Christian Pisano has been practicing Yoga for over 40 years and is one of only three people to have received an Advanced Senior Diploma from Guruji BKS Iyengar. He lived in Pune for several years and studied directly under Guruji, Geetaji and Prashantji at RIMYI.
Christian shares that, over the years, his learning process has involved a lot of unlearning and deconstruction of previous understandings in order to uncover what is truly dear to his heart. His philosophical inclination has led him toward a non-dual approach rooted in the Trika system, more widely known as Kashmiri Shaivism.
Christian teaches at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Nice, France, and leads Yoga workshops across Europe.
In the first part of our conversation, Christian speaks about how a sense of dissatisfaction and a deeper search in life led him to yoga, and what some of his first lessons were under the guidance of BKS Iyengar. He emphasizes that each person follows their unique process, and that the process itself becomes both guide and teacher. Christian also reflects on ideas of progress, personality, and the phenomenon of the student–teacher relationship.
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