The first Ashtanga Yoga School in Milan

Lino Miele initial interest in yoga dates back to the early 1980s when he starts traveling in India in search of a guru. In 1988, he met Sri K. Pattabhi Jois ("Guruji"), and thus began a long-term, teacher-student relationship, becoming a devoted Ashtanga yoga student.
In 1993, under the guidance of Guruji, he publishes the first book on Ashtanga Yoga which gives a clear reading of the method of the first and second series.
And in 1994, Lino, together with very few other students, is certified by Guruji to teach Ashtanga Yoga.
He opens, with SKPJ approval, Ashtanga Yoga traditional Schools in Finland, Denmark, Argentina in addition to Rome and Milan.
Lino Miele regularly holds workshops and retreats in Italy and around the world.

In early 1999, Pinuccia enrolled in an Ashtanga Yoga class in an attempt to seek balance in her hectic manager life. Six months later, she meets Lino Miele in one of his workshops and, little by little, his life begins to change.
In 2001 she starts to assist Lino and by the end of 2002, she left her job to devote herself to the study of Ashtanga Yoga. She assists Lino in Kovalam during his winter retreat and joins him in Mysore to practice with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2004.
She then started teaching in Milan and in 2009 she was one of the founders of the Astanga Yoga School in Milan, where she teaches every day. Sweet, but firm, she won't let you pass one.

A globetrotter, she lived first in London and then in Miami. Passionate about fitness from an early age, Nadia discovered yoga in 2006, after a long experience as both a practitioner and an instructor of functional strength training.
It was her encounter with Lino Miele two years later that marked a turning point: Ashtanga became her daily practice, a long and continuous journey of inner transformation, and a few years later she left the gyms to teach at the Shala.
In 2011, she was authorized to teach Ashtanga yoga by the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute by Lino Miele.

Lella was practically born into yoga and fitness. She met Ashtanga in 2005 after twenty-five years of practicing and teaching Hatha yoga and other physical disciplines. She immediately senses that the energy, awareness and inner balance that Ashtanga transmits to her have a strong impact on her life.
She, therefore, decides to devote herself entirely to this discipline, while continuing her research path in Eastern philosophies.
She follows Lino Miele in his workshops in Italy and abroad and in 2008 she begins to assist Pinuccia Buscaglia and Sandra Mazzucchelli.
In 2011 she was authorized to teach Ashtanga yoga by the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Rome.

Iacopo has always been interested and fascinated by concentration techniques to observe phenomena; and it was along its inner search that he met and started his daily Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga practice in 2018. He immediately found in this practise a tool for psycho-physical balance and a deep support to face the daily difficulties. Lino Miele became his teacher and a guide to accompany him in his personal development, together with the teachers of the School.

In 2019, he completed a Master's degree in Cooperation and Development Project Management. The following year, he left the financial world to work for non-governmental organisations and began teaching yoga with the desire to give back the benefits he received through his own practise.

Passionate about visual arts, he specialized in Visual Design at the Scuola Politecnica del Design, after studying first at the Faculty of Architecture and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. In 2005, he discovered Ashtanga Yoga with Pinuccia Buscaglia and, a few months later, met Lino Miele, whom he has followed consistently in seminars across Italy and abroad. Since 2016, he has been a certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (AYRI) under Lino Miele.