ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRE

1. Meetings with Naturopaty 

These meetings are open to all and are free for those wishing to know more about Naturopaty and the Centre of Naturopaty.

To take part, you should telephone to confirm your participation and to obtain the personal pass: in fact, the meetings  are restricted in number and are by invitation only.

 2. Workshops

 These are designed for all persons believing in 'natural well-being' and in the 'quality of life' - therefore  those wishing to pay more attention to their own life, to themselves and to their loved ones; those wishing to learn or increase their knowledge about those  'natural techniques' which can help them to reach a state of psychophysical well-being in keeping with nature.

The workshops are structured so as to provide a teaching as complete as possible, both to those approaching this reality for the first time and for those already acquainted with it. However for obvious reasons these workshops can only be 'introductions' to the subject: only the practice, individual research and personal study can lead to a true acquaintance with the techniques. The Workshops are mainly held during the weekends and evenings so they can be attended by people who work.

      Foot reflexology    

Foot reflexology is the harmonization of the energy through finger pressure exerted on certain points of the foot in order to reach the psychophysical well-being and to have a positive effect on the equilibrium over the entire organism.

The map of our entire organism is represented on our feet. Applying appropriate pressure on the points corresponding to the various organs and systems stimulates a reaction which restores the psychophysical equilibrium.

The Egyptians, and before them the Chinese, have left us detailed maps of the reflex points for stimulating or relaxing the various organs.

It was Dr. W. H. Fitzgerald (1872 - 1942) who revived the 'foot reflexology' in the modern Western world, after noticing that by exerting light pressures on certain points of the foot or hand, he was even able to perform minor surgery without the use of anaesthetic.

After more detailed studies and careful experimentation, he came to the conclusion that all the nervous terminations of all the organs and the functions of the human body are transported to the sole of the foot or the hand, in areas defined by ten meridians passing through the human body, starting from the head and reaching the sole of the feet.

Subsequently Dr. Edwin F. Bowers continued with these studies, completing them, and renaming the method, 'zone therapy'.

        Aroma therapy

Aroma therapy was already practised way back in ancient Egypt, in India and China:

essential oils were normally used in cosmetics and medicine.

Several writings prove that the Greeks and Romans treated many pathologies with essential oils.

But also in the West, from the Middle Ages  until right through the 19th century, this technique was habitually adopted. It fell into disuse with the advent of chemical pharmacology, but during the last ten years it has been revived by several naturopathic researchers.

    Flower therapy: Bach flower system

A simple and natural method for rediscovering the emotional equilibrium through the use of 38 flower remedies: how to understand them and how to select them for us and others.

Dr. Bach, of British origin, after graduating in medicine and successfully practising his profession as a physician, came to realise that the medicine studied at university was focused on treating the symptom but  it completely overlooked the sick person as an individual. Therefore he studied other effective and non violent methods of treatment, coming closer and closer to homeopathy.

Dr, Bach wrote two books 'Heal yourself' and 'The Twelve Healers' which can be considered as his spiritual testament and methodological guide created by him through the use of flower essences.

        Music therapy

Music as therapy against many of  man's ills has already been encountered in past centuries, in Greece, Asia Minor, China and India.

It was taken up and spread in the West by a Hungarian physician Pierre Linchenthal and subsequently developed in 1875 by the French physician Dr. Chomet.

Research has continued up to modern times with many scientific confirmations, up to the institution, in certain countries, of the chair of Music Therapy in the Universities.

Music, with its universal direct and immediate language, has a positive effect on the state of the soul of the individual; a correct and careful choice of the pieces of music acts on the nervous and cell system, thereby favouring with their vibrations an unconscious regaining of the relationship with oneself: it produces an optimum psychophysical relaxation.

       Belly dance as therapy

 The body and mind form a single whole which is often placed in difficulty by the stress of life.

Thus it is possible to rediscover oneself in a unitary way, as well as one's spiritual life in relation to one's body capacities and to renew contact with the others through the expressiveness of the belly dance; also to rediscover oneself and one's femininity, thus overcoming timidness and insecurity, to overcome tensions and stiffness of the body.

3. Naturopaty newsletter

Quarterly bulletin: press review, publications, information, addresses, news from the world of naturopaty and alternative natural medicines.