her career as a professional dancer, and then worked in Italian TV and with theater companies around the country, including international shows in America and on cruise ships, like the Royal Caribbean.

During her career as a dancer, she trained also as a personal trainer and a Pilates instructor. And then yoga arrived after years of practicing. Michela became a yoga teacher and in January, 2020, she founded her online yoga school called Let It Yoga. It’s a digital platform with over 350 lessons in which she regularly. Lessons live and on demand. She certified in Vinyasa, yin, prenatal, and postnatal yoga. So please welcome Michela onto the show today. Thank you so much for being here!

[00:01:52] Michela Maltoni: Hi Lily, thank you so much for inviting me and thank you for your introduction. Thank you!

[00:01:57] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. I’m so excited to dive in with you. For starters, I’m wondering with a background in dancing and then in personal training and Pilates, did yoga just feel like a natural next step for you? Or was there something in particular that drew you to yoga?

[00:02:17] Michela Maltoni: I think I needed to do yoga for my health because after so many years as a dancer I had destroyed my body. So arrive at time that, I had a big problem of my back. I in suffered from sciatica for almost five years and they tried every type of therapy.

But, they didn’t work anything that was working for me. So the last step was it. Okay. Try yoga. Let’s try yoga. But at the beginning there, wasn’t not to my time because I found a yoga like too slow and boring. The first class was my moment after years when my body was destroyed and they really needed yoga.

So I tried again and found Vinyasa yoga. It’s a dynamic style that I didn’t hear before. So didn’t know about this style. I found the asanas very close to my dance background. And then I understood that that was, my therapy was my way to get better and to get healthy. So this is my way to come to yoga, like a necessity!

[00:03:36] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s so powerful! I’m kind of tickled that you tried yoga once and you’re like, oh nope—slow and boring. I’m going to avoid it. And then you came back a years later and you found a new style of Vinyasa, which you felt really aligned with your dance background and with. the personality with the style of yoga, you were craving for something more dynamic and fluid and and maybe even musical rhythmic in a way.

Yeah, so I find that’s very common with people I encounter, they say, oh, I don’t like yoga. I tried it. It’s like, oh, but one time is like trying to just, one apple and saying, oh, I don’t like fruit. Nope. I definitely wouldn’t like bananas or strawberries or blueberries. It’s you can’t know unless you continue to try.

Is that something that you’ve encountered with your own students? 

[00:04:29] Michela Maltoni: Maybe. Yes, because sometimes people needed to find something close to that. So close to them rhythm. So maybe if your life is really faster sometimes come to a yoga class can be like, oh, it’s weird. It’s too slow. But if you come to a Vinyasa class or something more dynamic, more glues to your personal rhythm, maybe you can keep going and then come to a yoga class.

With like, oh, I really needed to wind down. But before at the first approach, I think is really hard sometimes. And then I teach Vinyasa and into. So in my yoga school, I teach water the size and sometimes the, the persons bringing much a lot of people have a difficult to approach to him and they started to power yoga or Vinyasa yoga, and then they moved to him because.

But after, after trial along time and dynamic style, maybe in this case every person is different. So maybe sometimes that the people needed the, the opposite. So they need a style of various law because it is more similar to that. The, your daily lifer daily written. So every person has a different necessity.

Different things that worked for them. I 

[00:05:50] Lily Allen-Duenas: couldn’t agree more. And also about how people usually are first drawn to the style of yoga that kind of aligns with the rhythm of their life. If you’re used to that fast pace and that go, go go, or the gym or you’re pushing and you’re challenging, then I do think people are just, they want to continue, what they’re used to, it’s only later on when you.

When you kind of go deeper in the practice, and you’re more curious when you think, oh, maybe I need to balance that, instead of just keeping pushing the same and reinforcing the same kind of proclivities and tendencies. On our mat, we really should try to have that balance so we can have the yin and the yang, our lives are so young.

So I do believe this is really needed.

[00:06:42] Michela Maltoni: yes, of course. Yeah. And actually we need the yin part of our life. We need, we need the more than younger, but it’s different to approach this different to approach it. So maybe that people are afraid to slow down so much. Because I think of the people founded they look for happiness trying to add the, something to their life, especially in the people believe to I have to add something to be better, to get better.

