Let’s talk about my story.
For as long as I can remember, I have carried deep questions inside of me—questions that felt bigger than myself:
Who am I?
What happens when I die?
What is spirituality?
Who is God?
How can I truly feel the spiritual world?
I grew up in a Catholic family, but the teachings never resonated with my soul. Something inside me knew there had to be more. The answers I was given felt incomplete, and my heart longed for a deeper truth.
At 18, I left home and moved to New York. That was the beginning of a decade-long journey across the world in search of those answers. I attended retreats, studied with teachers, met gurus, sat in silence for a month in Vipassana, completed yoga certifications, and worked with ancestral plant medicines in South America. I also explored love through different relationships, thinking perhaps connection could reveal the mystery I was searching for.
And yet, after all those experiences, I still felt that the answers remained outside of me—just beyond my reach.
The Day I Met Breathwork
Everything shifted the first time I experienced Breathwork.
In just 20 minutes of breathing, I was taken on an inner journey deeper than anything I had ever experienced before. The questions that had haunted me my whole life dissolved—not because I found logical explanations, but because I felt the answers inside of me.
It wasn’t knowledge of the mind, but wisdom of the soul.
In that moment, it was as if wings opened within me. I no longer needed to search endlessly outside of myself. The answers had always been within me, waiting for me to remember.
And maybe you have wondered: Why is my name Mariposa? 🦋
It was during that first Breathwork journey that I understood. Like a butterfly breaking free from the cocoon, I had gone through my own metamorphosis. I had lived years in darkness, searching, struggling, transforming. And suddenly, I opened my wings. I was reborn. I became Mariposa.
A New Path
From that day, my path became clear. I traveled to Thailand to deepen my studies in yoga and breath practices. I immersed myself in Tantra and Shamanism. And from these threads, I wove together my own practice—one that was born directly from my transformation.
✨ Respira Tu Amor Breathwork (Breathe Your Own Love Breathwork) ✨
This practice is the alchemy of all I discovered: Shamanism, Tantra, Yoga, and the most important truth—breathing my own love.
Because what I discovered is simple yet profound:
🌿 The answers I sought were always within me.
🌿 Breath is the most powerful medicine.
🌿 By breathing my own love, I came home to myself.
The Butterfly Medicine
The butterfly became my teacher. She taught me that transformation is not about becoming someone new—it is about remembering who you truly are.
The cocoon, with all its darkness and uncertainty, is essential. Without it, there are no wings.
Through Respira Tu Amor Breathwork, this is the medicine I now share: each breath is an invitation to return to yourself, to awaken, and to transform.
Breathwork didn’t just change my life. It gave me back to myself.
And if you are reading these words, maybe this is your calling too—to breathe, to remember, to transform, to fly.
🦋 With love,
Mariposa
