Meet our Masters
First of all, ours is a human adventure made by hearts-driven individuals. Our masters are an ever-increasing international network of conscious multidisciplinary artists, facilitators and practitioners.
The facilitators listed below who do not appear among our private sessions, workshops or retreats offers, are available on request.
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MAPS Therapy Trainee, Yoga Facilitator and Transformational Breath Group Leader, Michèle Anne Barocchi has, in her own words, “been on quite a journey”. A journey very much dedicated to working with the human body and its ability to heal itself. It began when she was a doctorate student specializing in Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the University of California, in Berkeley. In August 2015, Michèle first experienced just how powerful this training and her breath was, when facing a nearly fatal accident caused by an oncoming car, which ended with her left leg having to be amputated. Knowing how to breathe saved her life, and the consequences of the event, leaving her bed-bound for eight months, led her to exploring other ways to connect and heal, with no need to move her physical body. A year after the event, Transformational Breathwork came into her life, supporting her on her journey towards self-empowerment; away from an unhealthy relationship and any remaining victim consciousness, and in this way, the breath saved her life once again. She soon completed the Professional training program to become a Transformational Breath Facilitator, she has also studied healing practices with Amazonian tribes and the Paqo Andinos (Despacho Rituals) of Holy Mountain Traditions in Peru. It is her mission as a facilitator of these practices to support others in having the tools to heal, tools we can learn and understand for ourselves, so that we may be independent in our own journey of transformation.
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Graduated in sport science and osteopathy student, in 2018 Aurora Pettenati was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a chronic illness, which changed her take on things and led her to dig deeper, through research and personal experience. Treasuring her past as a competitive softball athlete, she focused on physical training as a real cure, to promote the health of the body and mind. Besides Primitive Movement, she is a teacher of various others training disciplines, including HIIT, LIIT and Total Body. In 2021 she founded Intra Eroa, a digital platform investigating well-being at 360 degrees, trying to convey the art of taking time for ourselves: to realize that we are our own medicine, to start listening to our truthful body talks and to better understand ourselves.
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Poet and journalist, born in Sardinia, Cristina Tedde writes out of need rather than as a profession. In her verses, in which she has found a cure to soothe her emotional wounds, real places come together with inner spaces in a synesthesia of emotions and images. Through her words, she reminds herself and her readers of that “something else” out of everyday life, an elsewhere that does not offer itself as an ordinary escape route from reality, but actually awakens places inside ourselves that we have forgotten, or where we haven't been for a while. There, is where to get in touch with our soul. Author of "Sangue nel Vento", currently in its second reprint, Cristina supported various artists with her verses, such as the illustrator Evelina Floris, and photographers, including Davide Rostirolla. For Giulio Perrone Editore, from 2019 to today, she have published poetic compositions included in the annual collection "Una storia a giorno"; in 2021, she participated in the poetic collection "Summer in 100 Words"; in 2023, she published a poem in the anthology "Cartoline Estive".
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Sound and voice alchemist, Leah Anita Cavazzini started her spiritual journey at the age of nineteen when she was initiated into Paramahansa Yoganda's Kriya Yoga Lineage. Dual Citizen of the United States and Italy, she grew up in the USA, moved to Italy after graduating and started a career in fashion. Finding peace and power through vibration, she decided to take her attraction to crystal frequencies to a deeper level with a crystal therapy master’s class where she discovered her love for crystal bowls, then she deep dove into a course in sound healing as well as completing her level one in Reiki Attunement. It was however the discovery of the transformative power of the voice during a meditation that took her studies and healing to the next level, leading her to find her Dharmic path using the voice to heal. She has since completed other sound healing trainings including The Holistic Voice with the Harmonic Sounds Sound Healing Institute in Spain, Meditation and Sound Healing Design with Lynda Arnold in California and Nada Yoga with Giovanni Del Casale in Bologna, Italy. She currently spends her time between Florence, Italy and San Pancho, Mexico.
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Founder of Dvendae, Splenic Projector 1/3 Right Angle Cross of the Eden, Isabella Giomi has always been moved by a constant need to get in touch with beauty by different means of communication, from photography to copywriting, passing through visual planning. With an educational background in communication & marketing, working within the digital marketing & communication industry for 10 years, both in companies and agencies and as a freelancer, after experiencing a workplace burnout, she set on an ongoing journey that led her to dive deeply into her shadow self, developing a continuous and growing interest in the uncovering of inner human potential. Throughout her ongoing spiritual journey imbued with ACIM non-duality teachings, she developed her own way to help people diving deep into theirselves and swimming towards their Higher Self. In 2021, Human Design came into her life as a blast, introducing itself as a meaningful tool to implement spiritual life coaching through a lens of acceptance. As a facilitator, her mission is making this science accessible to foster the awareness of our own potential, by seeing who we are and how we function, so that we can dismantle a thought system based on fear and social conditionings and live out our own true loving nature through a more peaceful and fulfilling life.
