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Being in my own body has not always being easy; as an immigrant living in diaspora, a gender-fluid person, living with chronic illness, sensory neurodivergent, and witness to violence, my body sometimes have not felt as a safe place. Many times my great sensitivity to the world made it difficult to connect with myself and others. However, as a practitioner for the last 15 years of healing arts, ranging from qi gong, tai chi, and movement meditations, and leaning in my South American cultural roots, I have found the powerful tools that my own body and mind have built to cope with the world around me. These tools that have allowed me to survive until today are gits, and through the expressive arts work I am able to create choice of how and what tools and gifts I develop, which ones I devote my energy towards and what to let go off. In addition to honoring my own pace, moving at my own time.

My facilitation roles have always been rooted in the respect and deep believe of each individuals’ value and their gifts they bring to our community ecosystems. Whether working towards policy development, emergency support, personalized leadership mentoring, or artistic development I have found myself as a witness and collaborator, accompanying each other to heal and create new possibilities.

Finding my way to the embodied expressive arts practice has been a continuation for valuing my individual lived experience and finding internal resources where I previously saw faults, allowing for me to build my own rhythm of care,where I am in right relationship with my own healing journey, and understanding how I can contribute for changing harmful structures within myself and around me. I believe this therapeutic work honors the individual and collective power for healing,  and enhances our creative and expressive capacity to build worlds and communities we deserve.

Professional Training:

Certifications:

  • Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator;  ISMETA (The International Somatic Movement Education Therapy Association)

  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Practitioner Certificate; The Embody Lab

I extend my support to the present and past communities whose philosophies and healing practices I have learned and benefited from. I offer support and recurrent donations to organizations supporting my local Asian Pacific Islander communities, Latine/x communities, immigrant and refugee communities, and Indigenous communities. Some of these organizations are: APANO, Unite Oregon, Adelante Mujeres, Familias en Acción, NAYA, Seeding Justice, Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage Society

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