Hi, I’m Selena. 

I am a multidisciplinary artist and a Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner. My work lives at the intersection of the body, the arts, and healing. I’ve spent my life dancing between these worlds and what I’ve come to understand is this: our bodies hold our stories, and the arts give us a way to speak them when words fall short.

I was born in Santa Barbara, California, in a home where psychology, mythology, and creativity were part of the air I breathed. I grew up wild and barefoot, immersed in nature, with dance as my first language. Later, fashion became another way I could shape-shift, protect and express—building characters and meaning through clothing, long before I knew that this, too, was a form of storytelling and survival.

Professionally, I’ve always followed what lives in my bones: the body and creative expression. I’ve worked as a stylist for pop artists, handcrafting costumes for music videos. I designed a Pilates studio focused not on fitness, but on safety, empowerment, and embodiment. I co-founded a VR company that brought immersive art to communities around the world—including Testimony, a virtual reality project sharing survivors’ stories of sexual assault and their journey to healing, including my own.

And then I became a mother. My son Remi Justice and I are both autistic, and parenting him opened a new layer of self-recognition and compassion I didn’t know I was missing. That led me to the Tamalpa Institute to study the Life/Art Process—an integrative, expressive arts practice that has helped me alchemize trauma, illness, grief, and joy into something whole.

Today, I facilitate healing workshops rooted in creativity, somatic attunement and lived experience. I show up not as an expert above, but as a fellow traveler beside you. I work with themes like neurodivergence, chronic illness, trauma, empowerment, and transition—using movement, color, writing, and performance to help people come home to their bodies and their authentic stories.

This isn’t about fixing or changing. It’s about remembering who we are—through the body, through art, and in community.