Restarting from self: the intimate and wild exploration of MensCorpore

MensCorpore is a reality that deals with health education, understood in the broadest sense of the term, through activities, in presence or at a distance, aimed at individuals and organizations, revolving around six fundamental dimensions: Body – Heart – Mind – Food – Relationships – Environment, the six Sources of Well – Being.

For Wilden, Menscorpore has created an herbal tea tasting experience through the five senses, a mindfulness practice to know through the senses and give oneself the right amount of time to taste each component, tactile, visual, olfactory and finally taste of the herbal tea.

Background: Where did your career as a trainer come from?

Beyond specific personal paths, what unites us is a deep passion for the growth and learning potential of human beings as individuals and even more so when interacting within a group. Facilitating those processes, creating conditions conducive to action and stimulating conscious reflection at the same time is what we love to do. MensCorpore is the “container of meaning” that best sums up all this and much more.

Plants and Nature: an anecdote in your life/profession.

In the Tortonese hills we have a small Timorasso vineyard, which we have been taking care of for several years now. It is a kind of Zen exercise, not always easy or light, but it helps us to disconnect from the sometimes frenetic and artifact rhythms of city life and bring us back to the quieter and more essential ones of nature. It is a hidden place in the midst of greenery that pacifies the mind; it is true extended family. It is connection with the earth. Last but not least: it is the enjoyment of drinking a good glass of your own wine! For now it is a passion, in the future who knows.

When do you feel “healthy and wild”?

When we laugh heartily together with friends; when we are moved by the spontaneous, delicate and most powerful tenderness of children; when we drink voraciously of the wonderful fresh water after a long toil or when we walk silently inside a forest and seem to breathe to its rhythm. We feel “healthy and wild” when we play with the waves of the sea, diving into the breakers, when we dance wildly to the notes of a Salento pizzica, a klezmer rhapsody or an Afro-Cuban sòn.

If I said “Share Your Nature,” what would you say to me?

We would say that it is not possible to do otherwise. Interdependence is an existential condition; living means sharing, willingly or unwillingly. Personal destiny is inextricably linked to the actions of our fellow human beings, the integrity of the physical and natural environment we inhabit, and the delicate balance of the planet that sustains us (literally!). That is why it is so important to realize this by cultivating awareness.

Can you tell us about the Wilden Experience?

Speaking of mindfulness, the Wilden Experience is a mindfulness practice that revolves around the infusion, with all the stimuli and perceptual anchors it offers: from the choice of ingredients to their manipulation, from the creation of an original mixture to the actual tasting. A sensory journey among scents, flavors and colors, to create connection with the group and with oneself, experiencing and cultivating a “meditative approach” from which to benefit far beyond the specific experience.

Next week the track from the first Wilden Experience will be released here on Healthy and Wild. Stay tuned!

© Carlotta Coppo