As for music, listening is my biggest asset when it comes to accompany fellow humans in the development of their creativity, the tuning in their own vision or the tackling of their fears.
I love listening. I love holding space. I love to connect and offer tools that provide my clients with a bigger sense of agency, a bigger lust for life and a clearer vision for what they want to create.
In short, I am a big fan of you being your awesome self.
A lot of people, my best friends included, see me as the powerhouse that was made to annihilate walls. I am, because time and time again, when faced with a roadblock, I persisted through it. Not the classic way, or the way people seem to assume it should be done. I didn’t start by reading all the books on “how to whatever” or diligently practice breathing exercises daily. Rather, while preparing for a show or an exam I broke in tears more times than I can count, curled up in a ball under a table and wished I could just vanish . The panic and anxiety I felt often drew a wall so thick around me that I could hardly see through it. I was so scared to be taken for a fool that I never spoke about it to anybody. I didn’t want to be declared somehow inapt to be a musician to kept this part of my process very private.
Why did I keep pushing?
Honestly, I have no idea, but now that I can look back, I am so glad that 20 years old me was courageous - or stubborn - enough to keep practicing, playing and putting herself out there, no matter what it costed her inside. I mean, she got to perform worldwide, to start with.
I remember a time when I was preparing for a concert and was thinking that if this time again, I would underperform because of stage anxiety, I would give up on being a professional musician. After all, music isn’t supposed to equal to torture. The day of the show, I found my first personal meditation - rather, it found me. My first animal of power showed up and the way to go through the concert - while actually enjoying it - became cristal clear. From that moment on, anxiety never once ran the show for me.
Fast-forward a couple of years, the creative approach I have developed, based on in-situ composition, became a modality for every important endeavour and the more I unfold, the wider I listen.
Now, I do practice breathing and meditation, but somehow these practices came after I befriended my inner dragon on my own terms.

Here, another topic comes into play: planetary cycles - or astrology, if you want.
For years, astrology lingered in the background of my life as a persistent curiosity that never fully made it as a field of study of mine. I was consistently turned off by "mainstream astrology," with its obnoxious generalities, yet, kind of felt that something about astrology was probably deeper than what I was reading. At the same time, I hadn't done the real work of discovering what the language of the sky actually is.
Then life happened and forced a reckoning. A series of painful events, all bearing the same energetic signature, demanded that I either find an elevated lens through which to understand what was unfolding, or remain trapped in an exhausting burning grief.
I chose to look closely at the planetary cycles and the archetypal forces at play to understand the architecture. What I discover filled me with awe and helped me to stop fighting the weather and start dancing with it: reading the sky to understand which lessons I actually had to integrate. I went from rock bottom levels of energy and self-respect to harnessing a sense of playfulness in tuning in with the universe.
What began as a framework for self reflection and growth became an enduring source of awe at the profound and cyclical wisdom that holds us. This is what I share today. The most profoundly delicious aspect of becoming a practicing astrologer is that I found my way to connect with the Divine: having grown up in a religious household, and having left all of this behind me, I have been looking for a way to understand what the Divine is for most of my twenties and thirties. Now well into my forties, I can happily say that according to my humble self, God is the Universe and the Universe is God. Planets are archetypes, or characters, signs are modalities of action and houses on a birth chart are sectors of life. None of this allows to predict anything about the future. Instead, it invites us to co-create with it.
How gorgeous is this?

That conversation is what I open to you.
In Sanctuary, I offer a space for you to unfold through creative mentorship and birth chart readings - you choose what feels right for you. My wish is to help you navigate your current season and step into your own creativity without blinking an eye…

Curious? Shoot me an email at idatoninato@gmail.com. I offer a 30 minutes consultation. You take it from there.