Guido Freddi-Poswick

antropologist, trekking guide AIGAE,  MBSR meditation instructor

I am an anthropologist specialized in neuroscience and contemplative practices, 

I'm also a certified (aigae) trekking guide and certified (mbsr) meditation instructor.
Years ago, while shooting a documentary on the civil war in Nepal, 

I met women and men who faced hunger, cold and all the difficulties of a 5000m Himalayan pass. 

They were on a pilgrimage aimed at giving meaning to a life marked by hardship and wretched of hedonistic pleasures.

They settled in my heart until my eyes became more sensitive to their spiritual presence.
In the remote villages of the Himalayan valleys the poorest children in the world played and laughed.

Happy with their fantasies, they shone with a treasure that I perceived but could not see, 

so I began to search for it, shyly pretending to do something else. 

It didn't take long for the treasure to find me. 

Monasteries nested among 8000m peaks appeared to me, exceptional guides pointed me in the right direction, 

masters capable of satisfying my skeptical mind reconnect me 

with that dreamy, sensitive and adventurous child I had been and had forgotten.
Pilgrimages and circumambulations became an important element of my studies, 

A universal river of eudaimonic well-being flows under all spiritual paths, 

a profound truth available to secular minds too. 

Learning to meditate I re-learned to walk:
No longer to conquer peaks or to attempt records, but to meet myself in the world.
Thus was born the Mindtrek, as a path that gives back to the word Nature the pure and profound sense of reunion 

of our Inner Nature with the Nature that hosts us and cares for us.
Mindtrek is a pause to catch your breath between two steps. 

It's a rhythm that slows one down from the constant shoving of an unnecessarily anxious world.
It's a new and ancient way of rediscovering a dormant but never completely lost well-being.