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MEETING POINT

In 2005, my husband and I took the decision to move from Mexico City to Toronto, Canada. The motivation behind our move was both professional and personal, as my husband had lived a part of his childhood in Toronto, and I had previously had the opportunity to perform in one of Toronto’s major festivals.   It […]

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SILENCE

Every time that the children in the courses I teach give a public presentation, I am always amazed by the different reactions of the public. Every reaction represents a new experience for me, which constitutes a valuable lesson in my journey as an artist and a teacher. In a course I gave recently, at the […]

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ZEN SHIATSU AND MUSIC

In the winter of 1995, while studying violin in Lugano, Switzerland, I had my first contact with Zen Shiatsu. At the time, I was living in Comano, a suburb of Lugano, where there happened to be a shiatsu clinic. One day, while strolling through the cobbled streets of Comano, I met one of the therapists […]

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SOUNDS, RHYTHMS, IMAGES: MIRROR OF NATURE

During my time studying in Switzerland I had the opportunity to explore Waldorf education, founded by the philosopher, lecturer and writer Rudolf Steiner (1961-1925). Moreover, Steiner was the founder of the movement known internationally as Anthroposophy. My first contact with the Waldorf pedagogy was through a family that worked at the Steiner School in Lugano, […]

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