We have always been drawn to women who live their truth, women who decode the subtle language of the body and the soul. Benedetta Spada is a vital force in this space. If you know her name, it is likely through her extensive work as a yoga teacher, an expert nutritionist, a holistic consultant, and a lightworker who has spent years helping people dismantle the physical and mental blocks that hold them back.

But a life dedicated to healing is never static. It evolves in chapters.

With the release of her fourth book, Il Sentiero dell’Eternità, Benedetta invites us into her most intimate spiritual chapter yet. Born from a period of profound inner awakening, this book is a radical call to slow down. It is a map for navigating modern life by returning to the sacred feminine, emotional healing, and the absolute power of stillness.

We sat down with Benedetta to talk about her evolution, the shift from physical alignment to spiritual surrender, and what happens when we finally choose to listen.

Benedetta Spada with her eyes closed and a smile on her face, wearing a white spaghetti-strap top and a white flower in her hair, set against a bright blue sky background.

Your fourth book reveals a beautiful shift from the physical dynamics of yoga into a deeply spiritual space of visions and channeling. How did your relationship with the energy of Mary first begin?

I believe the common thread of my life has never been wellness, but rather the pursuit of the sacred. Even as a child, I sensed that reality did not coincide only with what we could see or measure. There was an invisible dimension that revealed itself in the simplest gestures, in nature, in symbols, in stillness, and in encounters. I have spent my entire life looking for a language capable of telling this story.

Because of this, my path has crossed very different disciplines. Yoga taught me to inhabit the body as a place of consciousness. Nutrition showed me that every food dialogues with our biology but also with our emotional dimension. Psychoneuroimmunology reinforced my conviction that body and mind are inseparable. Finally, anthropology taught me to listen to human beings within their cultures, rituals, narratives, and the ways in which every culture seeks a relationship with mystery.

In parallel, my inner life developed through prayer, meditation, and constant listening. The channeling experiences I describe in the book were not born out of an interest in the unusual, but from decades of inner discipline. For me, channeling means making oneself available to a listening so deep that it allows a wisdom transcending the ego to manifest with clarity.

On this journey, the presence of Mary became increasingly alive. Not as an idea or a symbol, but as a spiritual relationship. Mary entered my life with a sweetness capable of transforming the way I embody reality. This embodied relationship shares a clear message: we are eternal and immortal. I recognized her as the great teacher of the sacred feminine, the one who teaches us to welcome rather than dominate, to cherish rather than hold on, and to generate life through love.

Il Sentiero dell'Eternità is the fruit of this long journey. It is an invitation to recognize that there is a knowledge born from stillness and that human consciousness, when it opens with humility, can become the place where heaven and earth return to dialogue. The spirituality of the future must include the body and matter, and science must know how to dialogue with consciousness. The book shares an important message for humanity: death does not exist. Human beings in their embodied form can choose immortality just as Mary did. To do this, however, it is necessary to undertake a new path, stepping out of the collective hypnosis of the disease of death and entering the "disease" of love.

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“Overall longevity is not the simple prolongation of biological life, but the progressive expansion of consciousness in love."

Benedetta Spada with long dark hair sits barefoot on a rocky beach, wearing a sleeveless white dress and a white flower in her hair, with ocean waves blurred in the background.

You describe this book as an invitation to slow down and rediscover our authentic essence. For someone trapped in the frantic pace of daily life, what is the first step to shifting our relationship with time?

Anthropology has taught me that every culture constructs its own idea of time. Our civilization measures time in terms of productivity, speed, and efficiency. But by observing traditional communities and studying long-lived people, I discovered that another experience of time exists: the experience of presence.

I believe that today our greatest poverty is not a lack of time, but the loss of our capacity to inhabit it.

Therefore, the first step does not consist in organizing our days better, but in rediscovering an inner rhythm. The body possesses an ancient wisdom that continues to speak to us through breath, sleep, emotions, beauty, and even stillness. However, to listen to it, we must have the courage to remove ourselves, at least for a few moments every day, from the world.

The spiritual experiences that have accompanied my life have taught me that stillness is not empty: it is a space of relationship. It is in stillness that I received some of the most important insights of my research and understood how true transformation does not occur through effort, but through the willingness to listen.

When we change our relationship with time, our relationship with life changes too. We no longer live in the urgency of getting somewhere, but in the joy of being fully present. I believe this is one of the deepest forms of healing and one of the foundations of longevity.

Over the course of four books, your focus has moved from managing physical alignment on the mat to nurturing emotional healing and soul surrender. How has your personal definition of wellness changed through this journey?

My books tell a single story seen from different perspectives. I have never been interested in wellness as a mere collection of techniques, but rather as a possibility to understand the human being in their totality.

With time, I realized that we cannot speak about health without speaking about meaning. Human beings do not get sick only in their bodies. They suffer when they lose the meaning of their existence, when they interrupt the dialogue with their interiority, or when they forget that they belong to something larger.

My anthropological lens helped me recognize that every culture builds rituals to safeguard this link with the transcendent. My research on longevity showed me that the people who live the longest often maintain a living relationship with mystery, gratitude, community, and beauty.

Because of this, today I define wellness as a state of communion. Communion between body and spirit, between the individual and nature, and between scientific knowledge and contemplative experience.

Health, for me, does not consist in controlling every aspect of life, but in learning to trust its deep intelligence. It is this trust that makes healing possible and continues to guide all of my work.

At Depuravita, we believe true radiance comes from within. From your perspective as a nutritionist and spiritual practitioner, how does this deep internal devotion connect to overall longevity, and what are your personal secrets for maintaining your vitality?

I am convinced that longevity is first and foremost a quality of consciousness. We can live many years without being truly alive, or we can inhabit each day with an intensity so profound that it transforms time into eternity.

Naturally, I continue to believe in the value of a predominantly plant-based diet, hydration, movement, and respecting biological rhythms. But today, I consider these aspects part of a much broader vision.

My research work, both as an anthropologist and through my encounters with centenarians, has taught me that human beings also nourish themselves with beauty, authentic relationships, rituals, contemplation, and meaning. Every culture expresses this differently, but the need is universal.

Beauty occupies a central place in my life. This is not a pursuit of aesthetic perfection, but beauty as a spiritual language. Caring for the body, the skin, the home, the food, or a garden means creating a space where life can be honored. Beauty educates our gaze to recognize what is good, and this has a profound effect on our health as well.

Every day, I dedicate time to stillness, prayer, study, writing, and the contemplation of nature. These are practices that keep the dialogue open with that Presence which has always accompanied my path.

If I had to summarize the heart of my research, I would say this: overall longevity is not the simple prolongation of biological life, but the progressive expansion of consciousness in love. When we learn to live in this deep relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the divine, vitality becomes a natural expression of the soul.

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