Who am I?

I move, I write, I observe.

Sometimes with my body, sometimes with a camera, sometimes with words.
This is a place where all of that meets.

Hi, it’s me.
Also known as P, Pat, Patolina, or Patricia: a wanderer, a seeker, and a lifelong student of anything that helps us feel more alive.

I was born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Punta Arenas, a small town in the far south where the wind shapes your character whether you like it or not. From a young age, I was surrounded by gymnastics and the arts, and I found myself asking one question again and again:

“How can we change the world?”

Over time, I realised the answer always came back to the same place:
knowledge, education, and exploration.

That’s what led me to study Physical Education (yes — movement was my whole world). My curiosity took me deeper into early development, and I wrote my thesis on early stimulation for babies from 2 months to 2 years old. Somewhere in that journey, I crossed paths with yoga for the first time… and something quietly shifted.

Years later, thanks to a close friend, yoga came back into my life — first through Ashtanga, and then, after moving to Sydney in 2015, through Vinyasa. I completed my first 50-hour teacher training, and it finally clicked:

I didn’t just want to practise yoga…
I wanted to share it.

Yoga has supported me through so many versions of myself — and I love teaching it the same way I experience it: as a kind of medicine.
Sometimes it’s the medicine you came for.
Sometimes it’s the medicine you didn’t know you needed.

I eventually trained in pre- and postnatal yoga too, guided by one question:

“How can I support people becoming mums — in a way that feels real, respectful, and empowering?”

But life isn’t linear, and mine definitely isn’t.
It brought me back into the world of children and education, where I now work in after-school care — and my curiosity has only grown stronger.

I keep circling back to questions like:
How can we help children thrive outside of the traditional model?
How do we support families with more compassion and creativity?
How do we change systems from the inside out?

Alongside movement and education, I’ve always had another love: writing.
Not many people know this, but I once wrote for a fashion blog back in Chile. Later, I contributed to Lifelover Magazine, an online publication celebrating women and their travel spirit.
Eventually, I stopped writing for others and began writing for myself — nothing grand, just what was alive in my mind.

And more recently, I fell in love with photography.
Not because I know everything about lighting or technique (I’m learning), but because I’m obsessed with what lives underneath an image:

Why that photo? Why that moment? What feeling does it hold?
To me, photography is storytelling without words — the kind that hits your body before your brain can explain it.

So maybe that’s what I am, really:
a storyteller — through movement, words, and images.

And this website is where I’m letting all of those parts belong.

Welcome to my corner of the internet.
Come as you are.