Francesca Marchi (sn.Shivapuri) has been studying and practicing yoga since 1977. Meets and recognizes her as Guru Sw. Satyananda Saraswati in 1985. From that day to today, he follows the Satyananda yoga tradition. He made numerous trips to India from 1981 to 2009 with long residential periods at Bihar School of Yoga. In these periods, he studies and collaborates with the BSY in the still-living presence of Sw. Satyananda.He has been teaching yoga since '93 and in 2001 he founded his own yoga school. From 2001 to today he teaches very intensively of each level and holds numerous yoga retreats