I was born in May 1949, in the region of Campania, and named after my grandfather Francesco.
Soon after that, my father had to move up north in Lombardia where he worked as lorry driver, while my mother kept on practicing her previous profession as tailor.
One day a backache (or maybe fate ...) drove me to practicing yoga, and with it to acquire a different and more mature vision of life. So....
..In 1991 I found the ‘FAI’ the Italian Association for Flowertheraphy. ..
..In year 2000 I became founder as well as member and supporter of an organization called ‘Amici di un mondo leggero’ (Friends of a light world) that promotes food culture, sustaining improvement of life quality whilst respecting natural environment and health....
..Seems only natural then, with such a past, for me to search for -and find- an old house in the Tuscan countryside, where I can join and welcome all the friends, teachers and pupils, I collected in over twenty years!!!...
Rogheta called me so that I could bring it back to its original vocation, after centuries of oblivion, from Augustinian monastery into a place where groups oriented to personal growth are welcome and cared for.