ACADEMIC WORK
Academic References
PhD Dissertation: The Relationship Between Pain and Body Awareness: an Investigation using Experimental and Experiential methods
Supervisors: Professor Kevin O’Regan and Professor Claire Petitmengin
Examinators: Professor Olaf Blanke, Professor Jean Vion-Dury, Professor Nicolas Danziger, Professor Jonathan Cole.
Academic Qualifications
2009 – 2012
PhD in Cognitive Science, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France.
2008 – 2009
MS in cognitive science, COGMASTER, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
2003 – 2007
BS Biology, University of Chile, Santiago.
Research grants
2018-2020
An embodied approach in the study of experience, International Research Network. CONICYT-PCI Chile.
2013-2016
CONICYT-PAI Chile. Post-doctorate position. Pain and body awareness: an investigation into the bodily experience of persons suffering from fibromyalgia.
Employment
2018 to date
Director of the Laboratorio de Fenomenología Corporal, Chile/ Brasil.
2017 – 2018
Research fellow at the Psychology Faculty of the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Conference organizations
2020
An Embodied Approach to the Study of Experience, Online.
2016
Neurophenomenology: Building a science of experience. Consciousness, subjective experience and neuroscience, Valparaíso and Santiago, Chile.
2014
Arts and science in the study of experience, Valparaíso, Chile.
Recent conference participation
2020
Towards a science of experience, International Micro-phenomenology Workshop, Online.
2019
Micro-phenomenology and the study of experiences linked to significant life processes: some methodological questions, at Phenomenology Four Ways, An International Workshop, Durham, England.
2019
Micro-phenomenology and the study of experience: methods, challenges, limits and possibilities at First-Person Science of Consciousness – Theories, Methods, Applications, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
2019
An analysis procedure for the Micro-phenomenological Interview at the University of Nantes, France.
2018
Conscious movement and the Study of Experience. Workshop at Symposium Arts-based Research, Alanus hochschule, Bonn, Germany.
2018
Micro-phenomenology: a tool for the study of experience
Applications in suffering Colloquium at Section of Phenomenology, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany.
BODY WORK
Trainings
2020
Pranayama with the Mohans
2018 – to date
Somatic Experiencing ® Brazil
2017
International training massage School (ITM), Brazil
2001 – 2003
Corporeal mime, École du Mime Corporel Dramatique, London, England.
2000 – 2001
Circus Techniques and Physical Theater, CIRCOMEDIA, Bristol, England.
2000 – to date
Yoga. During the last twenty years I’ve been learning and practicing yoga. Among my teachers are:
- Loreto Cortéz
- Charley Bensusen
- Kia Naddermier
- Stéphane Collet
- Mark and Joanne Darby
- Kino McGregor
- Petri Räisänen
- Dena Kingsberg
- B.N.S Iyengar
- Dr. Jayashree and Sri Narashimhan
Performance
2002-2007
I worked as a dancer and collaborator with the film director Isabel Rocamora in several site-especific work. Among the most relevant are:
- 2007 Main Actress/dancer at “Horizon of exile”, dance video film by Isabel Rocamora, Atacama dessert, Chile.
- 2003 Collaborator in “Memory Release” Motion capture/ video/ Hanging body project by Isabel Rocamora, founded by Future Physical Essex dance, England
- 2002 Aerial performance in “Requiem & Deliverance” by Isabel Rocamora, Queen Mary Medical Library, London, England.
- 2002 Choreography collaborator and performance in “In-Permanence” site specific performance by Isabel Rocamora, Docklands festival, England.
- 2003 Artist in residency at FOAM, illumine project, Brussels, Belgium.
2003
Artist in residency at FOAM, illumine project, Brussels, Belgium.
