3 Days Light Silent Warrior Training and MMA Camp in Sezzadio, Italy

Facilities

During this training, you will stay in a private or a shared room at Cascina Bellaria Farmhouse. The house offers shared and private double rooms with shared bathroom, as well as double, triple, and quadruple rooms with private bathrooms. Cascina Bellaria Farmhouse was created through the will of getting together, sharing a lifestyle aligned to the rhythms of nature, and to the yoga and Ayurveda philosophy. The barn has become the big yoga room with naked wood roof, wooden floor, and a glass window wall, which offers a great countryside landscape.

During the training, you will practice meditation combined with mixed martial arts. Silent Warrior is a non-competitive training, it is a training to improve and benefit one’s personal growth. Hari Om Yoga School does not use technique to become good fighters. Hari Om Yoga School is a research open lab, which tries to find the perfect balance between Yin and Yang.

"Strength, flexibility, attention, focus, silence, sense of ethics, heroism. These qualities are needed, these are the ingredients I want in my personal practice, this is what I want to spread," says Marco Mandrino, founder of Hari-Om and Silent Personal Training.

The daily Light program is identical to the Full, although it includes only one session of technical or athletic work out (Functional Training, Muay Thai, and MMA) for a total of three hours training. A maximum of four students will be accepted for each personal training, so that the training will be highly personalized.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

It is a discipline and functional art in ground fighting and grappling. In your case, it is used as a component of the MMA and without kimono.

CrossFit

The CrossFit workout is nothing more than a subset, or a methodology of the functional training. This training methodology is currently popular among functional fitness programs used in gyms.

Functional training

It is a type of functional training created not to increase the muscles size, but to be able to use the body to the maximum of its possibilities with particular attention to the quality of power, speed, and resistance. Functional training is based on the idea of a direct connection between body and mind. It is the mind that needs to be trained to react quickly and not the muscle or muscle chain. This methodology was born in the training of The United States Army Special Forces.

Kickboxing and Muay Thai

Very similar disciplines that integrate boxing with the use of kicks and in the case of Muay Thai also using knees and elbows. Hari Om Yoga School's main references are for striking techniques within the MMA.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

The MMA is considered one of the specific combat sports that has been born from the intersection of all combat sports and martial arts. At the beginning, there were martial artists who came from specific traditions who faced each other. Now, whoever practices the MMA is following a training method that takes the best from the different specialties, simplifying them, so that they are then functional to a more probable or possible fight with very few rules.

In this training, MMA main aspects are Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. You will practice to improve yourself and be mentally and physically prepared for a fierce fight that might never happen.

On weekends, it is possible to add sauna and/or Floating touch massage at extra cost.

This training will take place at Cascina Bellaria Farmhouse in Sezzadio, Alessandria, Italy. The farmhouse is a classical Piemont style, newly renovated with the original structure and style dating back to the middle times of the 19th century. It is located in a quite hilly area of the countryside between Alessandria and Acqui Terme. Far from the inhabitant center and from the main roads, it is surrounded by a quiet and relaxed atmosphere that follows the rhythm of nature.

It is also an eco-conscious farm producing organic vegetables, fruit, honey, jams, and preserves. It is a farm with vegetarian cuisine that promotes respect for nature and the earth. Foxes, deer, squirrels, wild boars, and many kinds of birds live in the countryside and very often get close to the houses and to the small lake, which is located inside the property of the farmhouse.

During this training, daily delicious vegetarian and vegan meals are included.

During your free time, you can take walks in the countryside and by the lake. You can also enjoy floating touch massage at an additional cost (50 EUR each session). Floating Touch is a holistic treatment that combines the fluidity of the Ayurvedic massage with the vibration of sound massage through the use of Tibetan bowls, gong, ocean drums, and Cimbali koshi. The combination of the two practices allows you to reach a deep calm in mind and body.

The following spa treatment can be booked at an additional cost:

Floating Touch

It is a holistic treatment pairing the smoothness of ayurvedic massage to the vibration of gong bath (through Tibetan bells, gong, ocean drum and koshi cymbals). The combination of the two styles allows to feel a deep inner calm, both physically and mentally.

Finnish Sauna Cryotherapy baths

Cold water baths that are known to be extremely beneficial for both sport recovery and the immune system.

• Up to two hours of athletic and technical work daily
• 45-minute morning meditation every day
• Daily delicious organic, vegetarian, or vegan meals
• 2 nights accommodation
• Highly personalized training with experts
• Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, CrossFit, and functional training classes

• Airfare
• Transfer to and from airports or train stations
• Massages
• Personal expenses

Driving directions from Brescia

• Take Brescia Piacena Torino highway and exit Alessandria Est.
• Follow Alessandria till the entrance of the town where there is a big roundabout, follow Acqui Terme, and take tangenziale.
• Exit Sezzadio.
• When you enter the town, follow Rivalta Bormida, Mantovana, and Abazia di Santa Giustaina.
• As soon as you exit the town, after Abazia di Santa Giustina, turn left following the direction of Mantovana, Boschi.
• After the first two uphills, when the road becomes flat, turn right at the second street on the right.
• You will find two white boards indicating Cascina Bellaria Hari Om.
• Farmhouse Bellaria is the white building on the left.

Driving directions from Genoa

• From Genova Milano, exit to Alessandra Sud.
• Follow the tangenziale (ring road), drive to the direction Acqui Terme, and exit at Sezzadio.
• When you enter the town, follow Rivalta Bormida, Mantovana, and Abazia di Santa Giustaina.
• As soon as you exit the town, after Abazia di Santa Giustina, turn left following direction Mantovana, Boschi.
• After the first two up hills, when the road becomes flat, turn right at the second street on the right.
• You will find two white boards indicating Cascina Bellaria Hari Om.
• Farmhouse Bellaria is the white building on the left.

Driving directions from Milan

• From Torino, take the highway exit to Alessandria Est.
• Follow Alessandria till the entrance of the town where there is a big roundabout, follow Acqui Terme, and take the tangenziale.
• Exit to Sezzadio.
• When you enter the town, follow Rivalta Bormida, Mantovana, and Abazia di Santa Giustaina.
• As soon as you exit the town, after Abazia di Santa Giustina, turn left following direction Mantovana, Boschi.
• After the first two up hills, when the road becomes flat, turn right at the second street on the right.
• You will see two white boards indicating Cascina Bellaria Hari Om.
• Farmhouse Bellaria is the white building on the left.

Driving directions from Turin

• From Torino Piacenza, take the highway exit to Alessandria Est.
• Follow Alessandria till the entrance of the town where there is a big roundabout, follow Acqui Terme, and take the tangenziale.
• Exit Sezzadio.
• When you enter the town, follow Rivalta Bormida, Mantovana, and Abazia di Santa Giustaina.
• As soon as you exit the town, after Abazia di Santa Giustina, turn left at the direction Mantovana Boschi.
• After the first two up hills, when the road becomes flat, turn right at the second street on the right.
• You will see two white boards indicating Cascina Bellaria Hari Om.
• Farmhouse Bellaria is the white building on the left.

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP), Linate Airport (LIN), Orio al Serio International Airport (BGY), Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), or Turin Airport (TRN). Hari Om Yoga School shuttle service from and to the airports is available for 120 EUR one-way and 240 EUR round-trip.

Arrival by train

The closest railway station is Alessandria. Hari Om Yoga School shuttle service to and from Cascina Bellaria farmhouse is 15 EUR one-way and 30 EUR round-trip. The shuttle service is not available during the Bliss Beat Festival.