~ MOVEMENT MEDICINE ~

I am a latina salsa loving woman, dancing to the drums is in my blood, this intergenerational way of interacting with family and friends has always been something I just ‘knew’ how to do. Give me a good rhythm and some drums and my hips will light up and inevitably start moving. Venezuela unites the Amazon with the Karibe.

However, there is a level of conscious movement that I didn’t know existed and that I thankfully got to experience in my early forties with my first 5Rhythms weekend. It was an unexpected event linked to a year long Family Constellations study.  And here, my body woke up, laughed, cried, released and shouted there was no going back. This began my journey into the Conscious Dance world exploring many practices, many teachers until I found my own and my chosen teachers in beautiful English Devon lands: Ya’Acov and Susannah Darling Khan with Movement Medicine.

I finally felt I could unite all of my expansive, contradictory and creative curious being by integrating shamanic, therapeutic, scientific and artistic wisdom. This powerfully and lovingly transformed my life. I discovered somatic wisdom, embodied connection and intuitive shamanic practices all sprinkled with a good dose of laughter and awe.

In these 10+ years, I’ve danced ceremonially for 48 and 72 hours with powerful phoenix energies, I’ve dug my own grave and slept under the earth in conversation with benevolent death, I’ve gone through deep gestalt, constellation and shamanic embodied practices under the wisdom of what we call ‘The Great Choreographer’. I’ve sat in deep ceremonial spaces as well as in simple spaces under a tree to reconnect to my higher being. I’ve been danced by and I have danced for life.

And this practice and the deep somatic awareness it brings is what has held me safely during some of the most delicate moments of my life including a neurological surgery, depressive states, being an emigrant with such a complex relation to my country Venezuela, being a mother, a wife and why not, just a simple human being in these complex times on earth.

And ultimately this was it. Trust. This is what I have been unconsciously working for all my life, and what I want to share with you. You are not alone. You are held by exquisite energies if you take the time, respect and consciousness to open to them. If you welcome your edges and bring them together in deep alchemy in your body, heart and mind. You are loved and supported by seen and unseen forces. Connect deeply with them and move and be moved by them. You my sweetheart are ready to move and be moved by life!

And if you want to read more about my own story just click, I’ll be waiting with a warm cup in a lush garden.