A little about me, before we meet
This I have learned along my path:
to do good, you must feel good
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My name is Ilaria
I have always sought connection with people, and service to others has been the thread running through my life: from Girl Scouts, where I learned the daily good deed, to San Vittore prison, where I used to sing for the prisoners.
LONDON · 1997
That thread eventually made my passion clear, and it led straight into the first plot twist of my life: a nineteen-year-old girl from a town of just over a thousand people finds herself in London studying Chinese and human rights, in the very year Oasis released “Be Here Now.”
BEIJING
The world suddenly felt like my oyster, so I left for Beijing next, to perfect my Chinese.
AFGHANISTAN
By then it was time to act, and that's exactly when the second plot twist found me. After a rewarding stretch working with IOM and ACTED, the United Nations assigned me to Afghanistan.
I spent years there, learning more than I ever expected, in a wonderful land. Those journeys taught me something I still carry: beyond apparent differences, we are profoundly the same.
MOTHERHOOD
Just when everything felt set in motion, the third plot twist arrived: my first daughter.
A NEW PATH
Her arrival changed everything, as it does for all of us, and it revealed something I hadn't seen yet: that the inner one is a real journey, and it was still entirely ahead of me.
So I began a new path, made of breath, conscious movement, and listening to the body. I met yoga and eventually became a teacher of it myself. It brought me closer to mindfulness and trauma-sensitive practices, and it showed me how the body holds everything the mind can't process.
Slowly, the vision became clear. Once it did, I wrote a project that went on to win European funding, dedicated to addressing secondary trauma and burnout.
TODAY
A new question began to take shape in me: “How can well-being be accessible to all of us?” The answer in my mind and heart is: Embodied Meditation.
This is where I realised that every discipline I have loved and practised shares the same aim, and that they work together in harmony toward personal well-being, with the magic of leaving us free to roam according to how we feel in the moment.
And that's exactly what my work is today: accompanying people back to themselves, helping them feel their own strength and the freedom to be authentic, through the body.
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All these experiences were wonderful not because they were perfect, but because they offered me, as life does, joy and sadness, light and darkness, peace and pain, connection through loss and grief as well as embraces and new encounters. All of it, linked together like a symphony, has brought me here, from human rights to human connection.