Te de Sura Studio
Welcome to Te de Sura Studio
…an experiential studio “space” for embodied integration, realignment, and where you are both the art and the artist.
Embodied Integration Programs
for Daily Life
Do you organize events that tend to prompt big shifts or personal transformation for your attendees?
OR
Have you recently attended a transformative event or undergone a big change in your life yourself?
Once back in “daily life” are you or your attendees trying to figure out how to stay connected to all parts of your Self, practice what was learned, or blend what you experienced with other parts of you so it actually sticks?
This is a crucial process called integration and I’ve built a whole suite of programs to support you in it.
For Organizers: I’ve created programming that you and I can adapt to fit your group and deliver to them post-event to support their landing and help them expand the magic discovered at your event in daily life. Explore more here.
For Individual Seekers: whether you’ve just come out of a specific event or are undergoing a threshold moment in your life, I offer 1×1 coaching as well as various asynchronous modules that can support you in following the thread of your new ways in daily life. Explore more here.
You bring the seeds of activation and insight. I’ll provide the science-backed supportive context for embodiment. . .a lush garden that invites both body and mind into your internal landscape.
Together we’ll help them bloom.
My Approach and Personal Testimony
Hi, I’m Kristi, the owner and founder of Te de Sura Studio. I’m based in Portugal and the United States, where I serve my global community as a voice, sound, and somatics practitioner & researcher, multimedia artist & musician, adult learning facilitator, and instructional designer specializing in the embodied integration process. I’m blessed to share sound, movement, art, writings, and teachings on what I am passionate about with incredible people daily and run a sound research center called VIBES at a local uni.
But it wasn’t always this way.
Just a few years ago, I was working in education and technology fields and living a life that couldn’t hold all parts of me by a long shot. I had acquired various credentials in wellness fields, studied somatics, practiced meditation, chanting, and yoga, and regularly made art, but was still mostly miserable, constantly afraid, numb from the neck down, and had not shared my authentic voice in over 20 years. My external world reflected the desperation I felt and I had all but given up on my dreams. Heck, I didn’t even dare to dream anymore.
But then everything changed.
On a (crazy!) whim, I signed up for an ecstatic dance retreat in Europe, where I touched my own wholeness. And when I got back, rather than fall back asleep, I undertook a very intentional embodied integration process to keep my insights from the event alive. Bit by bit, my life was completely transformed to align with what is actually true for me.
I realized I couldn’t and shouldn’t keep this to myself.
Once I realized that my intentional integration had facilitated my eventual transformation, I decided to combine my 20+ years of professional expertise with my lived experience to build Te de Sura’s proprietary Journey to Remember framework and programming so others can do it too. And…you can.
I combined my professional expertise with lived experience of transformation to create this for you.
Now, through both live and asynchronous learning opportunities and facilitation, clients and participants can explore the understood borders of themselves using sound, movement, visualization, and nervous system regulation tools uniquely combined to support the integration of insights or inspiration from a threshold moment or transformative experience into daily life.
When you follow your thread in this way, what was once an inspiration in the mind becomes a truth lived in the body that holds space for all parts of the self. Your reality will realign accordingly, one different decision at a time.
Want to experience this for yourself or explore what it would look like for me to offer this to your attendees? Reach out to me below.
What is “Te de Sura” (Tay-day-soo-rah)?
Te de sura is a term I created from the Spanish words “tesoro” (treasure) and “basura” (trash).
Te de (la) Sura = Treasure from Trash.
Years ago, Te de Sura Studio started out as an upcycled wearable art studio…where I rescued objects, supplies, or “stuff” that were thrown away or discarded and made them into something loveable again.
Then I realized that this concept could very easily be applied to point when we realize that the parts of ourselves that we have hidden or rejected are perhaps our greatest treasure and we slowly integrate them back into the light.
Our greatest gifts come from the shadow. That’s not some ChatGPT crazytalk. (I wrote this all by myself, thankyouverymuch)! I’m serious.
So now, “stuff” isn’t the art. YOU are.
But just as the creation of a masterpiece takes quiet devotion, courage, and mastery through practice, the same is true for you.
In Te de Sura’s experiential “studio space”, you’re invited to devote yourself to exploring to the very center of yourself…as an everyday ceremony and daily practice, where we go back in for all of those precious pieces you hid.
They are all worthy. YOU are enough.
Ready to Commit to Your Path on the Deepest Level?
As one of my 1x1 coaching clients, you can choose the cohesion and inner union of the Realignment Pathway or the expression and embodied truth of the Amplification Pathway… or both!
So much of the advice out there tells you to look outside yourself for answers. But the key to feeling truly at home with yourself and in your life is less talk and stories of the mind and a whole lot more direct experience.
To be fair, you don’t need a coach for this. Yep, I said it. Everything you need is already within you. My job is simply to help you access it.
And although you don’t need a coach, having one might be helpful. Big shifts are hard to make on your own and mind-based approaches only get you so far. And sometimes, it takes the right kind of compassionate witness to serve as your mirror and guide, especially as you are just starting out.
So you can think of this like a journey through a foreign land. I’ll be your trail guide and translator on this journey to the center of yourself — helping you tune into the inner signals your body, mind, heart, and spirit have been sending all along, until the day arrives that you realize you understand the languages they speak and can wayfind on your own.
Just so we are clear, arriving at the point when you tell me, “Thanks for everything, Kristi. I can find my way from here on my own”, is the goal here.
Whether you’re choosing the Realignment coaching pathway to bring the scattered pieces of yourself into coherence… or Amplification coaching to express your truth and live it out loud… this work is about “unhiding” and fully embodying who you are, from the inside out.
Because when all of you is online…not just your mind, but your mind, heart, body, and spirit…the shift actually sticks.
Sound intriguing? You can explore these two pathways more in depth on this page.
If you’re ready now, click below to apply, and let’s see if we’re a fit.
Curious about Coaching but not quite ready to commit? Try a Mini-Realignment Session!
…Sample the Realignment and Amplification Coaching Pathways in one combined session
A Mini-Realignment Session is a low-commitment, high-impact way to experience a personalized blend of the Realignment and Amplification 1x1 coaching pathways at an incredibly reasonable price. After purchase, you’ll be asked to fill out a quick form and answer some questions, which I’ll use to provide you with personalized multimedia guidance in the form of a workbook and either a short video or live session, so you can get a feel for my coaching and experience some immediate benefit.
If you want to read more about the specific focus of each pathway, just click here.
Otherwise, click below to book your session — I’m excited to learn more about you and help you move forward on your path!