MY Path Between Worlds
From a very young age, I was immersed in Tibetan Buddhism. When I was just one and a half, my parents met Lama Gangchen Rinpoche, a tibetan healer and guru that was visiting Brazil at the time. I grew up surrounded by spiritual practices, pilgrimages, teachings in Buddhist philosophy — and by the presence of my brother, Lama Michel Rinpoche, recognized later as a reincarnated lama.
While he found his path early, I walked my own journey of questioning and discovery — navigating between a Buddhist worldview of compassion and a materially driven world, often disconnected from deeper values. Many times, I felt lost. But my love for nature became a compass, leading me toward Indigenous worldviews that honor all beings as sacred.
I experienced this not through concepts, but in moments of pure presence during my travels through the Amazon, Central America, Nepal, Tibet, and Tanzania — in unforgettable encounters where I could feel the deep interconnection between our hearts, our minds, and the living Earth.
Having studied at the International Center of Photography in New York (2013) I developed an authorial photographic practice as a way of sharing unique encounters and making visible our belonging to a larger planetary family.
Still, I carried questions that didn’t fit into conventional narratives: What does it mean to live meaningfully? How can I serve a world in crisis? Where do beauty, grief, and responsibility meet? When I discovered Deep Ecology and the work of Joanna Macy, all these threads came together. I found a language that united my Buddhist roots with my ecological calling, affirming that collective healing begins with remembering our belonging to the web of life — a path that is both internal and shared.
This story continues in the circles I hold, in the dialogues I nurture, and in the seeds I help plant. In a world marked by crisis and uncertainty, I build bridges from separation to belonging, and create spaces where empathy, trust, and collaboration can flourish — in service of a culture of care for ourselves, for one another, and for the Earth.
