Marco Cavallini
CERTIFIED YOGA TRAINER & HOLISTIC THERAPIST
L’ESCALA · EMPORDÀ · GIRONA · COSTA BRAVA
I was born in Italy and grew up by Lake Como, surrounded by nature and a culture where art, beauty and simplicity are part of everyday life.
From an early age, I was drawn to art, dance, literature and the different ways we have of understanding and expressing human experience.
At twenty, I went through a near-death experience that changed the way I looked at life. Years later, a particularly intense experience during a sound practice renewed my curiosity about the relationship between the body, perception and awareness.
Yoga came into my life from there and, over the years, became a practice that I continue to explore: a way of moving, breathing, observing and becoming more present.
I have been teaching since 2019 and continue to train in different disciplines related to the body, movement, meditation and wellbeing.
Hamsa means swan in Sanskrit.
In different Indian traditions, the swan is associated with ideas such as discernment, freedom and the ability to distinguish what is essential from what is not.
For Yoga Hamsa, the symbol represents just that:
learning to listen, discern and return to what matters.
The name also connects with one of the ideas that runs through the whole practice: finding a relationship between different qualities without needing to turn them into opposites.
Movement & Stillness.
Strength & softness.
Yin & Yang.
Yoga Hamsa draws from different traditions and ways of understanding practice.
Not as a closed system of beliefs, but as a landscape of ideas, practices and questions that have accompanied my own path.
These include Buddhism and Zen, Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the yogic tradition, Sufism, Bhakti and contemplative poetry.
Each offers a different perspective.
Some speak about the body.
Others about attention.
Others about change, nature, our relationship with others or the search for meaning FROM THE INSIDE.
I'm interested in finding what can be brought from theory into experience.
LESS WORDS. MORE LIFE.
BUDDHISM, ZEN & MINDFULNESS
Attention as a practice.
Observing the breath. Feeling the body. Recognising what arises without having to react immediately.
Buddhism, Zen and mindfulness practices have particularly influenced the way I understand meditation.
Not so much as a search for answers, but as a way of being present with what is already happening.
TAOISM & TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
The cycles of nature, Yin and Yang, the elements and the relationship between movement and stillness particularly inspire my Yin Yoga and QiGong practice.
Traditional Chinese Medicine offers another way of observing the body: its rhythms, tensions, changes and relationships.
It is not about learning a theory and imposing it on the body.
It is about using these ideas as another way of observing and practising.
SUFISM, BHAKTI & GNOSTICISM
Some traditions approach practice through poetry, contemplation, devotion or inner enquiry.
Sufism, Bhakti and writers such as Rumi and Khalil Gibran are part of this landscape of inspiration.
You don't need to share a particular belief to find something meaningful in a poem, a practice of attention or a question that stays with you for a while.
Sometimes an idea doesn't need to become an answer.
It can simply help us navigate life.
The practice explores the body, mind, and heart from a holistic perspective, where everything is connected by the same NATURAL cycleS that operate on both external and internal levels.
TRUTH IS, THERE'S NO NEED FOR ANY SPECIFIC SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE TO START PAYING ATTENTION.
We can start with something simpler:
BREATHING.
MOVING.
LISTENING.
OBSERVING HOW WE REALLY ARE.
For me, practice is not about escaping everyday life, but about returning to it with a little more presence.
I'm not here to offer definitive answers.
I'm interested in creating spaces where we can ask better questions.
And perhaps, little by little, develop the depth in sensitivity to recognise what is truly in alignment and what is not.
