About me
Throughout my life I have explored many areas of knowledge that today nourish my personal and professional practices. I investigate how to live life with more simplicity and creativity, and I take photos.
If you’d like to work with me, I invite you to look at my portfolio. We can do sessions, mentorships and courses on how to look.
If you’re looking to strengthen your creativity and your capacity to pay attention — so you can respond to life’s stimuli instead of reacting to them — I invite you to explore my Alexander Technique space.
And if you are in a moment of change (a chapter ending, another that has no shape yet), I invite you to get to know my coaching space.
My journey
Partly by process of elimination and partly because of my passion for solving problems, I began my professional career studying computer engineering. School hadn’t helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I assumed knowing a lot about computers would be useful (I thank my younger self, because she was right).
Back then I had a lot of energy, I wanted to change the world, and that led me to study biomedical engineering. I worked with medical imaging and MRI — I took pictures of people from the inside, specialising in the knee.
It looked more or less like this:
In 2004 I travelled to Japan to present my master’s thesis. On that trip I carried a 3-megapixel digital camera (digital photography was just beginning and cell phones were only good for talking). With that camera I captured several scenes, like this one:
That’s how, at 25, my relationship with photography began — something that until then had never interested me. I fell in love with the universe of images and I haven’t stopped taking photos since.
For many years I worked in advertising, adapting the world to my eye and to my clients’, creating fantastic worlds of every kind. This is a photo I made for a Facebook game about finding hidden objects within a scene.
Did you find the elephant?
After many years of creating artificial worlds, reality asked me to accept it as it is.
I found refuge for this transition in nature. It led to a personal project called “Forest Bathing”, which became a portal for me. A new way of seeing and understanding the world.
Wandering among trees gave me the gift of time. I explored without direction, allowing myself to photograph in many ways, and sometimes I simply stayed there, doing nothing. The setting for my photos was the Lussich Arboretum. There I collected leaves and flowers that I kept in a notebook, and I made a herbarium book.
Because of the way they’re printed, the photos seem to lift off the pages.
I organised meditation and music events, and invited others to share the forest with me.
Once, more than 400 people came!
Those walks through the forest, loaded with photo gear, together with scoliosis, caused me intense back pain. That was the door through which the Alexander Technique entered my life.
I started taking classes intending to correct my posture, and along the way I realised it was also about learning not to react to life’s stimuli. This practice teaches you to pause and think before acting — pauses in which to choose how to respond.
While training to become a teacher of the technique, I also learned the practice of Nonviolent Communication. This tool makes it possible to recognise needs, feelings and habitual thought patterns that condition us. Through that recognition I gained more freedom to make conscious decisions.
Empathic listening opened one more door. I came to see that for years I had been handing out unsolicited advice, with the best of intentions, and that accompanying someone was something else: staying beside them while they find their own way. I wanted to go deeper.
I trained as a coach at Aletheia, where I learned poetical attunement with reality to accompany each person’s unfolding from presence. For several years now I have also been taking courses with Art of Accomplishment. And as with every tool along this path, I tried it on myself first: session after session in which I experienced what opens when nobody is trying to fix you.
The sum of all this changed my life: it allowed me to stop functioning on autopilot and to accept the opportunity to choose.
Today, besides taking photos, I give talks, teach these tools individually and in groups, and accompany coaching processes in Spanish and English.
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