RUBRICA
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BENESSERE WELLNESS
BAREFOOT HIKING DI/BY ANDREA BIANCHI
C A M M I N A R E S C A L Z I N E L L A N AT U R A P E R FA R E B E N E A L L’ A N I M A . C E N E P A R L A A N D R E A B I A N C H I ,
F O N D AT O R E D E L L A P R I M A S C U O L A D I B A R E F O O T H I K I N G D ’ I TA L I A E A U T O R E D E L L I B R O
“CON LA TERRA SOTTO I PIEDI”.
Perché al giorno d’oggi, in un
Walking barefoot through nature is good for the soul, according to
mondo in cui non facciamo più un
Andrea Bianchi, founder of Italy’s first barefoot hiking school and
passo senza il nostro smartphone,
author of a book on the subject.
dovremmo camminare scalzi in montagna? Forse proprio per questo, perché in un mondo iperconnesso abbiamo in realtà perso la connessione con ciò che sta alla base della nostra vita, sia dal punto vista biologico che psichico, abbiamo perso il contatto con la fonte primaria da cui riceviamo energia e vitalità: la Terra, la Natura. Come specie - Homo Sapiens, ma prima ancora Neanderthal e tutti gli ominidi che ci hanno preceduto
(M. Gasparin)
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In today’s world, a world in which
used to manipulate the world
we can’t take a single step without
around us. At the same time,
our smartphones, why would
being upright also came with new
we go for a walk barefoot in the
advantages, such as the ability
mountains? But we should go
to expose less of our bodies to
barefoot hiking precisely because,
the heat of the sun. Once we
in this hyperconnected world in
began walking, we never looked
which we live, we have lost touch
back. Driven by climate change
with the fundamentals in life.
and alternating dry and humid
We’ve lost touch with the Earth,
periods, we moved out of Africa,
with Nature, the primary source of
our homeland, and into the
our physical and emotional energy
Middle East, up through Georgia,
and vitality.
and into Europe, colonizing even
- ci siamo evoluti camminando,
As a species, from the Neanderthal the northern-most parts of the
fin da quando milioni di anni fa
and on up through all the hominids continent, then onward to the
siamo scesi dagli alberi. Oggi gli
to Homo Sapiens, we have evolved east through China to the coasts
studiosi di paleoantropologia
walking upright on two feet since
of Asia and the Indian Ocean,
sono concordi nel ritenere che
that moment, millions of years
as well as to the west through
il bipedismo fu una delle nostre
ago, when we came down out of
North America, Central America
conquiste evolutive più importanti.
the trees. Paleoanthropologists
and down to the tip of South
La capacità di muoverci su due
today agree that the ability to
America. And throughout this
gambe ci permetteva spostamenti
walk on two feet was one of our
journey, we traveled barefoot.
su distanze sempre più lunghe
most important evolutionary
Indeed, we have found fossilized
e liberava braccia e mani
achievements. The ability to do
footprints-the oldest of which
consentendoci di utilizzarle per
so enabled us to travel farther and
was found on the banks of a lake
manipolare oggetti.
farther and freed our hands to be
in Laetoli, Tanzania, and dates
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