Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

Libertà da, libertà di, the autogenic training workshop led by Domenico Surianello, runs from October 19 to December 17, 2026 at the Entrature venue, the space of the Tuttoteatro.com association at Via Campobasso 9/a, in Pigneto, from 19:00 to 20:00. There are 10 sessions: October 19, 22, 26 and 28, November 16, 19, 23 and 25, December 14 and 17. Participation is free, with mandatory booking and a maximum of 10 people, at the email address laboratori@tuttoteatro.com or the number 347 0444624 indicated on the cultural portal of Roma Capitale. The venue is reached on foot in a few minutes from Pigneto station on metro line C. Alternatively there are the trams on Via Prenestina and the Termini Centocelle railway line. The workshop is part of Entrature > libere 2026, a program that can be consulted on the official site tuttoteatro.com/entrature.

Language: a performance based on dance, music or visual acts; no English version is announced, any spoken parts are in Italian.

One hour a week, at the end of the day, to learn to loosen the body and the breath. Surianello's workshop is designed above all for actors, but is open to anyone. The title plays on the two faces of freedom, freedom from tension and freedom to express yourself. In a Roman fall full of shows, it is one of the few appointments in which the audience is invited to stop.

Libertà da…, libertà di… at Entrature: the workshop at a glance

Libertà da…, libertà di… is an autogenic training workshop in 10 one-hour sessions, free, for groups of up to 10 people, at the Entrature venue on Via Campobasso 9/a. It is run by the cultural association Tuttoteatro.com and led by Domenico Surianello.

The dates

The published calendar provides 10 sessions: Monday 19, Thursday 22, Monday 26 and Wednesday October 28. Monday 16, Thursday 19, Monday 23 and Wednesday November 25. Monday 14 and Thursday December 17. All from 19:00 to 20:00. The dates are grouped in three blocks, one per month, and the pause at the start of November and at the start of December allows you to practice on your own between one block and the next.

Entry

The workshop is free. Booking is mandatory and there are 10 seats. The small number is a methodological choice, because autogenic training is learned with a guide who follows each participant. To book, write to laboratori@tuttoteatro.com or call 347 0444624.

Who it is for

The cultural portal of Roma Capitale presents it in the section on meetings and workshops. The organizers speak of the actor and the citizen together: the workshop was born in the world of theater, but is addressed to anyone who feels the pressure of a city like Rome. In previous courses Tuttoteatro.com opened it to all adults interested in their own psychophysical well-being.

What you do at the workshop Libertà da…, libertà di…

The workshop Libertà da…, libertà di… offers autogenic training exercises: guided relaxation techniques that, according to the organizers' presentation, give the individual back the freedom to self-regulate. In the description of the course, the organizers explain that the work follows the method of Johannes Heinrich Schultz.

The word autogenic

The organizers start from the etymology. Autogenic comes from the Greek autos, oneself, and genos, to generate: it literally means generated by oneself. The idea is that relaxation doesn't come from outside, from a drug or a therapist, but is produced by the person, once the exercises are learned.

The body as a blank canvas

The workshop's presentation describes outlying districts saturated with stimuli, deadlines and social noise, in which body and mind respond to stress automatically. Autogenic training, the organizers write, frees the body from muscle tension, shallow breathing and the anxiety of being judged. A relaxed body becomes a blank canvas, and only then does the actor, and the citizen, find the freedom of expression again.

Stage presence

The sentence that sums up the course is theatrical: for the organizers rigidity is the opposite of freedom, and autogenic relaxation is the primary act of stage presence. Those who work in theater know how much it matters to come on stage without needless tension. Those who don't will discover that the same rule holds for a job interview or a difficult meeting.

How a session runs

In previous courses held at the same venue, Tuttoteatro.com described 60-minute lessons with neuro-psycho-muscle-relaxing exercises, and asked participants to arrive at least 10 minutes before the start. It's an indication that holds for this edition too: a relaxation exercise begun in a rush, after looking for parking, starts already uphill.

Who Domenico Surianello is

Domenico Surianello, given the title of doctor by Tuttoteatro.com, is the leader of the association's autogenic training courses. In 2025 he held a course at Via Campobasso venue from February to June, with meetings on Monday evenings and Thursday afternoons and a free open lesson on March 10.

