Francesca Citter
Change is not measured in extraordinary moments. It is measured in what the body can live every day.
A practice can make you feel strong, free or present for an hour.
What matters is what remains when life starts again.
That is where you find out whether something really changed.
Every practice is a doorway to something already inside us.
Through movement, meditation, breath, transformational breathwork and inversions, Francesca guides people to slow down, return to the body and recognise what is already guiding their experience.
Whatever the entry point, the work is the same: learning to listen to the body and make it more able to support the life we choose.
These responses become visible.
We can try something different.
We find out what has actually become available.
Change shows itself when life starts again.
Who Francesca Citter is
Francesca Citter, known as Franpesca, is an Italian yoga teacher and Breathwork facilitator: she works with inversions, conscious breathing, meditation and mind-body practices, online and in one-to-one journeys, in Italian and in English.
- YOGA
- Movement classes and practices, with attention to progression and to what the body can sustain.
- BREATHWORK
- Guided breathing sessions, including transformational breathwork.
- MEDITATION
- Attention practices, used alongside movement and breath.
- INVERSIONS
- Preparation and progressions for Sirsasana, Pincha Mayurasana and handstand.
- WHERE THE WORK HAPPENS
- One-to-one online journeys and an online studio of recorded practices.
What she knows, she knows from teaching it.
- 14+ years
- of yoga practice
- Hundreds
- of people taught
- Italy + international
- classes, workshops, festivals and retreats
- Ibiza + Tuscany
- retreats organised
Francesca Citter, known as Franpesca, is an Italian yoga teacher and Breathwork facilitator. She has taught hundreds of people through classes, workshops, retreats and festivals, in Italy and internationally.
She has taught at and taken part in events across Europe, the UK, Mexico and Panama, and has organised retreats in Ibiza and Tuscany. She is based in Panama and keeps working internationally, in Italian and English.
- Ibiza
- Portugal
- Tuscany
- Dolomites
- Lake Garda
- Lake Como
- Wanderlust Milan
- The Yearn — Mexico
- Limbo Festival
- Radio Venao — Panama
- Retreats in Ibiza
- Retreats in Tuscany
Where this work comes from
Training is context, not the starting point: the work comes from practice and from teaching. Francesca is based in Panama and works internationally, in Italian and English.
“What I love most is helping people explore their true potential.”
- 01
250h Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga teacher training.
- 02
15h Dharma Yoga intensive
With Ambra Vallo.
- 03
Foundation Yoga for Mental Health
With Ashley Turner.
- 04
Breathwork Facilitator training
BreathWorks Academy, with Sky Bear: a facilitator certification programme.
- 05
Coaching and NLP training
The Coaching Academy, London.
- 06
14+ years of personal yoga practice
The practice comes before the teaching.
- 07
Languages
She teaches in Italian and in English.
Before she looked for who she was, she knew exactly what she wanted.
- CHILDHOOD
As a child they called her Francesca Manesca, or Pralina dell’Amore. It depended on the day.
She was fire: intense, stubborn, affectionate. No doubt about what she wanted.
- AGE FOUR AND A HALF
Then, at four and a half, her parents separated.
She did not have the words to understand it. She had a body that felt it anyway.
Artistic gymnastics became the first place where all that energy could go somewhere.
- THE BODY
Anger became movement. Pain became strength.
Before she could understand it, the body was teaching her that what we feel can be transformed through what we do.
- 2011 · AGE 19
At nineteen, life changed again.
In 2011, two months before the end of school, her brother Gio died suddenly.
She finished her exams. Then she decided to leave for London.
“I am tired of being ‘Gio’s sister’ to everyone I know. I want to understand who I am.”
Before leaving, she said these words to her father.
She did not want to leave her brother behind. She wanted to meet herself outside the story everyone knew her through.
She left without an answer.
What she could not know then is that this question, who is she when the life she knew no longer exists?, would guide all of her work.
She looked for the answer by changing her life.
- 01London
- 02Fashion
- 03Public relations
- 04Startups
- 05Amsterdam
- 06Coding
- 07Oxford
- 08Ericeira
- 09Panama
Every new direction let her meet a part of herself that had not had space before.
But changing place does not automatically change the way one lives.
One can build a new life and carry the same fears with them.
One can get the freedom they wanted and keep reacting the way they did without it.
One can know what they want and still not feel able to hold it.
“Which life do I want?”
“What has to become available inside me for me to live it?”
Maybe you are not losing yourself. Maybe you are expanding.
Francesca’s search eventually led her to a different understanding of change:
“When who I was no longer represented me, and who I was becoming had not yet taken shape, my instinct was to fill the space.”
With a plan. An answer. A new goal. A more defined version of myself.
I thought it was clarity. Often it was control.
That void does not always need filling. It can become a space for listening.
A space to observe what gives us energy, what we keep returning to, and what we can let go of instead.
We do not always find the answer. Sometimes we free enough space for it to emerge.
For a long time I thought growing meant finding the right version of me.
Today I believe it means becoming wide enough to hold more parts of me.
What had brought me that far did not have to disappear. It could become part of something larger.
Not a new identity. A wider container.
I create the spaces I would have wanted to find while I was changing.
Spaces to return to the present before making another decision.
Where you learn to listen to yourself without handing someone else authority over your own experience.
Where you recognise your own maps and train strength, trust, courage, flexibility and new ways of responding and being.
My role is not to tell you who to become.
It is to create the conditions for you to see more clearly what guides you, try something different, and trust what you recognise.
The work is working when you need me less and less, and have more and more access to yourself.
What changes in the practice continues in life.
“I had always been someone who never finished what she started. I tried a thousand paths without ever finding my way. Since I discovered Marea Yoga Studio, I've changed drastically from within… Today yoga and personal growth are part of my everyday life.”
Find the entry point you need today.
Marea · Online Studio
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1:1 Journeys
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Spiritual Journey to Inversions
Strength, technique and inversions as a laboratory to meet fear, control, trust and possibility.
The extraordinary is optional. An ordinary day lived differently is the real measure of change.