When I started Soul Portrait, I taught the real value of offering this service was the images people would get in their digital gallery. Maybe that is still the highest value for some. But over the years, I’ve come to know to be true, through feedback and observing, that the experience people go through in their journey (investing in a session, preparing, showing up in front of the camera, meeting resistance, surrendering, embodying their life force, integrating images, sharing) is where the medicine and value of this offering really is. The images become a plus, bonus, aftermath bliss. I am so lucky to have clients that are deeply attuned to the feminine way and know how to listen and receive the wholehearted alchemical-gift of soul portrait. They are not just interested in perfectly masked images of themselves. After a session, those who find themselves in a sweet, powerful integration portal, meet a field of gratitude and deeper understanding of their home coming, their inner light, they recognize the rite of passage they just went through, they feel seen and witnessed in their experience, and that feeling, that nuanced gift, is the real gem of this whole dance, this whole medicine I call Soul Portrait (thanks to Ganga Devi Braun, who named the soul of my work 4 years ago).

✢ You want to be seen and felt by others.

✢ You want to move, inspire, impact people without using words.

✢ You want to visibly see your embodiment of truth, love, freedom, divinity.

✢ You want to see yourself in a sensual, free, embodied, intuitive nature.

✢ You want memories at the age you are in, look good and honor your life.

✢ You want to belong to your aesthetics and claim your venusian codes.

✢ You want to give a story for the medicine human in you.

✢ You want to see in image the version of you that believed in your vision, medicine, dream and transmission.

✢ You want to receive a mirror reflection of your connection to source, nature and humanity.

✢ You want to play with the spirit of bold attitude, confidence and visibility.

✢ You want images that show the sides of you that are soft, playful, sensual, connected, loving, powerful. 

✢ You want images that represent the warrior of love that you embody.

✢ You want images that people can be attracted to, you want magnetism.

✢ You want to show your heart without having to explain much.

✢ You want images that honor your unique soul essence.

✢ You want photos to use in your marketing and sales. We all want it.

Story time. Soul Portrait was born precisely 12 years ago in my beautiful sunlight apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I started a black and white series photographing women. The invitation was simple. These women would show up with an "archetype" for the session, an "alter ego", even a "made up" name. In our early 20’s, it felt like the only safe way to explore our deep soul desires. That became part of the sessions ethos - a permission to explore what lives within. What our subconscious deeply desired to inhabit, play, express, validate. The sessions were very sensual. Intimate and revelatory. Following the currents of eros and what was emerging, we were not intellectualizing ourselves that much.

I eventually got side tracked into a busy commercial career in New York and moved away from my mythic imagination and body. On my late 20's I revisited it. With a more developed spirituality and awareness of where I was going with it all. Enchanted by the soul and the deep unseen world. Soul Portrait was born from a deep need to tune back to nature and her cycles, that was the primary respiration of this practice. To become a mirror of our truths and beauties. Soul Portrait as an art form required mesmerizing and wild landscapes that would take our bodies and spirits into states of ancestral remembrance. I moved to Maui to dedicate myself to this channel. Built the business and started serving it primarily to healing artists and spiritual leaders. I trusted them to trust that the image was a trickster archetype into deeper work, discovery and erotic connection with all life and possible healing for all. It has never been about a .jpeg image or 'photography', tho I have become really good at creating stunning imagery. Beauty and aesthetic-pleasure holds tremendous space inside this work. I like it that way.

And then the Water Experience came. This is unsaid, but 80% of Soul Portrait sessions end in water, and that is purely intentional, devotional and specific to the ways I am orienting towards the transformational aspects of this offering. Recently I was asked by a client for an integration call a few months after a session, the call lasted 2.5h where she expressed the immense impact, beauty, healing and profundity she experience through my holding with soul portrait and beyond. She had flown to Maui for a full experience and we journeyed deep, crossed some thresholds that were quite edgy. She expressed that in her Soul Portrait Water Experience she was able to revisit her entire life, see the layers of resistance arise and be released in a tender, deep and soft way. Powerfully. She experienced a rebirth, a home coming, and what made that possible was the witnessing, my presence and holding through the process. We cried some good tears. As we were both astonished by the simplicity and profundity of witnessing and the ways water holds.

Soul Portrait is not changing. It is honoring and celebrating its roots. It's shedding some tears to where it all begun in appreciation for its inherent inner knowing and infant stages. And it's also deepening into the realm of somatic safety. I am cleansing the temple. I am anchoring the practice in transformational healing experiences, depth work, oracular living and bringing in a layer of soft tenderness, gorgeous joy, creative eros, subconscious work, re-wilding the feminine, mythic allure. Soul Portrait has always been and will continue to be revelatory art, a void space, a creative haven for beauty, a space where light and magic opens up, a channel for unseen world to communicate, a telepathic map between our bodies and the moon, a bridge between you and the waters, a melody from the earth, a space for world shattering, world building art, a portal for tragic beauty and devastating love, a courageous ally for mirror-reflection work, a softening, a thawing, a yielding, a lover that will slow you down to the ground and remind you of the organic aliveness you are so you can bring forward more of your gifts, medicine, voice and love from a resourced, connected and embodied place. Soul Portrait already loves you. It sees you just as you are. Whole.