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Our Team
Our passionate international team of ocean-loving yoga, breathwork, and meditation teachers and therapists are Yoga Alliance licensed and Life Awareness™ certified and have been working with us in Portugal for many years. Providing expert guidance during classes and workshops, we let you experience that yoga brings peace, health, and happiness. We are dedicated to bringing the wisdom of yoga into our students’ lives and following our yoga paths with determination and enthusiasm. Complemented by our amazing (mostly) vegan chefs, host, and talented massage therapists, we are ready to make your experience unforgettable!
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Giulia, originally from Italy, studied at the Paramanand Institute of Yoga Research and Science in Indore, India. She moved from Italy to Portugal where she conceives Yoga as a way of living. Practicing daily helps her to understand her body and energy, to increase confidence, creativity and joy in life. With her bright, calm, and focused enthusiasm, she shares this wonderful journey with her students.
Giulia is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher and yoga therapist, as well as a certified Life Awareness™ Breathwork Instructor. Her focus is on Hatha Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork. She also offers Tibetan Sound Healing.
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Vivian, born and raised in Switzerland, is a true ocean-lover and passionate about the magic of the energy-field, in and around us. The spiritual path shows her purpose in life and she feels a big calling to guide her students to ‘‘come back to themself’’. She equipped herself for this journey by studying Energy Healing, Yoga and human Design. With these tools, she helps you deeply understand yourself, and reconnect with yourself which lets you experience a profound feeling of freedom. Supporting you on this journey within and bringing you this experience of coming back to yourself is her true passion.
Vivi is a 200h Ashtanga/Vinyasa Certification and her classes are built around energy work, healing, authenticity, and flow. Alliance certified yoga teacher with a Life Awareness breathwork instructor certification.
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Michaël, from the Netherlands, is a spiritual teacher whose calming presence contagiously resonates with compassion and contentment. Michaël traveled the world for over a decade to deepen his study and practice in the power of mind and body focusing on Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Pranayama, QiGong, and other techniques. He developed techniques to cultivate that ‘light within’, give health, focus, and strength, and make you realize your calling and essence in life. He inspired and helped thousands of people around all continents with his teachings that are inspired by the masters he studied with, by Life, and by the wisdom that flows from being connected with one’s source.
Michaël is 800hrs Yoga Alliance Certified with Yoga Therapy Certification, Author of ‘The Way to Unity’ and founder of Life Awareness™ and yogalap.com
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Jana, our host and originally from Germany, is ready to welcome you with a big smile on her face and to take care of all your needs and wishes during your wonderful retreat week. She loves getting to know new people, engaging in meaningful conversations, and sharing laughs and good energy along the way. Jana has always an open ear for concerns and problems and does her best to find immediate solutions. She has been living in the Algarve for a couple of years already and therefore she is all set to provide you with great tips to get the best experience and explore the most beautiful places around.
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Hey, I am Roos. In 2022 I moved from the Netherlands to Portugal with my dog Gaia. As cooking is one of my greatest passions, I started my own catering company. I try to use as much as possible organic and local products to create with love and creativity. When I am not cooking, I like to spend time at the beautiful beaches of the Algarve :)
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Thomas is a Yoga & Meditation instructor, speaker, bodyworker, and mentor who has extensively traveled Asia to study eastern spirituality. He weaves together ancient Yogic, Tantric and Non-dual methods of practice offering an authentic approach in a western new-age landscape. Group sessions with Thomas usually start in complete silence. They include chanting, meditation, Yogic movement and -breathwork, and a variety of meditation techniques, making them therapeutic, energizing, and meditative experiences.
Thomas is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher and yoga therapist, as well as a certified Life Awareness™ Breathwork Instructor. His focus is on Hatha and Tantra Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork. He also offers Energy Healing sessions and massages.
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Yoga found Nick in his early thirties and soon afterward he attended his first teacher training course in Ashtanga and Yin. He strongly believes that regular practice not only heals and strengthens the body and mind, through positive thought and action, it also helps guard against illness, and disease and slows down the aging process. He has been teaching for over a decade in Portugal and focuses on a combination of Yin and Yang styles, breathwork, and meditation.
Nick is 200h Yoga Alliance Certified teacher focusing on Yin Yang, and an experienced Life Awareness certified breathwork instructor.
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Meka Yoga was born out of Harmke’s passion for bringing joy, health, and happiness back into people’s lives. She founded Meka Yoga in 2016 after she finished her second yoga teacher training studies at the Paramanand Institute for Yoga Sciences in India where she also obtained her Yoga Therapy Certification. She shares her spiritual journey of self-expression and increasing peace of mind with an enthusiastic, focused energy.
Harmke founded Mekayoga to provide a much-needed place for transformation, reconnection, healing, teaching, and inspiration to guide others toward living a healthy, happy, and authentic life.
Harmke is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance Certified with Yoga Therapy Certification who currently looks after her children and will be back teaching when the time is ready. Founder of Mekayoga.
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Hi! I am Charlotte, from the Netherlands but here in raised in Portugal. I love surfing and do everything to live a healthy lifestyle, which makes me feel good in my skin! I have a passion for healthy food and love to spend time in the kitchen, the place where I let the creativity flow into mixing tastes, consistencies, and colors! Can't wait for a beautiful week of delicious vegetarian cooking to nourish your body during your stay! 🤗