Emy
Blesio
– initiated as Gayatri
Devi in Haridwar, North India,
has an experience in research of more than 40 years. She lives in Milan, where runs her
Yoga school: Suryanagara.
She was born in Brescia, Italy in 31 March 1947; and
after her study on Fine arts, she got married in 1967. She moves to Milan where she
specialized in drawing and visual arts, living in the ancient theatre “Dal
Verme”; in that period she created cartoon’s characters that have been
published in many magazines.
In 1967 she begins to
practise Oriental disciplines and meets the Master Yesudian philosophy, when he
was in Losanna, Switzerland.
In 1970 she founds with a
group of researchers a magazine called “Sintesi – Selezione dell’Arte
(Synthesis – Art selection) where she was a responsible director and goes on
with researches in Yoga (mainly Hatha Yoga); as a free lance drafts-woman she
works for trade magazines as “Tempo Economico”, “Staff”, etc. She collaborated
in creating the posters for ski worldwide cup and fits out exhibitions paintings
where she use her pictorial style.
From 1972 to 1986 she
travels to France, Spain, Switzerland,
Austria, Greece, Turkey,
Morocco, England, Tunisie,
Russia (she visited Moscow and the orthodox Zagorsk) for researches on human nature,
painting exhibitions and to go into her interest on spirituality origins. In
that time she studies Christian-orthodox spirituality, Sophism, Bhuddhism, Zen,
Sanatana Dharma (the hindu spirituality), and meets Masters as Muktananda ji,
Swami Chidananda ji,
Swami Satchidananda ji,
Swami Satyananda ji,
Amrit Desai, Gerard Blitz and she works with Jacques Haustrate and André Van
Lisebeth etc.
In 1981 Emy cooperate in founding a Company
for production and sale of art valuables and jewels in Italy and
abroad; and continues to go into Yoga, science, spirituality and to spread Indian
culture.
In 1987 Emy closes the
Company and retires for some times in an Ashram where she improves Yoga teaching. She
also learns Chikitsa massage’s techniques from Kerala’s Kalari and improves Siddha Siddhanta
Yoga. She starts again to paint for adorning Ashram’s Hindu temple.
In the meantime, she
founds C.Y.Surya and becomes the President. She organizes Yoga, Meditation,
Pranayama lessons.
1990 starts with a new Yoga discipline
for children – Lila Yoga –
to give her 4 years old daughter, interested in Indian dance, the
possibility to live
her life with awareness, developing body, mind and soul.
After that she continues
her activity
in C.Y.Surya offering and teaching Yoga for more of 3 years. Her activity is shared between the Centre and
conferences, seminars, symposia around Italy; she also works in Visual art and
realises in this field sketch, paintings, sculptures about Hindu mythology:
symbols strictly closed to Yoga philosophy and techniques.
From 1992 Emy organizes
stages and workshops in Indian dance with Indian teachers to permit
her daughter Surya, very young but very interested in this art, to improve
more and more.
In 1997 the brahmana
Bhumihara Bharat
Bhushan Mishra calls her Gayatri Devi on behalf
of Master Pandit Sri
Sharma Acharya from Haridwar,
India.
In 1997 with her daughter
Surya, she visits temples and ashrams in the North, Middle and South India. In Haridwar, North India on the Ganges River,
she is confirmed as Gayatri Devi.
Emy Blesio, after working
on the science an the therapeutic value of the Yoga, specializes in Pranayama
and begins to
collect information on Varutha Kriya, a technique that allows
to remove problems, to reinforce and protect oneself from tensions which come from the others.
Once again in Italy,
in 1998, she promotes in Milan, with a group of researcher’s
co-operation, the great Festival “Artisti per la Pace – Gandhi 50 anni
dopo” (Artists for peace – Gandhi 50 years later) with more than 300 artists
and spiritual personages that participate for free… and for love.
In 1998 she specializes in Ayurvedic massage
and after give her resignation from the Presidency of C.Y.Surya, she founds, with a
Zen researcher a new School
of Oriental Culture and
Disciplines: Suryanagara.
Suryanagara is a place
where people from different ideas, culture and race, without any sort of
intolerances, can meet Oriental culture and disciplines, in harmony with the
aim of its founder: Emy Blesio. Also this association, like the previous, takes
the name of her daughter.
Then Emy restarting the collaboration with magazines, radio, TV (Canale
5, RAITRE, RAIUNO, RAI
EDUCATION, Telelombardia, Millennium Channel, Seimilano, Antenna Tre, Telenova,
LA7, Alle
Falde del Kilimangiaro RAITRE, Uno mattina RAIUNO, Stella di Maurizio
Costanzo SkyUno etc.). She organize shows for
Charity, Orphanages, Associations etc.), and in meanwhile for the Italians and
Indians Official Bodis, as expert in Yoga, philosophy and Indian culture.
In 2000 she founds the
monthly magazine Kendra – an important tool for Yoga practising – and has
published three books: “Surya Namaskara Samkranti”, “Il Gatto” (The cat), “La luce
azzurra” (The Blue light).
In April 2002 Emy promotes “The Indian festival: East
meets West” in Assago (Milano), an important event organized with the support of India
General Consulate, Milano, Indian Tourist Office,
Local, Provincial and Regional Italian Government, and with sponsors as ATM
(the transport enterprise of Milan), Corriere della Sera – ViviMilano (the main
daily paper in Italy). This event, propose culture, arts, Yoga, handcraft, food
etc. The only one event never been organized in Europa, till now. This first edition have more than 20.000
visitors.
