Hatha Yoga Instructor, Zen Shiatsu Therapist, Registered Shiatsu Therapist APOS

This is just my job’s formal definition. The truth is, my birth took place in Australia. Not my biological birth, which brought me into this world under the Emilia sun. No, my Australian birth brought me face to face with my first struggles, love, my longing to excel, to challenge myself, and the acknowledgment that Yoga asanas would provide me with the connecting link to my darker side, enabling me to face them in a lifelong quest of self-discovery. That’s how I became a Yoga Instructor. Then, one day, the time came when I reached out to the Other: a hand that reaches out toward my fellow human being, feeling his Energy, expanding my sensations through experience, and practicing a higher form of mutual meditation. That’s how I became a Shiatsu Therapist. Shiatsu acts upon the person’s energy flow, favoring a balanced state. The pressure I apply on the meridians through my fingers activates the body’s self-healing ability. A quiet place, perfect for relaxing, a futon where one can stretch, and a natural self-awareness process, all help the body to regain energetic balance. A treatment that is also a philosophy: listening without diagnostication, listening through the other person’s energy, listening as a gift to share. Yoga and Shiatsu: providing my services to improve other people’s lives.

Born in Reggio Emilia in 1959, Paola was aware quite early that her skills led her to executive secretariat roles. After completing the required academic curriculum, she immediately went to work for a number of local companies. In 1995, together with her brother Davide, she co-founded a small publishing company. By 2001, Paola and Davide’s company had grown and welcomed new employees (its present staff counts 20 people), focusing on marketing and communication services, with Paola taking on the role of executive manager. In 2016, she chose to turn a different corner, by pursuing different interests in search of renewed motivation: a way to remain passionate about her engagements, and at the same time bringing the concepts of “doing”, “organizing”, and “cooperating” closer to home. She embarked on a new challenge, taking on the roles of administrative consultant, specializing in fiscal accounting practices, and event planner alongside her brother Roberto. Give a spear to a farmer, and he’ll turn soldier. Put motivation in his heart, and you will get a hero!

Among Tatiana’s gifts there’s the ability to understand people thanks to her fine intellect and sweet temper. Through her work she can offer the means to grow in wisdom and self-awareness, to understand life thanks to the ability to see “beyond”, to fill people’s soul with wonder at their present and future selves. Tatiana guides people on the path to self-growth, toward a better understanding of the human being’s many facets: their physical and emotional being, their mental and transpersonal sphere are explored using the wisdom of nature, myths, tales, and transpersonal psychology. With the arts of Yoga, Shiatsu, energy connection techniques, and flower therapy, Tatiana shows us the path toward change, helping us to develop our hearts’ potential.

Born in Reggio Emilia in 1965, Stefania obtained a diploma in Tourism Management, and immediately started working in the tourism and hospitality sector. Her passion for traveling, which began at a very early age with linguistic sojourns abroad and pleasure trips, has become her profession, enabling her to enrich her cultural baggage, worthy of a seasoned explorer. Thanks to the experience she gained by working for several travel agencies, Stefania’s professionalism has led her to managing roles; at the same time, she pursued a lifelong dream, by qualifying as licensed Tourist Guide. Today, after a 30-year career in international travel and tourism, and thanks to her natural bent for voyaging, she more than ever wishes to share her knowledge: she transmits her emotions and excitement to her clients, who clearly see that, for Stefania, traveling means experiencing the thousand shades of wonder of our extraordinary planet.

Giada was born in the month of April 1979. Since she was a child, she perceived the subtle word, showing a peculiar interest for everything that is esoteric and spiritual. She graduated high school at the Magistrale Institute, but she chose to take care of the evolution of other people through the way of Universal Love. Psychotherapist by gift, guided meditation coach, dowser, Neuro-Linguistic programming (NLP) coach certified by the National Federation of Neurolinguistic Programming FL_USA, these are the means she uses to offer consulting aimed at improving the life-style and helping people to know and balance their own intimate ‘earth and heaven’. Through consulting emotional and innermost issues can be solved, professional and personal goals can be achieved, and inner resources can be boosted.

 

Alessia began practicing Yoga in 2008, noticing its numerous benefits on herself along the years. Wishing to pass on to others what she learnt during her journey, she began the qualifying courses to become a teacher. In 2016, the birth of her baby boy temporarily put a hold on her academic pursuit; however, she gained a wider perspective on Yoga, thanks to the benefits she experienced from it during her pregnancy and after the baby’s birth. Upon resuming her courses, beside preparing Adult Yoga classes, she has focused on Pregnancy Yoga and Post-Natal Yoga.

After completing High School, Gabriele chose to enroll at the University of Bologna, where he took a degree in PE in 2004, by presenting his final thesis project on post-surgery functional aquatic rehabilitation. While still at university, he worked for a Wellness and Fitness center practicing aquatic therapy. Following this 6-year long experience, he broadened his knowledge through the study of disciplines quite different from his college pursuits, leading him to enriching experiences; however, his gentle disposition and deep interest for psychophysical well-being strongly drew him back toward the path he had only temporarily left. Since 2013 he has further developed his skills and acquired new competences, both personally and professionally, by attending the International Academy for Traditional Tibetan Medicine in order to study several branches of Traditional Tibetan Medicine, such as Tibetan Kunye Massage Therapy, Tibetan Moxibustion, Tibetan Healing Mantras. He has recently approached Psychosomatic Foot Reflexology as a new discipline, without neglecting his improvement as a spiritual-holistic practitioner.

