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Rebuild of a new Yoga Studio

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I need to raise € 50000 to rebuild my yoga studio and my family life after the Earthquake 

Imagine that you hear a low, rumbling roaring sound. The noise builds up, gets louder and louder, for a few seconds. The earth is moving under your feet forward, backwards and sideways. As if someone suddenly slammed on the brakes in the car. Crash. It is hard to keep standing up, sitting up as well. I am a yoga teacher I should be able to keep up with my balance. Earthquake. It rocks. Cold wet shivering runs down my back.

It took exactly just 62 seconds to change our lives. Central Italy was struck by a series of major earthquakes causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure and large displacement of people. The strongest quake (6.6) ranks high from a 300-year historical perspective for the Apennine region. The social, cultural, emotional, and economic impacts are profound, creating an unprecedented crisis, and will be felt for generations. We have lost our town centre of Camerino. Our home is sitting right up the walls of the town. Which now has become a military zone. The entire town centre is now inhabitable.  Nobody is allowed to enter the town only with permission one can recuperate things with the fire brigades. Besides I have lost my yoga studio in Camerino forever. And the income I earned from this for our family. I am heartbroken.

I feel like I just had a terrorist attack but without actually experiencing an attack as everything was taken away from my family, not just material things but my whole daily life too.

My name is Karin Montali. I moved from London 2001 to Italy as have decided to downshift our lives and spend more time with our children. My husband was looking after the four kids and the home and helped me to build up my yoga studio which was hard work as there was not so much yoga around in this area. The first year I have had only three students after 15 years just before the earthquake I counted 200 students, out of which I could make a living for our family. I love teaching yoga, when you do something you love it is not labour and for this I was always grateful. Now five months have passed, in between we have had a major snow catastrophe beside the earth keeps moving beneath us but nothing has happened so far. The Italian government has forgotten about us – at least it seems so to me. Actually, I feel abandoned completely, scared and helpless. But I know that life  goes on and we have taken the decision to stay in Camerino and support the town with our yoga classes. 
I want to raise €50000 to rebuild my yoga studio from scratch again, to be able to offer again yoga classes in our area where people can come and dedicate 90 minutes to themselves and regenerate. ॐ

Donations 

  • Lorena Simonetto
    • €323 
    • 6 yrs
  • Nina Rook
    • €1,052 (Offline)
    • 7 yrs

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Karin Montali
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