In a Nutshell
What most people remember about me is that I speak many languages, work on most continents, and often seem to be embarking on a new meaningful adventure in inspiring locations.
Throughout my 20s and 30s, I combined professional stints in event marketing and film production with a mission to support the cause of marginalized peoples fighting for their right to food.
While traveling around the world supporting Indigenous Peoples', farmers' and women's organizations as their interpreter, copy-editor and later researcher, I also continuously worked on my personal development. After experiencing a 'burnout' and 'dark night of the soul' from age 39 to 42, I found my way back to 'purpose'.
I experienced a calling to delve into this opening to guided self-healing, and today I share transformational experiences and trips with you.
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As a PhD researcher, I was supporting movements fighting for a cause that is still close to my heart: sustainable access to natural resources – land, forests, rivers, coastal waters, seeds, etc. – for people's food and nutrition. This is also known as food sovereignty.
I gradually bridged the battles for human rights and respect for natural resources, with a search for long-lasting human well-being and inner balance, in harmony with nature.
As a researcher, writing about women fighting to enter forests for medicinal plants in Nepal and India overlapped with my personal interest in herbs, plants and food as my own medicine.
Studying and experiencing first-hand women's age-old struggles against patriarchal oppression opened my eyes to my own bumpy path to womanhood – and to my own 'self'.
I started dedicating my personal journey to exploring physical, mental and spiritual healing under the guidance of yoga teachers, Bhuddist meditation practitioners, Indian and Sri Lankan Ayurvedic doctors, South American Shamanic soul guides, and energy workers in Bali, Indonesia.
Restorative retreats and courses further introduced me to the importance of nutrition, from juicing to holistic meal planning. And of course, to a unique combination of Ayurveda and plant medicine that still guides me today!
As I started organically assisting in the organization of retreats and coordination of healing experiences, I completed studies in plant medicine and Ayurveda, and professionally transitioned to the world of 'well-being'.
Inspired by the Indigenous philosophy of 'good living', today I curate healing retreats and coach in Ayurvedic wellness, and I do so without forgetting the communities whose livelihoods still depend on their connection to land, nature and spirit.
A journey of serving others for a fairer and more conscious world, whilst looking inwards at my own growth, led me to discover the real meaning of connecting: connecting to oneself, connecting to nature, connecting to others, connecting to source.
Further Training
Upon completing my PhD in the Right to Food and Natural Resources at the Center for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (England), I trained in:
2019 The Feminine Way of Plant Medicine
2020 Ayurvedic Medicine and Tantric Philosophy
2022 Yoga Anatomy and Sankhya Philosophy
2022-23 Ayurvedic Wellness Coaching
2022 Meditation for Health Bali Usada
2023 Retreat Planning and Marketing
2024 Usui and Shamanic Reiki
Mission
Sharing Transformational Retreats!
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Today my mission continues to be in the service of others.
As a Retreat Planner, I help you to guide others on their journey to retreat, rest and reconnect.
I also organize individual retreats, solo or with loved ones.
As an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach, I support both retreat hosts and clients to do the work on their inner and outer well-being.
I can work in 6 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian).
I am a firm believer that healthy, balanced, inspired and connected individuals can foster thriving global communities, and ultimately create a better more conscious world.