Courses for actors

The 2025 course, according to the presentation published by the association, was addressed in particular to actors and to those who wanted to deepen psychophysical relaxation techniques. The groups were of up to 10 people, as this year, and you could choose to attend just one day a week.

The writings

Surianello's name appears among the authors of Psychomedia, an online magazine in the psychology field, with a text devoted to autogenic training as an anxiety-relieving and muscle-relaxing remedy for psychoneurotic somatizations. Those who want to understand the leader's approach before booking can start there.

The link with Entrature

Surianello's autogenic training is one of the regular appointments of the Entrature venue. Already in 2025 the association presented it in Via Campobasso space, in the Pigneto area. With Libertà da…, libertà di… the course enters the program of the project's third edition, Entrature > libere, and becomes free.

The calendar of Libertà da…, libertà di…, month by month

The calendar of Libertà da…, libertà di… counts 10 sessions in three blocks: four in October, four in November, two in December, always from 19:00 to 20:00 at Via Campobasso 9/a venue.

October: the start

The first block, the densest, took place on Monday 19, Thursday 22, Monday 26 and Wednesday October 28. Four sessions in 10 days served to build the basics, and those who attended all of them arrive in November with the fundamental exercises already familiar. Those who join in November do well to ask the organizers how to catch up on the basics.

November: the practice

After a pause of two weeks, in which you practice on your own, the workshop resumes on Monday 16, Thursday 19, Monday 23 and Wednesday November 25. In the same period, on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15, Entrature > libere offers the two shows at Teatro Sala Vignoli. It's a good way to see theater from the audience side after having explored it from the side of the body.

December: the close

The last two sessions are Monday 14 and Thursday December 17. The Entrature > libere project closes on Sunday December 13, so Surianello's workshop is the last appointment of the program, and the session of December 17 is the last appointment of the edition at Via Campobasso venue.

If you miss a session

The public pages don't indicate make-ups. Those who already know they can't be present on a date do well to say so when booking. With 10 seats per session, a seat left empty can serve another person interested in the course.

Entrature > libere 2026: the project

Entrature > libere is the third edition of Tuttoteatro.com's Entrature project, scheduled from September 19 to December 13, 2026 in several places in Municipio V and VII. The cultural portal of Roma Capitale describes it as a widespread, participatory event for all citizens, with workshops, shows and activities for every age.

The previous editions

The project was born in 2024 with Entrature > Sonore. In 2025 the second edition, Theatrical Incursions, took place at Teatro Tordinona. In 2026 Entrature > libere takes the workshops into the neighborhoods, among the Casa del Quartiere of Municipio VII, Spazio Celestino, Teatro Sala Vignoli and the association's venue on Via Campobasso.

The other appointments at the same venue

At Via Campobasso venue, from October 20 to December 13, there is also the course What Is Dramaturgy? Meetings Between Text and Stage, led by the critic Attilio Scarpellini, at 16:30. Those who attend autogenic training can find in the other workshop a natural complement, from the side of writing.

Appointments for families

The Entrature > libere program also includes appointments for children and families at the Casa del Quartiere on Via del Fosso di Gregna, such as the workshop Con il naso all'insù and the evening Il cielo sopra la città, devoted to the stars.

The November shows

On November 14 at Teatro Sala Vignoli Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the John Cabot Chamber Orchestra is scheduled. On November 15, in the same hall, REDREADING #13 Un giorno bianco by Bartolini and Baronio. These are the show nights that frame the workshops.

The Entrature venue on Via Campobasso

The Entrature venue is the operational base of the cultural association Tuttoteatro.com, at Via Campobasso 9/a, in Pigneto, in Municipio V. It is a work and training space, not a theater hall: the closed-enrollment workshops of the project are held here.

The Tuttoteatro.com association

Tuttoteatro.com is a Roman cultural association with its own editorial staff devoted to theater, active in training and in producing projects such as Entrature. Via Campobasso venue houses the workshops' secretariat and the small-group meetings.

An intimate space

A group of 10 people, an hour of exercises, a quiet room: it is the right dimension for autogenic training, which asks for silence and concentration. The cultural portal of Roma Capitale lists the event as accessible. Those with particular needs can ask for details when booking.

