I got certified as mindfulness meditation teacher in 2025. I had the great joy of studying in Tara Brach and Jack Cornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teaching Certification Program, through UC Berkley and the Awareness Training Institute.

Here’s how I got into mindfulness: Ever since I can remember, I felt in awe of the natural world and had a deep sense of care and responsibility to take care of it. Fast forward a few decades, I studied and undergraduate degree in Biology, a MSc in Conservation Biology (both of these in Mexico), and got a PhD in Water Resources Science and Management at the University of Idaho, USA.  As my love for the natural world grew stronger and stronger, so did my concerned about how our society was impacting and turning its back on its very source of life.  

During all those school years and as a profesional, I kept holding a question that seemed unanswerable and felt like walking through life carrying a concrete block on my back: How is it that as human beings we keep harming ourselves, each other, and other beings?

It wasn’t until 2017, when I started practicing mindfulness meditation and studying how the human mind works, that I began to understand all the different ways and reasons in which we suffer, bring suffering to others, and that we can actually learn how to live with more wisdom and wellbeing. Anyone can. As I deepened my mindfulness practice, I saw more and more positive chances in my life, and felt increasingly connected and at ease with myself. It also became clear that in order to heal our relationship with Earth, we first need to heal our relationship with ourselves and our communities. Coincidently, since 2017  I also got to experience the very normal, yet incredibly hard, loss of loved ones and a life-threatening illness.

Having had the experience of navigating life’s challenges while being grounded in and supported by my meditation practice, was a revolution in the best possible way. It also ignited in me a humble yet strong wish to share what I have learned so far. My deepest intention is to honor and show my love for the World by supporting others in their mindfulness meditation journey. I know in my heart that practicing mindfulness can be an amazing avenue for healing and living fully, from a place of belonging and interconnection to everything that makes us up.

It takes some getting used to letting go, to surrender, to be open to feel what we’ve been trying to hide from ourselves, ofter without even knowing and for years. Yet, with care and dedication we can truly shape our relationship to whatever we’re experiencing in life, all of it, the joys and the sorrows and everything in between: This is powerful and beautiful.

I’m currently based in Olympia, Washington where I get to enjoy the gifts of the temperate rain forest with my husband and two young children.