Sylvia Ruiz CMF, SEP

As a certified Mindfulness Teacher and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I am passionate about disseminating strategies for fostering well-being in the face of stress, anxiety, immigration, and traumatic experiences. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions, I combine my insights, experiences, and science to present an expanded scenario that empowers people to promote their re-connection and healing.

Originally from Mexico City, I identify as queer, female, mestiza, and first-generation immigrant. For over 20 years, my spiritual journey has been intertwined with my professional life through mindfulness, theater, body-ritual movement, and performance. In 2020, I founded Primordial Multicultural Healing Community, an organization whose mission is to connect the Latine community with its own capacity to create well-being. I hold a position in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also teach mindfulness meditation in both English and Spanish through UW Health Mindfulness Program, True North Trek, University of California San Diego, and Primordial.

Specialties: Project management, facilitation, trauma healing, movement and performance improvisation, natural motivator, creative writing, cross-cultural communication, contemplative practices, languages (Spanish, English, French).

I value: Solidarity, compassion in action, challenge, collaboration, kindness, sense of safety and belonging, integrity, long-term relationships and partnerships, healing processes, environmental awareness, and innovative thinking.

I founded Primordial motivated by a dream: Creating a space for healing processes that celebrates diversity, where we discuss difference openly, and are centered in the needs and capacities of non-dominant groups (mainly Latine).

Positions/Affiliations/Responsibilities/Passions: Primordial’s Multicultural Healing Community Executive  Director, outreach specialist at UW Madison’s Educational Psychology, Mindfulness facilitator at UW Health Mindfulness Program, healing trauma at Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, artist, traveler, LGBTQIA+ community member, wife, daughter, friend of the Earth and friend of my friends.