Why Yanua?

At this stage of my professional journey, I would briefly describe myself as a consultant in self-realization. I work with people who are ready to experience a transformation in their lives. My approach employs a humanistic and transpersonal perspective, focusing on the personal and professional fulfilment of my clients. “Transpersonal” refers to experiences, processes, and events that transcend the usual sense of identity, allowing one to experience a greater and more meaningful reality.

I have been trained in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, in addition to rigorous training in Gestalt therapy accredited by the Spanish Association of Gestalt Therapy, a federated training centre with international recognition. I integrate into this toolbox my own meditation practice, ongoing mentorship from a therapist and other teachers, my encounters and experiences with the beings in my environment, and important elements of ecopsychology that led me to create a holistic methodology, Sacred Biology, reflecting what we are, each person, each being, in our individuality, and in the collective we co-create. My goal is to help those who choose it to achieve harmony of the body-mind-soul triad to lead a full life and live with purpose. I have over three decades of experience as a research scientist in academia and as a team leader in a multinational corporation, consultancy work for several multinationals, founder of my own companies both domestically and internationally, author of more than 30 publications, a veterinary degree, and a membership in the American College of Veterinary Pathology as a clinical and comparative pathologist. Today, I hold a panpsychist worldview, having learned as a scientist that consciousness is not a condition unique to human beings, but extends to many other living beings. I adhere to the current theory of consciousness emerging from quantum physics, which considers consciousness as the source of creation: we are each person, each plant, each living being, a manifestation of the universe seeking to know itself, and therefore, we are interconnected beings. Sacred Biology is designed for the current situation of social collapse and drastic environmental changes that are scientifically documented. My goal is to help those who seek fundamental change and wish to reconnect with their essence, that is often buried under layers of conditioned responses, behaviours and  emotional wounds, and to feel the interconnection with the Earth, in order to achieve a fuller life and thus co-create a better world.

Like everyone, I have multiple facets to my identity, with a wealth of experiences that complement my consulting work. I’ve taught at public and private institutions, both secondary and university levels, and worked as a researcher and manager in multinational companies. Now, I run my own business. My partner, our daughters, and I have traveled and lived in various countries and cultures. I am also a daughter, sister, mother, teacher, scientist, healthcare professional, artist, and, with my partner Diederik, co-manager of Yanua and several of its forestry and agricultural sustainability and regeneration projects.

I am Yanua’s research scientist and farmer, using both my decades of academic training and generations’ long family farming background to blend hands on work with scientific rigour and logic to analyse the conditions of Yanua’s environment. This allows us to create and implement solutions that, while listening to the land, foster soil regeneration, biodiversity and sustainable agricultural and forestry practices. More widely, I am also a partner, son, brother and father: with children of our own, I am passionate about “improving futures”, learning and exploring within and together with our natural laboratory, factoring in measurable changes such as in the climate locally, or the effect of conventional farm practices that have eroded diversity, and problem-solving adaptations for a common, healthier tomorrow.