I've been teaching women to reconnect with their bodies since 2006, when I first certified as a pole and sensual movement instructor. After a few years away raising my boys, I came back to it teaching small groups of women out of my basement studio, then built that into Pure Mvmnt, training a small team of teachers of my own. Separately, I'm also a certified iPEC coach, that's where most of my life-coaching tools come from.
Anjua and the Pure Mvmnt team.
I'm Afro-Latina, born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a Nuyorican mother and a Black American father. I grew up thin in a family of shapely women, which gave me body dysmorphia before I even had a word for it. It took years of actual movement, not therapy, not intellectualizing it, before I felt like I had "enough" body. That's a big part of why I teach the way I do now: the body has to be the one to work it out, not the mind.
