I grew up between two worlds: I finished school in Portugal, then studied in Germany — a degree in the humanities, focused on Italian studies. One thing was clear even then: I wanted to work with people.
In my early twenties I moved to Rome and began a master’s in migration and refugee policy. I wanted to help — yet the deeper I went, the more clearly I felt that this path was too geopolitical, too far from the individual human being.
In that very period, my own body spoke up — unmistakably. In my mid-twenties I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune condition. While my mind was still caught in geopolitical questions, my body was crying out for attention.
The path was paved, from the very beginning, by my mother. She was a yoga teacher early on, and so I came to know yoga as a child through her — and with it a fine, intuitive sense of what is good for a person. Years later it was also she who gave me an introductory Shiatsu course. I went sceptical. Yet by the end of the first day I was utterly captivated. At last I had arrived at the individual person: at touch, at the body, at myself. I left the master’s behind. It was a crisis of meaning and a finding of meaning at once: I lost a plan and found a direction.
What began as my mother’s gift and unfolded over several years of training became the beginning of my own healing — with my own illness as my first and most honest teacher. I was living in Italy, already working with Shiatsu alongside an office job, and I wanted to go deeper.
Because there were only a few teachers in the world with whom I felt I was truly growing, I took a long road and travelled to South America. I had planned to stay six months. I stayed four years. Those years in Uruguay, around my thirtieth birthday, became the most important of my life — personally and professionally. I completed three in-depth trainings side by side. The Río Abierto System above all led me back to myself: it brought me alive again, helped me to feel myself and to reconnect with my essence — with the Linne I am, behind all the masks of personality. And that is precisely what I wish to pass on.
A thread that runs through my whole life is a gift for building bridges. Having grown up between two cultures and made my home in several countries and languages, I have always truly immersed myself — and learned to find what connects: between people, between cultures and, most deeply, between heart, body and mind. My multilingualism is more than a tool. It is an expression of this stance — meeting you in your language, in your experience, in your world.
Today, after more than fifteen years, I know this: change cannot be made from the outside. I have lived it in my own body — and that is precisely why I can hold it for you. More than any method, I trust the wisdom of each person and the intelligence of the body. I don’t treat or fix anyone. I meet you where you are — with presence, care and respect for your path.
My work brings together body, mind and emotions, creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, release what no longer serves them and cultivate greater balance, vitality and authenticity.
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