Who's Shell
... as a Yoga Teacher...
I’ve been Yoga teacher for 9 years.
And Yoga practitioner as well.
Yep. I’ve done a different path than most Yoga teachers.
I started my professional life with Finances Administration. And I had a kind of material success in this.
But I definitely wasn’t happy. I didn’t find peace and I never felt fulfilled. I felt I was always fighting against something unknown and having an automatically routine.
I changed countless times. But were just external changes.
I tried being myself, sharing my points of view, my ideas, but I always felt like a fish out of water.
One day I just thought, I need a significant change and, instantaneously I heard the following voice: YOGA!
That sounded weird because that time, I haven’t seen or participated any Yoga classes before.
Despite conviction, I needed a couple years to get this way.
I began practice Yoga at the same day I enrolled the Yoga course training.
Although I took the course with the intention of to teach Yoga, during the days of study I realized that course wasn't about learn Yoga and change my professional life. It wasn't about to change myself. I was there to learn to listen to my Soul and let it bloom.
I started teaching as soon as I finished the course, but I didn’t become a teacher instantaneously. I had to learn much more about myself to be a good teacher.
I worked, studied and practiced Yoga daily and hardly. When I saw I was managing my own Studio in Brazil (Gaja Yoga), where I proudly taught Yoga for 5 years.
In 2022 I sold the Gaja Yoga and came to Australia.
I'm that kind of teacher who likes create connections, so I'm still in touch with lots of Yoga students from Brazil.
Most of them became my friends. Some of them are like sisters and brothers.
Barely saying a complete sentence in English, I started teaching Yoga in this land.
Now, much more confident, I've reached and connected lots of incredible people, having Yoga as a link.
After 10 years, I’m still building and transforming myself as a professional and as a person, bringing to who wants, self-connection, relief and surrender moments.
The Divine who lives in me honors, recognizes and salutes the Divine who lives in you!
Namaste
2016 - RYT 200 International Yoga Teachers Training
Ujjain Yoga Life Society - Brazil
2016 - 10 days intensive Teachers Training Program (Pose adjustments, Vedic Chanting, Meditation and introduction to Yoga Therapy
Yoga Surya International's Academy of Yoga & Vedic Studies - Brazil
2018 - RYT 300 International Yoga Teachers Training
Ujjain Yoga Life Society - Brazil
... as a person...
I grew up in a materially simple but emotionally complex family, like most Brazilians.
I’m grateful because those conditions made who I am.
Years ago, if someone had asked to me who I am, my answer was related to work.
Once I realized that my profession is just a small part of me, it's just what I do for a live in and express myself, I have had difficulties describing myself.
I’m a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt and a friend as well. But these things also are just pieces of me.
I can’t write down who I really am. I just be.
I can tell you about my faults, my fears, my mistakes, my shame, my qualities, my desires, what makes me smile genuinely, what takes tears of my eyes, what makes my heart beat or almost stop it.
I can’t count the numerous personalities that I had, I have, I would like to have, and I'll have.
I love nature, animals and observing human's behaviors.
I love swimming, felling ocean breeze, and seeing the tree's leaves falling down.
I love dancing, petting dogs, eating different foods, reading and watching movies.
But none of this really defines who I am.
Yoga says: We are not our thoughts. We are not what we think we are. We are not who people think we are. We are not our emotions.
We are the one who feels but is not shaken. The one who observes but does not engage. Who is always in peace.
I think is not possible put in words what and who our Self really is. But we can feel it.
Since I became a Yoga practitioner, I started feel closer of my inner Self. I call it Soul.
Yoga have been helping me to make a peace with my own enemies and integrate my soul and my worldly life.
Yoga have been helping me to allow my Soul to express itself.
So, for now I can only say:
I’m a seeker, a metamorphosis, an apprentice.
I'm curious, impulsive, intuitive, instinctive.
I love Mother Earth and Daddy Sun.
The Moon is my grandmama, is my guide.
I believe in something bigger than everything (who I like to call The All, maybe you call it God), that manifests its power and countless faces in all that has life.
I believe in the humanity.
I believe in love.