And the we needed to to cats off some. To remove something to our, to our life, remove as a layer day by day. And this is is scared. Sometimes the people are afraid about it. Get away something and cut something for be better. They don’t believe is possible. And they believe usually to waster their.

This is a common to waste time if you slow down and in Italy, especially. But I think in general, in in the west part of the, of the world, maybe, I don’t know…

[00:07:48] Lily Allen-Duenas: No, I think you are hitting the nail on the head there. I think people are scared to slow down. They think they’re wasting their time or they’re starting to do negative.

Self-talk saying I’m lazy. I’m a failure. I’m not producing. I’m not creating, I’m not accomplishing. So when they are active and actually, pushing, thinking, doing there’s less maybe of that inner monologue, inner voice saying how. Perhaps bad or lazy or as low as they are. I think people are very scared of silence and stillness because that’s when some of those inner voices that maybe are not so kind, I think come to.

[00:08:30] Michela Maltoni: the silence is scared of the silence all day. We are two with the TV DVO TV on and social media. And there is there persons to talk to us every time from the outside to the inside. And when we are in silence, we have to listen the inside. And is scared. Of course, either path is a journey. So it’s something that we can get to day by day constantly with the daily, daily practice on the mat and out of the mat.

[00:09:05] Lily Allen-Duenas: I love that phrase on the mat and off the mat. What else do you encourage your students to practice on and off the mat? 

[00:09:14] Michela Maltoni: I think that yoga is like a reflection of our daily life. So I communicate it to my students in this way. I teach that every time we have a challenge on the matter or a resistance, is that like a situation that we can leave out of the.

So if we train our mind to stay in the challenge on the map, that we can stay in the challenge in the real life of the offer the method. So, I think the two words are the same way. So, we can keep the two Mo the two words together and consider one the reflection of the others or the other. So, lack of Europe.

[00:09:59] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, very well said. Mikayla. I liked that. I agree that it is a reflection and I, especially with balance for me, I find in balancing Austin is it’s just like a. Allowed alarm, I can really really tell, ah, I have a very busy mind today, or I’m really struggling with my, the quickness of my thoughts, because if in a balancing Austin, I’m just, falling over constantly.

It’s, it’s just very humbling, but such a, yeah. A big loud announcement, like, oh, you are not as, present and grounded. You’re, you’re more Vata today, right? 

[00:10:38] Michela Maltoni: Yes, of course. And every person I think has a weakness. So maybe for you, it’s a balance for other people can be another person can be the flexibility or maybe a resistance or arm balancer or back-bending or something, something other type of as enough.

And this is curious. It is very interesting because. There are some is different. That’s why I don’t think we we have to teach the same to everybody, but to FA to make them much find that they way to approach to yoga. So to find them something that works for them, or maybe this was my path.

So I had to found a, something that worked for me. And this is. And try to teach it to 

[00:11:25] Lily Allen-Duenas: my student. That’s an incredible thing to teach students, absolutely. To find kind of what the challenges are, what your body or mind is calling for. Speaking of that, I, I really, I feel like you maybe already answered it, but you said that yoga is a reflection of our daily lives.

And I was wondering. It, what is your definition of yoga? Of course, there’s the definitions and Patanjali’s yoga sutras are in the part of the Gita, but what is your personal definition of yoga? 

[00:11:56] Michela Maltoni: I think it is like like I say is a mural and is a daily training for the life. Like a a dresser that we put every morning.

Before to start our day so we can know about our challenge, our resistance, our weakness, but even about our force, our stability, our in their fire or something that can make us motivated death to push through it, to reach the challenge of the life of so. I think mirror is the war. That sounds like these meals yoga.

Like a mirror of the life. Beautiful. 

[00:12:41] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much for sharing that. I also want to talk about your online school, let it yoga. What made you want to create an online school and maybe walk us through how you actually got started doing that to 

[00:12:56] Michela Maltoni: I started to think about to my online yoga school in 2019.

