Alessandro Ribaga – Italy 🇮🇹
Hello there! My name is Alessandro Ribaga, I’m 32 and I come from Italy.
I’ve always been an active and curious kid but I grew up with several coordination problems because of my educator’s beliefs when I was in kindergarten. I am left handed but the teacher I had at the time forced me into using my right hand. This kind of “violence” created an imbalance in me and during the years it became a problem. For this reason I decided to do something about it and face it.
A few years ago I started practicing Tai Ji Wudan. At the very beginning it was really hard but I kept on trying and my hard work paid off.
Then I added Tai Chi Chuan Yang Style that gave me smoother motion on the outside and made me stronger on the inside.
Thanks to all that practice, then, I was able to fix the damages done to me in my childhood and I was really motivated to go on, asking myself what would have been my next step.
I tried Aum Meditation, a form of meditation that comes from Kundalini. It was really intense and beautiful but different from what I was looking for.
After some research I had an idea: what about Qi Gong? I had been practing Qi Gong in the previous year in a Wushu School and I already knew a few things like the 8 Pieces of Brocade, Zhan Zhuang and the Taolu. So I challenged myself and went to a White Tiger training camp. It came out to be the greatest experience of my life. This kind of ancient practice was amazing and beyond my imagination, making me more interested in this discipline and in becoming a teacher.
I’m currently practicing Qi Gong, Tai Chi (in a few styles) and Tantra Yoga. I’m very excited to explore all these different techniques, and my aim is to mix them to reach the maximum potential and share all my knowledge to everyone who wants to find their own energy.