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I am Antonio, one of the fortunate participants of the first "Desert Therapy" with Carla Perrotti. A one and only, unique experience that has left a big impression on my life. I continue to think of the magical moments that the Sahara gave to us, the charming seduction of the moon and stars, followed by the infinite rays of the sunrise and a burning red blazes of the sunset. The charm of the desert! Those who have experienced it are never free from it, it allows you to feel, more or less and makes you want to return. "One time, take from the charm" wrote Paul Bowles in his book The Sheltering Sky, "one time, take from the magic of the unlimited, bright, silent country. No other place is so intense, no other landscape will be able to give that extremely satisfying feeling of existing in something so absolute. And it is for this that everyone will feel a desire to return, at whatever cost, accepting whatever sacrifice, whatever inconvenience, whatever risk, whatever danger, since the absolute has no price". I hold dear the friendship of the wonderful people that I have shared this with. And also Carla "the Queen of the Desert" -as we called her- thoughtful, present, tireless, a smile, a word for all, help for those in needed, a "Lady" that left in all of us, an indelible memory. I am honored to have the met and even more to have become friends with her. |
 Antonio |
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I lived this fairy tale as a participant of Desert Therapy, with a compatible group of eight companions and above all with the indispensable support of Carla (now our friend!!!) and all of the contributors. Thank you again! Pinuccia. |
 Pinuccia |
I returned to Rome full of emotions, with intense things to tell. This trip was a powerful and involved experience, I must say marvelous, from a strong connection to the Desert which I like to describe as a place of dreams, an enchanting place capable of transmitting sensations and incomparable glamour. "Desert Therapy, a powerful experience, complete and intense. An internal journey where you cross the desert so that you can feel forever its recall. It is difficult to describe, you have to live it in order to understand it, to accept it and then it enters immediately into your heart, I loved it and will never forget it." I don't know it it is a good way to say it, but it is what I think and how I feel. The desert gave me the stars and the sand, I have encountered the form of the black flowers, I have walked in silence with bare feet in the sand, and I have had the best candle-light dinners all together, and the wonderful desert has forever left a print on me like the tracks of the foxes around our tents. I consider myself fortunate, to have experienced this experience which will remain in my heart like a precious gift that I always desired. |
 Anna C |
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hours of travel, before entering the heart of the Desert, the driver
looked at me in the rearview mirror and asked me: " why are
you going into the desert on foot?" I spent a moment in silence and then responded: "for the soul." And this is how it was. An internal journey, that touched the most hidden places in our souls, where our greatest dreams live, that perhaps we feel are impossible to reach…. But the impossible, as Carla says, is only inside of us. And so, my dream, that I have had for many years, finally was realized. Walking next to Carla in one of her deserts, I experienced the powerful emotions infront of a stone, admiring a shrub, in the tenderness of the imprints of the camels where you could distinguish the imprints of it's veins… On our shoulders only the necessary: a little water, some sunscreen…. Just simple clothing, a little wrinkled. At night one tent with a transparent top allowing observation of the divine night sky. Inside our little "home" only a few things to manage: a cup, a light for the night and my body , stretched out over the bed of sand, I read and let my thoughts go, and also my worries… everything seemed to be part of another life. Every step on the virgin earth, every step is a deep breath, a little tiring, a little suffering, but in the end I was happy and at peace with myself. Walking slowly with the caravan, little by little you feel the desire to slow down, to remain in the back, to remove yourself, to remain alone in the center of the desert, in the absolute silence, where you can only distinguish your steps and the breath of the wind. Now you are completely alone, outside of every world. No one can see you, no one can hear you, no one knows that you are there. And you simply are at peace with yourself, light, liberated, in need of nothing. This is what I understood in the desert….a unique sensation… In the Desert you are without everything, and yet you are in need of nothing. I nourished myself in the quiet landscape immersed in the sand and I was refreshed with emotions that continually followed one another. In the desert weird things happen. In the desert I fount, for the first time, an inner peace. With the people I will meet along my walk, I will be an ambassador for this magnificent life experience, special, unique, and undescribable… My biggest thanks top Carla. Thank you Carla, because you made my dream come true. The admiration that I have for you is indescribable. |
 Anna M |
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ask: "what is in the desert?" In the desert there is that which in inside of us You don't need the senses to experience it, you can be deaf, dumb or blind…..the desert you live with your soul!! In the movie of life, we are actors in a film and everyone seems real until the projector light passes us. In the desert you are no longer unconscious……you see the "light"!! Roberto |
Roberto |
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desert is magnificent, I discovered with my wonderful adventure
companions. Words are inadequate to express the feelings and sentiments that I felt, and that I bring home with me. I hope to convey to those dear to me at least a bit of everything I felt inside of me. A heartfelt thanks to my fellow adventurers. Claudia |
 Claudia |
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am happy and excited from this Desert. Until the next desert! Cesare |
 Cesare |
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managed to take off the armour that I use to "protect"
myself from the opinions of others. Thanks to the sand and those who have walked barefoot with me. I hope that what I have experienced here will help me to be more real, to hold close everything that is essential in my life. If you lighten your armour maybe you learn to fly….why not?! Silvia |
 Silvia |
