Who I Am

Hi there, I'm Cristina Maria.

As a little girl, I was joyful, energetic, expressive, and deeply drawn to being witnessed.

Dance became a natural path for me and has been one of the biggest parts of my life for as long as I can remember. It was my first language. The place where I processed life, built identity, and learned how to express what I couldn’t say out loud.

My life was filled with love, but also versions of turmoil: serious illness constantly present in my family, a complex divorce process, and all of the layered expectations that came with being a first-generation Colombian and Puerto Rican eldest daughter in a high-achieving family.

I often say that dance saved my life.

I was a curious and adventurous child who rarely said no and who was deeply affected by her environment. Movement gave me a container to pour my emotions into in a healthy way. It became one of the first places I learned resilience, self-expression, confidence, discipline, and freedom simultaneously.

By 18, I had fully stepped into the professional world of movement education and choreography as a means to support myself financially.

Over time, that path led me to leave Arizona and move to Los Angeles, where my work evolved into producing original creative projects across live performance, film concepts, music, and transformational experiences centered around visibility, expression, and embodiment.

In 2019, I created Conquer Your Sexy as a movement-based experience for women reconnecting with confidence, expression, sensuality, and self-trust. What began through movement eventually expanded into deeper work around identity, visibility, creative leadership, and personal authorship.

I started to notice a pattern:

Many creatives struggle to trust themselves enough to fully pursue the life they actually desire while balancing busy schedules, survival jobs, and the pressure to constantly say yes for the chance to be seen.

I noticed a lot of people were talking about ideas far more than they were actually taking the first steps toward building them.

At one point, I realized I had fallen into that same cycle.

The starving artist identity was not how I wanted to build my life. I no longer wanted to live from a place of survival. I wanted to build my life from authorship.

As I started building more structure around my own visions, thinking differently about sustainability, and using my gifts more intentionally, everything began to shift.

I truly believe creativity exists far beyond traditional art.

I believe every person has the capacity to create a life, business, body of work, or identity that feels more aligned with who they actually are.

Having a business mind and an artistic one do not have to be mutually exclusive.

That realization became the foundation for the work I do now.

I also hold a background in Nutritional Sciences, Dietetics, Psychology, and Biochemistry from the University of Arizona, studies that continue to inform the way I think about human behavior, identity, nervous system patterns, and sustainable transformation.

What I Believe

Most people already know far more than they give themselves credit for.

The challenge is often self-trust.

It’s nervous system capacity.
It’s visibility.
It’s fear of being witnessed while becoming someone new.

My work is rooted in helping women reconnect with their own clarity, creative instincts, emotional truth, and ability to act on what they already know deep down.

I believe:

  • Many women have spent years becoming reliable for everyone except themselves.

  • Play is not the opposite of discipline.
    It is often the doorway into sustainable discipline.

  • Visibility changes responsibility.
    Once you allow yourself to be seen, your life begins asking more of you.

  • Your identity should be allowed to evolve.

  • I believe in being a woman of choice, not just a woman of obligation.

  • Expression develops identity.

  • Dreaming big gives meaning to the small daily habits that shape your life.

We don’t just build projects.
We build the version of you who can carry them.

Why Conquer Your Sexy

“Sexy” /ˈseksē/ • adjective

“Sexy” is a word that has been heavily polarized, commercialized, projected onto, and reduced to something external.

Somewhere along the way, I realized that my relationship to being “sexy” had become tied to other people’s subjective ideas of attraction. And in moments of my life where I didn’t fit the bill, sexy suddenly felt unattainable.

That’s when sexy became something I wanted to redefine for myself as a feeling.

After all, attraction is deeply subjective.

To me, sexy is no longer something external. It’s not about perfection, performance, or becoming more desirable to other people.

It’s about aliveness.

It’s about desiring yourself and your life.

Presence.
Expression.
Agency.
Connection.
Creativity.
Confidence.
Movement.
Choice.

It’s the feeling of being deeply connected to yourself, your body, your instincts, your voice, and your life.

I believe many women have spent years shaping themselves around expectation, surviving their circumstances, meeting obligations, or fearing being misunderstood.

Conquer Your Sexy was created as an invitation to redefine that relationship for yourself.

Not through becoming what someone else wants.

But through deeper self-trust, expression, visibility, and authorship.

Because when you feel fully alive in your life, you move differently.
You speak differently.
You choose differently.

And that changes everything.