MINDTREK

I am an anthropologist specialized in neuroscience and contemplative practices, AIGAE trekking guide and MBSR meditation instructor.
About fifteen years ago, while I was filming a documentary on the civil war in Nepal, I met women and men who faced hunger, cold and all the difficulties of a 5000m pass to give meaning, through a pilgrimage, to an existence that in those places is particularly hard and lacking in hedonistic pleasures.
In the remote villages of the Himalayan valleys the poorest children in the world played and laughed, they shone with a treasure that I perceived but could not see. I began to search until in monasteries among mountains of 8000 meters I found exceptional guides who pointed me in the right direction, teachers capable of satisfying my skeptical mind
and reconnect with that dreamy, sensitive, adventurous child I had been and had forgotten.
Pilgrimages and circumbulations became an important element of my studies and from them I understood that beneath religiosity flows a universal river of eudaimonic well-being, profound, perfectly suited also to a secular approach although not materialistic. Learning to meditate I re-learned to walk:
No longer to conquer peaks or set speed records, but to meet myself and the world.
This is how Mindtrek was born, as a journey that restores to the word Nature the pure and profound sense of reunion of our
Inner nature with Nature that hosts and cares for us.
Mindtrek is a pause to catch your breath. A pace that slows the constant rush forward of a needlessly anxious world.
A new and ancient way to rediscover a dormant but never completely lost well-being.