I am a Lightworker, Spiritual Teacher, Transformation Leader and internationally recognized Author and Presenter. Before becoming a serial Yogapreneur, I was a Director for an international Fortune 100 professional services company. Most importantly I am a life long Love Alchemist.
For over 15 years, with more than 13,000 hours of teaching experience through my writings, in person seminars, online courses, podcast and international retreats and trainings I inspire people around the world to get unstuck from their pain and up level their (spiritual) happiness.I guarantee results fast.
What does that mean?
I wake people up to the power of change and their ability to choose to be happy, or happier in order to love themselves, love their day, love their lives!
I am an internationally recognized Motivational Speaker and Mindfulness Teacher at conferences worldwide. You can’t help but leave spiritually uplifted! My enthusiasm is contagious.
My life has been both a warning and an example
My life story and radical transcendence serves as a catalyst for clients to save time healing and removing what holds them back because I personally know it’s possible to transform your trauma to dharma and transmute your drama to dreams.Our greatest successes come from our messes.
I was born in Ecuador. My Father is Italian, my mother is Ecuadorian and my immediate family is from Brazil, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Because my life is like the United Nations I developed a sense of global citizenship early on.This is also why I love everybody.
Without apology I believe in magic because my life is a miracle. Some days I can barely believe all that I have recovered from, like getting run over by a car in the United States, the TBI from a life threatening cycling accident in Italy and an awful scooter accident in Indonesia that I somehow walked away from. As well as saving myself from an abusive marriage. I have faced down NDE (near death experience) and slayed the PTSD and panic attacks that followed the traumas with a plant based diet, meditation and only holistic cures and modalities.
That’s also why I think everyone deserves more than a second chance. They deserve at least a third chance.
In fact the title of one of my books is “A Third Chance.”
If you want to know me, then read me. You’ll find hundreds of my published writings about lifestyle, spirituality & wellness read by thousands all over the world as seen in Gaia, Mindbodygreen (USA), Mantra Wellness Magazine, Elephant Journal (USA), DO YOU (Hong Kong), Good Men Project, Yogi Times, Wanderlust (USA), Daily Cup of Yoga (USA), and I’m a wellness expert as seen in Psychology Today, HuffPost, Medium and more.
What you’ll learn from me is “Authenticity and joyful self-confidence in living YOUR dharma, passion with purpose.”
I follow the sunfor an endless summer switching between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres where you’ll find me in Bali and Australia most of the year. I’m living a laptop lifestyle as a storyteller inspiring happiness, global awareness, and joyful living in everyone I meet.
For those of you that like numbers and dates:
I have more than 12,000 hours of Yoga Teaching experience.
I've taught for over 15 years.
I have graduated 33 classes of Alchemist Alumni from over 25 countries worldwide.
Before becoming a serial Yogapreneur, I was a Director for an international Fortune 100 professional services.
I’ve been in 1 hit and run as a pedestrian, 1 life threatening cycling accident, 1 radical scooter accident for a total of two NDE (near death experiences).
I’ve had 2 TBI’s I am a proud thriver not just a survivor.
In 1999 founded and owned Total Body Yoga Studio in Chicagoland with over 9,000 students for ten years. Some years later I also owned Healing Power Yoga Studio.
In 2001 I founded Dreamcatcher Coaching program to help you up-level your capacity to hold greater wealth and create a business life aligned with your spiritual life.
In 2004 I founded Alchemy of Yoga School through Yoga Alliance to teach YOU how to say YES to loving yourself, I named it Alchemy of Yoga, with 32 graduating classes of Alchemist Alumni from over 25 countries worldwide. (www.alchemyofyoga.com)
In 2009 I founded Alchemy Tours, an International Yoga Retreat company specializing in Personal Transformation. (www.alchemytours.com)
In 2010 I founded my own style of yoga called Rebel Spirit Yoga. This is in addition to my chakravinyasa.com practice. (www.rebelspirityoga.com)
In 2015 I started Dharma Mentoring with a specialism in The Business of Yoga. This program offers you the mechanics to do the work of spirit & be financially successful at the same time. It helps you fine-tune your inner compass to authenticity and joyful self-confidence in living your dharma. (www.alchemyofdharma.com)
In 2018 I started a Meditation Program dedicated to helping make learning to meditate easeful called Mindfully In Love (www.mindfully.love and 7daysof.love)
In 2019 I founded a new small group coaching program called Soulecting based in the belief that when we select with our soul, instead of selecting with the mind, we live aligned with our greatest joy.
In 2020 I co-founded Soul Sister Tribe creating an online ashram of the heart for womxn that have experienced sexual trauma. A refuge, a home for sisters to support sisters.
