The Good contact to grow well

Tune in to your baby, send affection and unconditional love is possible before birth. The contact that you establish with the big belly is worth more than simple caresses ...

edited by Sandra Salmaso and Dr. Sergio Signori

Article published in Nine Months - 135 of June 2016 - the first Italian magazine dedicated to pregnancy. For more than ten years at the service of expectant mothers. Authoritative and practical, it uses a scientific committee which accompanies step by step expectant mothers, the moment of conception until birth, with practical advice.

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The new book of Education to Contact

Editions Vivivita is pleased to present the second edition in 2016 enriched by multiple witnesses.

Hands that feed - Developing Identity and improve relations with the Good Contact

It is a tribute to the great need for tenderness and understanding faced by human relationships. In writing this essay, the author wants to entice them to discover how and why the give and receive loving touch is to stimulate and cultivate with care and respect as an essential ingredient for health and happiness.

In this new edition, enriched by multiple witnesses, it is proposed that the Affective Intelligence and Education Contact can be learned since its mother's womb by establishing continuous contact and a presence among parents and unborn child and subsequently becomes an educational subject in school to share with peers, and also that it can be recognized as a source of welfare for all human relations and in care settings.

In particular, the new edition addresses as in the helping professions and welfare Nonverbal Communication and the Tactile is extremely important to establish with the assisted a satisfying and serene relationship.

Emotions in motion

The Biodanza and Education to allow Contact to children and adolescents to experience the affective dimension and facilitate the processing of traumatic events

Dr. Elisabetta Lazzaro

Article published on Elixir of Health Sept. / Oct. 2014 - Journal of medicine, nutrition, ecology 
The magazine written directly by doctors and researchers

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The massage does well affectivity and self-esteem

"Massage as a vehicle of good contact, able to help and guide children, youth and adults to relate to each other in a healthy and profitable."

Continue Negrar the collaboration of the Culture of Camilla Coeli, the municipal library and the Committee on Equal Opportunities, chaired by Veronique Mondon with Katia Mazzola, a professor in the School of Padua specialization of Education Contact and Massage Biointegrante.

Article published in The Arena of 19.09.2014 - The Journal of Verona and its province

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Biodanza and Education Contact: rehabilitative effects
in the social sphere in primary and secondary (Italy)
and health workers (Nicaragua)

Working with a group of educators and psycho-social in Nicaragua, during a training Biodanza and Education to Contact in Valdivieso Ecumenical Center in Managua in 2008.

Sandra Salmaso

Abstract speech at the III° FORUM INTERNAZIONALE DI BIODANZA SOCIALE E CLINICA Hotel Spa Vergilius - Creazzo VI Italia 4-5-6 MARZO 2011 INTERNATIONAL BIOCENTRIC FOUNDATION

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Education Contact: when hands touch the heart

Contact and caress are the primary needs of the human being. "And 'through the skin - Ashley Montagu wrote - that we become beings capable of loving"

Sandra Salmaso

Article published on SALUS No. 6 Nov / Dec 2007 - bimonthly magazine of natural medicine and psychology.

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Through the skin learns love

Contact and caress are the primary needs of the human being. "It is through the skin," writes Asley Montagu 'that we become beings capable of loving. "

Sandra Salmaso

Article published on Aam Terra Nuova No. 222 November 2007 - The monthly magazine for the ecology of the mind and the decrease happy - since 1997

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Education Contact: when hands touch the heart

Not everyone knows how vital and important is the sense of touch in the growth process of human life. We can see, hear, think of something, but it is through touch that something becomes part of our experience.

Sandra Salmaso

Article published on RE NUDO No. 93 sept / oct 2006 - Magazine of ideas and experiences in the evolution of being.

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The contact and the caress: a basic need of the human being

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The contact and the caress: a primary human need

We can see, hear, think of something, but it is through touch that this something becomes part of our life experience.

Sandra Salmaso

Article published AEIB - 3 Mar. 1998 - European Association of Biodanza Teachers biannual magazine, director Sérgio Cruz

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The affection in relationships of care

Sergio Signori

Yes, it begins to speak (and to experience) of affectivity in hospitals. For some years the Hospital of Tor Vergata in Rome has formed the "Group of affect of nursing care" with the aim of integrating and harmonizing the gesture of care through the practice of massage and touch in general.

Intelligent Hands: Messages of affection"

edited by Sandra Salmaso

The hand acts guided by our intentions, our emotions and how many actions we perform with our hands! For example, when we are concerned we console twisting her hands together and when a love is born, the first contact is usually in the hands of lovers, as well as in stable couple, keep your hand creates the bridge to make a tender intimacy...

The Eco-factors of the Good in Good Relations Contact

edited by Sergio Signori and Sandra Salmaso

They say now all the experts of mental and physical health because it can be beneficial in everyday social life, living the good physical contact. The feel accepted, a sense of belonging, so fluent relations also depend on small physical gestures dicontatto expressed with respect and affection, but which create a social environment peaceful and joyful.

But there are people who do not like the expression of affection, fear a caress, a hug, or an affectionate gesture that gives him discomfort or irritation and discomfort.