Could you talk a bit about your early life?

I am from Puerto Rico and my family travelled widely in South America and the USA. We lived for a time in New York.

I grew up in an emotional culture which is one of the reasons I’m so good at helping people through emotions and beyond them. My whole early life was a salsa, as we would say.

How would you describe yourself?

I would define myself as a friend, as a teacher that takes your hand. But I am what I am. It has taken me many years to accept this. Now, I’m more fully myself than ever.

What teachers or experiences shaped your approach?

Like many people, I’ve taken bits and pieces from all kinds of teachers and teachings – spiritual and otherwise – and adapted them to suit my work. The one real teacher I had was Arthur Janov, from 1967 to 70. Janov, the creator of Primal Scream Therapy, always used to say ‘feel it’.

‘Feeling it’ has shaped my work. I help people to feel with their whole body, mind and spirit. That’s when the breakthrough can happen.

What sort of people come to you?

Today, the more intelligent people come to me. People who’ve got to a point where they realise there’s more to life but they can’t put their finger on it.

Remember, doubt is the key. I always suggest to people to deepen their process of inquiry. If you don’t allow yourself the experience of uncertainty you’re never going to go beyond it to your inner certainty.

Could you briefly describe your work?

It’s not therapy, counselling or healing but it contains all of these. Whatever tools I use, my work takes people to the heart, to the core of their humanity. To the NEXUS. By helping to awaken their heart intelligence, I connect them to who they always were, to their uniqueness. You could also call it a kind of practical, modern mysticism.

For those of us who are not familiar with your Inner Alchemy work, could you explain what this is and how it’s connected with NEXUS?

NEXUS springs from Inner Alchemy.

Inner Alchemy is dedicated to the development of Consciousness at every level and to the evolution of humanity. It embraces any approach that helps the individual contact his Real Self: the faculties and powers that permit communion and collaboration with all of Life.

NEXUS is the process of working with an individual to help you arrive at an awareness of your Real Self. Once you are in tune with your Real Self, you can start to live creatively.

For many years, the work of Inner Alchemy has been carried out in large seminars and workshops. NEXUS is primarily focused on the individual, although I do work with partners and family relationships, as well as small Group Intensives of three to five people.

What is your hope for the future of your work?

If half the people I’m involved with could pass what they’ve learned on to the next generation, it would already be a big accomplishment. I’d settle for that!