Cris Bonifácio Integrative Therapist

Cristina Bonifácio is an Integrative Therapist, Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher and Movement Researcher. An autistic woman, highly sensitive and creative, she integrates her personal experience and professional career into a clinical and pedagogical approach deeply informed by sensitivity to trauma and contemplative practice.

Her work centres on the integration of movement, meditation and somatic practices as ways of promoting self-regulation, the integration of experience and the therapeutic process. She develops interventions that articulate body awareness, presence and movement research, underpinned by a rigorous understanding of the processes of healing and transformation.

Since 2010, she has been deepening her practice of Movement and Meditation through various approaches, including Yoga Asana, Somatic Movement, Trance Dance, Contact Dance and Organic Dance, maintaining an ongoing investigation into the intelligence of the body and its relational and expressive dimension.

In 2016, she began studying oriental therapies, expanding her training in bodywork and somatic care practices. In 2019, she undertook an immersion in India dedicated to the study and practice of Ayurveda and Meditation, deepening the integration between tradition and direct experience.

Since 2020, she has received teachings directly from monks and nuns of the Theravada Forest tradition, whose guidance structurally informs her approach to mindfulness, embodied presence and the ethics of care.

Her professional practice is positioned at the intersection of clinical practice, contemplation and movement, offering a safe, rigorous and sensitive space for processes of self-knowledge, regulation and integration.