Testimonials

Giuseppe Ravì has a rare gift: he understands the human body and its traumas, its tensions and its unbalance in an instant –and furthermore he is able to help you to change to the better!

Already after the first session I walked differently, stood and sat differently–breathed differently! My right hip, for months in bad pain after a stage accident, suddenly felt free again. Most of the pain was gone after the 5th session. My feet, walking with the tips too far outside since I was a kid, are moving straight now! After years of trying with several techniques, sports, exercises of which nothing had helped!!

Giuseppe carefully released a lot of tensions from my body that I had built up for ages. He also unblocked my back and I feel that I have a lot more air capacity now, which is essential for singing. I can support my voice in a much softer but steadier way. After he worked on my throat muscles I was able to let the high c sharp float out in a steady, soft pianissimo as I had always dreamed of doing it. Thank you Giuseppe!

I am reborn, becoming aware of having a body that is alive; that’s what you’re gonna get with Respiro e Movimento.

After the first few sessions, my body is completely reset; in fact, even in everyday life it was strangely easy, as if the gears were oiled.

Because what’s acquired is a right conception of an exceptional body that makes you a participant of your body’s life: your body doesn’t go by itself, but you are the one who is guiding it.

Now, yes. I breathe and I move.

It’s amazing how much life is hidden in our body, and it’s incredible how it’s passing by undetected.

I look forward to having the same feelings on stage, being aware that through this new body, my emotions will be expressed in a more perceptive and correct way.

While dancing with Euroballetto in Rome, I was very fortunate to take classes with Giuseppe. His theory and its practical application have changed my understanding of movement and what to strive for.

Fantastic stability, change in breathing, increased flexibility, increased movement possibility, less effort used in movement, less muscle pain…

For me personally, the most significant change was in my body sensation. Aligning my body results in a relaxed state of being, where so much more movement is possible without strain. It’s a whole new feeling.

I’m not speaking about a nightmare or a horror film in Hong Kong, I’m telling you my REAL experience from the workshop of Respiro e Movimento.

After 13 hours in two days of placement, the body changes, but especially the body perception as well as attention span increasing. One cannot describe the exercises, not because of secrecy, but because I could not do it without falling into the ridiculous and unnecessary descriptive gesture.

Instead of recommending to all, this work, which is not only offered from the workshops, but also the lessons from the Master Classes and individual sessions, I do not recommend it highly to those who do not want to consider their body as a tool, to get involved to improve it.

He who wants to stay in a chair waiting for the furniture changes alone, is not one for the lessons.

The word that best describes the sensation is “OPEN.”

Having normally the constant perception of a closure of the back level and of the shoulders, after the third meeting is as if there was a “click” to an opening. And it all happened in an absolutely natural way… without constraints or imposed attitudes.

This new opening made me find greater stability, a feeling of greater security and, artistically speaking, the greater stage presence.

Thanks to the work that I was fortunate to start with Giuseppe under the Euroballetto course, I sensed how making difficult moves were possible without pain, without contractions, focusing on “tuning” my body and looking for a harmony with the body free of tension.

After the individual session, I had the chance to feel how the weight went down. This gave me a great stability, a feeling of growing by at least 2 cm, and an incredible ease in making movements at first difficult for me, the feeling that the joints were much looser, because the contractions of the neck and muscles, back and legs and jaws that I had before the session weren’t there any more.

Now after finding this beautiful path of work,  I try to take a step forward to each new work of my own.

This morning when I was dancing I had the wonderful feeling of having more space inside of me that allowed me not only to organize the movements more clearly, but also to give more “breathing” to the head and the memory that it could focus on the individual movements of the choreography without passing for a series of intermediary problems.

All parts of my body still bound by bad habits are like dark points with which it’s hard to work, but at least I do not feel that nervousness of the early days when I felt like a single block of stone (…I’ve always believed to be dissolved…)

By participating in the stage of Respiro e Movimento, I instantly experienced a fabulous discovery: I DISCOVERED MY BODY! Unbelievable!

This was, however, timely but while chasing greedily the evolution of the stage, my reason slowly thought back over all the work and commitment of thirty-four years as a dancer but also as a teacher, and I was not satisfied because the sacrifice of years was put into question.

This new path will be substantial, tiring and exhausting but with Giuseppe’s help I hope to change the teaching’s technique I have adopted so far.

Amazing experience!

Prior to this meeting with Respiro e Movimento, I had never imagined that there was such a strong correlation between physical “balance” and fluidity of emission, which is a coveted goal, between us, singers.

From the first session, improvements were evident. The compensation that my body has created has been reduced. The tensions and contractures that gripped my body have been relaxed.