Dear Silvana,
You left us so suddenly.
Leaving us all in disbelief, with a sense of emptiness and grief. It feels surreal.
You left us at a time when your life was expanding in so many ways. You were reaping the fruits of many years of dedication and love in action, both in your personal and professional life.
We want to honour **the Mother of Movement Medicine in Italy.**
You are the first certified teacher (please let us stay in the present tense for a little while longer…) and you have given so much to this practice and to the creation of community, both in Italy and internationally.
Weaving relationships, bringing together red threads and threads of so many other colours.
Your vision of community has inspired us and will continue to do so.
Thank you for putting your face, your heart and all your energy into helping deconstruct the prejudices and taboos surrounding the menstrual cycle and menopause. Your work has touched, and will continue to touch, the hearts of so many women, men and beyond.
You brought your presence, your dance and your teaching to so many places, continuing to break taboos in this field too — even dancing in a museum in Trento, as part of a three-year project co-created with Tarin Meneghello, which was just beginning to take flight these days.
Thank you also for all the work of weaving connections you carried out in your own city, Pordenone, building relationships and bringing different visions together.
Ubuntu in Movimento, the association you created and managed with me, Tamara Candiracci, eleven years ago, holds all of this within it:
**I am because we are.**
We bow to the Great Mystery of Life, feeling all the emotions that are present in this moment.
We are embodied beings. Grief, and anger too, belong to this here and now, as does the feeling of being lost and disoriented.
*What’s next?*
For now, we slow down. We feel. We honour your beauty.
We feel you as mycelium, a living network that connects us and nourishes us, beneath the earth and in the vastness of the sky.
May your teaching continue to keep us close, nourishing us precisely through our differences.
We carry you in our hearts and allow what you have sown to keep growing through us, in dance and in life.
Thank you, Silvana. ❤️
Kat, Tamara, Camille, Marie-Laure, Giorgio, Ilaria, Shanti, Tarin, Giulia and Gaia
**P.S.** Today, at 4 pm, you were meant to begin your Movement Medicine session, *“Like autumn leaves on the trees…”*
And perhaps, right now, another dance is beginning. In another form.
**Safe travels, dear Silvana.**
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