PARTICIPANT: PIER LUIGI BONIFACIO GIANZANA
MASSAGE TITLE: CROSSING THE BRIDGE
COMPETITION: EUROPEAN MASSAGE CHAMPIONSHIP 2023
LOCATION: SIBIU (ROMANIA)
DATES: MAY 12 – 14, 2023
WHY PARTICIPATE:
I created this massage for the European Massage Championship 2023 in Sibiu, conceiving it as an ideal journey from Milan to Sibiu. When I registered, I thought that first and foremost it would be a rewarding experience, a journey of growth, a professional and human enrichment, an opportunity to meet great professionals, people who, like me, have decided to dedicate themselves to the psychophysical well-being of others.
MASSAGE PHILOSOPHY:
Crossing the Bridge stems from the need to tell an autobiographical story. In the past, I lived for a long time in Turkey, in Istanbul, a city symbolic of the union of two continents, multicultural but always at risk of fracture. I therefore decided to create an imaginary bridge that connects a journey from east to west, the story of different worlds, from Asia to Europe, from India to Italy, passing through Romania, which is an integral part of this journey. From Ayurvedic massage to Western-inspired massage, a fusion of atmospheres, history and cultures, which, especially in these divisive times, of erected walls, wars, suffering and intolerance, must instead be united.
MAIN TECHNIQUES:
Tapping, Mardarnam, Rubbing, Thumbing, Pétrissage, Marshanam, Squeezing.
Crossing the Bridge is an inclusive massage, suitable for all bodies and ages, and works on multiple levels:
- PHYSICAL LEVEL: muscles, joints, ligaments, skin, blood circulation, thanks to slow and enveloping movements, from the outside towards the center to facilitate venous return circulation. -ENERGY LEVEL, balance of subtle energies, through the Nadis, the channels that circulate Prana throughout the body, and the Chakras.
In my massages, oil is the essential ingredient. My hands and the oil work in synergy; each oil has different characteristics, purposes, and results.
I don't rely on commercial oils but use those from small producers who conduct detailed research to obtain natural, vegan, and eco-friendly products.
LIVING OIL WITH CAMELLIA AND PURPLE DEAD-NETTLE (Lamium purpureum) WITH A MUSTARD OIL BASE
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS:
Producer ALNITAK LABORATORI, 100% vegetable, pure and organic, in full respect of nature and animals.
Technical data sheet: mustard oil with camellia, purple dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum)
Characteristics: elasticizing, excellent for facial massage, boasts excellent regenerating and rejuvenating properties.
The oil I use for Crossing the Bridge is precious, medicinal, and produced in limited quantities. It draws inspiration from the Ayurvedic tradition but has been conceived, produced, and adapted to contemporary Western needs.
The raw material is obtained through the harvesting of seasonal flowers and plants, all locally grown in the enchanted garden of Alnitak.
The Alnitak laboratory is a recent entrepreneurial reality born in Golasecca (VA), a town in northern Italy, a corner of land bordered by Lake Maggiore. Thanks to the expertise and a totally bio-vegan vision of Simone and Nadia, the products of ALNITAK LABORATORI are conceived immersed in beauty, as with the camellia with its fuchsia color and the fiery red of the hibiscus.
It takes wisdom and much patience to produce the medicated oils and other products of this small company, because they are obtained from slow cooking in copper pots, on a wood-burning stove following the traditional Indian recipe. Before being filtered, the product is cooked for approximately 50 hours.
INGREDIENTS:
Used for millennia, including in Ayurvedic medicine, mustard oil has multiple properties.
It has a warming, circulation-boosting, draining, detoxifying, stimulating and toning effect.
Excellent for joint or muscle pain.