Flavio Barsacchi
Teacher
My twenty-year passion for yoga has transformed into a professional path, culminating in the European Sadhana Diploma (seven years of training) and over 1.800 certified hours with the Sadhana EUY school. I deepened the therapeutic aspect of yoga with a RE Master’s Degree in Structural Re-education and experience in Vipassana meditation. I currently teach gentle, postural, Vinyasa, and meditation yoga, focusing my research on personal growth through these practices. I have integrated my vision with a holistic approach, exploring disciplines such as Feledenkrais, Tai Ki Kung (Dr. Ming Wong), Alexander Technique, and Mezieres.
I have also enriched my knowledge by studying improvisational dance (Butoh, Contact Improvisation mostly) and martial arts (tai chi chuan). As a member of the EUY, I offer my students an integrated approach that combines inner awareness with physical practice.
Workshop
Language
English
Yoga Practice in Emotional State Regulation
Kurt Lewin’s aphorism, “There is nothing more practical than a good theory”, applies to Yoga, whose theory defines emotions as motor and somatic tension. The mat is the laboratory where this theory becomes a corrective emotional experience (Franz Alexander), correcting dysfunctional reactive patterns. Physical practice works correctively: postures use somatic anchoring to prevent dissociation. Pranayama actively modulates the stressful emotional response. Finally, focused attention creates the crucial pause, leading to decentring and the equanimous observation of emotion as a transitory event. Yoga etches this corrective map into the body, converting reactive energy into resilient awareness for an integrated life
Yoga Practice in Emotional State Regulation
Kurt Lewin’s aphorism, “There is nothing more practical than a good theory”, fits very well with the yogic approach to emotional management. Yoga theory is not an intellectual abstraction, but a methodological framework that defines emotions of internal blockages manually that makes practice on the mat an intentional and effective act: why emotional dissociation is contained by the somatic anchoring of postures, and why fight-or-flight response generated by stress is intentionally modulated by the parasympathetic activation of slow, conscious breathing. It is on the mat, in the realm of practice, that this theory transforms into a corrective emotional experience. Corrective emotional experience, a concept introduced by Franz Alexander to the field of psychotherapy, is a process in which dysfunctional emotional and reactive patterns are relived in a controlled environment, resulting in a new and more adaptive outcome. The Yoga mat is this laboratory. Physical practice invites us to feel emotions as pure bodily sensations, correcting the ancient habit of dissociation or mental escape that stress induces. Through slow, conscious movement, we learn not to react to tension (which is somatized emotion) but to recognize and release it, re-establishing the mind-body connection and correcting the automaticity of our perceptual-reactive system. Prana-Ayama, the extension of the quality of breathing, further corrects the experience, demonstrating neurophysiologically that the intensity of the emotional response can be actively modulated, providing direct evidence of a new internal organization. At the same time, focused attention on the present moment provides the third corrective element: it creates the crucial pause between stimulus and reaction and guides us toward decentring, observing the emotion as a transitory event, not as an absolute identity. This constant observation and attitude of equanimity corrects the tendency toward attachment to pleasure and aversion to pain, providing the lived experience that stability and discernment are always accessible. Yoga offers the roadmap for change, and consistent practice on the mat is the corrective experience that engraves that roadmap into the body and mind, converting reactive energy into a higher, resilient, and intentional awareness, for living a more integrated life.
Federation: Yoga Sadhana (Spain)
