A Macroeconomics Professor Teaching Yoga in Unifit
"Bocconi should be experienced as a 360 degrees reality", says Maria Giovanna Bosco, who teaches macroeconomics and gives a yoga class at Unifit every Monday evening and Tuesday lunchtime. "Professors should commit themselves in first person to create something different, inclusive and captivating for students", she continues.
Maria Giovanna's passion for yoga was born in Paris in 1996, when she had just graduated from Bocconi University. That's when she took her first step towards a discipline she found fascinating. This passion has grown and has become stronger through the years. In 2008, when she was a research scholar in Los Angeles, an experience strengthened her connection with yoga: "I realized that abroad sport is seen also as an occasion to connect students and professors. A moment of integration", she explains "I looked around during the yoga class and I noticed there were so many different people: professors, football players, old and young alike. It was exciting."
She has been giving yoga classes for 5 years, and not just in Unifit. She is now taking her second yoga diploma for which she is writing a thesis on the relation between economics' ethics and yoga cultures' ethics. "Many researchers affirm that who does yoga also obtains better performances as an entrepreneur", says Maria Giovanna "I'm studying management under a sport point of view". She is truly a researcher trying to involve her students in an activity that goes beyond the simple fitness exercise: "Yoga is not just a sport, it is a philosophy with some physical aspects. Gym yoga is just the visible part of a deeper discipline", she explains, "Through practical exercise one can pursue introspection, become aware of his/her body and, last but not least, discover the real and hidden yoga". With this description Maria Giovanna renews her invitation to all Bocconi students, employees and professors alike, to come and discover a discipline which isn't so alien to management and economics.