Francesco’s background and experience of community life:
My friends describe me as a heart-centered and heart-driven human being and artist/musician, passionate about system change, spiritual creative activism & building community resilience.
With a background as a climate activist and Ecology graduate who, after burning out, spent 11 years onto a personal spiritual journey learning about personal and collective psycho/emotional/spiritual healing tools, my current purpose is to contribute my energy to a world where to find an inner and outer balance between spiritual growth, arts and active hopeful engagement & service in the world.I have lived in Edinburgh for the past 14 years, both in shared housing accommodation with a strong community ethos, rooted on non-violent communicational principles and on cooperative models, as well as a couple in Roslin (with my beloved Cait).
While working and living as an ecology and meditation student, climate activist, youth and NGO's worker, Shiatsu practitioner, and movement instructor, I have also travelled widely to grow and volunteers in eco-villages across India, Australia, Africa, South and Central America, becoming integral part of the communal living in many of these places.
In Edinburgh I have devoted my heart and energy to community projects, work and events, which for instance included being one of the main driving forces behind setting up the Swap and Reuse Hub Coop, the SHRUB (Which is now thriving as community focussed and socially engaged organization in the city), leading on outdoor education and allotment projects (e.g. the Edinburgh “Green Team”), offering donation based classes and treatments in marginalised communities (i.e. Wester Hailes), contributing to setting up grassroots educational projects and running spiritually inclined events such as meditation and spiritual ecology retreats.
Music & Arts
I am currently striving to develop, producing and sharing my uplifting songs and music wherever I can . You can listen to some of my releases here:
I am also passionate about bringing people together to sing, especially in nature and around fires.
I love holding devotional singing circle (e.g. kirtan-inspired chanting), vocal activation ceremonies, Fireside praying rituals as well as teaching 3-parts polyphonic harmonies Georgian singing sessions (I run a weekly Georgian singing group in Edinburgh)T
Holistic Healing Work
I work part time as a Shiatsu Massage Practitioner, Movement Instructor, Singing voice facilitator, Ceremonial space holder and a Carrier of the Sacred Fire.
Having spent many years across Central/South America, Asia & Australia, my training and work is deeply inspired by traditional and tribal healing traditions, energy healing methods and ancient Shamanic Ceremonies and practices. I aim to bring together the latest quantum physic understanding of energy, multi-dimensionality and matter, with the latest research into the benefit and power of Touch therapy, Expressive Movement and Sound Vibration.
My offerings are based around 3 main areas:
HEALING HANDS (Bodywork- Traditional chinese Medicine)
HEALING SOUND & MUSIC
HEALING MOVEMENT
You can find out more about this work on my Resonance Therapies website : https://www.resonancetherapies.life/francesco
