Marta Mezzino
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ABOUT MARTA MEZZINO
Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with the mystery held in ancient stories and mythology around the Great Mother and the Deep Feminine. Held by this strong connection with Her. I've been studying, researching and travelling in many places around the world, following an invisible thread that was guiding me.
This thread has brought me (and still brings me!) to explore very different fields, to follow formal and informal paths of learning, to come in contact with different teachers from different traditions, to live in nature for periods of time, to work and act in different contexts. In my infinite quest, my body, especially during its challenging moments, has been an amazing inspiring guide that has showed me so many times how to come back to myself, to my own integrity and truth. My body brings me back to what make my heart vibrate and smile, beyond the judgements, the fears, the old memories written in my bones, the blockages, pains and false beliefs that are held inside of me. It brings me to the possibility of transformation and healing that lies in those same places. After completing my study in contemporary history at university, on my way to start a PhD, I realized that being an academic researcher would never be the answer to the quest coming from my depths. The way I was responding to the the sharp feeling of injustice promoted by the socio-cultural and economical model of development of the western world didn't feel right to me anymore. I left everything behind and went to live in the forest, reconnecting to a part of me that had been asking for so long to be listened to. Being with no electricity, no running water, no money, living with very little in a minimalist situation, opened up a different connection with myself, Nature, the elements and the world. It unveiled aspects of my own nature that hadn’t found a way to be expressed until that moment. During a particularly difficult period of time in my life, I started to open up to a different way of relating with everything around me. I started connecting with medicinal and wild edible plants, building up a small hut for myself with wood, straw bale and clay. |
I made a fire everyday to cook and listened to the whispers of the elements, my days moved in rhythm with the sun and the moon. Day by day, I was discovering how the connection to nature was resonating in all the layers of my body, unveiling an embodied experience of interconnectedness I had never felt before.
I went on in my quest and started to travel through Europe, South America and Asia, participating in different projects and contexts that touched my heart and soul. My deep fascination in exploring different knowledges and understandings around the human body brought me in contact with different healing traditions and sacred medicine. I meet teachers from diverse cultural backgrounds to whom I am very grateful for the knowledge and wisdom they shared with me. I'm especially touched by the wise women I met on my path, that have enhanced and nourished my quest around the Feminine, the female body and her cyclical essence. Yoga has been for me a 15 years life-companion that has been unraveling countless questions and issues. In 2009, while I was in Peru, after 8 years of personal practice and my first teacher training, I started to share it with people. The transformation that occurred a few years ago in my approach to my yoga practice and in my way of sharing it with others was a mirror for the wider transformation that was happening inside of me in relation to Life. The fluidity and the inner sacred dance of the masculine and the feminine principle I've experienced in the last years through my yoga practice has lead me to study now with Fabienne Courmont the Dance de l'Etre, an amazing and energetically approach to sacred dance created by her. I'm infinitely grateful to have met beautiful teachers like Catherine Bechard, Alvaro Vazquez, Leonie Lange, Biff Mithoefer, Alexandra Pope, Sjanje Hugo-Wurlitzer, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Angela Farmer, Marie-Vialard Hauser, Harleen Kaur, Panaiotis Manikis : with their amazing work they have deeply touched my soul, showing me the way to trust myself and be more who I am.. |
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FORMAL CREDENTIALS
I've never given too much importance to certificates in my life. Out of my experience my academic studies and some of the training I completed haven't been so important to me compared with other informal teachings, studies and experiences I lived with people that I consider great teachers in my life.
I Walked my journey and shared time and space with men and women from very different backgrounds, to those very special people labeled "with disabilities", to people from lost villages on the Andes, to communities of "illegal immigrants" in Italy, huge slums in a megalopolis of South America, to a tiny village in the deep forest of the mountain of South East Asia . They have touched my soul and heart and taught and inspired me in a way that no certificate could acknowledge
I Walked my journey and shared time and space with men and women from very different backgrounds, to those very special people labeled "with disabilities", to people from lost villages on the Andes, to communities of "illegal immigrants" in Italy, huge slums in a megalopolis of South America, to a tiny village in the deep forest of the mountain of South East Asia . They have touched my soul and heart and taught and inspired me in a way that no certificate could acknowledge
2006 : Laurea in Contemporary History, University of Bologn, Italy
2008 : Vipassana Meditation retreat, as thaught by Goenka, Italy 2008 : Yin Tao Immersion with Renu Li, Spain 2009 : 200 hours Yoga teacher training, RYS, School yoga Institute, Bolivia and Peru 2010 : Apprenticeship with Catherine Bechard and Alvaro Vazquez in Healing Technique issued from zapoteque tradition and craneo-sacral osteopathy, Spain 2012 : Vipassana Meditation retreat, as taught by Goenka, Kerala, India 2012 : Iyengar yoga immersion at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune and Intensive Iyengar yoga workshop in Rishikesh with Usha Devi. 2012 : Pranic healing : basic, advanced and crystal healing, Arhatic Yoga, New Delhi and Bangkok 2013-2014 : Communication Profonde Accompagnée Training with Marie Vialard-Hauser 2014 : Yin Yoga teacher training: 150 hours with Biff Mithoefer and Prema Mayi 2015 : Angela Farmer women Retreat, Greece 2015 : Tantra for women, with Ma Premo, France 2015 : Dance de l'etre wome immersion with Fabienne Courmont, France 2015 : Well-Womb Yoga teacher training 45 hours with Uma Disnmore Tuli, Ireland 2015-2016 : 5 days frame drums workshops at Frame Drum Italia Festival, Italy 2016 : Women Quest Apprenticeship, with Alexandra Pope and Sjanje Hugo- Wurlitzer, UK 2016 : Female Perineum intensive workshop, 30 Hours at Blandine Calais Germain Institute, Paris, France, 2016: Persian percussion master class, 25 hour, with Bijan Chemirani, France 2016 : starting the study of zarb with iranian master Djamchid Chemirani, France 2016 : starting three years training in Dance de L'Etre with Fabienne Courmont |
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