When I was.stuckon the bed because I had the biggest problem and the problem of my back. So my Shariati come, locked me to the bed for two months and I was lost, completely lost. And in the silence in that moment where I couldn’t can keep going with my activities and that everything was imposed I had to think about my healthy and I thought, okay, I needed to do something for myself, four per several, my healthy and my back to the ears.

Because at that time I worked at, in a lot of gyms and studios around in, in Roma. So up and down your room were like seven studios. It was crazy. And I thought Fitness Pilatus, dancer and yoga, but it was not enough foot and yoga. I needed to teach him more yoga for my health. So I decided to stop everything and dedicated my time to my free time to.

create and online yoga school, because I always loved technology. When I was a younger, I used to edit video for holidays for friends and stuff, and it was really into technology. I really love the technology and video editing, especially. So I I put together two of my biggest passions, so. The technology and yoga and the time in Italy there, wasn’t a lot of platform like these and I’m actually more in America or I’m out of Italy.

So, I was following classes in American platforms. And then I, I thought, okay, I needed to be, to do something like Baeza, ER, in Italian for me, for my students. And I worked at about my school for all the 2019 until the January, 2012. When I opened the mice and my online yoga school, I teach yoga and I started my my business on.

I try, I big, I started like, okay, can be a way to maybe remove some extra class scissor from the gyms and then become them. Only one job, my full job. So, and how I work about my new school. I have a little team that can help me. They, and I’m so happy because I is something that.

Makes me feel myself. And after my background, as a dancer or where I was like not enough I, I felt not enough in every situation and not myself, but you know, a lot of situations now. Can I say to be really myself and create something that makes me happy every day. So I’m really, really great about this project and the the choice that I did for 

[00:16:05] Lily Allen-Duenas: myself.

Oh, that’s amazing. I’m so glad you did that as well. And I’m glad you love technology. I don’t hear that often. 

[00:16:14] Michela Maltoni: Yeah, I know. Yeah. It’s so different from a yoga or like another word, actually. 

[00:16:22] Lily Allen-Duenas: It definitely is. And it, I think, I think it requires a lot of patience and a lot of ability to be flexible, which I think.

Those are two yoga qualities as well. Because things go wrong all the time in technology and you always have to learn more, you’re never finished learning, neither yoga or technology. 

[00:16:45] Michela Maltoni: And sometimes the technology doesn’t work and you don’t know why, and there’s no reason. So you have to accept like yoga teach.

So 

[00:16:55] Lily Allen-Duenas: yes, definitely a lot of humbling humbling experiences to be had. So speaking of these qualities, I suppose maybe patients are flexibility. I’m wondering what qualities do you feel are important to build and to work on as a yoga teacher? 

[00:17:11] Michela Maltoni: I think our yoga teacher should be flexible to know us students and the, what the student needs.

Like I said, maybe before not have the a schedule or a way to think adjusted. Okay. Yoga is for everyone, but a need to list then really the what did the student need to drive him to good path for, for him for them to A girl started from that, from there a single pointer of starter.

So every student I think, started from a different point of start and we have to be a warmup. Everybody has a different background. So even online at these different is even difficult to approach it to the students like this, because I have a platform. I have a lot of students inside, so maybe he’s harder to understand what they need.

That’s why I communicated by email with them. A lot. So I have a relationship with them even if are a lot of students, but if they need something, they wrote me, they write me and I listen, they resuscitate can move them to a different path on this in the school, for example, or different maybe input to in the.

The life to use yoga out of the matter, like I said before. So I think flexibility, like you say before, it is important. Flexibility of mind is an important skill that have a mix of the teachers and different teacher, maybe the right teacher for that. 

[00:18:57] Lily Allen-Duenas: Ooh, flexibility of mind. I love that. And I thought it was interesting how you said Michela that online.

It can be harder to understand your students’ needs. So you have to communicate with them a lot to continue to develop the. Your relationship with them. Is there any other ways that you, or tips or advice that you would give yoga teachers who are listening to this? Because we definitely have a lot of yoga teachers in our audience.

If they’re trying to connect with their yoga students online, or they’re just getting started online. How do you suggest, what are, how do you suggest they connect better with their 

[00:19:34] Michela Maltoni: students? I think most of the time the teachers are afraid about y’all got more line because they think of that maybe is impossible to have a relationship with them, with the students.

