About

About Coming Home Yoga

Hi! I’m Maddalena, and I wanted to dedicate a space to the transformative power of Yoga and Ayurveda. Ancient knowledge from the Indian tradition, carrying a kindness and a deep understanding of human nature that feels like coming home. Not to a physical place, but to the essence of who we truly are. 

Because this feeling is too precious to keep to myself, through Coming Home Yoga I want to share tools and practices that help you begin (or continue) your own journey towards presence, reconnection, and nourishment on every level. In other words, your journey to come back home.

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My Story

When in 2016 I left Italy and moved to Berlin, Germany, life in the big city turned out to be pretty overwhelming. I needed something to “keep breathing”. I didn’t know much about Yoga, but I remembered my grandma telling me about it and how it had helped her. So I intuitively looked for a class and from that first time I rolled out the mat, I never looked back. 

Practicing Yoga felt—and still feels—like peeling away layers of myself to come closer to the core. As I deepened my practice, I began questioning many of my choices, including my career path in a large corporation. In the meantime, health challenges led me to cross paths with Āyurveda and, many Sun Salutations later, I chose to follow its path and eventually dedicate my life to it.

In 2024, I founded Coming Home Yoga to share the transformative power of Yoga and Āyurveda with others. My intention is to offer tools that help people return home to themselves and live a long and happy life.

I like to think of Yoga and Āyurveda as a journey back home. Not to a physical place, but to the essence of who we truly are. And to me, there is nothing more precious to share than that.


Education

February 2026 – March 2026
Meditation Training 
Yoga IST…, Berlin

November 2024 – November 2025
Professional Training for Āyurvedic Nutritional Counseling
vidya-sā
gar Academy for Āyurveda and Yogatherapy, Asperg

October 2024
10h Training for Trauma-sensitive Yoga
Yoga IST…, Berlin

January 2024 – September 2024
Āyurveda Foundation Training
vidya-sāgar Academy for Āyurveda and Yogatherapy, Asperg

January 2023 – December 2023
200h Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga IST…, Berlin

2013 – 2015
Master’s Degree in Modern Languages for Communication and International Cooperation
University of Padua

2010 – 2013
Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation
University of Padua

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In an age of speed I began to think nothing could be more accelerating than going slow. In an age of distratction nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention and in an age of constant movement nothing is more urgent than sitting still. – P. Iyer, “The Art of Stillness”