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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 15, 202412 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 6, 20248 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
May 26, 20249 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 22, 20249 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 17, 20241 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 8, 20245 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 25, 202412 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 20, 20241 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 29, 20249 min read
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Ecstatic freedom
The following notes present a general vision and some practical guidelines for highlighting the potential of embodied conscious movement...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 20, 20249 min read
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Homo homini deus
Experience is always about content and container, life-form and environment, center and horizon. Most often, our attention is focused on...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 12, 20245 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 28, 202310 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Dec 13, 20239 min read
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Hermeneutics Lab
Philosophy is often conceived (and practiced) as something that is done mostly by ‘thinking’ about a given subject, analysing its...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 27, 202310 min read
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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,...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 19, 20237 min read
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