Biography
The spiritual path has neither a beginning nor an end, but it has been since 2005 that I have been more consciously treading my. The lessons learned in this process are the tools I share with everyone who attends classes. and the therapies.
The most influential and important systems and techniques have been the Iyengar Yoga method, Vipassana meditation and Zen Shiatsu. I regularly attend courses and workshops with some of the best teachers in these areas at both national and international levels.
I try to make all classes and therapies a special moment, so that the student / patient feels inspired, supported and nurtured at the end of each class / session.
Teachers with whom I study or participate in workshops in order of relevance and influence.
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Billy Konrad
Professor Iyengar with whom I practice regularly since 2014 in Lisbon. I am also his assistant at the yoga therapy classes.
Christian Pisano
Advanced Senior Teacher with whom I have been certifying as an Iyengar teacher since 2017 at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Nice, France. I also participate in their workshops.
Sharat Arora
Professor Iyengar with whom I did a three-month intensive format teacher training in 2011 at the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Center in Dharamshala, India. After the course I was invited by Sharat to stay in the center where I was his assistant in the five-day courses, therapeutic classes and teacher training 2012. Between June and November 2012 I started teaching at the center in Dharamkot, conducting the courses of five days for beginners and continuing students.
Swami Niranjananda Saraswati
In 2010 I participated in the 4-month course in Yoga studies at the Bihar School of Yoga, India, where I spent all the time within the Ashram having contact with the Hindu culture and the most ancient part of Yoga practice.
Faust Jacobs
It was with Fausto that I started the yoga practice at Chakracenter, Lisbon. Hatha Yoga classes were based on the teachings of Krishnamacharya and the Bihar School of Yoga. I participated in regular classes from 2005 to 2007.
Hugo Abecassis
Attendance from February to December 2020 of the course of Functional Anatomy in Yoga with Hugo, certified professor Iyengar and Osteopath
Carlos Rui and Alexandra Sequeira
Between 2017 and 2018 I participated in their regular classes and did the one-year course of Practice and Personal Development at the Portuguese Yoga Center Lisbon.
June Whittaker
Senior Iyengar teacher who was part of the Iyengar teacher course taking place in Nice, France.
Marcia Monroe
Senior Iyengar teacher and author of the book "Yoga and Scoliosis". I participated inher workshop for Scoliosis in 2019.
Stephane lalo
Senior Professor Iyengar - Iyengar Yoga Center of Marseilles. I participated in one of his workshops in 2017.
Prashant Iyengar
Online course of 8 classes in July 2020
Lois Steinberg
Online classes and Q&A sessions during 2020
Zen Shiatsu
João Filipe
Director of the Zen Shiatsu course I attended between 2007 and 2010 at the Instituto Protuguês Macrobiótico in Lisbon.
Alex Fisher
Member of the Shiatsu school of Kiental in Switzerland and one of the teachers of the Zen Shiatsu course.
Saul Goodman
I participated in an intensive 3 day Shiatsu Shin Tai workshop in Lisbon.
Claudia Bereta
Zen Shiatsu teacher and founder of the Shiatsu Shin Tai School of Bologna.
Luisa Sousa Martins
Zen Shiatsu teacher in the course at the Portuguese Macrobiotic Institute.
Vipassana Meditation
In January 2010 I attended my first Vipassana meditation retreat, which has been the most important milestone of my life to this day. After the retreat I decided to say goodbye to my job as a Civil Engineer, a profession I was in for 15 years and pursued my dreams. In August 2010 I went to live in India where I stayed until November 2012, having made two more Vipassana retreats there. Since 2012 I have been attending and serving Vipassana retreats, initially at Monte Mariposa in Tavira and in recent years in Candeleda, Spain.
Other training and projects have been involved that were important in my development.
Ayurvedic Massage Training at ALBA in Lisbon in 2005.
One-month intensive training in Ayurvedic Massage and Pancha Karma in 2007 in Kannur, India.
Participation in between 2013 and 2016 in the group of men and meditation retreats of the Awake Life Project.