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Born into an artistic family, Polina Stepanova started inventing stories through drawing since she was a kid, as a way to make sense of the world. She has always been fascinated by the universe as something greater than human beings, and picturing herself as a shamanic medium that can bring that fascination into the human realm she turn herself into an alchemist priestess, changing sking from visual artist to professor at Polimoda Institute in Florence and trend forecaster. Graduated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, she used extreme realism to picture the world, replicating it in all its details. Starting to work in fashion, by believing in symbols, energies, collective consciousness and that future is not in the data but in our hands and minds, she gradually started letting go of control. According to her vision, alchemy painting is a practice of getting liberated from the predisposed result, and allowing the artwork to evolve on its own. The artist, the practitioner, suggests the direction that the paint will take, accepting that there’s no control over the final shape.
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Wordsmith, calligrapher and designer, Betty Soldi is a multi-faceted creative thinker who has been living her life between Florence and London. Descending from a Florentine family that has been handmaking fireworks from 1869 to the present, since she was a child she had to deal with matter: black and silver powder, paper and string; elements which, after being switched on, always make pure magic. Inspired by the wonders created by her family fireworks, and understanding that every person needs to be ignited and inspired, Betty started looking around for her own tools -pen and ink- to arouse the same feelings. Her uniquely original calligraphic style merges a heritage of design references with modern intellect. A starry-eyed perspective has also led her to co-own and be the PR brand guardian for three boutique hotels in the artistically area of the Oltrarno in Florence. Driven by meaningful intuition and insight, she runs her own studio nestled in a Florentine secret garden where the magic happens, bursting with flowers and flourishes. Here, through “inksperiences” -soulful, bespoke modern calligraphy experiences that merge artful themes with her unique, holistic approach to handwriting- unexpected wonder happens.
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PR by profession and tarot reader for ten years by passion and vocation, Caterina Tritto started studying tarot by herself, holding a deck of cards and a series of books that have increased her interest in this world. Backed by an education in romance philology, medieval literature and old French, which brought her closer to the places and culture where tarot were most used, Caterina developed an understanding of the cards similar to that of the words, introducing herself as a translator of the historical, cultural and social context linked to the symbology of each arcanum. In fact, each symbol for her is not simply a sign but the casket of a precious series of meanings that have developed continuously from the 15th century up to today. The awareness of the historical context and of the nature of the tarot not only as an esoteric but also as a game tool, allowed her to develop her own way of reading the cards, seeing them as nothing but facilitators of more complex messages. After a chance encounter along the Camino de Santiago which led her to approach the studies of Alejandro Jodorowsky and his partner Marianne Costa, later one of Caterina’s teachers together with Paulina Jade Doniz. Through their teachings, she built her foundations, finding her own way of understanding tarot, where the symbol is transformed into a magnifying glass of the present, becoming a concrete aid for reflecting on life.
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With degrees in painting and industrial design from University of Toronto and the Pittsburgh Art Institute and being in the tattoo industry for two decades, Michele Leite as known as Xéu Jean, states that tattooing found her. It wasn’t a conscious choice, but actually something that was offered to her through a clash of events ruled by synchronicity, including working with both natives in Canada and aboriginal people in Australia, which just furthered her interest in ceremony. It is as if her journey has clashed various worlds together. Through the importance of art, ceremony and symbolism in our personal lives, she realized that we human beings can create magic, we can bring emotion into form and manifest all this through intentional creation and visuals, which is what she has not only practiced in tattoo art but in art in general. She then moved to Portugal, in Lisbon, which at the time had very few studios and only two more women tattooing in the country: the perfect testing ground for an opportunity to change perceptions.
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Evolutionary Astrologer, Naturopath and Iridologist, Martina Varini has been studied at the Institute of Natural Medicine of Rimini, in Italy, guided by a great faith in life and the intrinsic intelligence of the human body, for which a symptom is always the effect of a cause. Over the years, the close and early experience of her childhood family environment with physical and mental illnesses led her to research the origin of the illness from an evolutionary perspective, going beyond the merely physiological aspect. Driven by this continuous and growing need to know the truth about human nature, in her work she combines different and complementary disciplines: Contemporary Iridology, Auriculotherapy, Floritherapy, Spagyria, Psycho-Evolutionary Karmic Astrology, and Merkaba Matrimandir Meditation, with the aim of having and providing a global vision of the individual to support people from a spiritual and psycho-physical point of view.
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Graduated in Bioneuroemotion at the Enric Corbera Institute, Tamara Simonne Cederberg is a Certified MNDFL instructor, song-keeper, and pathfinder who uses mindfulness, together with sound healing, yoga, and Tarot to move people’s form and feelings with dedicated habit. As a meditation instructor she ushers to expand the capacity of one’s own heart, by showing them the way to lean into the comfort of infinite love and to be inspired everywhere they go. Allowing to conjure faith to be open to all forms of love, she teaches the ability to be a house of sanctuary, to come back home to yourself. As a song-keeper she uses her voice as a companion, through sound and voice she fills her lungs with willingness, singing the incantation of devotion and rapture as they have always existed inside of us from before our journey in this form. As a pathfinder she guides people to the mat, the trail, the canvas, and the confrontation table so you that they may test their flexibility and stay true to form all the way to their edge. She also uses the Tarot to nurture the higher mind to override our broken models of thinking, which leads to inner and outer war. As one reaches for what clarifies, she will help to be open to the shifts that good medicine brings, dusting off one’s feathers to let them find themselves weightless with remembrance of why they are here - why we are all here.