Somatic practitioner connecting with nature, reflecting the gentle approach of Gradiva Space.

A little about me

The experiences that shaped

the way I work today.

For years, achievement was the language I knew best.

Top university. Prestigious career.

Ironman races. Marathons. Trophies.

Certifications. Trainings.

From the outside, it looked like success.

And in many ways, it truly was.

I genuinely loved many parts of it.

The challenge. The learning.

The sense of growth. The feeling of achieving

something I once thought was beyond me.

I love challenge. I love growth.

I still do.

But at some point, I began asking

different questions...

Why do I still feel like

I need to keep proving myself?

Why do I find it easier to push

than to pause?

Who am I when I am

not achieving?

Why do I feel exhausted even when everything looks fine?

No matter what I achieved, there was always another finish line waiting.

Another goal. Another challenge.

Another thing to work towards.

And while I was busy moving forward,

I wasn't always noticing how I felt along the way.

Whether I was tired. Whether I was enjoying it.

Whether it was actually what I needed.

Becoming a mother invited me into a different kind of learning.

It taught me that presence often matters more than performance.

I didn't want to turn motherhood into another performance.

Instead, it became an invitation to rediscover safety, presence and connection.

I realized that in order to

co-regulate my daughter, I first needed to experience safety within myself.

That realisation quietly changed everything.

Old patterns, perfectionism,

the drive to prove,

the corporate armor - everything started to crack.

And slowly...

It all began to fall apart.

Not in a bad way.

But in a way that made space for something truer.

As my own healing journey unfolded, I became deeply curious about the nervous system and the body's capacity to heal. I joined the somatic training to better understand myself

- not because I had already decided to become a practitioner.

But somewhere along the way, I realised I had found something that felt deeply aligned.

Why 'Gradiva'

I carry Gradiva on my arm — a woman in motion.

One who, to me, embodies the courage to honour the past while continuing to walk forward.

I first met her in a museum, in a drawing by Salvador Dalí.

I didn't know her name. I didn't know what it meant.

But something in that image — the shift, the movement — held me there, unable to walk away.

Later, I learned: Gradiva means "she who walks forward."

Her story stayed with me — first in my mind, then in my body.

I, too, had always been moving. Forward, fast, without pause.

Until I chose to slow down. To meet my body. To meet myself.

This tattoo is not simply an art.

It reminds me of the path I choose, again and again:

one step inward, one step forward.

This is the heart of Gradiva Space : creating space to slow down, listen to your body, and find your own way forward.

Before Gradiva

For 18 years, I lived and worked inside global corporate structures.

I had my training in Food engineering. Earned an MBA.

Took on managerial roles across different countries and cultures, leading teams, solving complex problems,

holding responsibility for outcomes that mattered.

I learned to read systems. To read people. To stay steady when pressure was high.

What I didn’t always know how to read was myself.

I was good at performing, at delivering, at being capable under pressure

— and much less practiced at noticing what all of that was costing my body, quietly, over time.

That imbalance is part of what eventually brought me here.

And it’s also, I now understand, part of what I bring into this work.

The same attention that once went into managing systems and people,

now shapes how I hold space in a session — the same capacity to stay grounded under intensity,

the same care for structure, the same respect for what a process actually requires to unfold well.

This background doesn't replace formal training in somatics - it complements it.

Alongside my corporate years, here is where I built the specific skills I now practice from :

Professional Training

300-hour Holosomatic ® Bodywork Therapy - Innercamp

- A trauma-informed professional training integrating somatic bodywork, theory and extensive hands-on practice.

Breathwork Teacher Training - Loka Yoga School - Ongoing

Yin Yoga Teacher Training - Loka Yoga School - Ongoing

Learning is an ongoing practice. I continue to deepen my work through education, mentoring and embodied experience.

Somatic Coaching - The Somatic School - Ongoing

- 170-hour ICF-accredited training in body-oriented coaching.

You don't need to give up your drive

to live in a different way.

It's not about choosing between ambition and well-being.

It's about discovering they can coexist.

Playing the handpan during a somatic session to create a calm and supportive space.