Two people getting ready to dance at the Ballabio music festival, an open-air event with free music and poetry performances. September 25-26, 1971.
"Us vs them inside the bubble of the Brera underground culture." Milan, Spring 1972.
The anarchist commune Il Fabbricone (the Big Factory) in Milan. Photo taken between 1975-1977
Photos of two of the last shamans in Balochistan, a remote and desert region of Pakistan.
After Bertolasi's commune in Pakistan failed, he travelled to the Kafiri people of Afghanistan, who practice a polytheistic religion related to vedic religions and live in a few valleys in the region.
While in Japan, Bertolasi came across “Shinrin-yoku” or forest bathing. "Japan has long worshipped forests and trees," he said. "This describes the practice of meditative immersion in nature." Taki No Yu waterfall, August 1990.
"Stream Dance" a movie by Italo Bertolasi documenting forest bathing in the Mello Valley in Italy.
A massage circle at the first Body and Nature Festival in Alpicella, Italy. June 1978.
Water Shiatsu massage at the Montegrotto Springs, Italy. April 1992.
Forest bathing in the Cansiglio woods, Italy.
The Macondo community centre in Milan, a place for idealists and revolutionaries which welcomed artists like Allen Ginsberg and André Gluksmann. Photo taken between October, 1977 and February 1978.
Pilgrimage to Yudono mountain, Yamagata, Japan. The Yamabushi monks hike up in a single file to the peak to celebrate Mazuri, the holy mountain's festival.
The anarchist commune Il Fabbricone. Photo taken between 1975/1977 in Milano.
Forest bathing in the Monte Rosa mountain glacier, 1980.
Meditation mirroring the tree. Left: Ticino Park. Right Big Island, Hawaii, 2010.
Pilgrimage to the Ontake San sacred vulcano in the heart of the Japanese Alps. August 1984.
Naked King Festival in the Lambro Park. Milan, June 26, 1976.
Traditional dance to give energy to the earth, water and rice fields. Bali, 1982.
