Welcome! I’m smiling thinking you found your way to the OI directory! It reminds me of all the times I found my way to supportive resources and how meaningful and pivotal those moments were for my own trajectory. In my experience finding our way to support speaks already of a movement in us towards more connection, aliveness and what is most meaningful to us.  In our OI sessions, my wish is to support this movement in you, its unfolding, expression and integration.

Aside from working as an Organic Intelligence Coach, I work as a Tai Chi and Feldenkrais teacher and I am also a Narm therapist. These practices often come together in my work especially when working with chronic conditions and pain syndromes.

Since it is my own learning and healing journey that led me here, I will share a bit about it and how I have come to appreciate the process:

2008 was a year that changed the course of my life. I was living in the UK doing my PhD in philosophy, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and I had started attending Tai Chi classes. Three months into my tai chi classes I remember walking down the road and feeling a new kind of joy and something in me nudged me that this joy should be taken seriously. In fact, a few days later I went to meet my supervisor who thought I would be the last person to quit my PhD as I was very passionate about my studies and I told him to his and to my surprise that I was leaving the program. When he asked why, these words came out 'I need to see what more/else I am, and it just can't wait!

I’ve been on that path since, and it has been an amazing, nurturing, surprising and beautiful ride! Since that very first found new joy through my tai chi practice, I found my way to more somatic and therapeutic methods and practises.  A common thread in those methods is an intention to create supportive environments by attuning and attending to the intimacy of our present experience and the support available there, tapping into our innate healing capacity rather than aiming to fix or correct something. 

Steve asked once in a lecture ‘Do we want to change or do we want to be ourselves?’ In my experience healing is ultimately a journey of connection, an intimate learning process of connecting with parts of ourselves and ways of experiencing ourselves and the world that for many different reasons, we have lost access to, had to reject and disconnect from or haven’t integrated. Through this learning journey, I found again and again through my own experience and that of my students and clients that one starts developing a basic trust in their experience. From that place of basic trust, choice becomes possible and change ends up looking more like a natural unfolding of being and interacting in the world.

For me, OI opens up a space for what is resourcing us often unconsciously all our lives and at every moment. In a way,  these signals of support are always there but they haven't had an environment to be taken seriously, listened to, seen, met or expressed and integrated for most of us. This unintegrated resourceful life once it starts being integrated often opens the door to what is most meaningful to us and resources us back to ourselves and our place of belonging in the world. We grow through support as Steve says and I learn every day that support is already here, very often where we thought there was none.

Finally, one of the most beautiful surprises in my path of discovering 'what more/else I am' was meeting in myself the joy and wonder at witnessing and supporting others in their own unique movement in this life.

I'm happy to offer a 20-minute free consultation over Zoom to get to know each other and see if we are a good fit!