Have you ever felt that you have grown far beyond what you thought possible? It happened to me this year 2020, with the desire to create a Yoga community in a small region of the Alentejo (Portugal). I could have started in a city, looking for a space where there…

Although it is more common to observe active (Yang) Yoga practices, as is the case with Functional Hatha Yoga, there are also more passive (Yin) practices, Yin Yoga. This Yoga modality is of a slower style, providing practitioners with greater inner stillness, thus complementing other more…

Being one of the most popular Yoga tools, Functional Hatha Yoga provides therapeutic benefits and greater body awareness, avoiding as much as possible an “autopilot” kind of life. There are countless purposes for regular practice: more strength and flexibility, treatment of physical injuries or the search for a deeper understanding…

When I discovered reading and the endless journeys it took me in my own room, the world of imagination emerged as an impossible space for me to miss out on. Page by page, I ventured into discovering the world of stories, and these stories stayed in my heart even after…

Meditation and the work of the awareness of the present moment are current and regular themes in everyday life. Evolution allows us to look a little bit more into ourselves and quickly understand that we need to take good care of ourselves in the first place, so that we can…

When there is an intense spiritual experience, our mind changes and is never the same. There is no way to unlearn what you have already learned when there is awareness of the true meaning of self-love. All of these experiences can be of great personal enrichment and provide us with…

Precisely a year ago, I allowed myself to embark on a meditation and yoga retreat. The initial objective was to rest from the mental noise that surrounded me and to return only when I felt calm. I remained in social isolation for about a month, and what I took from…

The idea of writing about something as natural as our breathing may seem irrelevant. Who needs to read a blog article to know how to breathe? However, being aware of our breathing becomes fundamental to a more thoughtful life. Through the exercise of observation of breathing, you have probably concluded…

Breathing is one of our most natural functions. We breathe automatically on every instant of our lives, since our first inhalation down to our final exhalation. Is it probably the most important biological process which we mostly ignore. We qualify what we eat and we quantify what we drink, but…