ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No4 'BRIDGES' | Page 25

DANCING, SINGING & DRUMMING MYSELF BACK TO LIFE with LAURA VALENTI Apprentice Movement Medicine Teacher, Sound & voice therapist, performer, clown and energy worker. www.harmoncinspiration.com Movement Medicine Association I remember being in love with the dance since I was a child. I lived with my dad and grandparents in a small conservative town not too far from Rome. My mum passed away suddenly when I was 6 and the whole family was left in shock and chaos. I have a vivid memory of my dad telling me that she was dead (after more than one month. I remember also the confusion, as I knew something horrible happened but nobody was telling me what was really going on): he told me that from that moment on I had to behave and be responsible. My grandparents were catholic, old fashioned and not really gifted with lightness or sense of humour. I didn’t like going to school: I felt in a cage and not understood by the adults. Only now as an adult I am aware of the immense stress I was carrying in my little body and how trauma can be cry