Authentic connections & CBC
How do we establish authentic connections? How do we get in touch with one another in such a way that we are both honoured in what we...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 68 min read
Intimacy
What does it mean to be intimate? As most words, ‘intimacy’ brings with it a certain metaphorical gesture, even a bodily scheme. The word...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
May 269 min read
Negotiating gravity and lightness
I spend quite some time without thinking much at anything. Often when I walk, or sit, or just attend to ordinary activities, I like being...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 229 min read
The soft revolution of Contact Improvisation
Over the past four months I’ve been discovering and experimenting with Contact Improvisation (CI). I’m primarily interested not so much...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 171 min read
Les Folies d'Espagne
I—don’t know. But you: Will you dare to dance Les Folies d’Espagne? I—can endure the pace Of waiting and waning Slowly into silences, and...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 85 min read
Contact meditation
We know and experience reality by getting in touch with it. This figurative way of speech is taken quite literally in the discourses of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 2512 min read
A somatic biography
I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 201 min read
Not arrows
Blindfolded by our little stories We roam prisoners of petty desires. Afraid of falling, we forgot how to Stand on earth and roll, and...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 299 min read
Dynamic meditation: an overview
A bit of background In a couple of other posts (this and this) I have described the general idea behind free conscious movement (or the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 209 min read
Ecstatic freedom
The following notes present a general vision and some practical guidelines for highlighting the potential of embodied conscious movement...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 125 min read
Homo homini deus
Experience is always about content and container, life-form and environment, center and horizon. Most often, our attention is focused on...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 81 min read
My game
Behold! This is my game. You shall these meadows cross, And straight till the end go (and again, and again, and again). Nothing expects...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 28, 202310 min read
Elements of freedom
What is your deepest aspiration? What is your highest goal? In one of his discourses (MN 29) the Buddha invited us to stop nowhere short...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 13, 20239 min read
Philosophy of/in motion
The short version: 1. Any identity is based on the proscription of certain ways of moving in order to facilitate others. Identity filters...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 27, 202310 min read
Hermeneutics Lab
Philosophy is often conceived (and practiced) as something that is done mostly by ‘thinking’ about a given subject, analysing its...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 19, 20237 min read
Why Ecstatic Dance?
What are we really looking for? I mean, really. When we ask this question, ordinarily we come up with a list of ideals: happiness, love,...
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