Raised in a multilingual household in Switzerland and shaped by years of travel with her family, she developed an early fascination with world cultures, languages, arts, and spiritual traditions. That curiosity later led her to study ethnology and theater at FU Berlin, followed by dance and choreography in the United States, where she earned a BFA from Temple University in Philadelphia and an MA from NYU in New York.
Over a 20-year career as a dancer and choreographer, her work explored the meeting point of different cultural aesthetics and media, alongside socio-political themes and multiculturalism. In 1999, she completed her yoga teacher training at Jivamukti Yoga School in New York and is now advanced certified in the method. Since then, she has taught classes, workshops, and teacher trainings around the world, sharing a practice rooted in depth, creativity, and cross-cultural understanding. In 2007, she founded AZAHAR Foundation.