Soul Dancin’

We discovered Movement Medicine through a workshop organized by the University of Verona. From the first meeting, we found ourselves immersed in a new reality: it brought us to be one with our body, discovering it, feeling it and, above all, listening to it. Through movements we created synergy with the other girls, always leaving space for the body to be free to create the movement it felt most like. Movement Medicine was for us to free our minds and bodies.

Daniela e Gloria

It has now been two years since my encounter with the discipline of Movement Medicine, primarily that encounter that marked my setting myself in motion toward a new direction in life. It was precisely thanks to this workshop session that I was able to take my first steps toward cultivating that sensitivity of one's body too often chilled of its incandescent power. As far as my own experience is concerned, the Movement Medicine workshop gave me the opportunity to re-explore my dance, to be in touch with myself and thus with my authentic movement, to activate a real conscious research on this movement that wanted to make itself heard and told about itself but was struggling to find its space-time. This listening to self was made possible precisely by the mediation of this embodied language of dance that holds within itself the great privilege, given to all, of being able to feel one's own emotions and to grasp their sensory vibrations. Reflecting on my first approach to Movement Medicine, what immediately caught my attention by reshaping my conception of dance was Ilaria's invitation to welcome movement into being (or its absence) and then shape it with intention: being attentive, open, and listening ignited in me a rarely experienced awareness, all because I was holistically present to myself. Speaking of kindling, dear future participants, I don't want to reveal anything about the experience through the archetypal symbolism of the 4 elements ... just the dispassionate advice to try as much as possible to relate your bodily sense to the experience of the world. Moreover, I would like to point out how much while dancing with unknown people through this workshop I had the great opportunity to experience a real relational horizontality capable of dismantling any awkwardness and enhancing personal expressiveness. In conclusion, I believe that bringing us future professionals of care closer to workshops of such poignancy, capable of bringing attention to the body as a whole and to its personal dynamics and relationship with others, is the next challenge for us to learn that art of being present to ourselves on the educational scene that moves our being educators and educators. Sign up for this workshop, you will not regret it, Lisa's word!

Lisa

Practicing Movement Medicine with Ilaria..... with or without the silent disco headphones.....being skillfully led through music and her words to rely on the wisdom of one's dancing body.....it is me dancing and "the self" being danced.....going within and connecting with "the whole" to get to our "essence"..... and when nostalgia comes next....dance!

Silvia

Feeling that I can be and show myself as I really am, in the dance of my movement. This is how I would summarize this journey of discovery through Movement Medicine, a journey during which, rigidity slowly melts into increasing fluidity, fear gives way to curiosity, shyness to boldness in occupying my space. And above all, wanting to control gives way to my authentic movement, beautiful or ungainly or out of rhythm, yet spontaneously arising from the body. Ilaria leads inside the dance with delicacy, energy, sunniness; she offers wonderful music that takes me on a journey to remote places and allows me to meet people, scents, spaces so near and so far. I recommend this experience to anyone who wishes to devote time to discovery, magic, fun, emotion; in a circle that is always characterized by total acceptance.

Patrizia

Movement Medicine has increased the trust in my feeling sense, in my instinct, intuition and in my 'wild woman'. I now know that I can dance around some of my anxieties, worries, questions and that my dance will bring new understandings. I am very interested in meditation as a transformative practice and meditation in movement is the perfect combination I was looking for to accompany my feeling sense. Furthermore, free and spontaneous dance is also very playful and fun. I consider it a wonderful experience within the reach of anyone who wants to get involved. In particular, the cycle of individual meetings with Ilaria unblocked fears and helped me overcome insecurities rooted in my individual history. She helped to release the 'passionate' dimension from within. I felt a clear positive difference between the beginning and the end of the course.

Antonia

Together with Ilaria and Movement Medicine, I discovered a tool with which to express myself, outwards and inwards. A language made of movement, at times imperceptible and at others so wide that it occupies all available space. Every experience so far has given me the opportunity to transform emotions, thoughts and feelings into a dance, harmonious in its imperfection. To share my energy with other dancers, in a safe and conscious place. Thus creating a way of communicating that is genuine, loving and present. Thank you very much, dear Ilaria, for your talent and your ability to accompany others on a path of transformation!

Adriana

Movement Medicine is the revelation of our essence. I feel the body responding through music and its frequencies. Music and sound are medicine, and the movement of the body makes them flow, interacting with our essence and bringing understanding.

Gemma