Teachers
Rosana Seligmann
She worked 15 years as an actress. She began practicing yoga in 1998 and in 2000 went to India for the first time to deepen her studies. The universe of yoga became so exciting that, on the way back, she divorced the theater to marry yoga.
She attended Teacher Training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute Amsterdam. She travels annually to India to study with the Iyengar family. Studied and taught yoga for two years in Germany. Made the first Post Training for Iyengar Yoga Teachers (2012-2015) in Spain. Its inspiration is the teacher Gabriella Giubilaro.
She is an internationally certified Senior Intermediate II teacher, teaches the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training course and coordinates the Centro Iyengar Yoga São Paulo . Rosana was a teacher for 12 years in the course of Communication and Body Arts of PUC / SP, has two children and she loves reading, traveling, practicing and teaching yoga.
Silvia Stocche
Silvia is an architect who began her yoga practice in 2006 while living in New York. After relocating to Madrid she discovered Iyengar yoga, the method deeply resonated with her architectural inclinations, and it was love at first sight.
In 2016, she became an Iyengar yoga certified teacher and began making periodic visits to the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India, always looking for guidance and inspiration.
Her curiosity about the body in motion and her interest in the philosophy of yoga guide her continuous studies. The genuine commitment she has to everything she does makes her classes unique.
Julia Mattos
A yoga practitioner since 2002. She has a degree in architecture from Mackenzie and since 2012, with the birth of her first child, divides her time between family, yoga and sometimes architecture. She has a degree in Iyengar Yoga and throughout these years she has studied with several international senior teachers, always improving her studies and teaching. She is a certified teacher from the Brazilian Association of Iyengar Yoga and Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Puna, India.
Geisa França
Formada em Design de Multimídia pelo Senac, trabalha com pós-produção de filmes longas e curta metragens, e conteúdos para tevê.
Pratica Iyengar Yoga desde 2011 e em 2013 decidiu se preparar para a certificação de professores da ABIY. Intensificou sua prática, iniciou os estudos teóricos, começou a participar de workshops com professores certificados do Brasil e do mundo e começou a dar aulas. Em 2017 ingressou na Formação em Iyengar Yoga pelo CIYSP, concluindo o curso em 2019.
Ela acha que servir ao outro é servir a Deus e, portanto, aprender e ensinar é um meio de entrega.
Filosofia
Agrippina Pakharukova
Born in Moscow, where she attended the University of Oriental Studies. She travels annually to India since 2004, to link her theoretical studies on Indian culture with their practical implementation. She practices Iyengar yoga since 2005, travels regularly to Pune, coordinates Sanskrit study groups and teaches Philosophy of Yoga in countless places in Italy, including in the teacher training course taught by Gabriella Giubilaro at the Istituto Iyengar Yoga Firenze. Agrippina is Gabriella’s student since 2008 and accompanies her in workshops throughout the entire world. They both worked together on the second edition of “Light on Yoga Sutras” by B.K.S. Iyengar.
Anatomia
Michele Schultz
She graduated in Phisical Therapy at Campinas’ Pontifical Catholic University (1997), has a doctorate in Morpho-functional Sciences at São Paulo University (2005) and a post-doctoral degree at São Paulo’s Federal University (2009) and at the University of California at Los Angeles - UCLA (2012). She is a teacher and researcher of São Paulo University’s School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities since 2006. The research topics she dedicates herself to involve non-pharmaceutical interventions to foster and protect the nervous system, such as physical activity and nutrition. She practices Iyengar Yoga since 2008 at Centro Iyengar Yoga São Paulo, and she regularly participates in international Iyengar Yoga workshops.