Bali, Indonesia

Living and Creating With Intention

In early 2024, I packed a suitcase and flew to Bali with the intention of deepening my yoga practice through a teacher training. It was supposed to be a 2 month trip, what I didn’t know then was that I would never really go back “home” Something shifted. Or maybe everything did.

What was meant to be a temporary chapter turned into the start of an entirely new life. A nomadic life, one I had been trying to manifest for years, began unfolding in front of me. Not as a perfectly planned Instagram version of a dream, but as a raw, humbling, expansive journey. One that taught me that manifesting isn’t always about creating more or achieving new things. Sometimes it’s about letting go. It’s about deconstructing the walls we’ve built, the identities we cling to, and the stories that keep us small. It’s about uncovering what’s already here, the love, the purpose, the abundance that’s always been available when we learn to receive it.

The path hasn’t always been easy. There have been moments of discomfort, grief, fear, and uncertainty. But those moments were also invitations. Invitations to shed layers, to soften, to die and be reborn again and again. It’s a process. A sacred one.

This journey didn’t start in Bali, but that’s where it became real.

India

A Life of Practice

I’ve been practicing yoga for over six years now. From the very beginning, yoga wasn’t just movement for me, it was remembrance. A coming home to myself. A reconnection with something ancient, pure, and vast.

Over the years, my relationship to yoga evolved, deepened, and eventually transformed entirely when Ashtanga yoga entered my life.

Ashtanga offered me structure and discipline, but more than that, it opened up a gateway into devotion. It challenged me physically and mentally, yes, but more importantly, it demanded honesty. It asked me to show up as I am, again and again. Day after day.

The practice became a mirror, one that revealed both my shadows and my light. It taught me about humility, patience, resilience, and grace. It showed me that spirituality isn’t found in grand gestures, or in outward demonstrations, it’s in repetition, in breath, inward, in presence.

My devotion to this practice has led me to seek out traditional, lineage-based teachings from some of the most respected teachers in the world. Because I believe that if we’re going to walk a spiritual path, it’s worth doing with reverence and authenticity.

Weaving it All Together

Finding Union

I’ve always been multi-passionate, a true Gemini soul with many interests and curiosities. For a long time, I felt pressure to pick one path, to simplify, to brand myself as one thing. But the truth is, all these parts of me, photographer, yoga teacher, creative strategist, traveler, etc. are not separate.

They’re all expressions of the same essence: a desire to live and create with intention.

Focus Maude is the space where all these threads are woven together. It’s my living portfolio and my heart-led offering. Through it, I get to support fellow entrepreneurs and conscious creatives in bringing their vision to life, whether through intentional marketing, branding, storytelling, or photography.

My approach is rooted in presence, depth, and soul. I don’t believe in shortcuts, and I don’t believe in stripping yourself down to fit a template. True marketing, for me, is about translating the essence of who you are into something tangible. Something beautiful. Something real.

Whether I’m behind the lens, on the mat, or strategizing your brand story, I’m always working from the same place: curiosity, devotion, and love.

People have told me that combining my work with other aspects of my life won't work, it's not clear enough, not ''niche'' enough. But I disagree and I say if some people don't get it, let them, they are not those I'm trying to attract, not my dream client. Are you my dream client? And who are your dream clients? Shall we find them together? People have said that this is not what marketing is. But I disagree, why should marketing be anything other that showing up fuly, authentically and celebrating yourself and what you have to offer, putting yourself out there. So after hiding myself behind, corporate work, work that felt unaligned for years I finally decided that I had to start with myself. Showing up fully and authentically. Not being scared to open up and show myself if that's what I wish to encourage other to do because there truly is so much beauty in that. To those who say that Yoga and personnal developpement is not relatable to marketing I actually completely disagree. People are running heart lead businesses and pouring their blood sweat and tears into that, why should their marketing and the way their businesses is being advertised be any different?