My people are most recently from France, Switzerland and Eastern Europe (Ashkenazi jews).

My most recent ancestors come from France, Switzerland, Italy and Eastern Europe (Ashkenazi Jews). The oldest were most likely fish, and maybe, as I was shown in a dream, were they sturgeons with the ability to travel between fresh and salt water.

 

I was born and raised in Paris. I didn't like to grow up in a city, but I loved the diversity of bodies and cultures that lives there. Being surrounded by all these different people, languages, foods and music delighted me. At the same time, I realise now that I was hardly aware of my privileges.

From a very young age, I had access to a living culture that awakened and shaped me. I am grateful for all the amazing art, cinema, theatre, dance and music I encountered, that deeply nourished and transformed me. And I am forever grateful for my grandmother, who opened for me the worlds of books and literature.

 

As an adult, I decided to live on the East coast of the United States, where I stayed for 21 years. It is there that I gathered most of the medicine I am now bringing back home to France and Europe.

I acknowledge the land in Connecticut and the wise ancestors of this land, who taught me most everything I know about living in reciprocity with the land, listening, receiving, offering, and being held. And the Native American teachers who gave me a new frame to navigate life in reverence : Pat McCabe and Robin Wall Kimmerer, as well as the teachings of Daniel Foor to anchor in an Animist and therefor relational framework.

 

I also acknowledge my 20 years of designing textiles, and want to bring gratitude to the coton and the linen, to the wool, to all the fibres and colours and patterns that have taught me so much about the weaving process and the importance of beauty and ornementation. My offerings around reweaving reconnections are rooted in my practice of drawing and making textile and the ancient craft of weaving fabric. I believe that re-weaving these connections participate in dismantling structures of oppression and isolation we were born into.

 

I am committed to reclaiming ways of knowing that have been devalued in modern culture, and that are largely based on embodiment, such as intuition, listening, dance, voice, hand craft and many more. Allowing myself to be informed by these different intelligences greatly matters to me. I am grateful for my apprenticeship in Movement Medicine that gave me a map to reorient myself in the world in such an embodied, relational and generous way.

 

Singing the wonders of the world and making space for our collective grief feels vital to me in these troubled times.

I love to dance, to play, to use my hands, to create rituals, to spend time with the water, the trees, the land, the sky, praise beauty everywhere, sing, and do nothing. If possible in alignment with the cycle of the moon and the seasons. And I am also committed to moving from doing things alone to building community.