I was born in Bologna, where I earned a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures. I lived in Scotland, where I obtained a Master of Letters in Scottish Women's Literature. Subsequently, I moved to Germany, where I taught in bilingual schools. I lived in Hamburg until 2005, the year I returned to Italy. My great passions include traveling, studying languages, teaching, practicing sports, and movement in general. I started practicing Nia in 1999, earning the White Belt in 2000. From that moment, I embarked on my Nia journey with the founders of the technique, Debbie and Carlos Rosas, following them both in Germany and the United States. In 2011, I was chosen as a trainer, and since 2012, I have been conducting trainings in Italy, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom. In both 2014 and 2019, I was named Trainer of the Year. In 2024, I was promoted to Blue Belt Trainer, the second level of training. Nia is now an integral part of my life, and every day I am grateful to have chosen this path for my health and well-being. It is one of the most precious gifts I have received and one of the most precious gifts I can joyfully offer to others.

Twentyfive years ago, prompted by enthusiastic friends, I went to a Nia class at a large gym in Hamburg, where I lived. The teacher moved in a way that, although new to me, was somehow extremely familiar. The movements she was modelling were perfectly adapted to the music: each change in the music corresponded to a - sometimes minimal - change in the movement, and this created a kind of magic. After the lesson I talked a little with the teacher who told me about being an Olympic swimming champion. What I found familiar was precisely the fluidity and lightness of the movements, a feeling that until then I had only experienced by swimming, one of my favourite form of movement. The first lesson had touched me deeply, both for the type of movement and for the great space it had given me to feel not only my body but also my emotions. I was coming out of a very difficult period in my life and both body and soul were 'anaesthetised'. I was already doing work on myself by following a Lakota Indian master. It was hard, sad and often frustrating work that made me take small steps forward but also many back. Nia on the other hand was the opposite of work, it made me immediately connect to the pleasure of being in my body. In just one lesson it made me rediscover sensations and feelings that were far away, among others joy. Since then I have not missed a lesson from my teacher and shortly afterwards I decided to take the White Belt training for myself and for my own growth. I am grateful to have embarked on a path that has given me enormous physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. It has allowed me to reconnect with parts of me that had been tested by life events and reconnected me with vitality, well-being and joy.