ABOUT · GIULIA SCODANIBBIO
I left the system to live inside my own rhythm.
I'm Giulia: yoga teacher, cyclical living guide, and founder of Lunarla.
I live in a converted bus in Australia with my partner, our rescue dog, and a deep conviction that there is another way to be a woman in this world.
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Free
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Rooted
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Connected
CHAPTER ONE · THE BEFORE
Driven, passionate,
and
completely
running on empty.
I was living in the Italian Alps, finishing a master's in sustainable tourism, working for startups that wanted to change the world. So did I. I genuinely believed in it, I wanted to put my time and energy toward something meaningful.
But I was exhausted. I worked constantly, often for free or close to it, in environments that were toxic underneath the good intentions. The only moments I felt like myself were weekends in the mountains, hiking with friends.
Everything else felt like something to get through.
“I was giving everything to the outside world and had nothing left for myself.”
CHAPTER TWO · THE TURNING POINT
There was no single moment.
Just a book, and then a world opening up.
I was already practicing yoga almost daily, from home. That's when I started noticing my energy would shift every single week.
Meanwhile, something felt increasingly off with my studies. I was learning about sustainability (environment, people, economy), but nobody was talking about the person doing the work: emotional intelligence, human connection.
It felt like a pillar was missing. I started searching: reading everything on personal growth I could find, hungry for a different way of thinking. Then I picked up a book on cyclical living, and something clicked so loudly I couldn't unhear it.
That was the beginning of Lunarla.
"I realised the life I was living was abusive toward myself.
Not dramatically. But quietly, consistently, every single day."
CHAPTER THREE · WHAT I BELIVE
Four things I bring to every practice.
Deep listening
Before any pose, before any sequence, the body first. Not the shape you think you should make, not the version you saw on someone else's feed. I teach you to hear what your body is actually saying, today, in this phase, in this season. That's where the real practice begins.
Creativity and personal expression.
Yoga is not a performance to perfect. It's a language to speak in your own voice. I don't teach you to perform, I teach you to discover how movement feels when it belongs to you. There is no right way to be in your body. There is only your way.
The meaning behind every movement.
Every class I design carries an intention, a philosophy, something I want to make you feel. I don't teach shapes, I teach what lives inside them. Because consistent movement can become a cathartic act: one that breaks something open, or lets something new be born, bringing you closer to yourself in ways you didn't expect.
Lightness.
I`m not a guru, I`m not a priestess. You can go deep and still laugh. You can be present and still feel free. I refuse to teach yoga like it's a ceremony you have to earn the right to enter. Come as you are. Leave feeling more yourself.
CHAPTER FOUR · THE BUS
Today I live on the road.
I practice every day.
I teach the life I actually live.
Every day looks different.
That's the point.
I write in the morning, after coffee with my partner. I practice when my body asks for it, and not when the calendar says so. If the weather holds, we freedive. If it doesn't, we drive somewhere new. There is no fixed schedule, no optimised morning routine, no ideal version of the day to perform.
Just me, listening. And acting on what I hear.
That's what I offer at Lunarla: not a programme to follow, but a practice of returning to yourself. Again and again, in every season, on every kind of day.
Come in as you are.
CHAPTER FIVE · OFF THE MAT
Who I am when I am
not teaching.
Because I am, first of all, a person.
And like any person, I contain multitudes: different pieces of the same puzzle, not always easy to reconcile, always entirely mine.
UNDERWATER
When I dive, I enter another world. Muffled sounds, floating creatures, everything soft and suspended. And yet, from one moment to the next, anything could happen. A curious shark approaching. A movement from the seabed.
With freediving, still learning, it becomes a mental game: can you hold your breath, stay calm, and stay present long enough to truly be there with these extraordinary animals?
It's taught me more about stillness than any meditation cushion.
TREKKING & MOUNTAINEERING
The mountains taught me to belong to something larger than myself. To forage carefully, taking only what's needed, always leaving enough for regeneration.
To notice wildlife in its natural state, unhurried and free. And to find genuine joy in difficulty, because the beauty is rarely at the summit.
It lives in the climb itself, in the steady breath, in the rhythm of one foot after the other.
MAKING THINGS
On the 30th of November 2025 I turned 30, and something shifted. The quiet pull toward creativity became a roar. I draw, I paint, I work with ceramics. In 2026 I showed work at my first group exhibition as a beginner. Creative expression is no longer something I do on the side. It's part of how I understand myself.
JOURNALING
I've been journaling for years — well before I knew it was part of yogic practice. It's one of the most powerful instruments I know for self-observation, analysis, and disruption. Through writing I've learned to detach from my thoughts, the way you do in meditation. To notice how everything is temporary — moods, situations, stories I tell myself. Writing is how I process, how I listen to myself, how I stay honest about where I am versus where I pretend to be.
SISTERHOOD
My friends were part of my healing before I even had a word for it. They showed me what it feels like to be cared for, to trust, to be seen. We've done stupid things together, laughed until it hurt, gotten into trouble and back out of it. They held space for me before I knew how to hold it for myself. They were the first reason I wanted to share what I was learning with a wider audience.
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