Right Brain Bio |
I always find it difficult to describe myself...
I am ever-changing flow on a quest to its essence.
Traveler, explorer, dreamer, doer, strategist, planner, organizer, naturalist, advocate, activist, observer, questioner, linguist, teacher, student, hypnotherapist, mystic, yogi, sun-gazer, writer, poet, messenger, philosopher, alchemist, artist, dancer, warrior…
These words capture some of the things I have been and done in both the narrowest and broadest sense…
I was born with a thirst for truth and knowledge, fired up by an innate desire to help bring oneness and fairness into this world, and moved by unquenchable wanderlust.
After earning a solid academic background, I set out with much enthusiasm to work for international cooperation. I was confident that joining my efforts with those of eminent organizations in this field would save the world from misery and self-destruction... I worked with both high profile international agencies and local organizations in 3 different continents, where I lived and traveled extensively. I met with realities, experiences and people that widely broadened my horizons and deeply enriched me.
Despite a successful career, having helped raise nearly USD 1,5 Million for the projects I worked for, and enjoying an exciting life that came with many privileges, something seemed amiss both inside of me and around me. While in Nepal, the first “developing country” I had come into contact with, I started to see the full truth of the sector. I realized it was just a business like any other—operated by governments, politics, finance, and hidden agendas. I realized that the "investment" in this business was such that the co-dependence between donor and recipient country had to necessarily be perpetuated. And I found that the social, environmental, and cultural side-effects of this far outweighed the proclaimed goals. I grew disillusioned and eventually left my field of work as I could no longer support a mechanism I found faulty by design. That was my first look into empowerment and self-reliance (or lack thereof)—from both the “macro” perspective (the sector I was working in and its contradictions) and from the “micro” perspective (my choice to quit and leap into the unknown).
I realized that the positive change I was seeking to contribute towards could only be brought about at the individual level, one person at a time, starting with myself! Interestingly, the deepest search of my life for far-reaching insight and vision started in the Himalayas—the highest ground in the world. There, I found myself amidst people and events that inspired me to explore deeper into myself in my quest for meaning and purpose. While growing up, I had already read many self-help books about self-realization. I had become a Certified Hypnotherapist before completing my M.A. studies.
It was in Nepal, however, that without even looking for them, I somehow attracted those teachers, yogis, and healers who helped me see experientially those theories and notions I had read in my books. I learned how my life was a reflection of my deeply held beliefs, definitions, and conditioning. I started to recognize how the more I became conscious of these, the more I could be empowered to change those things I didn't prefer. And I realized how I had to become all that which I wanted to see in the world. Since then, I have been peeling away at the layers and going deeper into more and more of who I really am... Perhaps, most importantly, I learned that all along I was the teacher I was looking for.
I am ever-changing flow on a quest to its essence.
Traveler, explorer, dreamer, doer, strategist, planner, organizer, naturalist, advocate, activist, observer, questioner, linguist, teacher, student, hypnotherapist, mystic, yogi, sun-gazer, writer, poet, messenger, philosopher, alchemist, artist, dancer, warrior…
These words capture some of the things I have been and done in both the narrowest and broadest sense…
I was born with a thirst for truth and knowledge, fired up by an innate desire to help bring oneness and fairness into this world, and moved by unquenchable wanderlust.
After earning a solid academic background, I set out with much enthusiasm to work for international cooperation. I was confident that joining my efforts with those of eminent organizations in this field would save the world from misery and self-destruction... I worked with both high profile international agencies and local organizations in 3 different continents, where I lived and traveled extensively. I met with realities, experiences and people that widely broadened my horizons and deeply enriched me.
Despite a successful career, having helped raise nearly USD 1,5 Million for the projects I worked for, and enjoying an exciting life that came with many privileges, something seemed amiss both inside of me and around me. While in Nepal, the first “developing country” I had come into contact with, I started to see the full truth of the sector. I realized it was just a business like any other—operated by governments, politics, finance, and hidden agendas. I realized that the "investment" in this business was such that the co-dependence between donor and recipient country had to necessarily be perpetuated. And I found that the social, environmental, and cultural side-effects of this far outweighed the proclaimed goals. I grew disillusioned and eventually left my field of work as I could no longer support a mechanism I found faulty by design. That was my first look into empowerment and self-reliance (or lack thereof)—from both the “macro” perspective (the sector I was working in and its contradictions) and from the “micro” perspective (my choice to quit and leap into the unknown).
I realized that the positive change I was seeking to contribute towards could only be brought about at the individual level, one person at a time, starting with myself! Interestingly, the deepest search of my life for far-reaching insight and vision started in the Himalayas—the highest ground in the world. There, I found myself amidst people and events that inspired me to explore deeper into myself in my quest for meaning and purpose. While growing up, I had already read many self-help books about self-realization. I had become a Certified Hypnotherapist before completing my M.A. studies.
It was in Nepal, however, that without even looking for them, I somehow attracted those teachers, yogis, and healers who helped me see experientially those theories and notions I had read in my books. I learned how my life was a reflection of my deeply held beliefs, definitions, and conditioning. I started to recognize how the more I became conscious of these, the more I could be empowered to change those things I didn't prefer. And I realized how I had to become all that which I wanted to see in the world. Since then, I have been peeling away at the layers and going deeper into more and more of who I really am... Perhaps, most importantly, I learned that all along I was the teacher I was looking for.
