Raised in Mexico City, Sylvia has 20 years of experience in mindfulness, theater, body ritual movement, performance art, acting, and directing. Since 2014, she has been working in Madison, Wisconsin, as the founder and executive director of Primordial Multicultural Healing Community, a nonprofit that offers no-cost contemplative practices and Somatic Experiencing sessions to non-dominant groups; especially the Latine community. Sylvia simultaneously holds a position at the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches mindfulness meditation in both English and Spanish at UW Health Mindfulness Program. She will graduate as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in 2023. Much of her work involves stress reactivity, anxiety, attachment, acculturation/immigration, discrimination, and marginalization. Sylvia identifies as queer, female, mestiza, first-generation immigrant.

Specialties: Project management, facilitation, trauma healing, movement and performance improvisation, natural motivator, creative writing, cross-cultural communication, contemplative practices, languages (Spanish, English, French).

I value: Solidarity, compassion in action, challenge, collaboration, kindness, sense of safety and belonging, integrity, long-term relationships and partnerships, healing processes, environmental awareness, and innovative thinking.

I founded Primordial motivated by a dream: Creating a space for healing processes that celebrates diversity, where we discuss difference openly, and are centered in the needs and capacities of non-dominant groups (mainly Latine).

Positions/Affiliations/Responsibilities/Passions: Primordial’s Multicultural Healing Community Executive  Director, outreach specialist at UW Madison’s Educational Psychology, Mindfulness facilitator at UW Health Mindfulness Program, healing trauma at Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (third-year student), artist, traveler, LGBTQIA+ community member, wife, daughter, friend of the Earth and friend of my friends.