Q You practised for a long time and had a very close relationship with Vanda Scaravelli Diane Long: Yes, I feel very fortunate to have prac tised with Vanda. She was a very strong character who really impressed me. For Vanda, it was the way of working that Q You practised for a long time and had a very close relationship with Vanda Scaravelli Diane Long: Yes, I feel very fortunate to have prac tised with Vanda. She was a very strong character who really impressed me. For Vanda, it was the way of working that was so important. She also really stressed the importance of one’s own personal practice. She never tried to guide at all, merely to share the depth of her own practice with others. She would return to her own deep source each day, linking the ever deepening power of breath to the movement of the spine, strengthening the power of atten tion in both mind and body. Q How did Vanda become involved in Yoga? DL: Vanda began Yoga when she was 50. Spending summers in Switzerland where she hosted Krishnamurti, they invited Krishnamacharya to come t teach them. He did not travel and instead suggested that BKS Iyengar and Desikachar, his students, come to give them instruction. For three summers, Vanda, Krishnamurti and Ye h u d i Menuhin (who was also a house guest), had individual lessons with these two teachers. Living in Rome in those years, Vanda continued with her interest in Yoga until ‘it took her by the hair’ and she moved back to her childhood home in Tuscany. Q How did you get to meet Vanda? DL: I moved to Florence in Italy in 1971 and began Yoga with Dona Holleman a few years’ later. Having tried to have a sen sible occupation (manuscript restora tion) and yet always being drawn to dance, sports and martial arts, Yoga cap tivated me. Dona had worked with BKS Iyengar and moved to Florence. One day I went with Dona to a Tai Chi demonstration in a large warehous space. As we were sitting, I was looking around the room and noticed a woman beckoning to me to come over. I did. She took my hand and told me to come to see her and that her name was Vanda. dianelongyoga/media/pdf/DianeLon.pdf
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