Hungry Yogi

I was born in Medellin, Colombia to my beautiful mother who was 18 when she gave birth to me. Since she was so young, I was raised by her and grandparents. My biological father was extremely mentally and emotionally wounded and abusive physically, mentally and emotionally to my family and created a lot of pain trauma in our lives. 

At age 6, I was blessed with an amazing stepfather whom I call my own dad. I saw my mom in a beautiful, stable marriage with a man who truly loved/loves her. They did the absolute best to ensure I had everything I needed growing up but the one thing that could not be ensured was stability of living in one place. From the age of 8 years old to 20 we moved to eight different cities and 3 countries, from Colombia to the USA to Canada. As many gifts and learnings as I received from these experiences, this was quite traumatic as a child growing up with no stability, no true identity of who I was, recreating my identity every time we relocated to try to fit in with the "popular" group which lead me to fall into drug and alcohol addictions at the age of 15 for three years. Drinking and numbing my pain away, in toxic relationships that I CREATED & ATTRACTED and unprocessed trauma from my childhood that was keeping me in victim mindset.

After barely graduating high school, I was introduced to the world of bodybuilding where I stopped drinking and doing drugs and fully immersed in my fitness journey. This saved me. It taught me discipline and helped me create mind body connection.

I was married for 3 years in a marriage with many highs and lows that eventually lead to an infidelity that crushed my soul to pieces and forced me to dive into the darkest parts of myself in complete solidarity as I had no family around to support me at that time. This catapulted me into my spiritual and self development journey. As I was still discovering my path to alignment and in a time of loneliness and vulnerability, I let myself fall into a relationship that ended due to physical abuse which triggered deep inner child wounds. I refused to repeat generational patterns of being in abusive relationships and chose myself as I left the relationship and dove fully into my spiritual and self development journey. I became a yoga instructor because I wanted to share with others the peace and serenity that yoga brought into my life in times of hardship. I started attracting amazing yoga teaching opportunities while I was still in school and the more I stepped into a path that filled my heart, the more opportunities and blessings that crossed my path! One of them being the amazing relationship that I attracted into my life through all of the internal work I have done :) I am now in a beautiful relationship with someone who loves and respects me and uplifts me to be better each and every day and encourages me to stay on my aligned path. SUCH A BLESSING <3

I decided to finish my degree, even though I was clear it was not what I wanted to pursue, and continued to teach yoga. During school I encountered the most amazing Trauma-Informed Life Coach course and manifested the finances to begin the course! Woohooo! I am now a FULL TIME Yoga Instructor & mindfulness events host, host of the Path to Alignment Podcast, and Life Coach!

I feel like I am on the most ALIGNED PATH I have ever walked.