I am a mystical, creative, animist, care & community advocate, somatic educator and caregiver with over 5 years of in-depth training, mentorship and experience in somatic education + care and traditional Yoga philosophy, a literal lifetime of training and experience in the talented arts, 22 years as a freelance graphic & web designer, as well as over 17 years in the service industry as a bartender in NYC & Asbury Park, NJ.
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I am wholehearted to practicing a care & consent focused, non-hierarchal way of being in this world by:
Actively unlearning systems of oppression
Approaching transformation, grief, pleasure, conflict and community from an intersectional lens and embodied capacity
Honoring our humanness & Divinity
Honesty & Accountability
Creating beauty, art and ritual
About Me
I’m a queer, neurodiverse, eldest first generation daughter of Immigrant parents; my mother immigrating from Argentina, my father from Cuba, my Matriarchal lineage of Indigenous ancestry of so-called Eastern South “america,” Northern Spain and many other regions of the world.
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With my identities comes…
my inherited gifts of care-tending, creative expression, Animism & a closeness and connection to the Earth and all Beings, to be in community, my practice in holistic care; food & plants as medicine, body care and a ritualist by Heart, and the ancestral connection to Resistance, Rebellion, Liberation, and search for Spiritual connection and Truth.
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the wounding, grief, rage and accompanying shadow work of the “colonized” and colonization, patriarchy & capitalism within my ancestry; 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 Life, disconnection & loss of spiritual and sacred traditional practices, loss and confusion of identity and a loss of my childhood.
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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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I am someone who believes in and is working toward (psychiatric) abolition and have intentional chosen not to go through any government or state-sanctioned licensure or training. Instead, I study and practice the modalities I now offer by first being led through them in my own lived experience and by training with educators and mentors rooted in spiritual and cultural lineage, as well as self study and practice.
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This led me to a reconnecting and re-membering the growth, flexibility & healing capacity of our bodies through knowledge, movement, breath, our creative and spiritual nature, community, relationships, care 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 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 Education, Training & Mentorship in Ritual Theatre, 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), 2021-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
Tunnel Vision with artist & photographer Tifani Truelove dedicated to merging ART, MAGIK & COVEN. Featuring guest speakers:
Naomi Brodner - Dreams & Psyche
Joe Martin - The History & Magic of Sigil Creation
Schon Wanner - Alchemy & Art
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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Understanding and Working with Energy, Discernment & Intuition with Sepideh Hakimzadeh, Nov 2025
Undering and Working with The Earth Grid, Leylines & Dragons with Sepideh Hakimzadeh, Aug 2025
Risk of Intimacy NYC with Adriana Rizzolo, Nov 2024
Grief & Rage Ceremony with Kritee Kanko, June 2024
Decolonizing the Child Bearing Continuum with Aimee Aroha, March 2024
The Black Madonna with Christena Cleveland, Feb 2024
Deconstructing Hyper Individualism with Marilu Shinn, Jan 2024
Creating Community Agreements with Kina Reed, Dec 2023
Climate Crisis & Decolonization with Kritee Kanko, Nov 2023
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 name and honor tradition, ancestors, elders and teachers in order to help mitigate cultural extraction, appropriation & erasure that is often found in the “spiritual, wellness, and mental health” industries.
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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!