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 and she is the president of Yoga Confederation, Delhi, India
She was born in Brescia, Italy in 31 March 1947; and
after her study on Fine arts,. She moves to Milan in 1967 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
practice 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 the field of Yoga and as a free lance drafts-woman she
works for various magazines. She collaborated
in creating the posters for ski worldwide cup and fits out exhibitions paintings
where she use her pictorial style.
Since 1972 she
travelers to research, for exhibitions and to explore the origins of his interest in spirituality, to France, Spain, Switzerland,
Austria, Greece, Turkey,
Morocco, England, Tunisie,
Russia, India.
She studies the basics of 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. intensely practicing theYoga discipline.
In 1986 born her daughter Surya. Emy 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.
In the meantime, she
founds C.Y.Surya and becomes the President. She organizes Yoga, Meditation,
Pranayama lessons and 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.
Also restarts painting to decorate the Hindu temple in the ashram.
At the end of 1988 she devoted herself intensively to spread the Indian culture.Following her work, in addition to teaching yoga, and a series of
conferences, seminars, symposia, in various cities of Italy, not
forgetting to continue her research, including the visual arts where he
introduced Eastern culture in her works on canvas, sculptures
suggesting the Hindu mythology, with its symbols and its themes: deep
symbolism of the iconography of India, which is closely related to
philosophy and science of Yoga.Also organizes Indian dance and cultural performances by the greatest masters of India.In
1996 she was awarded the name Gayatri Devi by the Brahman Bharat
Bhushan Mishra Bhumihara in the name of Maestro Pandit Sri Rama Sharma
Acharya of Hardwar, Northern India, where she went with her daughter.
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. 
Emy Blesio, after working
on the science and 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, the great Festival “Artisti per la Pace – Gandhi 50 anni
dopo” (Artists for peace – Gandhi 50 years after) with more than 300 artists
and spiritual personages that participate for free… and for love (painters, sculptors, singers, poets, actors).
In the same year 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 International School
of Yoga, Arts, Culture and Oriental
Disciplines: Suryanagara (the City of the Sun ).
Suryanagara
is a place
where people from different ideas, culture and race, without any sort
of
intolerances, can meet culture and Oriental disciplines, in harmony
with the
aim of its founder: Emy Blesio, and this it can be seen from the texts
displayed in the school: The four Vedas (Hindu), the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh), the
Hebrew Bible and the Christian one, the Koran, The Philocalia
(Orthodox) and so on.
Also this association, like the previous, takes
the name of her daughter.
Then Emy restarts 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 Bodies, as expert in Yoga, philosophy and Indian culture.
In 2000 she founds the
monthly magazine Kendra – an important tool for Yoga practicing – and has
published three books: “Surya Namaskara Samkranti”, “Il Gatto” (The cat), “La luce
azzurra” (The Blue light) and so on.
In April 2002 Emy created “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 had more than 20.000
visitors.
This
event is repeated for 4 years and had for each year from 20,000 to
35,000 audience (not counting children, who have disabilities and the
holders of free entries). For the first time in Italy you can see all
the seven Indian classical dance with artists from India. And for the
first time in Italy is proposing a symposium dedicated to the
spirituality, "Rays of a Unique Light", and Congress of Yoga with
conference speakers and Indology Italian and Indian.
Then the event will be repeated every year.
Spring 2003 – 2nd
Edition of the Indian festival in Milan: Emy Blesio, creator
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). The festival ends with the festival of Holi (a kind of
carnival of India) that is enjoying great success in this Indian
Community.
Great importance is the Yoga Conference and the Symposium spirituality in addition to experts in Ayurveda.
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. For this edition, the conference becomes Congress Yoga and
Ayurveda with lectures by experts in Oriental arts (yoga, ayurveda,
holistic techniques, spirituality, Vedic astrology, etc..), The
Symposium collected not less than 9 spiritual lines.
Lecturers and
expert in oriental disciplines held workshops too. 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 have got 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
Blesio founds with other researchers, E.Y.F. – European Yoga Federation and C.U.I.D.Y.
– Italian Official Confederation for Yoga which promote an International Yoga Teachers Training course.
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.
http://www.theworldcommunity.com/AWARD2.htm
and establishing a prize for anyone who stands in the field of culture,
spirituality, science, social activities and artistic expression: the
'Orange Omkara "already conferred in Italy to the dr. Enzo Biagi, On. prof. Rita Levi Montalcini (Nobel prize), dr. Gino Strada
and Teresa Sarti founders of Emergency and. .. Governor, the Chief
Minister, the Mayor and other important figures of Jammu & Kashmir
for their work of spreading the culture in spite of the difficult times
facing the country, the Mayor of Salamanca, Spain, and Santarem,
Portugal for his interest Culture organized by the Congress and to support our movement worldwide etc.
On
October 10, 2006 Emy Blesio is awarded the title of Pandit 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. (honor for who stands in the field of culture of peace and unity) conferred by the
Indian Council of Cultural & Natural Medicine Research in Bombay
(Mumbai), India.
December 2008 Emy Blesio is
conferred the honour of important title 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. A huge public decreed a very successful to the initiative.
And in October 2009 another 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. She will replicate the success of the Festival of
India with all its contents. An issue dedicated to Gandhi and Peace in
the World Day of Nonviolence. The massive participation of speakers,
yogis, gurus, artists, doctors and experts in consolidating this event
as an event of great success.
The
25-19 March 2010 Emy Blesio replica Festival at Carrara, which takes
its name Mitica India Festival, and was a surprising success in so little city in the center of Italy.
On
September 12, 2010 in Delhi, the Darshan Smriti, Emy Blesio is honored
of the "Simplicity Feroz Gandhi Award 2010" in front of the memorial to
Gandhiji with a prize already awarded in the past to eminent personalities as Sonia Gandhi.
On
October 28, 2010, in collaboration with Indian institutions, she
organize an interesting event in Bhopal: The Patanjali Week
Celebration, a week of celebration where will offer classes, lectures, demonstrations by teachers, gurus,
performers. Many dignitaries attend the event.
On
November 25, 2010 in Teen Murti Auditorium in New Delhi, India, during
the day of non-violence against women is delivered by WIN (Women
International Network which is the International president Emy Blesio) Award to Indian women who have work for peace and nonviolence.
Ambassador for Peace
Saturday, 5th March, 2011 at 8:30 PM, in Milan, Italy, at
the House of World Cultures, the UPF-Universal Peace
Federation in the International Women's Day organized by the
ONU, gives to Emy Blesio President of The World Community of
Indian Culture & Traditional Disciplines the title of
Ambassadors for Peace on the motivation: for her many
initiatives in promoting peace and reconciliation, and her constant passion in
doing so.
SCHOOL
Emy
Blesio run Yoga teachers training courses, and Pranayama, Varutha Kriya, Kendra Laya,
Lila Yoga, Sandhya
Yoga, Meditation etc. in Suryanagara School in
Milan, Italy and gives lectures, stages, workshops and conferences in all over
the world. Yoga-Teachers Training Courses in Italy and abroad certified by CUIDY and the International Yog Confederation of Delhi
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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
Advisor Member of:Women International Network (WIN) - New Delhi - India
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