Presenter Bio: 

He was born in 1963 to Italian parents and grew up between Brazil, Argentina and Canada. In 1989 he finished his studies as a forestry engineer in Germany. He also trained as a ballet dancer at Teatro Guaira in Brazil. He first trained as a yoga teacher in 1982 at the Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil. In 1990 he established the Akademie for Yoga in Berlin. In 1992 he travelled to India and started to train in yoga and yoga therapy with Swami Gitananda and continued to train there for the next 4 years. In 1994 he became Yogacharya from this yoga lineage. In 1995 he graduated as a yoga teacher from BDY (the German professional association of Yoga teachers) in Dusseldorf.

He has participated in workshops all over the world with BKS Iyengar, Patabis Jois, Desikachar, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, Boris Tatzki, Leopoldo Chariarsi, Indra Devi, Sogyal Rinpoche, Dalai Lama, Per Vilayat Inayatkan, and Amrita Ananda Mayi. He was trained as a naturopath and did a three years training in traditional Chinese medicine. Since1992, he has organised yoga teachers training at the Academy in Berlin, and in 2000 the Akademie was officially recognised by the German Government for yoga education. He also runs yoga retreats in Spain, Greece, India, Brazil and Bali and teaches in German, English and Portugese.

Workshop Descriptions:

Dynamics of pranayama (yogic breathing)