Angela believes that each human heart encloses a gift: the ability to give the warmth of love to oneself. This means reaching an adequate level of self-knowledge, and developing the ability to recognize, understand, accept, and adequately manage our own feelings and emotions, so as to maintain a satisfactory personal balance. Psychotherapy can help people to retrieve their inner harmony, by re-discovering their needs, convictions, and beliefs. This goal can be achieved by actively speaking and listening to one’s own narrative: change thus becomes re-discovery, and newly found meanings. Angela deals with individual psychotherapy treatment (both for adult and teenage patients), couples’ therapy, emotional support, consultation on psychological issues, relaxation techniques, autogenic training, EMDR technique for the treatment of various psychological issues related to the emotional and social sphere.

After university studies, Laura moved to France to work and learn a new language. She is fluent in 3 languages (Italian, English, French) and she speaks and understands well other 3 languages (Danish, Norwegian, Spanish). After working as assistant manager, webmaster, marketing manager she returned to her very first love: translation, specializing in Cosmetics and Big Brands. Since a couple of years, Laura is also assisting foreign people who are living or planning to live permanently in Italy (or vice versa!); in addition to helping them learn the Italian language, she accompanies them throughout the entire relocation project. Her purpose is to make their transition into Italy as pleasant and problem free as possible. People are liable to encounter various problems in their daily life, especially if the command of their spoken or written Italian is not quite up to the mark, Laura is there as “liaison”, her services range from prospecting to managing your home, as well as translation and interpreting services. She will be very happy to assist you with all (practical and bureaucratic) formalities. “A language puts you in a corridor for life. Two languages open each door along the way”. – Frank Smith

Born at 8:45am on the 14^th of August, clocking in at 3.8 kilos (8lb and 6oz) and sporting a full, black lion-like mane. His Cancer Stellium in the 11^th House (as many as four planets, not counting the Moon, clustered in the region presiding over friendship and adaptability) led him, as a toddler, wandering all over his native Ligurian seaside beaches, holding a pocket-size French dictionary and asking anyone he met “Quelle heure est-il?” Fast forward to 2001: a Heart Odyssey. With Uranus in opposition to his Sun (Uranus being the planet presiding over one’s personal freedom), Bruno met A., a Gemini lady whose passion for Humanistic Astrology he soon caught. This branch of knowledge, which had been studied and made ample use of by Prof. Jung as an investigation tool, became Bruno’s field of research in the following years. He pursued both academic studies and individual and group research through consulting sessions, particularly in view of his 50^th birthday, which marks the Midheaven, or Zenith, a highly significant moment, a prelude, in his case, to Saturn’s return, expected when he will turn 58. To conclude with a remarkable numerological coincidence: on November 11^th, 2018, during the lengthy Uranus square and Pluto’s opposition to his Stellium, he began his work relationship with Policrea.

Ten years ago, Elisa decided to investigate further her chosen disciplines: Color Therapy, Make-Up, Color Psychology, Face Shape, Body Analysis, and Bridal Styling. She’s been a long-time owner and manager of Couture Mademoiselle, specializing in bridal attire, and she still guides the brides-to-be on the complex path to the big day by planning highly customized arrangements, all the while taking care of the groom and the leading figures of the wedding ceremony.

In time, she was able to select highly qualified professionals as her close collaborators (Bra Fitters, Fashion Stylists, Tailors, Makeup Artists, Hairstylists, Psychologists and Counselors); thanks to their expertise she can offer to this day a wide range of diversified services, including instructional seminars and meetings of educational interest.

Indeed an unconventional Image Consultant, Elisa is passionate, driven, highly attuned to people and their needs. Her one and only aim is always the same: teaching people to see themselves in the mirror quite dispassionately, so that they may consciously detect both their assets and flaws, thereby taking charge of their lives starting with their looks. This should ignite the spark that will prove the start of a wonderful, and with any luck inevitable improvement process, both on the inside and out!

“Attitude is everything” (Diane von Fürstenberg)

It didn’t take long for Lisa, as she is familiarly called, to realize her gift for languages was her strongest asset. Familiar with German, French, and English, she’s almost completely focused her work now on the latter language. Her translation experience has included so far short stories, historical essays, poetry, movie subtitles, and company brochures, websites, and catalogues.  Moving from the conviction that it takes a whole life to learn to communicate, she strives to widen her cultural and linguistic competence through all media. So far she’s come to the conclusion that the evolution and development pace of such a global language as English, and the new ways it’s used through the IT and digital media, will keep her busy for the next couple of lifetimes. Seeing every form of communication as a means to learn new linguistic and cultural codes, Lisa prides herself on in-depth research and precision, combined with a strong motivation to shape concepts into the most suitable words. After all, placed isn’t sentence a randomly words by formed!