“I believe various ways of living truly affect and even determine what individuals, communities and societies become. I’m optimistic about a more sustainable future.”
I was born and raised in Cuba where I grew up as an athlete, always having a special interest for mystical arts and religious expressions. At the age of sixteen I began to study yoga having a book as guide. I practiced for nearly five years on my own and with the same book as only instructor. It wasn’t until I moved out of Cuba at the age of twenty that I participated in a group yoga class. I found yoga searching for tools to cope with anxiety. The ancient art and its discipline connected me to energies in my body I had never felt before. Yoga has been an essential part of my life ever since.
At the beginning of 2013 I completed my first Yoga Teacher training and became certified by the worldwide Yoga Alliance for the 200 hours standard for Registered Yoga Schools (RYS), internationally recognized from the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy of Rishikesh and the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. I was initiated into the Sivananda lineage for which I have a great love and respect. After all these years of teaching and studying the Sivananda school remains the foundation of my teachings although incorporating a taste of other schools of yoga. I have learned from some of the greatest teachers and masters of our times including Sri Dharma Mittra, Sharon Gannon and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa.
While studying Kriya Yoga in Rishikesh, India in 2016 I had the honor to meet Mother Ganga and to incorporate Swami Chidanand Saraswati blessings and environmental awareness into my teachings. At the end of 2021 I completed a bachelor’s degree in Sustainability and The Environment at Florida International University in Miami. I now live in Berlin where I’m studying M.A in Social Design and Sustainable Innovation.
I’m a yoga teacher, an environmentalist, a vegan activist and a designer for eco-social change!