I am a mystical, multi-passionate, divergent, life time creative + ritualist and a care-centered + community aimed, somatic educator, guide and care giver with over 4 years of in-depth training and mentorship in Yoga philosophy and somatic education + care.
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Education
As someone who loves to learn through experience I studied many modalities by first being led through them in my own direct healing & growth experience, followed by training with teachers rooted in lineage and learning through my lived experience as well as self study.
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My experiences led me to an awakening of reconnecting and re-memebering the growth, flexibility & healing capacity of our bodies through movement, breath, our creative nature and devotion.
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Radical Mental Health First Aide + Care Camp - with creator & educator N. Oumou Sylla (@connectwithoumou), R.M.H.F.A is education, skills and a path to co-creating a culture of care by the cultivation of community-based care systems. R.M.H.F.A includes education, & self study in Anti-Oppression, Conflict + Conflict Care, Identity, Power and the “Ism’s,” Somatics, Nervous System Harmonization, Crisis, Consent-Aware Approaches, Adverse Childhood Experience, Disability Justice, Neurodivergence and Complex Mental Health April - July 2025
Initiation into the lineages and practices of KundaliniMahāyoga,Tantra, Vedanta, Bhakti, and training in applied Yoga philosophy & practice with David Harshada Wagner (@harshadawagner) (Traditional Yoga, Bhakti, Vedanta and Tantra Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Mentor, Author & Artist), 2022-present
Spiritual, Somatic & Intimacy Education, Training & Mentorship in Relational Intimacy, Love, Adult Sex & Womb Education, Mysticism, Death, Grief & Loss, & Money Education, training, and mentorship in Yogic Mysticism, the Goddesses of Yoga with Adriana Rizzolo (@artofloving) (Trauma Informed, Tantra Aligned, Spiritual Mentor, Mystic, Somatic Healer, Adult Sex Educator, Writer and Ritual Artist), 2022-present
Body Temple Dance Facilitation - a free-form, emotional, and energetic movement practice & guide with roots in Tantra, trauma healing, and somatic & nervous system education with Adriana Rizzolo, 2022-present
Death, Loss & Grief Care Education with Matt Dwyer (2022), various teachers, self study 2022 - present
Trauma-Informed Breathwork, Embodiment & Language Education & Training, various teachers & self study, 2021 - present
Menstrual, Cyclical & Seasonal Education & Ritual with Moon Phases, Womb/Root Healing, and Archetype Education, passed down knowledge, self study & various teachers
Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra Certification, Ohana Rising School, NJ, 2021
200hr Yoga Teacher Training & Yoga for Depression, 2020
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Climate Crisis & Decolonization with Kritee Kanko, Nov 2023
Creating Community Agreements with Kina Reed, Dec 2023
Deconstructing Hyper Individualism with Marilu Shinn, Jan 2024
The Black Madonna with Christena Cleveland, Feb 2024
Decolonizing the Child Bearing Continuum with Aimee Aroha, March 2024
Grief & Rage Ceremony with Kritee Kanko, June 2024
Why I Care
As a first generation eldest daughter, queer Hispanic woman of Indigenous and immigrant ancestors (both colonized and the colonizer), my moral views, relationships and spiritual journey have been sculpted by my lived experience, my inherited gifts & knowledge, as well as the systematic oppressions that are intertwined with my identities.
The inherited gifts of my expression, my creative nature, Animism & a closeness and connection to the Earth and Her beings, my practice in holistic care; food & plants as medicine, body work and a ritualist by Heart, and the ancestral connection to Liberation and search for spiritual Truth.
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The wounding of colonization, patriarchy & capitalism; the disconnect of my ancestry, loss of security, resource, and autonomy, loss of extended family and lineage, loss of a Matriarchal way of being, loss of spiritual practices, loss and confusion of identity and a loss of childhood.
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Like a lot of the people I meet with and care for, our childhood and maybe up until most of our life, we felt lost, accumulated traumas, grief, hurt, and of course, joys too; but felt stuck, disconnected, purposeless, and have/had a constant heart ache of pain and confusion and for something bigger.
It is a privilege to be able to explore and share ways to feel, transmute and create from these experiences in a way that can help and care for others who need and want it!
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Un-colonizing Knowledge
As an artist, educator & caregiver who is continuously & actively un-colonizing, I believe it is important and in right relation to name our teachers, education and sources; to honor lineage, tradition, elders and teachers, in order to help mitigate cultural appropriation that is often found in the Western yoga industry and the spiritual and wellness industry.
As we unlearn these systems of domination and divest from these care-less, harmful, violent, colonial, profit over people institutions, we will need multiple sources of knowledge & education through teachers & creatives, lineage, self-study and lived direct experience, this includes learning through mistakes too!