Karma Sannyasin Shwetapadma (Garavelli Barbara) started her Satyananda Yoga experience in 1996, completing her TTC at Kalpa Vriksha Satyananda Yoga School, Piossasco in 1999. Since then she has been teaching yoga as a continuous activity to beginner and advanced level classes, attending refresher seminars, celebrations and workshops in the same School. She is a Karma Yogi intensively involved in the management of Kalpa Vriksha Satyananda and she is a supporting teacher in the TTC held by Swami Ishananda Saraswati. She received from Paramahamsa Niranjanananda Saraswati the initiation to Karma Sannyasa in Venice in 2006.