1st MADEIRA YOGA GLOBAL MEETING

Yoga and Regression Therapy

Richard Szeplaki

Richard Szeplaki started yoga in 2010 due to lower back problems, after a long period of martial arts practice, specially capoeira. He did several styles of Yoga like Hatha, Iyengar and Power, until starting Ashtanga in 2013, which he found challenging and dynamic. In January 2016 he didhis Teachers Training in Ashtanga’s first series with Jaro Pavek, and in October 2016 went to teachers training RYT 25 with Manju Jois, on adjustments for second series ashtanga yoga, having found  motivation to improve his yoga practice, and joy in teaching others.

He has been in many workshops with slovakian yoga teachers likeJaroPavek, Monika Riskova, Jana Duzikova, Martina Ondrusova, Fredy Ayisi (power yoga), Lucia Wister (yin yoga); Ashtanga conferences and Yoga festivals in SlovakialikeShantiloka; workshops with David Swenson, Mark Robberds and Deepika; in November 2016 a 2 weeks Ashtanga retreat on Bali with Martina Ondrusova and in January 2018 did a 2 weeks ashtanga retreat with Mark Robberds and Deepika in Purple Valley – Goa.

Parallel to Yoga he also did a Regression Therapy training, a non hypnotic therapy in which the person goes into a meditative state, helping to solve various problems. He will be explaining the therapy and available for consultation schedule.

Hatha Yoga

Carolina Esmeraldo

Carolina Esmeraldo did her teacher training in the World Peace Yoga School em Rishikesh in 2017.

Since she was a little girl she was always fascinated about Índia, and after her first trip to that country, she felt the calling to learn and teach Yoga. That’s when she decided to follow her heart and live her life with love and freedom. She strongly believes that yoga is a way of living, feeling good about life and with ourselves. Have an healthy lifestyle, to eat properly, practice every day and feeling healthy, in a search for love and peace of mind. She teaches Hatha Yoga, in its traditional form.

Ashtanga Yoga

Élvio Cristiano

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Élvio Cristiano started his journey in Yoga in 2008, although only in 2010 in a more regular way, after being diagnosed with lower back hérnias. He did mostly Sattva Yoga, an Iyengar variation developed by Gustavo Ponce, and then started in a most disciplined self practice after discovering Ashtanga in 2013.

Culminating his pathway as an instructor since January 2015 and six workshops and one intensive course with Xico Rodrigues, Vera Simões and Gustavo Ponce, he went to Purple Valley in January 2018 for an intensive course and retreat with Mark Robberds and Deepika Mehta, and started his Immersion and Teacher Training with Manuel Rodrigues in Manu Yoga School in Lisbon.

After having practiced sports all his life, from Basketball to Capoeira, getting to Tai Chi, and mixing his scientifical background, he’s motivated to teaching as a way of helping people and understanding each and individual body, anathomically and spiritually, in the way it adapts to an healthy practice. He now teaches what he learned in Yoga and with his own superation, in Mad About and in Espaço Yin, both in Funchal.

Combining the Yogic state of mind, he tries to balance the growing number of classes and the need for updating and learning in workshops and courses, with his practice of veterinary, his love for nature and conservation, permaculture, the writting of articles and books (published two novels) and parenting, being an happy father of two little boys.

The Holistic/therapeutical/tantric universe and the Sacred Feminine

Ariana Shakti Devi

Ariana Shakti Devi was born in Funchal in 1976, she is a woman, a mother, a dancer, an agronomical engineer, teacher of Yoga and meditation, also a tantric, holistic and a mind-body therapist.

She started teaching Yoga in 2004. Tantra Yoga is a proposal where she combines her knowledge of Yoga (1999) with the knowledge she has acquired over the last 18 years in the holistic / therapeutic / tantric area that has shown her the way and the importance of embracing our whole nature to be happier!

Qi Gong

Clara Ferreira

Since 2002 she studied Acupuncture and Fitotherapy on the Pedro Choi Chinese Medicine University, starting her interest in martial arts a few years later.

Keeping her interest in health and quality of life went to China in 2009 (Sichuan-Chengdu), where she did her internship in an hospital.

Being part of the portuguese federation for martial arts, participated in the Qi Gong world championship in 2015.

She came back from China convinced that her goal in life is to create a bridge between conventional western medicine and the chinese science. She now teaches Qi Gong and works in some clinics and acupuncture centres in Funchal

Acupuncture, respiratory work with Qi Gong, movement and creative expression

Nuno Sousa

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Nuno Sousa started his meditation studies in 1998 with Robyin in the method Renaskigi. A year later he started practicing Qi Gong and Tai Chi integrated in the Chinese Medicine degree.

Reiki, NLP and Personal Development

Reinaldo Soares Fino

Reinaldo Soares Fino, from Brazil, is an ex-professional Volleyball athlete, living in Portugal since 1990. He’s a Personal development teacher and a teraphist, master in Reiki. He lives in Funchal where he coordinates the delegation of the Reiki Portuguese Association.

After 17 years as an high performance athete he decided to follow an academic career and started his path as a practitioner and a learner of his own spirituality. The natural inclination he had to help others, supported by his good energy led him to the path of Reiki, having done an intensive and long learning on levels I, II, III, and IIIb, with some of the best renowned masters in Portugal, Brasil and USA, where in 2009 he became a Master of Reiki.

Recently, and combining with a more spiritual side, he has been investing in NLP and Personal Development in coaching, convinced that the combination of the physical-mind-emotional body is the balance point for any human being. A base that he uses in a unique style and approach to their teachings using tools from all fields.