My Healing Story
• born to a Filipina nurse, orphaned at 5, adopted at 10 years old.
• a sensitive, empathic, inquisitive, and observant child; a natural artist, singer, performer, storyteller.
• served in the US Navy as a Hospital Corspman in an Oncology ward, taking care of patients undergoing initial or final cancer treatments.
• Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT) 2009-2014
• Registered Yoga Teacher (YTT-200), learned classical Yoga asana and philosophy at Mt Madonna Center, one of the first yoga fellowships in the US, founded by the late Indian silent sage Baba Hari Dass.
• Licensed Massage Therapist, trained in Classical Swedish, Deep Tissue, Tui Na, Shiatsu, Thai, Gua Sha, Cupping, Craniosacral Balancing, and Aromatherapy.
• Formal and personalized studies in astrology, tarot, past life hypnotherapy, crystal healing, space, home, and business cleansing/clearing, guided meditation, and butoh dance.
• Recently earned their Master of Science in Health and Human Performance (MSHHP) with a certificate in Holistic Health Coaching at Pacific College of Health and Science.
• a practicing artist and mystic.
MY ARTIST STATEMENT:
The role of the artist, the magician, the prophet, and each individual, is to bring about change in the world through one's own personal transformations, revolutions, and revelations.
As an artist who is also a person of color, Asian American, Filipino immigrant, US Navy veteran, gender-fluid, and decidedly queer, my work exists within these contexts but is not bound by them.
I use a multidisciplinary and multi-sensory approach in my research and art-making. I develop a conceptual ecosystem in which my works function in myriad ways, informing one another.
I work collaboratively with local artists, dancers, musicians, and organizers. I foster relationships within my communities and relish in our blossoming. By working with others, we come to know and become more ourselves.
I look towards the future and feel its inertia - the momentum that propels us into infinite uncharted moments, carrying the past forward.