Neither one nor two
I’m in Freiburg again, this time to start a year-long program about CI and how to teach it. Asking oneself how to teach a subject is one...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 19
- 7 min
Not knowing
I’m writing these notes on my way back from the 2024 Contact Improvisation Festival in Freiburg. It has been an incredible opportunity...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jul 15
- 12 min
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 9
- 1 min
A touch of truth
I stepped into the space trembling For answers I could not dare to Listen. The ecstatic southern Sun was sweeping the floor and you Were...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jul 6
- 8 min
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
- Jun 26
- 7 min
On teaching and holding lightly
Turning 38 in a bit more than a month from now, I’m discovering that there is a truth in distinguishing different phases in life. This is...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 24
- 2 min
The Pythia’s voice
In the hot dusty noise of the summer I came to the old ruined shrine, heavy With questions, mine and of my dear ones. We are beings of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 10
- 4 min
Two ways of holding space
When we interact in daily life, we are often in a sort of business or transaction mode: I do this, you do that; I give you X and you give...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 4
- 6 min
Get back into your body!
It is common to hear appeals to ‘embodiment’ or complaints about being too much in your ‘thoughts’ (sometimes in your ‘head’ or ‘brain’,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- May 26
- 9 min
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
- May 19
- 6 min
Bitten by reality
I’ve been pondering for quite some time one of Caravaggio’s paintings, the Boy bitten by a lizard. It came to me in a flash of intuition...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- May 1
- 1 min
Mirrors
The bell tower points like a finger To the empty sky. Where are all the stars? I have been many things and none Has lasted. Does...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Apr 22
- 9 min
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
- Apr 8
- 7 min
On Romantic Love
I’ve heard from a student that it would be interesting to discuss how Buddhist teachings can shed light on romantic love. This is a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 22
- 4 min
What is freedom?
Freedom is not the power of choosing what I want. There is no such a power. First, because it’s not up to me to decide what I can want (I...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 8
- 5 min
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 29
- 1 min
It rains
It rains, and rains, and rains— The earth is a drum of a thousands Rhythms, yet so dry it remains— Words like trembling droplets that...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Feb 25
- 12 min
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 20
- 1 min
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
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Take it
Did you hear? The future is sold out. I wanted to give you my smartest words. But it will take ages for them to Paint even a rough...
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