My background
Face-to-face training
- Over 500 hours of Ayurveda training.
- 340 hours of common core training combining knowledge and skills from 3 basic areas: professional specific, socio-economic, medical.
- 740 hours of training in Rio Abierto movement techniques
- 95 hours of Rio Abierto massage training.
Wandering Monks Ayurveda School
Raffaella (Associazione Culturale Olistica Milva which hosts the Associazione Ayurvéda Monaci Erranti in Bosa) Moi-même et Alida Dal Degan
I have lived in Ticino for over 17 years, I always return there with pleasure and emotion. During one of my trips I discovered the Associazione Ayurveda Monaci Erranti (Ayurvedic Association of Wandering Monks).
The meeting with Alida Dal Degan gave a new turning point to my Ayurvedic journey. The simplicity and authenticity of his approach touched me. Alida Dal Degan is internationally recognized in the art of Ayurvedic massage and Yoga. Her lessons are given with warmth, joy, in the Ayurvedic spirit, with the professional rigor required by this approach. With the help of Gianluca Sensalari, she offers practical and theoretical Ayurvedic nutrition lessons based on the great Ayurvedic references like the Charaka Samhita, of which she quotes certain passages in her book.
Alida Dal Degan and Master Govindan
“I would like to show you and make you feel what is not always so easy to transmit: the traditional preparation of an Ayurvedic therapist”.
“Intellectual, psychological, spiritual, poetic preparation. Thanks to them, a new feeling and another therapeutic action can manifest.
I will take you with me, in the places visited, in dialogues with doctors and monks, in the experiences of many journeys. I will try to lead you to what Ayurveda is imbued with: creation and poetry.
Each massage, if done this way, will become an act of creation.
The body is able to change with each treatment, as can its mind and other interior aspects.
Ayurvedic massage of the Wandering Monks is a very old treatment, it is an art that risks being lost forever … My task today is to disseminate, to make known to the world this wonderful technique, to bring back to memory, remember and remember, what Ayurveda is.
I learned all the Ayurvedic massage techniques practiced in Ayurvedic clinics and hospitals in India.
I was very fortunate and gracious to be personally followed by Master Govindan.
He accompanied me step by step, year after year, teaching me with strength and patience, for more than twenty years, this ancient art of Ayurvedic massage. I followed it, I learned the deepest, the most precious, the most unique aspects. …….
Now more particularly I expose to the world, it is this art of Ayurvedic massage. “
Alida Dal
Rio Abierto
Directors and founders of the Rio Abierto Centre in Italy
When I lived in Ticino I approached the Rio Abierto movement. During the weekly classes I experienced new sensations through the body. Following a seminar I met Enzo (Vincenzo) one of the founders of Rio Abierto Italy, from this meeting things were linked first with a week during an open seminar to all in Umbria. And from there I undertook more than 4 years of training, making monthly trips to Umbria. This training was an unforgettable human experience.
What is the Rio Abierto movement?
Rio Abierto: “Open river” which represents free energy to circulate. It is a bodily movement from Argentina. Rio Abierto is a journey of self-discovery. It is a way of realizing this inner drive that each human being has, of living more harmoniously and of expressing daily his power of love, intelligence and energy.
A Rio Abierto movement lesson takes place with music. Music is a main instrument of the work; participants work in a circle. During my training I learned to guide a group, that is to say in the language of Rio Abierto, to be an instructor. The instructor inspired by different types of music, as well as the energy of the group, accompanies the participants on a journey of energy and emotional transformation. The movement of the body according to the Rio Abierto System produces a muscular tone, promotes the harmonization of postures and determines a release of stress with the joyful awakening of vitality.
The specific work on the energy centers also leads to the interior presence and the integration of all our levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. This leads to relaxation and meditation.
The Rio Abierto massage:
Here is a paragraph from the book “Massaggio Evolutivo ed. Valtrendeditore p.42 “from Anita Marianna Dragonetti who was my Rio Abierto massage trainer, and who I think represents the spirit of massage.
The body contains needs, impulses, emotions that may have been silently trapped for a long time in the connective tissue and muscle fibers. Contact with the hands restores the fluidity and circularity of the emotional world. An emotion, in its natural course, can be felt, expressed, implemented.
When it emerges undifferentiated, it must accompany the person to circumscribe it and give it a useful meaning, which can also size his thoughts.
Listening, welcoming, confining and accepting a part of the other product, first repressed or forgotten in the person, deals with satisfaction and well-being both physically and psychologically.
The links created with all the people on this route are still present. I always think of them with gratitude.
A sentence that Enzo said to me, and which continues to guide me 20 years later:
If life doesn’t smile at you, you smile at life.