The heart behind the work.
I believe in the value and power of interpersonal encounters in all their forms — the spark of potential in the presence of the other.
The discovery of a different universe or gaze—through mirroring, co-creation, and transformative encounters—offers a path to embodied empathy and compassion.
One-on-one, in an intimate therapeutic process.
In the shared territory of expanded states of consciousness.
Or in group explorations of a creative process — giving birth to something through different bodies and individuals, each with their own stories, potential, and perceptions.
I am fascinated by the discovery of that latent potential in each person — and by the process of identifying where it is being blocked or limited, and how to facilitate a journey to reclaim it and allow it to unfold freely and authentically.
This often involves a descent into the underworld of the personal or collective unconscious, into the depths of the shadow — where the suppressed, the uninhabited, the denied, the unrecognized aspects of ourselves reside — in order to access the wisdom that emerges when these are embraced, owned, and integrated.
THIS UNFOLDING CAN HAPPEN IN A CREATIVE PROCESS, IN A THERAPEUTIC OR HEALING JOURNEY, OR EVEN IN THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PERFORMER AND SPECTATOR.
The seen, the seer, and the act of seeing become one shared field of mutuality, mirroring, recognition, and creation — where we learn from one another, enrich each other, inform and serve one another. Until we realize and experience that the seer, the seen and the act of seeing are One.
I treasure the possibility of devoting my time and energy to these kinds of experiences, and of inhabiting them from multiple perspectives.
I treasure the trust of those who allow me to witness and support their processes.
The trust of those who invite me to embody their creative visions in performance.
The precious life-time of someone who sits in stillness and receives an artistic expression as witness and receptacle.
The trust of fellow artists who allow me to enter their process and support them in expanding the boundaries of what they believed their bodies could hold, communicate, or experience.
I honor the courage of any person who surrenders to a process where the unknown and the mystery are encountered with a willingness to grow, to express, to awaken, to heal, to remember, to release.
PERHAPS THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER- OR WHAT MOVES THROUGH ME: To be a helper and companion in the movement toward unleashing the hidden, untamed totality that pulses in every person.
A teaser, a provoker, inviting others to leap into the abyss of the self, into the heights of consciousness, into the beauty, wisdom, and bliss that dwell within us and in the world — no matter how hidden they may seem.
An endless journey of expansion — that is the law of the universe and, it seems, the calling for each of us.
Expansion attained through a continuous process of death and rebirth, through a continuous integration of what seems fragmented or separate — toward wholeness and unity.
And the body as the alchemical vessel for all of these processes.
Because the unconscious resides in the body — and is reflected through it.
Tensions, defense mechanisms, trauma, memories, conditioning — all that obstructs the free flow of the continuum we truly are: emotions, mind, energy, spirit, awareness.
These filters shape our perception of reality and make us believe we are limited, separate, lacking, or powerless.
And sometimes the altar is a therapy session, sometimes it's a dance studio, a stage, nature, an online session, a seat in a theater, a workshop, a sacred plant ceremony, or a microdosing process.
Hero's journeys expressed in different contexts — this is what calls me, what I feel blessed to dedicate my life to.
And I am deeply grateful to all those who share these journeys with me.
Being a mother from the very beginning of my artistic path, and now a grandmother, has always brought perspective to my work.
It has grounded me in a concrete reality, a sense of urgency and discernment — that the time I give must be worthy and meaningful. It has taught me to question how I use my time when there are lives and loved ones who need my presence and care.
Now, as a grandmother, I have come to experience — in a new and profound way — how life moves through us.
It is not something we do or control, but something that flows through us, allowing our participation through all that our individual expression brings.
Life is not about what we do — it is something much greater that we are part of.
And the more present and porous we become to it, the more magical, surprising, and beautiful it reveals itself to be.
Meditation, dance, art, and psychedelics are powerful pathways that dissolve the boundaries of the mind and the limited identity it creates.
They help us access deep wisdom within, experience interconnectedness, and embrace the full spectrum of human emotion — with both light and shadow.
These paths share the capacity to silence the noise of thought, judgment, and preconception, allowing for undefended contact with what simply is, as it is.
They open portals into the individual and collective unconscious, offering new ways of seeing and reframing experience.
Art, meditation, sacred plants, dance, ritual, and therapy are portals to the heart — the place capable of reconciling what the mind cannot.
The world we live in needs this reconciliation — and this compassionate gaze.
