Traveling solo: what I learned from my second trip to Dubai
As the title suggests, I’ve been to Dubai twice, still here as I write, to be specific. Last year I came to this highly talked about city with a strong […]
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My trip to Mongolia Part 2 (7 years later)
Recently I’ve seen that contortion coaches have been taken upon the idea of organizing contortion retreats in Mongolia, and started to see pictures online of these happy souls, students training […]
Creation as self expression vs a need to chase approval and fight a sense of inadequacy
For a long time I’ve been having an uncomfortable relationship with IG (and social media in general), one reason being I hate the addiction factor, time wasting, false sense of […]
What I learned in 10 years of Contortion
It’s been 10 years. This marks my 4th post about my learnings through the years about Contortion and most of all, about myself. I feel in life we grow in […]
The Before and After Mental State of Training
As I was leaving the gym today, after a training session that ended up great despite my initial doubts about it, I wanted to grasp all the feelings and the […]
Life during the great pandemic
I’ve been thinking about writing during this time, because another situation as such it won’t repeat in my life (I hope). Every 10, 100 years history taught us crisis happen, […]
Why you cannot rely on training alone to be happy
Here I am, writing on a plane, Boeing 777 from Milan to Miami, to be specific. I love plane rides only for the reason that they force you to disconnect […]
Why are people so alone?
Why are people so alone, when in reality we desperately need connections, that we seek compulsively through the use of texting and social media? Why are we afraid of getting […]
Sofia Venanzetti 