Pigneto, the neighborhood of the workshop

Pigneto is a district of Municipio V, enclosed between Via Prenestina, Via Casilina and Via di Acqua Bullicante in a triangle that starts from Porta Maggiore. Via Campobasso is in the western part of the district, a few minutes from the metro C station and from the pedestrian zone of Via del Pigneto.

Streets of Italian cities

The street names divide Pigneto by themes: Italian cities, 14th and 15th century condottieri, geographers and cartographers. Via Campobasso belongs to the first group, like the nearby Via Macerata and Via Perugia.

The name

The place name comes from a row of pines planted by the Caballini family along the wall of Villa Serventi, when the area outside Porta Maggiore was countryside. The district took shape after 1870 and grew with the 20th-century factories on the Casilina and the Prenestina.

The evening

Since 2015 the pedestrianization of Via del Pigneto has made the district one of the city's evening destinations. At 20:00, when the workshop ends, the pedestrian zone begins to fill. The contrast between an hour of silence and the life of the street is one of the most curious aspects of this appointment.

How to get to the Entrature venue

The Entrature venue at Via Campobasso 9/a is reached by metro C, Pigneto stop. From the station you walk a few minutes west.

Metro C

The Pigneto station on line C is at the intersection with Via del Pigneto. A little farther east is the Malatesta stop. Line C connects with line A at San Giovanni: from Termini you take A to San Giovanni and change.

Tram and railway

Along Via Prenestina run several tram lines that connect the district with Porta Maggiore and Termini. On the Casilina the Termini Centocelle railway has stops such as Ponte Casilino, a short distance from the heart of Pigneto.

By car

Parking in Pigneto at 19:00 on a weekday isn't easy: the streets are narrow and the pedestrian zone forces long detours. For a workshop that starts on time, public transport or a bicycle is the safest choice.

How to organize your participation

To take part in Libertà da…, libertà di… you book by writing to laboratori@tuttoteatro.com or calling 347 0444624. There are 10 seats, and booking is mandatory.

All the sessions or just some

The public pages don't clarify if you must attend all 10 sessions. Autogenic training is a technique learned by degrees, and a continuous course bears more fruit. It's best to ask the organizers when booking.

What to bring

Comfortable clothes, no tight belts or uncomfortable shoes, a bottle of water. Arrive a few minutes early with your phone off: the silence of the room is part of the exercise.

After the workshop

At 20:00 you step out into the middle of a Pigneto evening. It's the right time for dinner in the trattorias of the side streets, or for a stroll on the pedestrian zone. Those who want to prolong the calm can go straight home: metro C is a couple of steps away.

Accessibility and participants

The cultural portal of Roma Capitale lists Libertà da…, libertà di… as an accessible event. For details on the entrance and the spaces, the organizers answer at the contacts indicated.

Age

The previous Tuttoteatro.com courses were open to adults. The workshop isn't designed for children. For families, the Entrature > libere program offers other appointments.

A clarification

Autogenic training offered in a cultural workshop is a path of relaxation and body awareness. Those undergoing therapy or with specific health problems do well to talk about it with their doctor and with the leader before starting.

Where to eat in Pigneto after the workshop

Pigneto is among the Roman districts with the highest density of places to eat and drink, and Via Campobasso is a few minutes from the pedestrian zone of Via del Pigneto.

The pedestrian zone

Along Via del Pigneto and in the side streets you find Roman trattorias, pizzerias, osterias with neighborhood cooking, bistros and cuisines of many countries, a result of the area's multiethnic makeup. After 20:00 the outdoor tables fill up, even on fall evenings.

A practical tip

After an hour of autogenic training you don't need a heavy dinner. A plate of pasta in a trattoria on the side streets or a slice of pizza eaten while walking is the right way to close the evening without losing the calm you've just won.

What to see around Via Campobasso

Pigneto is a few minutes from little-visited monuments and from spaces that tell the story of 20th-century Rome.

Porta Maggiore and the former SNIA

At the entrance to the district is Porta Maggiore, the monumental arch of the Claudio and Aniene Nuovo aqueducts. On the Prenestina is the area of the former SNIA, the viscose factory active from 1923 to 1954.

Library and clubs

At Via del Pigneto 22 is the Biblioteca Goffredo Mameli. On Via Fanfulla da Lodi the Arci club Fanfulla 5/a offers concerts and presentations from 22:00. At the start of October the district also hosted the Pigneto Comedy Fest.