And my advice is trust in technology. Why trust in technology? Because when the people right. an email The open a word because writing is journaling .. So when the people write an email to you, they can speak about something that maybe nobody knows even their parents you’re in the the brother, the sister.

So you know something about the students so that nobody knows that. And it is, this is possible just because the people went right. They cannot open the mind and the heart in, in a different way is a therapy writing. That’s why I am. I used to advise to my students do to make journalists every day even with the yoga practice.

So yoga practice and Joel Nightingale, I think these are two parts that are really important to to our And so, don’t think that the technology can be a war and maybe you cannot communicate with your students like you do in real life offline, because there are for my experience, for example, when I told offline I had to no time after class, I wa I had to do To run away in another class in another place.

I called in to speak with the people after the class and after our yoga class. So many reflections, so many those come on, come on. So the people needed to speak with the, the teacher and offline for me, for my experience was impossible because I have to run away. So it was like, okay, see you next time, bye.

Really faster. And now, and the people that have the possibility to reflect after the class and right. And when they. They go to a different level and you can understand what they need to, what the, the students need. And this is very important. So trust in the power of technology. 

[00:21:54] Lily Allen-Duenas: So it sounds like you ask your students to journal.

Immediately after a yoga Asana class finishes, 

[00:22:00] Michela Maltoni: No, just by their self, if they want us to write for themselves of, if you write to me except to them. So, I just suggested to. Not maybe daily maybe, or maybe two times a week at when they feel to write something I think is great habits to to speak with the out to speak with ourself.

 I love writing, so maybe this is a water I love. and I try to share to my students 

[00:22:29] Lily Allen-Duenas: I love writing as well. Absolutely. And I do have a daily gratitude journal, which I, I write in just, it takes maybe five minutes every day to reflect on what what I feel grateful for. And I always find that it’s.

I used to do this journal McKayla. It was a big, long, tall piece of paper and I taped it inside of one of my closet doors. So when I was brushing my teeth, I would take a pen and I would write what I was grateful for on. Oh, it was just so amazing. Yeah. And then I would stand in front of it, brushing my teeth, reading what I was grateful for over the past weeks.

I really loved having that very visual large, you don’t have to flip through a book. It really encouraged me for more reflection, I 

[00:23:11] Michela Maltoni: think. Ah, that’s amazing. try to, 

[00:23:15] Lily Allen-Duenas: I hope you do. We haven’t talked at all about prenatal or postnatal, but what drew you to a prenatal and postnatal yoga? 

[00:23:22] Michela Maltoni: Does that is a great story because when I opened my online, the yoga school after one month, I get. So, when I get pregnant, I was like, okay, now I have to understand what it happened to my body and I have to be prepared.

And then I trained online as our pre-natal and post-natal yoga teacher. So in that period, we were in a look down, so it was impossible to do training offline in presence. So, Technology, the power of technology comes up and I did it two certifications prenatal and postnatal, and they did the yearly yoga to align during my pregnancy and was amazing.

It was amazing because when I I was studying something, I was get to the experience of that. So, when my belly was growing my program was growing and then I, I realized that my personal love pre-natal and post-natal yoga program in the school and during my pregnancy. And so 2012, there was a really important here for me.

Even scares because when I opened my school and after I get pregnant, I were like, oh, and now what they have to do. I, I just opened my school and now I break it down so I can keep going with the mix videos and practice. Two times a week. Why a new experience? I was scared, but I was excited because of course I wasn’t looking for brilliances.

So, was it something that I, I, I desired and it was a beautiful, beautiful path in an year of really harder in 2012 that we know was a really hard year, but I lived in this. Gratitude for what I was what the, my gratitude about my present experience. 

[00:25:29] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. I that’s, it’s amazing to me, you launch your school and then one month later you’re like, oh, now everything is changing.

[00:25:38] Michela Maltoni: The time is 

[00:25:39] Lily Allen-Duenas: crazy. The universe isn’t that, it’s just, that’s how it happened. But I also was I’m certified in prenatal, postnatal yoga. I did my training last year in 2021. And I feel So grateful for you sharing your story, because I think that to go through the training when you are pregnant, like, wow, oh my gosh, Mikayla, in a way, you’re very lucky you get to really experience it the inside and the outside.

