About me

I was 22 when I returned to Ticino after a year of study in Australia, I found a job in a office and I went to live by myself.
On my side I had the ability to learn quickly, excellent organizational skills and a particular way of communicating and relating to managers that each time surprised my colleagues. All this soon qualified me as a management assistant.
Being a leader but not realizing it yet!

Except that, more or less every two years I was quitting, leaving to travel, coming back, finding a new job.
I resisted two years, resigned and leaving again.
When travelling I was looking for home, when returning I was resisting.

At the age of 30 I was working as a bank management assistant in Lugano. For three directors, I managed agenda, trips, meetings and correspondence in three languages. I had a salary that was more than enviable and ready to be increased just to make me stay where I was.

I was also attending a Clown Doctor and Clown Theater training. During the rehearsals of a show, looking at myself in the mirror of the dressing room, a sentence thundered in my head: “take off the mask, raise the curtain!”.

I was wearing a red nose to bring joy and yet I was feeling a huge sadness inside!

I quit the job but I didn’t leave. The journey I wanted to dedicate myself to, already began since a while and was inside of me.
Challenging years, several experiences and trainings, not easy at all, but I knew that the deep nostalgia that was living in me, was the key that would have allowed me to finally open the door of Home … inside me … and slowly the qualities of my Soul came to light.

During Spring 2010, my cat Pacha was giving birth and I was sitting next to her in a meditative state.
It was then when I had a vision: I was about 5 years old and I was saying to myself “When I am grown up I will help people to be born!”.
After a few months I started working as a doula, another piece that then developped and became something else but at that time served to bring me closer to my Origin.

I invited Debra Pascali Bonaro, doula and internationally renowned rapporteur actively committed to educate and inform about birth issues, to present her film in Ticino, a first vision for Switzerland, Orgasmic Birth – the Best-Kept Secret.
It was a real success and on that occasion important seeds were planted for the disclosure, on the territory of Ticino and Italy,  of real, current and scientific information in favor of a respected birth.
In 2012 indeed, precisely with this aim, the Associazione Nascere Bene Ticino was born  and two years later also the Associazione il Cerchio delle Doule della Svizzera italiana, for both of them I was a founding member.

In May 2015, I became a certified Sacred Pregnancy Instructor, followed by Sacred Fertility, Sacred Belly Binding & Sealing Ceremony and Sacred Baby Blessing.

My journey was going on and for my 40th birthday, I started the Spiritual Birth and Parents Accompaniment School at the SitaMa Zentrum near the enchanting Lake Constance. Thanks to the intensity and unicity of the program I finally could turn my attention to a part that I perceived as neglected, around birth but not only: the spiritual side, the Soul, which is naturally part of being human and cannot be left out.

I found back the way to the Origin

I grew personally and professionally and it is clear now that what I meant when I was 5 wasn’t just referring to babies.

In 2018 I founded the Center Origin, currently based in the enchanting Mesolcina Valley, where I am happy to welcome you,

from heart to heart
Clarissa