A curiosity about Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

The workshop's title is built on a well-known distinction: freedom from something, which removes obstacles, and freedom to do something, which opens possibilities. The organizers apply it to the body. First you free yourself from muscle tension, shallow breathing, the anxiety of being judged. Then you gain the freedom to express yourself, on stage and off.

It is also a choice consistent with the name of the edition. Entrature > libere, the third of Tuttoteatro.com's project, is devoted to creative acts and freedom of expression, according to the presentation on the cultural portal of Roma Capitale. Surianello's workshop is its most literal translation: before expressing yourself, you have to be free inside.

The third curiosity is in the graphic sign. The project is called Entrature, with an arrow pointing to the right: Entrature > Sonore in 2024, Entrature > libere in 2026. It's a way of saying that entrances are always toward something, and autogenic training, which begins by closing the eyes, is an entrance toward oneself.

Something nobody tells you about Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

What few notice is the price jump. In 2025 the same type of course, led by Surianello at the same venue, was a paid course: 18 one-hour sessions, with a reduced rate of 180 euros for those who enrolled by March 10. In 2026, within Entrature > libere, the 10 sessions are free. It is a rare opportunity.

The second thing concerns the seats. 10 people per session means the workshop fills up fast, especially when it's free. Those interested do well to write right away, without waiting for the eve of the November block.

The third is practical. Via Campobasso venue isn't a theater with a lit sign but the operational base of an association. Those who arrive for the first time after dark risk walking past the street number without seeing it. Note the number, 9/a, and look for it calmly when coming from Pigneto station.

The advice I give you for visiting Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

It's best to treat the workshop as a course, not a single appointment. Autogenic training is learned by repeating the exercises, and the 10 sessions are spread over three months precisely to leave time to practice at home. Book the whole cycle, if the organizers allow it, and put the dates in your calendar as you would for a language course.

Then arrive early. Come by metro C, get off at Pigneto, walk the few minutes without hurry. The first five minutes of a relaxation exercise decide the rest of the hour, and those who come in breathless waste them.

Finally, if you work in theater or speak in public for a living, bring a specific experience with you: a rehearsal that went badly, a moment when tension took over. That's where the work becomes useful. The voice that holds up for three hours in front of a group comes from a body that knows how to relax.

Another well-known fact, and yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that Pigneto is the district of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot Accattone here in 1961. Less often mentioned is that the district has been the set of a long series of films about working-class Rome: Bellissima by Luchino Visconti with Anna Magnani, Il ferroviere by Pietro Germi, Una vita difficile by Dino Risi with Alberto Sordi, Fantozzi by Luciano Salce, Un borghese piccolo piccolo by Mario Monicelli.

The link with the workshop is less distant than it seems. A district that has served as a set for so many actors today houses the operational base of a theater association, Tuttoteatro.com, and a workshop devoted to stage presence. Those who walk toward Via Campobasso cross, without knowing it, streets that Italian cinema has already staged.

Then there is an urban fact. In 1996 the L'Aquila cinema, in the center of the district, was confiscated from organized crime and, after works, reopened in 2015 as a public space. Pigneto built its cultural identity in this way too, by recovering spaces and giving them back to the district.

The right photo to take at Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

No photographs during the workshop: autogenic training is done with eyes closed, in silence, and the noise of a shutter ruins everyone's work. The right photo is taken before or after, outside.

At 20:00, at the exit, the pedestrian zone of Via del Pigneto is the district's most photogenic scene: the tables outside the venues, the lights, the people strolling. For an image that tells the contrast of the evening, photograph the lively street after an hour of silence.

Those who come back by day find another subject: the pines that still dot the area and gave Pigneto its name, and, toward Porta Maggiore, the arches of the Acquedotto Felice in the background of the district's streets.

Some important events that happened here in history

Until the 19th century the area outside Porta Maggiore was countryside. After 1870, with Rome as the capital, the first settlements were born. Between 1886 and 1891 the Società Romana Tramways Omnibus built in Piazza Caballini the first depot for horse-drawn omnibuses and trams outside the Aurelian Walls, which in 1904, with the electrification of the line, became a tram depot.

The 20th century brought the factories: the Pantanella pasta factory on the Casilina, the Serono plant opened in 1909, the viscose factory on the Prenestina, active from 1923 to 1954. During the Second World War the district suffered the bombings of 1943 and 1944. After the war it became a film set, from Rossellini to Pasolini.

