MY STORY

My Journey as a Practitioner

I believe in 'walking the walk'. I continue to participate in therapy and bodywork myself, both to deepen my understanding of my own relational patterns and to hold myself accountable as a practitioner.

While books, training courses, and theory bring me pleasure, the wisdom I gather from sitting with people: learning their stories, cultures, and lives, is what I value above all else. My own life and relationships serve as my greatest curriculum. Life isn’t without its challenges, but with years of therapeutic support, I've learned to weather the storms and emerge with a deeper understanding and compassion for myself and others.

My own traumatic experiences with menstruation, sexual abuse as a teenager, and physical violence in early life devastated my relationship to my body and nervous system, and by extension, my relationship to food, to sex and to movement. For decades I was completely numb to my body's needs; operating from fear, shame, and self-loathing.

This perpetuated many unsafe relationships and situations. At the height of my financial scarcity and personal self harm, I found myself working in the sex industry; a time which later greatly impacted my connection to my body, my sexuality and relational intimacy.

Things began to change drastically for me when I was hired as a broker in the shipping industry. This was a high-pressure, male-dominated corporate arena. One in which I built a solid 10 year career in. I loved it at first: the speed, aggression, instant gratification - all helped a part of me regain the loss of control I felt so frequently as a child. But the rollercoaster ride of trading, absurd working hours, the unending pressure and sexual trespasses only served to further exacerbate the shame and rage boiling inside me.

I lashed out aggressively and drank profusely. I refused to heed the signals my body was so loudly screaming at me… at the time I was willing to sacrifice my mental, emotional and physical health for financial safety.

Trading was both financially life-saving and the environment where I started to become more aware of how disconnected from my body I was.

In 2018, the painful, slow and terrifying death of my grandmother had me come face to face with so much internal turmoil I began to crack. I noticed I had come to a point in my career where I had to make a decision: do I continue the grind to achieve success and power, or do I choose to turn and face what I have been running from- potentially risking a successful career in the process. And so, with encouragement from my partner at the time, I began intensive trauma work.

After years of intense personal growth, my exposed and sensitive nervous system could no longer navigate in the high pressure, high intensity world of trading. Rather than push through again, I slowly started to shift toward a body-led, heart-centered way of living and working.

Inspired by what had created these transformational changes in me, I began pursuing education in therapeutic & somatic practices, female nervous system therapies, tantric & de-armoring bodywork & several other trauma informed certifications. I knew I wanted to find a way to support and share my own experiences, knowledge and guidance with other women.

Today I work with women in Copenhagen and Fredensborg, Denmark, as well as all around the world.

I work with modalities of somatic therapy, mentorships & trauma-led bodywork. As a practitioner it is an honor to hold space for women to explore themselves in such intimate and vulnerable ways.

I am deeply passionate about what I do and humbled by the strength of the feminine.

Everything I share is rooted in self-experience.

I believe that safety and presence are the most potent medicines I can give the women I work with. The work I do with women is deeply personal and sacred to me. I believe that when we bravely learn about all aspects of ourselves, and when we begin to accept ourselves unconditionally, we become an unstoppable force of nature. When we fill our cups, we fill others tenfold…

I wish that this space is exactly that: A place for women to begin filling their cups and start creating ripples in their lives and the world around them

Reclaiming My Relationship to My Body and My Cycle

It has been a long journey to reach a place where I trust and love the body I inhabit. I listen to her and prioritize her needs. When I removed my IUD nearly a decade ago, I began reclaiming my relationship with my menstrual cycle and hormones — a fascinating, empowering journey that deepened my love and awe of womanhood.

As I aligned my life with my cycle, my relationship to movement and food also transformed. Growing up in Greece, I find immense joy cooking sumptuous meals to share. But for years I pendulated between binge eating and anorexia, over-exercising or never exercising. When I began cooking for my body rather than against it, everything changed. I honed my skills as a chef, creating recipes based on anti-inflammatory, hormone-supporting ingredients.

I learned the hidden meanings behind my cravings, emotionally and biologically, and began nourishing myself with what truly supports my cycle. This rippled out into how I move.

I've always been a 'mover.’ In the past I moved from necessity or escape, pushing past breaking points to prove I was good enough. Today I move from intuition; from what best supports my nervous system and how she is responding to my hormonal shifts.

With this shift, my daily yoga practice began to evolve from strict vinyasa to authentic somatic flow. Dancing has been a pillar of bliss throughout my life, and has now become infused into my daily practice. This way of moving helps me to sense, express and release stored emotions and residual energy in my fascia and nervous system.

Along with my yoga certifications and combination of dance background, I have also been certified in ‘Shake The Dust’ - an immensely powerful somatic training workout that encompasses all the aspects of dance and yoga that I love, with a nervous system informed and trauma led approach to movement.