Find freedom on and off the dance floor through Tango Argentino & Somatic Movement

It’s time to introduce myself. They say that’s how I earn your trust. I think it happens in person and along time, when we take the chance to meet each other and go beyond preconceptions. It’s natural though that you’d like to know who I am to teach you what before investing your time and resources in getting to know me.

You and I are more than our names and professions, but it’s the common starting point, right?
You might like to know I’m a certified Tango Argentino-Yoga teacher, and movement facilitator with a varied list of training and qualifications, working with a mindful, embodied approach to dance and learning. I rather say I help people to understand how and why they move, not just what to do.

Instead of teaching you to memorize choreographies, or telling you what to fix, I create safe spaces where you can meet: with yourself and your potential, with others, and the world that surrounds you. My teaching focuses on developing body awareness, adaptability, and presence to build connection, so what you learn works in real social dance situations, with different people –often off the dance floor too.

How I got here?

My journey to connect with my body started with Tango Argentino.

I wasn’t looking for it back then. After a while dancing, I became aware of how disconnected I was from my body and how Tango was opening that door for me.

Being a very rational person (academic overdose included: three university degrees, went through a Master’s program and half of another one… just to start the list), body and emotions were like two invisible islands for me.

Long story short, life took me to become a certified Tango Argentino instructor in the Universidad del Tango de Buenos Aires.

Along that path, my sociological eye helped me notice that this dance was being transformative not only for myself but for other people I met in the community too. I started to see Tango Argentino as a powerful path to self awareness, empowerment, connection, creativity, and joy.

I grew curious.
How a dance can impact in such ways other aspects of life?

I wanted to understand how the body-mind connections work, and thought that Yoga could be a place to look for it. That’s how I decided to enroll in a Yoga teachers program.

I was lucky to join a school that understands it as much more than fancy poses and physical demand, and became certified as Yoga Integral teacher, an approach that trained me to choose and adapt the many techniques that exist in Yoga to what’s beneficial for the student, regardless of your previous experience or physical condition.

These learnings gave me some of the clues I was looking for to understand what happens with Tango Argentino, and many others I was totally unaware of. My curiosity continued growing, and the doors to my inner journey opened even more.

I found myself getting certified in Yogatherapy and Kundalini Tantra Yoga as well, completing a training in facilitation of Expressive Body Arts, and exploring other body work approaches, like Bioenergetics, Body-Mind Centering®, Psychodrama, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, movement analysis, and somatic education, among others.

From these many paths, I chose to follow a postgrad in Dance/Movement Therapy to deepen my journey. And there’s no words to tell you how it changed my life.

Interestingly, while this path was more clarifying for my approach to dance than many tango classes I attended before, friends at the Milongas started to ask what I was doing, if I was taking extra classes and where.

They noticed something different in my dance.
Something they liked and wanted to reach for themselves.

That path of embodiment and conscious movement was the most influential in my work to this date. Supportive for my self-awareness, confidence, and definitely powerful to improve the way I relate to myself and others, both in dance and daily life.

My interest in the connections between body, mind, emotions, identity, and culture keeps driving what I do.

Honoring the teachings of my Maestros and Maestras, and the diversity of my experiences, for more than 10 years I’ve been developing my own way to help others access the art of Tango Argentino in its holistic nature.

For me, Tango Argentino is a philosophy of life; a path to freedom, empowerment and personal transformation; a door to a deeper connection with ourselves and others. It is culture, dialogue, and community. Definitely way more than a mere collection of memorized steps to copy and repeat; a practice where mind, body, and emotions meet.

When learning with me, you can expect a mix of all this.

Through group and private classes, real practice sessions, welcoming socials, and comprehensive Tango Immersion Weekends, I support you in building a solid foundation, refining your movements, and expanding your freedom and confidence on and off the dance floor.

Traveling is my other big passion, equally influential in my personal journey, so it is also present in what I do.

In a more obvious way, by designing retreats and cultural immersion experiences in Argentina and other Latin American countries. And in the subtle ways, by bringing the spirit and depth of that culture into my classes and events, wherever I’m based at. Which at the moment means bringing to Wien, Austria what I love and miss from Tango in Buenos Aires, inviting curiosity, authenticity, and connection onto your path ❤