For me, I’ve never been pregnant before. And I there’s things that I, I felt were hard to relate to, or, or it involved a lot of imagination, but to go through it at the same time, like, wow, I’m sure your understanding is so much more intimate. 

[00:26:22] Michela Maltoni: Yes. It’s a full experiences or? Yes, I’m great about it.

[00:26:27] Lily Allen-Duenas: Very cool. So I also want to talk a little bit about your beautiful Italia Roma. I would love to ask how or how you feel the yoga practice or yoga in general, like. What does that mean for the Italian people or is it very popular? Is there yoga studios all over Italy? Absolutely everywhere. Or just walk us through a bit more about yoga and.

[00:26:52] Michela Maltoni: Yes in Italy now. And there are a lot of studios before it was not like this years ago. Yes. In how a lot of, a lot of people look for yoga because they need the two. Relax and slow down but Italian people have two side of the author.

Their life. One means that they are multitasking. They want to do a lot of things all together and they never stopped. And the other side is like, they need the in part, like we say to before so these parts are made sometimes are in a. Conflict so they can stay together in the same life is very hard.

So the Italian people have to, they wanted to try yoga, but sometimes they can’t do daily because they live. It’s too busy because other people can stop themselves, but can stop paying the daily life they needed to do, do add something on something that something, and if you propose maybe one hour class they’re like, Hmm, is too much maybe so online.

 My experience safe that the maybe 30 minutes. Okay to fix in the daily life. So yes, Italian people like ah, another thing about the Italian people is that the if something is too spiritual at the beginning, they don’t approach it in the current way, in the right way. So they try to find a new way to elaborate the concept of yoga.

And that’s why I developed this approach more of like, daily life in on the math today, life into yoga, like I said before, like a mirror of the daily life, because in this way, the people grow the curiosity to knows more so knows more about why these. Make me feel like these, why this mudra, why is this pranayama?

And then you can put a insider in the program like more spirituality at the beginning you needed to respect their point of starter, their point of stock. So yes, they are like dedicated, dedicated bit and they needed to jives of step-by-step, but to to our spirit, 

[00:29:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. That’s something I’ve heard a lot from other yoga teachers, as well as the spiritual aspect of yoga can be very polarizing or people can feel kind of conflicted about saying own or chanting mantras or doing murdras?

They feel like even the gesture of Nama skar that prayer position of the hands, they even feel like that could be disrespectful,

[00:29:45] Michela Maltoni: even the the Om can be weird at the beginning. Why we have two phones on like these and why? So even. 

[00:29:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, even that you’re so right. Do you feel like students are pretty vocal with you about when they’re uncomfortable or they’re confused or do you just try to go very slowly?

So you’re, you’re slowly, slowly kind of making them more comfortable or more aware of these quote unquote spiritual practices and elements of the yoga practice. 

[00:30:17] Michela Maltoni: Yeah, so we needed to be patient, I think with them because we of course studied yoga. We are into yoga. We are teacher. So we love yoga of course, but the people that don’t say about this word, they needed to.

We need to treat them like a child and like a kids Inc. Introduce them to a new word are really new word, a new way to see everything. So yes, patient, I think is a key word about being a teacher in 2022. Yes, 

[00:30:58] Lily Allen-Duenas: absolutely. And so if some of our listeners, Mikayla have never been to Italy before, or maybe they’ve never really even heard much about Italy, they just think of pasta and gelato.

Is there is that, can you tell us a little bit about your company? 

[00:31:14] Michela Maltoni: Ah, so my country, I traveled a lot for years and then I came back here, like, this is my home. I want to stay here. And all my when I, when I was a child, it was like, I want to leave the want to go in America. I want to leave Italy. And now I really love my country because I traveled.

So maybe I saw everything around me and I found uh, my roots here. I understood my roots. Italy is I think, a really positive place where when they come here they describe the. And Italian people like a smiling and they feel these in Italians and the food is really good. Of course.

