Odaka Yoga

Yoga is a millenary discipline which, over time, has taken on different shapes to be able to adapt to people of many historical periods. Odaka Yoga is a style created by Roberto Milletti and Francesca Cassia and is one of these beautiful shapes. I have always been convinced that there is a special magic in the integration of seemingly distant traditions and knowledge because union makes the richness of our time and not separation.

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In Odaka style, in which asanas (postures), ocean waves and the path of the Bushido warrior merge, the movement is once again circular, fluid and centred. Biomechanics is transformed into wave art. Waves allow one to glide through postures according to the body's special ability to align. This builds trust and allows one to let go. Yoga chitta vritti nirodha, the mind relaxes and yoga becomes the suspension of the fluctuations of the mind. What matters is how I reach the pose, what I experience as I move there. As I shift the focus from the pose to the journey, biomechanics re-educates the spine and movement in general. 

 

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Yoga is the opportunity to continue looking into the body's windows of truth. Body is soul, totally connected to nature, of which we sometimes forget that we are the very manifestation. Our body is a sacred space: a simulacrum of direct memories from this life and indirect ones gathered from the lives of our ancestors. Practice is a ritual, something that repeats and, by repeating itself, can lead us to a very deep level of ourselves. 

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Practicing as praying to the body, I like to think of it that way. Practicing to honor and pay tribute to all our memories. Odaka is the way of the gentle warrior who courageously asks for permission. Slowly, space is made where apparently there was no space at all.

 

 

Odaka Yoga classes last about an hour and fifteen minutes in presence or online. 

Depending on the need, they can be individual or in groups.