Well, now allow me to introduce myself informally. I am a Russian woman with an Italian last name, living in California… My journey - the story of my own healing - has become the poster child for my work.

I graduated from the College of Arts in Russia in 1980 as an actor. After working in a theater for 9 months I had a powerful realization that all my training in performing arts was about my skills to act as somebody else. It left me with no identity of my own! When I was not playing something I was not, I did not know who I was! Throughout the years of my theater school I was taught that it takes a lot of talent to pretend to be somebody else. The realization that happened to me was that it takes a lot more of a talent to stop pretending. I left the stage and never looked back.

Ever since then I was engaged in many very different activities in economical, political, spiritual fields of Russian reality. They all had a common theme for me. Whatever area I was focused on, - it was the energy of a breakthrough that I was after. Surrealistic twilight absurdity of Mother Russia was calling for some changes!

Nine years later another powerful realization occurred! It suddenly became clear to me where I needed a breakthrough the most was in my own personal life! I was looking into my new baby’s beautiful eyes, freshly out of my 6th marriage. Changing the world around me and trying to save the humankind did not pay in family-valued currency; it did not make up for me not being present in my body.

I stopped everything, moved to America and started my life from scratch, again. I had to learn to speak a new language, to drive, to do the shopping “American style”, to be a mother, but most of all to figure out, finally, who or what and why I am. When I remove the ways of identifying myself through my activities or belief systems, what’s left..?

Gradually, I’ve obtained an infinite fascination with such a complex “event” as a human being. As that is exactly how I perceive any individual I’ve ever met on my path – as a multidimensional, ever-evolving event, - not as solid, “carved-in-stone” object. I see myself as a curious, shape-shifting, little explorer, moving through the vastness of our Universe… I found it a comfortable place to be and enjoy any kind of activity, even if I’d wish to return to my theatrical career, I can do that without causing myself any damage.