The Hopi Spiral:

According to Hopi origin stories, when the people emerged into the Fourth World, they were instructed to make four great directional migrations before arriving at their permanent home. They traveled to the farthest páso—where the land meets the sea—in the north, south, east, and west. These multiple rounds of migration were carved onto stone rocks across the Southwest as spirals. Their final destination, the center of the cross, was not a marked point on a map; it was a place of empowerment that could only be felt upon their arrival.

This story mirrors my life’s path. As a child and teenager living on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, I felt deeply grounded and centered. But as the years unfolded, I embarked on my own long series of outer and inner migrations: moving from Reunion Island to West Africa, Spain, France, Sri Lanka, and across the ocean to North America—from Denver to Sedona, and ultimately to the desert of Tucson, Arizona.

My journey of "reclaiming home" has never been a straight line. I have followed that Hopi spiral of tours and detours, gathering the lost, fragmented parts of my soul along the way. I have encountered obstacles, stood on the edge, fallen down countless times, and gotten back on my feet again—beginning again and again.

Rooting in Embodied Self-Inquiry.

My path into the body began with Jungian psychotherapy, where two years of deep internal work convinced me that true healing had to be continued through the body vessel. I discovered yoga in 2006 and pursued extensive studies across Paris, India, and Southeast Asia, well before yoga became mainstream. Beginning my teaching journey from my apartment in Paris in 2011, I explored Ashtanga, Iyengar, and various traditional lineages without feeling the need to restrict myself to one tradition. The true fascination for me has always been practicing and exploring from different perspectives, deliberately staying away from dogma.

Over the years, as I taught across studios in Denver, Sedona, and Tucson—leading workshops at the Sedona Yoga Festival and co-hosting international retreats—I realized that the commercial yoga scene was not my home. I shifted toward an intimate, personal approach focused on small groups, beginners, and individuals seeking emotional healing. My teaching evolved to emphasize self-inquiry, deep listening, and the living connection between yoga and somatic.

The Encounter with the High Desert & Shamanic Forces

In early 2010, amid a profound life crisis, I traveled to Arizona for a vision quest with a medicine man named Clay. I spent three days and two nights inside a medicine circle in the high desert, facing buried terror, anger, family traumas, alongside the limiting narratives that had held me back for years.

Supported by the earth and sky, I discovered how to be a compassionate presence for my own emotional landscape—learning to move and breathe through feelings without needing to erase them. I realized that burying emotions only gave them power, whereas non-identification, presence, and self-compassion opened the door to peace. Six months later, I relocated to the United States to study with Clay and walk the path of the Medicine of One. While Clay’s work utilized "primordial movements"—shaping the body and voice to hit precise emotional notes—my true calling was to find my own authentic path rather than replicate his methods.

This quest led me deeper into conscious movement, shamanism, and expressive arts:

• Conscious Dance & Ceremony: I practiced 5Rhythms with Visudhha de los Santos and completed a three-year training in Core Shamanism with Renna Shesso in Denver (following Sandra Ingerman’s lineage), exploring trance dance, nature ceremonies, and ritual theater.

• Contemplative Relational Practice: Seeking a less scripted practice, I transitioned to Soul Motion, studying with Randy Miller and the founder, Vincent Martínez-Grieco. Vincent’s mentorship grounded my practice in a contemplative movement art, teaching me to hold space through witnessing, pausing, echoing, and honoring stillness.

• The Expressive Arts Body: After encountering Daria Halprin’s writings and immersing myself in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® under Rosario Sammartino, I integrated intermodal expressive arts, body inquiry, and nature connection into a unified practice.

An Intercultural Container: Nothing Is Thrown Out of The Circle

My life has been shaped not only by movement lineages, but by my ancestry. As a French native and descendant of Spanish and Italian immigrants who fled fascism and poverty, I hold deep empathy for those navigating fragmented identities, major life transitions, and systemic trauma.

Within our circle, nothing is thrown out. I hold a spacious, non-judgmental container to slow down, process lived experiences, listen beneath the noise, and move through the veils of who you think you should be. By interweaving somatic self-inquiry, movement ritual, expressive arts, and nature connection, I guide you to clear the way, illuminate what holds you back, and step fully into the center of who you truly are.