Savitri Living Practice

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

Yoga in giardino 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️

Anche questa estate pratica di Yoga immersa nella natura, con lo sguardo rivolto al cielo azzurro, alle nuvole che scorrono lentamente e al verde che ti circonda.

Un momento per respirare profondamente, ritrovare equilibrio, sciogliere le tensioni e riconnettersi con se stessi.

Le lezioni sono adatte a tutti: sia a chi pratica yoga da tempo sia a chi desidera avvicinarsi a questa disciplina con gradualità e nel rispetto delle proprie possibilità.

Le lezioni si svolgono in un tranquillo giardino nella zona di Opicina, vicino a Via Carsia.

Ti aspetto con gioia per condividere momenti di benessere, movimento e relax all’aria aperta🧘‍♀️

Per ricevere tutte le informazioni sugli orari delle lezioni estive di giugno e luglio, scrivi un commento sotto questo.

Ti invierò personalmente tutti i dettagli in privato.

Grazie🙏🏽

06/05/2026

Sometimes the most powerful foods are also the simplest, colorful, and incredibly nourishing: wild arugula, cooked beets, and pumpkin seeds.

Both arugula and beets are naturally rich in nitrates, compounds that our bodies convert into nitric oxide. Nitric oxide helps relax and widen blood vessels, improving circulation, oxygen delivery, and overall cardiovascular health.

This is one reason athletes often consume beetroot before training to enhance endurance and performance.

Beets are also packed with antioxidants, especially betalains, which help fight inflammation and protect our cells from oxidative stress. Their natural fiber supports digestion and gut health, while their minerals help nourish the body on a deeper level.

Wild arugula brings its own magic to the plate. Rich in vitamins A, C, and K, as well as beneficial plant compounds, it supports immunity, bone health, and natural detoxification processes. Its peppery flavor is a reminder that healthy food can be vibrant and delicious.

A meal rich in nitrates may also help the body respond more efficiently to stress by supporting healthy blood flow and oxygenation, which can contribute to better energy levels and overall resilience. Combined with nutrient-dense foods and a balanced lifestyle, these simple ingredients can help us feel more grounded, energized, and alive.

And let’s not forget the pumpkin seeds—little nutritional treasures full of magnesium, zinc, healthy fats, and plant protein, all essential for supporting the nervous system, hormonal balance, and relaxation.

Whole foods provide everything we need: color, flavor, vitality, and healing.

What healthy foods are on your plate today?

06/03/2026

Eat breakfast, then lunch, and your blood sugar may barely climb. Skip breakfast, eat the same lunch, and it can climb a good deal higher. The thing that changed wasn't the food. It was the morning.

This comes from a small study in healthy adults. Each person was given an identical lunch on two days, once after breakfast and once after skipping it. The rise in blood glucose after the skipped-breakfast lunch was much larger, 3.2 versus 0.9 mmol/L on average. Same meal, same people. The only thing that differed was whether anything came before it. It is a small study, so it is best held as a signal rather than a settled rule.

The insulin response looked similar on both days, which hints that insulin is not what's driving this. The leading explanation is free fatty acids. Going without food for a few hours tends to raise them, and muscle that is running on fat appears to take up less glucose. So lunch arrives and more of that sugar may stay in circulation, because the tissue that would normally absorb it is busy burning fat instead. Eat breakfast and fatty acids stay lower, which seems to leave muscle readier to handle the incoming sugar.

There is a separate piece of evidence worth knowing, though it is in a different group. In people with type 2 diabetes, a dose of arginine before lunch cut the post-lunch glucose rise by about half. Arginine triggers insulin, but it is an amino acid, not a meal, no carbohydrate involved. That points to the effect being about the state the body is in beforehand rather than how the food is digested. Worth being clear that this was a diabetic population, separate from the healthy adults in the first study.

One honest limit. These are small, acute studies measured over single afternoons. Nobody has shown that eating breakfast every day lowers long-term blood sugar or disease risk through this mechanism, and the wider research on breakfast is genuinely mixed. Treat this as interesting physiology, not a diet rule.

What it does suggest is that a single meal's glucose response may not be fixed. The same lunch might do two different things in the same body depending on what came before it. The number on a food label or a glycemic index chart could be only part of the story, with the state you were already in making up the rest.

