My name is Nathali Arostegui Romero. I was born in Costa Rica and immigrated to Canada at the age of 3 with my sister and parents. I come from a lineage of massage therapists, artists and medicine weavers jump starting my initiatory path from a very young age.

From the age of 17- 29 was when I endured the most difficult moments of my life. Struggling with what our modern colonial world labels as deep depression and addictive behaviours, specifically alcohol, love and sex, I fulfilled parts of my lineage that needed to come into awareness. The magic and spirits that moved through me during those moments are medicine I still carry to this day and will continue to unravel and cultivate deep relationships with for the rest of my life.

Between the age of 29 to the present moment of 36 years on this planet, I've been receiving and sharing my art and medicine with deep intention and practice; as well as navigating the challenges of motherhood, and conscious partnership with reflections of myself that have been deeply painful yet have given me greater capacity to hold the fullness of who I am as I dive into deeper intimacy with the world around me.

As I walk this path, I see and deeply feel the grief, rage, shame, and fear we all carry intergenerationally and collectively. I also recognize these emotions are the threads that connect me to the illusions of desire we all fall prey to, as well as the resilience that is gifted through them. Non-duality is a practice of surrendering and falling into the cracks and ruptures that duality offers.

I've come to realize that most "spiritual/healing/trauma informed" spaces and communities are so focused on pathologizing death and darkness, feeding into our own anti-blackness and exalting what is pure/good/light, feeding the beast of whiteness as it devours our world. I am here to liberate myself from the illusions of "love and light", healing, and enlightenment as paths to awakening and to jump into the belly of the beast, and embrace the rapture of being devoured by this beast while also receiving the beauty that comes with death and darkness.

I am a lifelong student and if you feel called to walk with me as you open up to aspects of yourself you never knew existed, I will be honoured to walk with you and your ancestors.