ABOUT MARTA MEZZINO
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Throughout my whole life, I have been fascinated with the mystery held in ancient stories and mythology around the Great Mother, the Deep Feminine and Nature Wisdom. 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 is guiding me everyday.
This thread has brought me to explore very different fields, to follow formal and informal paths of learning, to come into contact with teachers from different traditions, to live in very remote places around the world, to work and act in different contexts, and to engage since 2007 in a co-creative partnership with a sacred land in the mountains of Southern France co-creating a Sanctuary of Biodiversity in partnership with uncountable Green Beings, Wild Animals, Grandmother Spirulina, a beloved man and two cats, all amazing soul touching teachers. In my infinite quest, especially during its challenging struggles, my body has been an amazing inspiring guide that has invited me to dive and deepen my infinite dance with Nature Realms to come back into balance, to discover my deeper self, and to honour my own integrity and truth. In my mid twenties, on my way to start a PhD after completing my studies in Contemporary History and Anthropology, I realized that being an academic researcher would have never be the answer to the quest screaming in my depths. As a scholar and social activist, the way I was responding to the the sharp feeling of inherent injustice of the destructive western socio-cultural and economical model of development, didn't feel right to me anymore. I was so deeply sad and broken. I left everything behind and went to live in the Forest, reconnecting to a part of me that was asking to be listened to. Fully immersed in the arms of the Forest, living with no electricity, no running water, very litlle money in a very minimalist situation, disclosed a different connection with myself, Nature, Plants, the Elements and the world. Many aspects of my deep being that hadn’t found a way to be expressed until that moment started to find a voice… I decided to built a straw bale clay hut for myself, using as much as I could the materials I was founding on the land. Hidden under the trees I started to sing and drum, not knowing yet that those skills that were shily arising would become an essential part of expression of my soul and work with humans and more-than human beings. . My interest in Medicinal Plants and in different healing traditions were already a pivotal part of my path at that moment, but all that the immersive experience that living in the Forest meant for me opened my soul up to a deeper connection with the Plants Realm I could have not imagined before. |
Cooking everyday on fire, listening to the whispers and screams of the elements, eating wild edible plants as my main food, my days were paced by the rhythm of the sun and the moon as never before. Day by day, I was discovering how the connection to all that was surrounding me resonated in all the layers of my body, unveiling an embodied experience of interconnectedness I had never felt before.
Plants started to come into my dreams, their presence as friends and teachers on my side became clearer and clearer day by day, while I could not find words to speak about what was happening within me. A feeling of beings blessed and lost at the same time was co-existing within me night and day... My quest led me to travel through Europe, South America and Asia, participating and volunteering in different projects and contexts that touched my heart and soul, and invited me to keep deepening my engagement with Sacred Plants Medicine and the Deep Feminine. Listening to the resonnance between my body, the Earth and all Living Beings, I went through a deep healing process that initiated me into the magic of co-creating with the more-than human world. My deep fascination in exploring different knowledges and wisdoms 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 and Men I met on my path, that have enhanced and nourished my quest around Sacred Earth Tending, Plants Wisdom, the Female Body and Her Cyclical essence and Wisdom, , the Deep Feminine, . Yoga has been for me a 20+ years life-companion that has been unraveling countless questions and issues. The opportunity to work with Biff Mithoefer in Yin Yoga Teacher Training in many different countries for few years, made me realise how deep my approach to yoga (and to other body practices that are part of my life, like dancing and Qi Gong) is embedded with all the teachings I’ve received (and I keep receiving) from Nature. Listening to the dance of the energy within my body has lead me to explore the whirling dance through a contemporary approach which is nowadays part of my practice and my artistic expression. The presence of Plants Spirit teachings and Presence are a fundamental part of my artistic quest and expression. I’ve been studying herbalism since many years, following different human teachers (Rosemary Gladstar, Matthew Wood Institute, Herbotheque School of Quebec, Althea Provence in France among others…), and learning a lot from being, growing and making medicine with Plants everyday... |
I'm infinitely grateful to have met beautiful human teachers like Catherine Bechard, Alvaro Vazquez, Mariella Lancia, Leonie Lange, Biff Mithoefer, Alexandra Pope, Sjanje Hugo-Wurlitzer, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Diana Richardson, Master Mantak Chia, Angela Farmer, Marie-Vialard Hauser, Lucile Vialard, Harleen Kaur, Djamchid Chemirani, Panaiotis Manikis, Felipe Amato, Pam Montgomery, Ziya Azazi : with their amazing work they have deeply touched my soul, showing me the way to trust myself and become more who I am..
My Infinte gratitude goes to the Spirit of Rose, Mugwort, Whales, Chestnut.... (more will come soon!)
My Infinte gratitude goes to the Spirit of Rose, Mugwort, Whales, Chestnut.... (more will come soon!)
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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 HUmans and the More-than-human world. All of them have certainly been the greatest teachers on my path.
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 .
The way Plants, Animals and Stars have been guiding me on my path everyday and every night, in the most joyful moment of my life as much as in the harshest struggles and moment of despair, goes beyond words.
They all have touched my soul and heart and taught and inspired me in a way that no certificate will never 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 .
The way Plants, Animals and Stars have been guiding me on my path everyday and every night, in the most joyful moment of my life as much as in the harshest struggles and moment of despair, goes beyond words.
They all have touched my soul and heart and taught and inspired me in a way that no certificate will never acknowledge.
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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 ... more info to come... |