Il silenzio dei passi

2016 was proclaimed the national year of the Paths by the Minister of Cultural Heritage. An original point of view: walking barefoot. A simple, therapeutic and natural practice. Walking barefoot in nature is an experience made of mechanics, physical and mental strength, emotions, concentration, poetry and silence. To reconnect with nature. Take off your shoes and walk barefoot along a flat wooded path, a meadow damp with dew, or the natural steps of a high altitude path and learn to perceive under the soles of your bare feet the flow of heat from the stone exposed to the sun and its different weavings: all this is within everyone's reach, it belongs to prehistory and the history of humanity, yet it is also something that has become rare in the lives of many today. However, it doesn't take much to relearn how to walk barefoot, and rediscover a dimension in which the mechanics of the human foot, the beneficial connections with terrestrial electromagnetism, the art of moving from cold to heat which Kneipp elevated to the rank of therapy, the millions of sensory stimuli that light up in the mind, until the discovery of more subtle aspects, such as the invisibility of the traces and the silence that accompanies this light, almost padded step, which never imposes itself but always finds its personal and unique path.