My Story
It begins with a name: Ymasumac
When I was born my father said, Ymasumac Kanki - you are perfect, the best - Moved by Spirit my father named me this most beautiful expression where I get to learn to live within a vision. I come from the Quechua people of Bolivia through my father. From my mother I am from English and Irish roots who landed in New England among the early pilgrims.
I walk and work within the oceans of my ancestry and all the beauty and knowledge they bring. I also learn to walk in the tensions of a past that created present-day patterns of otherness - identifying and removing these patterns within me and with others.
Living Entre Mundos
My parents were outliers in their communities and watered my life with possibility, learning to live on the edge of reality and a vision. Moving frequently, I grew up moving between cultures and belief systems and norms of understanding.
We lived across the United States from California to New England; to Colombia and Ecuador, eventually staying in the Yucatán peninsula in México for five years in the stronghold of the Mayan community. I knew the answer was never one-sided and always held a complex story behind it.
I dove into this story again and again, uncovering new belief systems, seeing new ways of being and knowing, realizing we are always in a state of movement and becoming, new paths laid before us.
Uncovering, Reimagining, Trusting as a Way of Being
Returning to the United States as an adolescent I needed to find a new ground to walk on, again. This time the transformation needed to be profound, I could no longer swing from end to end of who I was, I needed grounding.
Fifteen became a pivotal year for me. Working with a healer I began a path of deep healing examining deep-seeded beliefs and patterns within me. Learning to work with my emotions I developed a profound relationship with my inner reality. At the same time, I knew it was time for college.
So at fifteen years old I tested out of high school and began my movement forward. Reimagining a new reality means creating change from the roots, where I learned to listen to my voice and my truth, in relationship with ancestral knowings and present day realities.
Mi Camino Se Abre
I have learned to use every tool available to me:
Emotion - Intellect - Intuition - Vision - Connection
To create new paths and discover new ground in and around me.