SoRS

Yoga Thilagam Yogacharini Sangeeta Laura Biagi, Ph.D., is a Yoga Teacher in the tradition of Yogamaharishi Dr Swami Gitananda Giri (Tamil Nadu, India) and the Director of International Studies and Research of Gitananda Nada Yoga at the ICYER (International Center for Yoga Education & Research). Originally from Siena, Italy, she earned her MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University with a thesis on the therapeutic power of the human voice. She has been a professor at NYU, Vassar College and The Theatre School at DePaul University, collaborating with community centers and jails in the US to increase the importance of voice awareness in the process of rehabilitation. Her work has been featured on the TEDx stage (Reimagine Failure: Breathe Belong Believe, 2018) and in the Emmy Award nominated documentary The Girl Inside.  She is currently a Guest Faculty at the Institute of Salutogenesis & Complementary Medicine at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University in Pondicherry, South India and offers online talks, master classes and courses focusing on Nada Yoga, the “Yoga of Vibration and Sound”. She is the co-author, together with her teacher, Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, of two books on Nada Yoga: Saraswathi’s Pearls: Dialogues on the Yoga of Sound (2012, Dhivyananda Creations) and Nada Yoga: The Vibratory Essence of the Yoga of Sound (Singing Dragon, 2023). Sangeeta is a voice and health coach, astrologer, and tarot enthusiast. Her book on the Major Arcana of the Tarot, La Voce Arcana, was published by RPLibri in 2021.