The line runs back through the Taíno — the first people of the Caribbean. What survived colonization survived in practice, not paper: in ceremony, in relationship to land, in the body’s memory of how to gather.

Years spent in apprenticeship with Maestro Rufino and the Golden Drum lineage in Peru — learning ceremony as a discipline, not a performance. The drum is a teacher before it is an instrument.

A career in creative direction in New York came first — an education in aesthetics, discipline, and how a room is held. That training did not disappear when the work turned inward; it shaped how ceremony is built.

A long walk through wellness practice — sound, energy work, plant medicine, ritual — taken seriously enough to outgrow its own marketing language. What remained was the practice itself.