I am a mystical, life long creative & ritualist and a care & community advocate, somatic educator and caregiver with over 4 years of in-depth training, mentorship and experience in Yoga philosophy and somatic education + care.
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I am wholehearted to practicing a care & consent-focused, non-hierarchal way of being in this world, and I do this by actively unlearning systems of oppression, slowing down & approaching healing, conflict and transformation from an embodied place, honoring our humanness, honesty and cultivating relationships.
About Me
I’m a queer, neuro-diverse (which sometimes manifests as ADD + OCD), multi-ethnic, eldest first generation daughter of two Immigrant parents of Indigenous ancestry of the Global South of so-called Eastern “South America,” the Canary Islands of Spain (Spain being a major colonial power) and many other parts of the world.
All these pieces make a whole Me, they shape how I Love and care, my Grief, my humor, my personalities, what I find beautiful and painful, how I teach & work, my insight, my values, how I interact with the world.
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With my identities comes…
my inherited gifts of creative expression, Animism & a closeness and connection to the Earth and Her beings, my practice in holistic care; food & plants as medicine, body worker and a ritualist by Heart, and the ancestral connection to Resistance, Rebellion, Liberation, and search for Spiritual connection and Truth.
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and the wounding and accompanying shadow work of colonization, patriarchy & capitalism; the disconnect of my ancestors and lineage, loss of security, resource, and autonomy, loss of extended family and community, loss of a Matriarchal way of being, disconnection & loss of spiritual and sacred traditional practices, loss and confusion of identity and a loss of my childhood.
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 a reconnecting and re-membering of the growth, flexibility & healing capacity of our bodies through movement, breath, our creative nature and devotion.
Education
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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 Kundalini Mahāyoga,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 & Ritual Theatre 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, ritual threatre 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
Risk of Intimacy with Adriana Rizzolo, Nov 2024
a note on
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 lineages, teachers, education, experience, and sources; to honor tradition, ancestors, elders and teachers in order to help mitigate cultural appropriation & erasure that is often found in the “spiritual and wellness” industry and Western yoga industry.
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As we unlearn these systems of domination and divest from these care-less, harmful, violent, colonial, carceral, 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!