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

I wasn’t looking for it back then, but 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: graduated from three BA, went through a MA program and half of another one… just to start the list), body and emotions were like two invisible islands for me.

My sociological eye helped me notice that tango was being transformative not only for me but for other people I met in the community. 

I became curious.

How’s that a dance can impact in such ways other aspects of life?

I wanted to know how the body-mind connections work and thought that Yoga could be a place to look for it. So I decided to enrol in a yoga teachers program.

I was lucky to learn in a school that understands yoga as much more than fancy poses and physical demand, and became certified as a Yoga Professor in Yoga Integral. A style that focuses on what yoga is supposed to look for: self-awareness and integration of our physical, mental and spiritual bodies in the journey to meditation, choosing and adapting the many techniques that exist in yoga to what’s beneficial for the student, regardless of their previous experience or physical condition.

These learnings gave me some of the clues I was looking for and others I was totally unaware of.

It of course influenced my approach to tango as well.

This kept opening my curiosity and the doors to my inner journey, which led me to try other body-mind approaches like Bioenergetics, Body-Mind Centering®, Psychodrama, Authentic Movement, Expressive Body Arts, Contact Improvisation, among others.

From the many paths to body-mind integration I tried, I chose to follow a postgrad in Dance/Movement Therapy to deepen my journey.

This experience has been the most influential in my work during the last years, as the path of embodiment, conscious movement and movement analysis was more clarifying for my approach to dance than many tango technique classes I attended before; more supportive for my self-awareness, self-confidence and empowerment than traditional counseling; and definitely powerful to improve the way I relate to myself and others both in dance and life.

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

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’s culture and community.

Definitely way more than a mere collection of memorized steps to repeat.

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

Traveling is my other big passion so it is also present in what I do.

In a more obvious way by designing and coordinating transformational retreats and cultural immersion experiences in Argentina and other Latin American countries.

And in the subtle ways by bringing parts of that culture to the classes and events I organize in any place I’m based at, which at the moment means bringing what I love and miss from tango in Buenos Aires to Vienna ❤