MAURO LUGANO (Argentina/Slovenia)
My name is Mauro Lugano, I was born in Argentina in 1986. Among the activities that I fully enjoy, I’m a professional masseur, specialist in Oriental Therapies such as Reiki and Shiatsu, I’m a Qi Gong and Tai Ji Quan teacher.
Back in 2009 I had the wonderful opportunity to travel during 9 months across great part of South America (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) recording and relaying information about the Andean culture, getting in contact with native communities, learning some of their habits, and in some cases making video records about their struggles to coexist with the “modern” capitalistic oriented world. During this journey, I had the chance to meet healers from different cultural backgrounds and try myself their ways, plants, and rituals. In 2010 back in Argentina, eager to deepen and expand further my understanding of the holistic view that ancestral cultures held about what health actually is, I joined a Tai Chi and Qi Gong school from my neighborhood, in which I had the luck to find a great teacher, Gustavo Villar, and his Center in which I’m still actively involved, now on the distance. I gained a wider understanding by realizing that no matter were in the world a person is, their overall health state is necessarily and intimately related with both the local natural and social environments. I came to Slovenia following my heart and intuition and since then I’m constructing with my lovely partner a life together, a bit here, a bit there, full of learning and gratitude. I believe that only those who can learn can teach. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://mau-chi.blogspot.si/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAURO LUGANO (Argentina/Slovenija)Ime mi je Mauro Lugano, rodil sem se v Argentini leta 1986. Med dejavnostmi, v katerih popolnoma uživam, sem med drugim profesionalni maser, specializiran v orientalskih terapijah kot sta Reiki in Shiatsu ter učitelj Qi Gong in Tai Ji Quan.
Leta 2009 sem imel čudovito priložnost 9 mesecev potovati po večjem delu južne Amerike (Argentina, Čile, Peru, Bolivija in Ekvador) kjer sem snemal in beležil informacije o Andski kulturi, spoznal domorodne skupnosti, se učil njihovih navad in v nekaterih primerih tudi posnel njihovo borbo za sobivanje v »sodobnem« kapitalistično orientiranem svetu. Med potovanjem sem imel priložnost spoznati zdravilce iz različnih kulturnih ozadij in sam preizkusiti njihove načine, rastline in rituale. Ko sem se leta 2010 vrnil v Argentino, sem želel poglobiti in razširiti svoje znanje o holističnem pogledu, ki ga imajo domorodne kulture o tem, kaj zdravje sploh je. Včlanil sem se v Tai Chi in Qi Gong šolo v svoji soseski, kjer sem imel veliko srečo spoznati odličnega učitelja, Gustavo Villarja, in njegov Center, v katerem sem aktiven še danes, čeprav na daljavo. Širše razumevanje sem pridobil, ko sem dojel, da ne glede na to, kje na svetu se človek nahaja, je njegovo celostno zdravstveno stanje nujno in intimno povezano z lokalnim naravnim in družbenim okoljem. V slovenijo sem prišel sledeč svojemu srcu in intuiciji in od takrat s svojo prečudovito partnerko gradiva skupno življenje, malo tu, malo tam, polno učenja in hvaležnosti. Verjamem, da smo tisti, ki se lahko naučijo, lahko potem učijo naprej. |