Cynthia Koehler

Peruvian Photographer • Writer • Visual Artist

Cynthia Koehler is a Peruvian photographer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who transforms fleeting moments into enduring, emotional landscapes. With a background in criminal law , human rights and political science, her creative path is shaped by intuition, vulnerability, and a deep commitment to compassion.

✦ Creative Vision

Cynthia’s visual work invites you into richly layered narratives cinematic, intimate, and tenderly composed. With a painter’s eye for color and an emotional sensitivity for light, her photography creates space for ambiguity and wonder. Her work doesn’t tell you what to see it invites you to feel what’s there.

Guidance for the Tender-Hearted

For sensitive souls and creative seekers, Cynthia offers a space of gentle witnessing. Through poetic dialogue and intuitive guidance, she supports those longing to live more creatively and truthfully.

Her practice includes:

1. Empathic Inquiry – asking the heart’s real questions

2. Intuitive Guidance – navigating through feeling, not force

3. Holistic Creative Exploration – integrating body, mind, and spirit

4. Mindful Self-Expression – discovering voice through softness

The Longing Beneath

In a world obsessed with performance, Cynthia honors the invisible, the unspoken, the nearly forgotten. Her compass is guided by the Quechuan word Qawaq

“The one who sees.”

Not just with the eyes, but with the spirit. The Qawaq perceives the truth behind appearances—the emotional, the sacred, the deeply human.

The Qawaq Spirit

Rooted in Quechuan wisdom, Qawaq speaks to the quiet gift of seeing beyond surfaces. It’s not about vision—it’s about insight.

It’s the path of the deep feeler, the quiet revolutionary, the one who chooses meaning over mimicry.

What Qawaq Holds:

1. Depth Perception – honoring the unseen

2. Empathic Awareness – feeling others from the inside

3. Radical Authenticity – resisting performance, embracing truth

4. Soulful Introspection – listening inward, daily

To Live with the Qawaq Heart is to Long For:

• Meaning over masks

• Connection over curation

• Growth over perfection

• Spirit over spectacle

• Expression that heals, not performs

Awakening the Seer Within

If you feel this longing in your chest gentle and undeniable—you are not alone.

To embody Qawaq is to:

1. Trust your inner knowing

2. Feel fully, without shame

3. Create with your whole being

4. Practice tenderness

5. Let yourself be seen, unperformed

A Life of Soft Power

When we live with the Qawaq spirit, we return home to ourselves.

We cultivate:

• Deep presence

• Resonant relationships

• Emotional clarity

• Creative liberation

• Quiet peace