The most recent dates concern culture. In 2015 the pedestrianization of Via del Pigneto and the reopening of the L'Aquila cinema changed life in the district. In 2024 Tuttoteatro.com launched the Entrature project, in 2025 it took it to Teatro Tordinona, in 2026 it spreads it across Municipio V and VII with Entrature > libere, of which Libertà da…, libertà di… is one of the workshops.

Who has passed through Libertà da…, libertà di… Autogenic Training at Entrature, October 19 to December 17, 2026

Through Via Campobasso venue have passed, in recent years, the actors, actresses and students of Domenico Surianello's autogenic training courses, starting with the 2025 cycle. In the Entrature > libere 2026 program the critic Attilio Scarpellini, with his meetings on dramaturgy, and the workshop participants also pass through the same venue.

The Entrature project has involved in 2026 trainers and artists such as Daniele Aureli, Luca Di Capua, Elisabetta Mancini and Elisa Pellegrini, Nicolò Sordo, Elena Vanni, the pair Bartolini and Baronio, and the John Cabot Chamber Orchestra. These are the names that make up the widespread creative gym described by the organizers.

Through the streets of Pigneto, around the venue, a significant part of Italian cinema has passed: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Pier Paolo Pasolini with Franco Citti, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Villaggio, Vittorio Gassman and Claudia Cardinale. A district of actors, for a workshop designed for actors.

Fall in Rome, the season of the workshop

The workshop crosses the whole Roman fall, from mid-October to mid-December. The first sessions, in October, fell on still mild evenings. Those of December, at 19:00, are already in full winter, with darkness arriving early.

A rhythm for the season

One hour of autogenic training a week, two or four times a month, is a good way to get through the heaviest period of the working year. Those who follow it through December 17 arrive at the holidays with one more tool.

Frequently asked questions about Libertà da…, libertà di…

When is the workshop Libertà da…, libertà di… held in Rome?

The workshop Libertà da…, libertà di… runs from October 19 to December 17, 2026, in 10 sessions from 19:00 to 20:00: October 19, 22, 26 and 28, November 16, 19, 23 and 25, December 14 and 17. The venue is Entrature, at Via Campobasso 9/a, in Pigneto.

How much does the Entrature autogenic training workshop cost?

The Entrature autogenic training workshop is free, according to the cultural portal of Roma Capitale. Booking is mandatory and seats are limited to 10. To book, write to laboratori@tuttoteatro.com or call 347 0444624.

Who leads Libertà da…, libertà di…?

Libertà da…, libertà di… is led by Domenico Surianello, who already in 2025 held the association Tuttoteatro.com's autogenic training courses at Via Campobasso venue. The workshop is run by Tuttoteatro.com as part of Entrature > libere 2026.

Where is the Entrature venue?

The Entrature venue is the operational base of Tuttoteatro.com, at Via Campobasso 9/a, in Pigneto, in Municipio V. It is reached in a few minutes on foot from Pigneto station on metro C. Alternatively there are the trams on Via Prenestina and the Termini Centocelle railway.

Do you need experience to take part in Entrature's autogenic training?

No previous experience is required for Entrature's autogenic training. The workshop is designed above all for actors, but the organizers also address citizens who feel the stress of the city. In previous courses the association opened it to all adults.

What is Entrature > libere 2026?

Entrature > libere 2026 is the third edition of Tuttoteatro.com's Entrature project, from September 19 to December 13, 2026 in several places in Municipio V and VII. It includes workshops, shows and activities for every age, with free entry, and is part of the cultural program promoted by Roma Capitale.

Is the workshop Libertà da…, libertà di… accessible?

Libertà da…, libertà di… is listed as an accessible event by the cultural portal of Roma Capitale. For details on the entrance of Via Campobasso venue and the spaces, it's best to ask when booking, at laboratori@tuttoteatro.com and 347 0444624.

The final advice

The city holds up better if you learn to breathe. Libertà da…, libertà di… offers 10 free hours, in a quiet room in Pigneto, with a leader who has already guided other groups at the same venue. Book right away, follow the course through December, and on leaving at 20:00 treat yourself to a stroll on the pedestrian zone. You will see the same street with calmer eyes.

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