My Story

I was born in 1979 and grew up in a middle-class family in Buenos Aires, surrounded by books and with a very imaginative mind. As a child, I didn’t like sports very much, but I was eager to go into forests and cross rivers: the call to adventure fascinated me. I always chose activities that had more to do with imagination and sensations.

A great revelation came at 19 when I discovered body expression in a free program in the City of Buenos Aires at that time. For the first time, I had permission to feel my body, my emotions, and connect through dance and contact with others. Body expression was a way of getting closer to myself and others that I longed for without knowing it. While I was discovering my body, I was also following the implicit family mandates to pursue a university career.

It was through the unblocking that body expression triggered and a psychoanalytic process that I was able to begin to connect intimately and sexually with other people. When I was 24, Josefina, my girlfriend and first great love, died from poorly treated cancer. This was the saddest experience I went through in my life.

From then on, my whole being felt a great call to deepen the kind and caring connection with the body and I could not continue advancing in my studies. Decades later I learned that turning to the connection with what is alive through the body is a tool to overcome traumas; I am grateful to my intuitive wisdom of that time that helped me heal. It also gave me a new way of life through movement.

Over time I became a professional in the field of dance, graduating in choreographic composition, performing on the local scene, and joining the team of the Dance Research Institute of the UNA in its golden age under the direction of Susana Tambutti, when the most recognized choreographers of that time could be invited and I was able to enter into direct dialogue with their proposals. I also had the privilege of going to Brazil to study with Jerry Karzam, who was at the time Moshe Feldenkrais’ right hand man. These years are full of discoveries and joy and gave rise to my last adventure related to dance and performance.

At 36 years old I was accepted into a Master’s program in SOLO/DANCE/AUTHORSHIP in Berlin, which receives more than a hundred applicants a year and only admits eight. In Berlin I immersed myself in its performance scene, clubbing and gatherings in parks. It also opened the door to effervescent searches around sexuality.

I approached the sex-positive (pro-sexuality) communities through the activities promoted by Felix Ruckert (the KONK retreats and the Xplore festivals), and the Touch&Play festival-retreat. In Berlin I was going through a mild, undiagnosed depression due to the creative pressure of the master’s degree and a rather painful separation. This way of experiencing sexuality and pleasure in a more free and careful way was a key to feeling more secure and valued.

Investigating and delving deeper, I found Mareen Scholl’s introductory Sexological Bodywork courses that ended up opening my mind regarding what could and could not be transmitted, taught or learned regarding sexuality. This was the second great revelation, after Body Expression, which caused a before and after in me.

Sexological Bodywork is a form of somatic education that reproduced in the field of sexuality a large part of the principles and explorations that I was already doing with the body through the Feldenkrais Method and dance and added new very powerful frameworks to continue developing self-knowledge of the body from eroticism and pleasure.

My enthusiasm was immediate and since then I have followed this path of deepening, experience and learning that changes my life step by step; and that I try to transmit as a facilitator.