Born and grew up in Milano – Italia- but have been living abroad for the past 27 years. After London, Paris and Venice Beach CA, she’s been currently living in Tulum Mexico. Alessandra Montana is a Yoga teacher, a Sound Therapist -or even better simply said Sound keeper- and curator at the Sanara’ Yoga Hall.
Deeply connected with the Energy of Mother Earth and with a soulful interest for indigenous traditions and old times fairy tales.
Graduated with a degree in history and literature in foreign languages, after the death of her mom, she decided to put her own dreams on hold in order to replace her in the family fashion business. Soon she was collaborating with major fashion companies in Italy and Europe, and this led to her living in Paris, London and eventually Los Angeles, where, taking a leap of faith, she moved to in 1995. She lived in California (Venice Beach and Santa Monica) for 16 years working as Director of International Sales for few different fashion companies, carrier that she decided to let go in 2008 to step into the unknown, re-create a new chapter of the journey called life and follow her own dreams.
Yoga was the facilitator of the big shift in Alessandra’s life.. from the outer of the fashion world to the inner of the self. Alessandra yoga’s journey started in 1999 when without knowing anything about yoga , she walked into her first yoga class. Her journey into Yoga was inevitable and already started without, clearly, her knowing. Alessandra began practicing Yoga with Saul David Raye as a way to release the stresses of American corporate life and, soon after, she started to organize her busy working days around her yoga schedule. Few months after her last day as corporate America, she started studying full time with Saul David Raye and embraced Bhakti Yoga (yoga of the Devotion) and Atma Yoga (Spirit in Sanskrit), offering all her thoughts and actions to a higher power as a source of help and guidance.
Finishing her initial yoga certification in Atma Yoga through Yoga Alliance, she went on to study with Micheline Berry and Shiva Rea, developing her skills into a Vinyasa Flow Practice that embraces the movement of the body as expression and release of the soul. She followed as well the teachings of Mark Whitwell and Eric Shiffmann.
In 2010 , Alessandra moved to Tulum where she started teaching full time. During the same year, Alessandra started her journey into Mayan Culture and Shamanic traditions that soon were incorporated into her life style and teachings and she was initiated “mujer de fuego” (woman of the fire) based on the Mayan tradition.
In 2011, she certified as a Reiki therapist and she started using these energetic techniques during her private sessions of yoga and later on during her healing therapies. One of her big love is music , a passion that started at an early age but manifested only in 2012 when Alessandra expanded her vision into the magic world of sounds and vibrations. and she started to share this wonderful medicine of overtones and magic through the magic powers of the Gong, Singing “Himalayan” and crystal bowls, crystal pyramids, harmonium to mention few. Fully in love with this part of her journey, Alessandra took on the studies with pioneers in sound experiences including Don Conreaux, Methab Benton, Philippe Garnier, Lea Garnier, Richard Rubis, Tito La Rosa, Ramji Singh, Silvia Nakkach and Baird Hersey. 5 years later, Alessandra certified as a sound therapist. She, now , regularly presents sound offerings privately and publicly in Tulum -Mexico- (Sanara’, Casa Malca, Yaan Spa, Selina and Nomade to mention few) , France, Milano (Italy) and Los Angeles (California) or wherever Spirit guides her.
In 2014, she founded SUHUY (sa-gra-do) Medicine for Body and Soul that lasted for few years and guided her into a deeper solo project “One Love , One Sound” .
In 2018,she started assisting her teachers and as well under the blessings of the Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux , she started offering Sound Healing and Gong Training to share the wisdom & Gong legacy received by Don by training others in merging into the journey of sounds and vibrations with awareness and heart power.
In 2019, she started her journey into the study of Gong Mastery with Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux and Gong Nidra with Master Methab Benton.
She travels and works in Mexico, Los Angeles and Europe. Her work has been mentioned in Yoga Journal USA, 66 minutes ( M6- French television), NewYork Times, Vogue Uomo ( Italy) to mention a few and she was chosen as sound therapist for Grateful Dead , Matthews Band and the Phish.
Alessandra still lives in the outskirt jungle of Tulum, the place where dreams come true, and still loves beautiful clothes.