Bio: Yogacharini Dr. Sangeeta
Yogacharini Sangeeta - Bio Originally from Siena, Italy, Yogacharini Sangeeta
(Dr. Laura Biagi) is a multicultural and multidisciplinary educator whose work
is a blend of performance studies, nada yoga, and storytelling. Dr. Biagi is currently
a faculty in the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches
dramatic literature, devised theatre, contemplative pedagogy, and storytelling.
In 2017, she designed and launched the course
Healing Narratives, in collaboration
with Chicago’s Cook Country Jail and the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program, which
merges contemplation, conflict resolution, and self-empowerment.
Dr. Biagi
earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in the Department of Performance Studies at
New York University under the guidance of Professor Richard Schechner, with a
dissertation on the Southern Italian healing ritual of
tarantismo. In New
York Laura studied "extended vocal techniques" and composition with Meredith Monk,
Deep Listening and composition with Pauline Oliveros and Ione, "Theatre of the
Oppressed" with Augusto Boal and voice with many international artists. She composed
her own performances and collaborated with musicians, directors, storytellers
and painters, and performed at LaMama Theatre, Judson Church, New York University,
and the Gallery at Deep Listening Space.
Between 2009 and 2012, Laura
lived at Ananda Ashram in Tamil Nadu, India, where she studied Raja Yoga in the
tradition of Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri Guru Maharaj. She earned a
two-years advanced yoga teacher diploma (3,500-hour residential training), and
the title of "Yogacharini Sangeeta." While in India, she lectured on the benefits
of the yoga of sound at the ICYER Hospital and University in Pondicherry, the
Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga in New Delhi, and the J. Nehru Medical
College in Warda. In 2011, she was part of the recording of the album Chanting
the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, a project directed by her yoga teacher Yogacharya
Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani. In 2013, with Dr. Bhavanani, she co-wrote the book,
Saraswati's Pearls: Dialogues on the Yoga of Sound.
In Chicago,
Dr. Biagi has performed her piece
The High Priestess as part of Collaboraction's
2017 PEACEBOOK Festival at the Goodman Theatre and at LaFollettePark, and at the
2017 Chicago Ideas Week. Her lectures on contemplative practices, creative awareness,
collaboration and community healing have been presented at Vassar College, DePaul
University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Howard University, Xavier
University of Louisiana, New York Open Center, and the Chicago Artist Coalition
of Chicago. Her 2018 TEDx Talk,
Reimagine Failure: Breathe, Belong, Believe,
addresses the importance of personal narratives for one’s definition of success,
a theme that she also explores in her own solo performance, Self-Love, which was
showcased at Stage 773 in Chicago in the fall of 2018.
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