Cristina Leoni-Osion (they/she) is a white, queer, femme, Mediterranean descendant, lover of the sea, and avid home gardener, born on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Powhatan and Monican people in Richmond, Virginia. After living and working in NYC, Berlin, and Jaffa-Tel Aviv as a young dancer, they received their B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and have continued to refine their practices in movement, facilitation, and care. Cristina is currently based between Richmond and Berlin.

Cristina works as a somatic artist, educator, cultural facilitator, and full-spectrum doula. Their practice has grown from dance into classrooms, community spaces, artistic projects, and reproductive care. They work with movement, touch, sound, story, and embodied forms of learning, drawing from somatics, alongside trauma support, power analysis, conflict transformation, reparative practices, disability justice, and reproductive justice.

Cristina has worked extensively with young people and communities, including as a Youth Program Director for a conflict-resolution nonprofit in the U.S., as a dance and English teacher in schools in the U.S. and Germany, and through collaborations with artists, educators, and community organizations. Their artistic work spans performance, choreography, film, storytelling, and participatory projects, often exploring migration, memory, identity, social transformation, and the body as archive.

Cristina has been part of reproductive justice and community care work since 2016, supporting people through abortion, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and other reproductive experiences. Their pregnancies and parenthood experience deepened and complicated this practice, bringing new questions about vulnerability, agency, grief, pleasure, and what it means to be supported through profound bodily transitions.

They are a co-founder and educator with Move Into Birth, a somatic birth education practice, the initiator of Tidal Bodies, a reproductive somatics and storytelling project, and facilitate monthly Abortion Storytelling Circles, creating spaces for people to share their abortion experiences in community.

At the heart of their work is a belief that our bodies are sites of knowledge, memory, resistance, and possibility—and that care can be a place not only for healing, but for curiosity, pleasure, relationship, and imagining new ways of being together.