Jovanovic et al., Clinical Science, 2009 (healthy adults)
Jovanovic et al., Diabetes Care, 2009 (type 2 diabetes)
Wolever et al., Am J Clin Nutr, 1988

05/20/2026

Practice in the garden tonight was something else.

The air, the light, the silence between the movements… nature felt almost overwhelming in its beauty.
Some moments go beyond words they can only be breathed, felt, and lived.

Grateful for this practice, this body, this evening, this life. 🙏

05/19/2026

Questa sera, in Supta Virasana (la posizione dell’eroe reclinato) sotto il cielo aperto, ho sentito il mio cuore aprirsi proprio come il mio corpo.

Dopo mesi al chiuso, siamo tornati a praticare yoga in giardino, circondati dall’aria dolce della sera, dal profumo della terra e dalla natura che lentamente si risveglia.

Durante la postura abbiamo alzato gli occhi al cielo e visto uno stormo di uccelli tornare dal sud un promemoria silenzioso che tutto si muove in cicli, che la vita ritorna sempre, si rinnova, si trasforma.
È stato un momento magico.

Per me questa asana apre molto più della parte anteriore del corpo.
Apre ricordi, emozioni, respiro, fiducia, dolcezza.
Insegna l’abbandono senza debolezza e l’espansione senza forzare.

Radicandosi e arrendendosi alla natura, questa posa aiuta ad attivare il Chakra sacrale (Swadhisthana Chakra), aiutando a trattare la rabbia e altre emozioni negative, calmando la mente e migliorando la concentrazione.

Questa postura non solo ci guida ad allungarci e tonificare, ma fornisce anche forza, potenziamento e l'opportunità di controllare il nostro corpo. Con il tempo questa pratica, se mantenuta più a lungo, apre un percorso verso la spiritualità, praticando lentamente Pratyahara (ritiro dei sensi), Dharana (concentrazione su un unico punto) e Dhyana (meditazione).

Ogni volta che entro in Supta Virasana, sento di ritrovare spazio dentro di me.
Uno spazio profondo e silenzioso dove posso semplicemente respirare ed essere.

Momenti come questi sono il motivo per cui amo così profondamente lo yoga.

05/19/2026

In Supta Vajrasana (Reclining Hero asana) tonight, under the open sky, I felt my heart open in the same way my body did.

After months indoors, we returned to practicing yoga in the garden, surrounded by the soft evening air, the scent of the earth, and the beauty of nature awakening again.

During the posture, we looked up and saw a flock of birds returning from the south a quiet reminder that everything moves in cycles, that life always returns, renews, transforms. It felt magical.

This posture opens so much more than the front body for me.

It opens memories, emotions, breath, trust, softness.
It teaches surrender without weakness and expansion without force.

Every time I enter Supta Vajrasana, I feel space inside myself again.
A deep, silent space where I can simply breathe and be.

Moments like these are why I love yoga so deeply.

05/17/2026

One day a week, change your breakfast.
Change the colors, the textures, the rhythm.
Eat something lighter, simpler, different.

Not only for the body but for the mind and the soul too.
Sometimes even a small change can bring fresh energy, new inspiration, and a feeling of freedom.

05/16/2026

Food is not just calories, protein, fat, or vitamins.
Food is energy.

Before it reaches your stomach, it has already passed through someone’s hands, thoughts, emotions, and intentions. The person who grows it, prepares it, and cooks it leaves an energetic imprint on what you eat.

When food is prepared with love, presence, and care, your body feels it.
When it is made in stress, anger, or unconsciousness, your nervous system can feel that too.

This is why mindful cooking matters.
Why eating slowly matters.
Why gratitude before meals matters.

Your body does not only digest nutrients.
It digests energy, emotions, atmosphere, and vibration.

Be aware of who prepares your food.
Be aware of the energy you bring while cooking for yourself and for others.

Cooking can be an act of healing.
Eating can become a sacred ritual.

05/15/2026

Personal (R)- evolution 💪🏽☮️

After two intense days at my school, immersed in a workshop called Express Yourself, exploring talent, authenticity, and the ways we express ourselves through life, relationships, and career I feel deeply tired… and deeply full.

So much profound body work, presence, emotion, and truth.
Little sleep, long drives, exhaustion in the body… yet an incredible richness in the soul.

There is something magical about doing the inner work, about stripping away layers and reconnecting with who we really are.
Tired, yes. But grateful to be doing something I truly adore.