The short version...

I am a professional dancer, yoga teacher and dance mentor based in Italy, specialised in Indian Fusion Bellydance.

I hold a BA in Indian Dance (Bharatanatyam) from the Conservatory of Vicenza, where I graduated as best student.

For more than 15 years, I’ve toured in 20+ countries, sharing my method with hundreds of students - a practice that blends detailed technique, cultural immersion, and the art of Bodyfulness.
My purpose? To help passionate dancers like you embody technique, artistry, and soulful confidence.

But it wasn't always like that...

In my early 20s, I faced a very dark period: a dysfunctional family, a toxic relationship, and a severe injury that left me bedridden for 30 days - which also cost me my 9‑to‑5 graphic design job. I was supposed to fall apart…

Instead, I chose courage. I set off to make my passion my purpose. Dance became my light, healing my soul and giving me a beautiful new mission: to show you how dance can transform your life from the inside out.

Life today:

I now live with my beloved family - my lil baby and my chef husband - and I cherish books, herbal teas, walks by the seaside, and tarot cards.
Every day I get to do what I love most: helping dancers like you move with confidence, grace, and soul.

The longer version...

Fascinated by Oriental cultures since childhood, I started my journey in dance when I was 18, looking for a way to reconnect with my "femininity" after years of abuse and disconnection with my body. That's when I started studying a variety of Bellydance styles, including Raqs Sharki, Tunisian dance and American Cabaret.

Soon after, I watched just a few seconds of Rachel Brice dancing on a Bellydance Superstars DVD during a theory dance class and immediately fell in love with what I saw: the aesthetics, the precise and serpentine movements, and the empowered posture... Everything was calling me. 
Unfortunately my dance teacher at that time discouraged me to study  what she referred to as "Tribal Fusion" because she said it was a mix of cultures and not "authentic" Bellydance...
And even so, just watching a few seconds of Rachel's movements changed the way I danced forever.

During those years of reconnection with my body and my deeper self I started my journey in Vinyasa Yoga as well, and one afternoon I googled "bellydance yoga" and one video of Samantha Emanuel popped up: it was such an emotional one, I remember myself crying in front of the computer watching her soulful empowered way of dancing, and telling myself: "THIS is what I want!"

I immediately purchased all the DVDs I could (it was 2009 and Tribal Fusion Bellydance classes did not exist in South Italy) and started practicing early in the morning, before going to my 9-5 job as a graphic designer.

Destiny wanted me to dance: immediately after, I fell from stairs and got injured, had to stay in bed for 1 month and got fired from my job because of that...
That's when I decided to go ALL IN: as soon as I recovered I used all my savings to travel and learn from great teachers worldwide.

What later became my personal style was greatly influenced by my mentors and inspirations: Suhaila Salimpour, Rachel Brice, Samantha Emanuel, Mardi Love, April Rose, Ariellah, Colleena Shakti, and  Manca Pavli just to name a few, and by my collateral studies in theatre-dance and contemporary dance.

The connection between dance and yoga has always been the red thread that inspired me to research further in my embodied journey, and I felt something was missing...

In was in 2012 that I met my Indian classical dance teacher Nuria Sala Grau and my life was transformed again: under her guidance I earned a Bachelor's Degree cum laude in Bhāratanāṭyam dance at the Conservatory of Vicenza, where I deepened my studies in Indology, Indian Music, Sanskrit and Indian Dance History.
I had the honour to study with great exponents of this style: Praveen Kumar, Leela Samson and Shobana Jeyasingh, with whom I explored the hybridisation of Indian and contemporary dance languages.

Indian classical dance is a soulful union between dance and yoga, and gave me a structure on how to approach the geometry of the body and to convey emotions through an elaborate vocabulary of gestures: this is when I started to experiment and "fuse" a lot of Indian elements in my Fusion Bellydance performances and teaching method, and that's when I started to call it Indian Fusion Bellydance.

Around the same time I started to be invited to teach and perform abroad, which led me to dance in over 20 countries around the world, including India where I taught during the first Tribal Fusion festival in India in 2016 (such a full-circle moment for me!)

Since the pandemic I had started sharing my work online through workshops and private classes, and with the arrival of my first baby in 2023 I decided to give birth to my D.E.V.I. Indian Fusion Program, a program that encompasses my entire journey in dance and movement, full of soul and passion.

My pregnancy journey pushed me to go even deeper in my research in dance and yoga as a spiritual path, and led me to become a certified Empowered Pregnancy, Birth and Post-Natal Yoga teacher under the guidance of my teacher Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.

I consider myself an eternal student, and I'm currently studying the beautiful art of Karana.