Aliveness, art and deep inner exploration.
I am a chartered psychologist, artist and shamanic practitioner.
My work brings together neuroscience, psychology, ancient wisdom and embodied practices to support personal growth and the adventure of becoming more fully alive.
TEDx
In my TEDx talk 2015, Inma explores themes of resilience, leadership and human transformation, inviting us to reconsider how we meet challenges and change in our lives.
Shamanic Practice and Earth-Based Wisdom
Since 2015, I have trained in shamanic practices with Northern Drum, a respected UK-based centre rooted in authentic earth-based wisdom traditions.
These teachings draw inspiration from Indigenous traditions of North and South America, Northern Europe and Asia, and explore practices such as dreaming, vision quests, ceremonial work and embodied awareness.
At their heart, these traditions invite a deep process of self-knowledge — learning to recognise who we are, reconnect with our inner power, and gently heal the wounds that may keep us from walking our path in life.
I continue to deepen this work through ongoing multi-year training, and some of these practices inform the reflective and inner journey spaces offered in the studio.
I offered bespoke individual and group experiences including:
Shamanic weddings
Rites of passage (life transitions, endings, beginnings)
Fire ceremonies (release, intention setting, renewal)
Guided inner journeys (ongoing personal and group work)
Art and Creative Exploration
Creativity has always been part of my life.
I grew up surrounded by flamenco, and its rhythm and passion still flow in my veins.
I have been painting for more than three decades. For many years this work lived privately, created only for my own view. In 2016, after joining an art studio in Exeter in the UK, my practice opened into deeper exploration, play and experimentation.
Since 2020 my creative journey has continued through the Art2Life community and the Creative Visionary programme, where painting is approached as a living and evolving process of discovery.
My painting process is daring, curious and adventurous. I work with saturated colour and thick layers of paint, allowing stories to build across the canvas and creating a feast for the fingers. The work is bold, unapologetic and alive — mirroring how I aspire to move through life myself.
My work has been exhibited internationally, including in Paris, Madrid, Milan, Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Innsbruck, Verona, Miami, Los Angeles, the Hamptons and New York, and I have been represented by galleries in Madrid, New York and Japan.
Photography has also accompanied me for more than thirty years. My love for it began in the magic of the darkroom, where images slowly appeared and sometimes dissolved back into darkness. That quiet alchemy stayed with me. Today I try to capture that same magic in moments of instant presence — when something moves me deeply enough that my body reacts before my mind does.
Many years ago I was also a prolific poet, exploring the landscapes of the inner world and being enchanted by the red sunset and the white moon. In recent years poetry has returned in a different form — as quiet companions emerging from the mystery that surrounds us.
Beyond my professional work, I am also the mother of three (two humans and one dog), a role that continues to teach me daily about growth, patience and the unpredictable beauty of being human.
I have loved psychology for as long as I can remember and I dedicated over 30 years to understanding the human mind, behaviour and connection with oneself and with each-other. 15 of those years have also been dedicated to teaching others to lead personal change and change around them, aiming to make their inner and outer world a bit better. Much of my scientific work has been dedicated to understanding identities, authenticity, resilience, mindfulness. And much of my teaching and community engagement has been focused on training change agents and resilient leaders.
Over time, however, I realised that both psychology and science offer powerful insights, but they do not always reach the deepest layers of human transformation. Real change sometimes require that we involve all of us, including the right part of the brain (where creativity reside), our embodied experience and even in some cases a deeper inner part of ourselves.
Creative expression, allows us to explore and express parts of ourselves that cannot always be reached through words or analysis.
Embodied experience help us inbue the change in our cells and tap into the body memory while releasing what has been accumulating within our fascia.
The deeper parts of ourselves can be accessed through what indigenous people from different parts o f the world already knew through ancient wisdom practices. I have learnt from the Shambala tradition and formally I studied since 2015 with the Northen drum shamanic school ways of accessing deeper levels of awareness, healing and inner guidance — areas that modern science is only beginning to rediscover.
At the heart of all of this lies togetherness— the recognition that transformation rarely happens in isolation. It unfolds within relationships, communities and shared spaces of reflection. This understanding has shaped much of my work, including my community initiatives and my small book Togetherness