WELLNESS

Re-Balance Your Body

Erica Rampone has developed a great attention to the body, which she knows and uses as a tool at the service of physical preparation, declining her ballet art in Pilates and Gravity classes.
She started her journey in the world of ballet at a very young age, beginning her studies at Pro Arte Danza in 1998 and pursuing it regularly within the school.

She approached teaching in 2012, working alongside the director of Pro Arte Danza Theater, while continuing to attend classes in addition to participating as a dancer in the school's productions.
Between 2015 and 2017, she collaborated as a ballet teacher in the academic courses of the Contemporary Dance Theater school and with the Centro Danza Futura school. It was during those years that she began her journey at Orsolina28; in fact, Erica has been by our side since the birth of the Orsolina28 School, where she first pursued the study of ballet alongside the Graham, Horton and Humphrey technique and later collaborated as a ballet assistant.

After her long years of studying ballet, Erica approached the study of Pilates Matwork technique according to the Nineteen Hundred Pilates and Dance method and became certified as a Gravity Foundation Instructor, Gravity Pilates Reformat Evolved Instructor e Gravity For Dancers Instructor.

Erica is the perfect figure to accompany students into the world of wellness and help them take their first steps toward self-awareness and body awareness.

She began her ballet studies in 1993 at the Dance Centre, directed by Stefania Zanatta, in Casale Monferrato and went on her regular training courses with master Philippe Pierson.
At the age of 18 she moved to Torino to study ballet and contemporary dance with Matilde Demarchi and Annagrazia D’Antico at Arkè Danza Torino, deepening the study of Graham, Horton and Humphrey techniques, while continuing the study of ballet at the Scuola del Teatro Nuovo.

In Torino she met Master Leonard Ajkun who invited her as a dancer at the Ajkun Ballet Theatre in New York in 2006. She attended the L.U.D.T. and obtained a degree in technical education with 110/110 cum laude with a thesis on dancers' nutrition.

In 2010 she began to approach the teaching of ballet, working alongside the director of the school "Danzarte" in Casale Monferrato. In 2012 she collaborated as a dancer in the production of the musical Nôtre Dame with the Company Ostinata Passione. In the same year she began the study of the Pilates Technique "mat work" with FIF, and perfected herself by studying with Matilde Demarchi, according to the NINETEEN HUNDRED PILATESANDANCE method, while continuing her collaboration as a ballet teacher in the academic courses of the school Danzarte.

She currently works as ballet teacher in several schools and holds pilates and stretching courses for dancers.

Julie, born and raised in Belgium, began her journey in dance in 2003 at SASK Deinze (Urban Academy of Fine Arts) where she studied ballet for 11 years, later joining Glen Lambrecht Productions and dancing in several productions.
In 2021 he graduated with honors in Psychopedagogy and began his career in teaching.

In 2022 he moved to Italy where, thanks to classes he began attending at Orsolina28, he discovered Pilates. She achieves the qualification of Pilates Matwork teacher at FIF Federazione Italiana Fitness, obtaining professional certification.
Julie also obtains her classical-academic dance teacher certification at the AIDA Training Center in Milan, following which she begins her professional journey at Orsolina 28, first as an assistant and trainee and then as a Pilates Matwork teacher. In addition to teaching, during the same year Julie supports the organization and back office activities of the school's courses and dance-related activities.

In 2024, Julie became certified as a Gravity Foundation Instructor and Gravity Pilates Reformat Evolved Instructor and continued her professional development as a Dance and Wellness teacher at Scuola28.

Maria is a 400 certified yoga & meditation practitioner, teacher, but most of all life-long learner. She is born & raised in Germany, but actually lived abroad for most of her adult life. After many years in France, short intermezzos in Italy & the US & a couple of years back in Germany, she settled now in Italy with her half German half Mexican Family.

Maria started her yoga journey almost 20 years ago, learned & trained in Berlin, Paris, Mexico & the US and teaches since over 8 years now, off & online. She is trained in Hatha/Vinyasa/Pranayama & Kundalini, but her approach today is very free, non-dogmatic & incorporates elements from different styles. Her practice is shaped by all the incredible teachers she had the chance to learn from, but also by everyone she practiced with.

Her teaching is based on the thousands of year-old yoga philosophy, in a very humble way, but she allows herself to follow her instincts & people’s needs. She offers a mix of somatic movement, breathwork & different meditation techniques that include both meditation in movement, but also immobility, both stillness & sound (vocal toning, humming, mantra chanting).

Maria sees herself as a facilitator to help people re-find the connection with their bodies & minds in order to open up spaces within where stress, fear & worries keep them tight to ultimately remember the "I" beyond the ego & the "We", the true connection to each other & that in the end “we are just all walking each other home” (Ram Dass).