July-August 2002: in South India Emy codifies
15 sequences of Surya Namaskara.
Spring 2003 – 2nd
Edition of the Indian festival in Milan: Emy Blesio, author
and art director shows her paintings on Indian mythology. A section is reserved
for a National Congress of Yoga. Lecturers speech about Sanskrit, Vimanika
Shastra, Jyotisha, Yoga, Ayurveda, etc.
For the first time played
in Italy,
a dance drama in
Bharata Natyam style.
And… for the first time
too in Italy Emy propose all seven Indian classical dances together (Bharata
Natyam, Kathakali, Mohini Attam, Odissi, Manipuri, Kuchipudi, Kathak).
August 2003: in India Emy and Surya make
deeper their research.
Emy specializes in Kendra Laya and Surya
receives from Master Srmt. Ambika Buch (student of Srmt. Rukmini Devi Athale–
founder of prestigious Kalakshetra Academy)
the Arangetram during a 2 hours and half of performance, in Anantapadmanabha Swami Temple
in Adyar, Madras (South India).
2004 - 3rd.
Edition of Indian
Festival: 57 artists from India,
play Classic and Folk dance. The festival has a very high artistic and cultural
level. A section is reserved for the National Congress of Yoga. Lecturers and
expert in oriental disciplines held conferences and workshops. Four dance drama
are played (choreography by P.T. Narendran and Bijoy Shivram, both partners of
Surya, with the collaboration of the MaruthiKalari from Trivandrum and the performers of Mallakamb
Yoga from Mumbai). These innovations had a lot of success.
2005 – 4th.
Edition of Indian
Festival: Emy Blesio, on the reason of the success of the
lectures and workshops, hosts in the Indian Festival the first Yoga World Conference in Italy.
With 108 speakers, guru,
scientists; 380 artists; 30 films and documentaries –some unpublished- by the
famous director Mira Nair
and two musicals from 37 to 130 artists each. One west-east
fusion “Raja di Shambala” by Mudra dance School and the Indian one “Sundari:
l’incanto della rosa nera” Story by Emy Blesio and Choreographies by
P.T.Narendran and Surya.
The same Spring 2005, Emy
founds with other researchers, E.Y.F. – European Yoga Federation and C.U.I.D.Y.
– Italian Official Confederation for Yoga.
These Institutions
organize in autumn the First European Yoga Federation Congress in Bucharest, Rumania with a great success.
Just after that, the
resolute separation from I.Y.F., permits Emy and other researchers to found two
no profit Movements to
spread out Indian science, philosophy, art and culture with
purity and authenticity: World Movement for Yoga and Ayurveda –World Movement for
Indian Fine Arts. Two movements created to make to know the India of the
values.
And…
finally, in 2006 Emy, more than pursuing her activity in various schools, she
is supporting, with her full staff of The World Community of Indian Culture &
Traditional Disciplines, and the World Movement for Yoga and Ayurveda:
The
2nd European Yoga Congress of E.Y.F. European Yoga Federation
The 1st.
Ayurveda University Congress of World M.Y.A. World Movement Yoga and
Ayurveda
And
the 1st. Indian
Dance, Music and Song Congress of World M.I.F.A. World Movement
Indian Fine Arts.
In October 2006 The Indian Council of N.M.&R. Mumbai,
India, bestow Emy Blesio
with the title of Pandit.
December 2008 Emy Blesio is
conferred with the honour of important charge of Mahamandaleshwar
May 2009: Emy proposes
the 5th. Edition of Indian Festival that will take seat in Sesto San Giovanni. This 5th
edition contains the 7th International Congress
Yoga & Ayurveda and the 1st Symposium of the spirituality “Ray of a Unique
Light” with a special and successful formula as a Talk Show with debate.
And in October 2009 the
very great Festival of India, 6th edition that contains the 8th
International
Congress Yoga & Ayurveda and the 2nd Symposium of the spirituality “Ray of a Unique
Light” take place in Grugliasco, Torino, Italy, with a very huge success,
emotion and love.
Emy
Blesio run Yoga teachers courses, and Pranayama, Varutha Kriya, Kendra Laya,
Lila Yoga, Sandhya
Yoga, Meditation etc. in Suryanagara Centre in
Milan, Italy and gives lectures, stages, workshops and conferences in all over
the world.
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Emy Blesio (Gayatri Devi) with the great writer Enzo Biagi and the BharataNatyam dancer Surya
Yogacharini
Pandit Emy Blesio (Gayatri Devi) in the Mayor hall of Salamanca
Spain, during the ceremony of the bestowing of the "Orange
Omkara” Award to the Mayor
Yogacharini Pandit Emy Blesio (Gayatri Devi)President of the:International Yog Confederation, Delhi, IndiaThe World Community of Indian Culture & Traditional DisciplinesC.U.I.D.Y.ConfederazioneUfficialeItalianaDiYoga WORLD.M.I.F.A.World Movement Indian Fine ArtsSuryanagara, International Yoga school Creator & Art Director of the:Great Indian Festival: East meets West - Forum Assago, Milan, Italy Ambassador of:E.Y.F.EuropeanYogaFederationWorld.M.Y.A. World Movement Yoga & Ayurveda
Orden De Santa Maria De Los Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Advisor Member of:
Women International Network (WIN) - New Delhi - India
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