Mar Alvarez

Moved by an intense desire to understand reality, I studied Philosophy at university. I soon met the limits of language and of discursive thought, and turned to yoga and Hinduism, to which I devoted many years of study and work, trying to reach through meditation and practice what I could not reach through reflection and speculation. Life, as always, was my best teacher, and events took it upon themselves to lead me towards personal work: to seeing my wounds and also my strengths. I had to put things in order before I could move on.

Feldenkrais opened up for me a depth I could never have imagined, through the movement of the body. I understood the importance of the nervous system and of homeostasis: that we had to work on health in order to develop our full individual and human potential, and that the key lay in the capacity to feel. I had been teaching yoga for years already, and taking the step towards Feldenkrais and Meditation led me to share with my students what I was investigating daily in myself. My life and my profession began to converge in a very beautiful way.

Alongside this, dream work and the shamanic paths, which we share with my partner, together with motherhood, brought life and its challenges back to the foreground. It was then that I discovered Internal Family Systems therapy. Self-knowledge took on another level of subtlety and complexity. Being a witness to the magic that animates all things and inner processes, to the power of compassion and to that divine spark we call the «Higher Self», surpassed any practice I had known before. Being able to accompany other people through their processes has become for me a great honour and a privilege, one that encourages me to keep improving, growing and trusting in this human and divine potential we are all part of.