So, I ate when I tried your traveler. I really missed the food here. I really, really missed it. And when I pregnancy too, and I couldn’t eat a prosciutto Crudo, I was always crazy for this. Now I can’t eat it. So yes, for the end. Of course in this story, especially I live in Roma and Roma is a magic city full of story.

If you work in the center of Roma, you can feel the story come up from the ground is really amazing this and so you can feel, I think the stories the story of these accounts. Everywhere you work. So this is I think amazing. 

[00:32:52] Lily Allen-Duenas: Rome is definitely a very special place. I spent, I think about a week there with some friends, a few years back, and it was just magical, just, oh, it’s a beautiful city.

So Michela if some of our listeners are curious about your online offerings and they want to get in touch or learn more what is a good way for them to do that? And I also of course, will add all that. All the links in the show notes and on my website, wild yoga tribe.com. So people can directly click and find you, but it would be great to hear more about your online offerings.

[00:33:26] Michela Maltoni: Thank you so much. So yes, I am. My service is about my yoga school. So in my platform let it yoga. 

And that’s it. I think. 

Beautiful. And also, I know you wrote a book. Do you want to talk a little bit about the book? 

[00:33:40] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. Yes. I wrote a book in a blue period of my life. Very hard period. It was 2016 and I published for the first time. My is a novel novel about the 17th. I always loved the the seven chakras even before yoga, because I knew chakras before yoga.

I read a lot of books about it, and there was in love with this concept. And so I wrote my book in that period. And like I said before, writing was my safety. I I pushed through it. Hardest part of the, part of my life. Writing, writing this story is a story about little girl like 10 years old that started their personal journey through seven magic words the seven chakras, so seven worlds and Where she understands in every ward, a power, a single power, the power of that chakra.

So this book is really important for me and my book of . So seven colors of Sophia and saw. Yes. This is apart of my life and that it’s about my inner child I believe a lot in the power of the inner child. And I try to share this to my students every day in the soul child media in the, my yoga class.

So yes I think that this is our great power that we, we needed to find. Because when we grew up we lose that part and we needed to reconnect with that. Oh, that’s 

amazing. I’m so happy that you wrote that book and that it sounds just like such a beautiful story. I love the seven words gives you seven powers and mastery.

The chakra and you get to watch this ten-year-old girl grow as well. It’s it’s over the period of, 

[00:35:39] Michela Maltoni: Yes. That girl like, apart, very weak in that period in me because in that period that my parents break up. So I was adult because I was was it 2016? So I was A woman, but in that moment, my inner child was crying that why I needed to, to write that book.

I, it was the necessity for me. Yeah. 

[00:36:05] Lily Allen-Duenas: It’s a very cathartic experience that emotional release and processing you’re right. Writing is definitely a big gift and a big way to kind of heal. 

[00:36:15] Michela Maltoni: Peel as well. Yes. I think in the worst part of our lives, we can create the best things like my schooler was born in a really bad model.

This Booker was born in a really hard moment of my life. So, we needed to take care about these periods because there is a Juul inside and we needed to find it. 

[00:36:41] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. So thank you so much. Mikayla for being on the show with me today, it has been a joy to be with you. 

[00:36:49] Michela Maltoni: Thank you so much for inviting me was an amazing experience for me.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

[00:37:01] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the wild yoga tribe podcast. My conversation with Michela Maltoni was so delightful as we spoke about how different types of yoga align with different people’s rhythms and how yoga is a mirror, a reflection of our daily life. We also talked about how yoga can heal a destroyed body and how flexibility of mind is needed in yoga teachers everywhere.

Thank you for tuning into this episode of the wild yoga tribe podcast. 

[00:37:35] Michela Maltoni: Well,

[00:37:39] Lily Allen-Duenas: thank you for the gift of your attention today. If you feel called, please share this episode with someone who you think could benefit from it. Leaving a review would also be so appreciated. Also. I hope you can join me for yoga classes, live streamed, and on-demand on Moxie, a new platform or I’m hosting classes to take advantage.

$15 off coupons available for new students. The links are in the show notes as well as on my website, wild yoga tribe.com. I’ll see you on the mat and as always be well, dear one. 

[00:38:15] Michela Maltoni: Wow. .

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