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About Me

I care deeply about making humans more thrivingly healthy. That's why I studied Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, and then worked in a biotech startup in Silicon Valley.

Over there, I experienced Burning Man and Freeform Dance, which brought me a new way of seeing health and happiness. I then went to India for a Yoga teacher training which fully enhanced my state of being, and discovered Auroville, a place where focus is brought to consciousness development.

I then returned to the west side of the world, unknowingly. I started teaching Yoga with a focus on state of mind, and at the same time studied improvisational dance. Through group movement practices, I saw that we are far more than what we express, that our social spaces only allow a small portion of ourselves. Concerned about the state of our society, and amazed by seeing an unused part of human potential, I created a research project called New Societies, and traveled the world to experience different ways of living with others: communities, ecovillages, communal retreat centres. I also started to teach freeform movement then, creating spaces where awareness and embodiment become the core of interaction.

After going far into the world of movement and the openings that wordless spaces create, I saw the importance of also connecting deeper with voice and words. I studied the Meisner method of acting who focuses on direct emotional dialogue, and was mesmerised about how emotions can flow in and out when we let them, and remove the interferences we usually put up.

Through my research, I believe that creating a culture where we can express emotions, is an important shift that needs to happen.