I come from a lineage of medicine weavers, community bridgebuilders, and matriarchs. From a very young age, I was immersed in holistic healing as a way of life.

Bodywork, plants, energy work, and spiritual navigation were simply how my family moved through the world.

At 3, my family immigrated to Canada as refugees with nothing in our pockets. That story of resilience has guided me ever since. By 17, my home had fallen apart, and I spent over a decade navigating depression, anxiety, and addiction while fending largely for myself on lands that were familiar but without the family anchor I needed, except for the intermittent support between me and my younger sister as we found our footing together and a part.

I put myself through massage therapy school working restaurant and clinic jobs on the side, trained at Steiner Leisure, which eventually leading me to a job on a luxury cruise line. I spent time inside corporate wellness and sales environments, including two years at a Honda dealership where I worked my way up from customer service to coordinating across departments. I learned the full mechanics of how mainstream systems sell and manage people from the inside, and that inside knowledge of how these systems operate is part of what makes my perspective on this industry distinct. That fluency has never left me.

In 2013, I began a season of my life I no longer hide from: working as a sex worker, surviving assault, and burning out completely from living a double life. In 2014, I had a full nervous breakdown and was hospitalized. That year was the end of everything I'd been holding together and the beginning of everything I actually am.

I returned to my birth lands, Costa Rica, in 2015 and embarked on a deep healing journey: conventional therapy and medications alongside plant medicine, ceremony, body and energy work, and an Ibogaine rehab centre where I offered massage to clients healing from severe addiction while healing from my own. I moved into a Kundalini Yoga Ashram while navigating early motherhood and an interracial partnership both of us were guided towards in order to heal deep intergenerational wounds.

Over the years that followed I trained formally in Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry program, and was part of the community that influenced its expansion to a 2-year certification program. I co-facilitated anti-oppression focus groups and hosted 2SBIPOC leadership spaces.

My sexological bodywork training has also been an inevitable part of the deeper intergenerational conditioning and remembrance I was asked to bring forth in this lifetime. As someone who has always used touch to support people through their own remembrance, my identity as an Indigenous Mestiza Latina is inextricably linked to my relationship with eros and sexuality. This is what led me to integrating this aspect of medicine into my teachings and the way I live life now.

Moving has also been a recurring and necessary part of my healing and growth. Each time I've uprooted and relocated, it has been a leap of faith, a purging, an evolution. Leaving Toronto for Vancouver Island and eventually returning to my birth lands of Costa Rica were both leaps of that kind, each one a necessary shedding and an arrival into a truer version of myself and my work.

In 2025, I made the choice I had been working toward for years: releasing my RMT license, leaving the home, friends, and community I cherished in Victoria. Not as an escape. As an arrival.

Everything I've been through has shaped the work I do. My qualifications are gifts and opportunities that helped me find my way back to who I am. But they are not my medicine. My medicine exists because it's who I am.

That's what allows me to see through the noise of this industry, not because I know more, but because I've been through it and continue to move through it alongside you.