Dr. Antonietta Rozzi

Abstract:
Since the dawn of civilisations, the subject of consciousness, that capacity “to be aware to know” has been a mystery to be unveiled with philosophical and scientific symbolism and theories.
Even today, modern science is still confronted with this function that towers above the human mind, which can observe and control it, thus also sometimes assuming moral and ethical connotations.
In yoga, consciousness is both the primary tool and the ultimate goal: a state capable of revealing, if not fully explaining, the mysteries of creation and human existence.
Yoga has thus structured practical paths capable of modifying ordinary states of consciousness and opening wider horizons of knowledge that only a different state of consciousness is able to reach and manifest. Only an expanded consciousness, according to yoga, can see and unveil the great mysteries of the origin of creation, of life and the meaning and value of human existence.
This different consciousness alone can answer the existential questions that have anguished the human species since time immemorial: who am I? who created everything? where to go after this earthly existence? who is that Creator? In every human being there is an instance capable of asking these questions but without finding the answers in the ordinary mind.
In modern societies, excessive materialism risks stifling any evolutionary impulse of consciousness. The education of the new generations can guarantee balanced personalities capable of living together in peace for the sake of global well-being with respect of environment and life.
The ancient science of yoga, which focuses on the exploration of consciousness in its many possible modulations, is a useful and effective tool in today's society for balanced growth, improved learning and peaceful coexistence and social well-being.

Bio:
She graduated in literature and philosophy in France and obtain a master’s degree in modern languages and literature in Italy, University of Parma. She started practicing yoga 45 years ago. She visited every year many yoga schools and ashrams in India and organized intensive yoga programs for Italian yoga students and teachers. She followed the teachings of great masters in Europe and India, such as Swami Chidananda and Swami Krishananda of the Divine Life Society, Swami Satyananda of Monghyr, Swami Rama, Swami Satchidananda and many others and cooperate with the main Indian yoga Institutions and universities.
She is Senior professor of the Italian Yoga Federation for 45 years and has contributed to the revision of the Initial Training Program for yoga teachers adopted by many European federations of yoga.
She is Director of Yogaeducational Institute and has been member of the Italian Commission of Ministry of Education to develop official programs of yoga at schools, colleges and universities.
She has been nominated member of the Commission of AYUSH Ministry and WHO for Public Health programs.
She teaches Yoga in Education as an official course at the University of Bologna and Bolzano (Italy).
She has been appointed by the WHO and the Government of India as a member of the International Commission of Experts for the Implementation of Global Health Programmes through Yoga promoted by the World Health Organization.
She is founder and President Sarva Yoga International, Leading Yoga Institution accredited by YCB of Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.
In 2019 she has been awarded by Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the “Prime Minister's Awards for Outstanding Contribution of Promotion and Development of Yoga”.
She founded Sarva Yoga University and collaborates with leading Italian and Indian yoga universities.