Namaste jee my dear one,
nice to meet you here!

I’m a Traveler Yoga Teacher, Web-Developer and Hobby Photographer based in Bremen. I’ve teaching Yoga since 2011. Two TTCs, many Intensive courses, and lots of hours of self-practice are whats guide the classes and workshops I design.

I born in Brazil and move to German at the age of 25. Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda, I been studying and practicing since 2008 in India, Nepal, and some European countries like Germany, England, France, and Portugal.

Since 2016, I spend the most part of year in India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia updating my knowledge and enhancing the Practices. And by doing that, I start to feel the need to start research about “Ascient Tradition” and “Indian Epistemology”, for my practices purposes.

The other part of the year, among other things, I like enjoying life with my 17-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, and I teach Yoga and work as a Free-Lancer Web Developer in Germany. There I also sell Yoga, Pilates & Sports Wear, and equipment, as an small contribution to enhance peoples practices.

Right now I’m in Vietnam, and I came here to offer some Yoga Workshops and to enjoy swimming in the Sea, thanks to that, and by being a lover of nature, I need to end up in Plastic Recycling projects. Definitely, there is nothing better I can do to pay back whats natures give to us, it’s just a very simple way to express gratitude to what is sacred and divine.

More than just “Yoga”

Something more I must say, I been teaching Hatha-Yoga mainly for Self-Development and Life High-performance purposes. Challenge, effort, and adversity are the causes to move forward, not the opposite, commit yourself to your highest self and you will see how Yoga can help you to achieve your goals.

Ayurveda and Naturopathy were both part of my Teacher Training Courses, and, after some special classes, I got used to combining it with Yoga in my teachings. Because of that, I start to call what I teach, “Hatha-Yoga & the 5 basics”, which refers to the 5 elements that constitute the human beings body and states of mind.

a little bit about my Yoga history

It was during summer 2008 when the science and art of Yoga, start to take place in my daily routine. After joining some Hatha-Yoga classes and start reading books about it, I realize that Yoga is really a practice for me. I became very fascinated to the philosophical background and history, I fell in love very fast with that. The fruition of this love was a frequent and intensive practice.

I like to talk about the Yoga experiences I had in India, since 2015 I m spending more than the half of the year there, sometimes I manage to get to visit other countries in Asia like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, where I m now.

what’s more?

Aside from Yoga, I love movies and pictures. And an interesting fact about my Yoga journey in India was to meet, Two Siberian travelers who invite me for a Fophoshooting, during a period in Goa, which awakened my interest to start taking pictures of people in Yoga postures.

Yoga is a huge and big thing, much more than only postures, but I also really like to see, practice, and teach those postures. You can get from me an Asanas Photo Shooting if you want, I invite you to see more about this idea.

By looking for more highest levels of practice, I start to join meditation classes and Buddhist teachings. From there, I start to learn more about the mind and apply that understanding in daily practice and in my classes. The Yogi who we know as Buddha, made me understand the essence of the Yogic path in a very reasonable and logical way. At the Blog session, you can see a little bit about this.

Thanks to the current moment I m not giving presential classes, private yoga classes, teacher trainer courses, substitute teachers, vacant places in your Yoga Studio timetable, or even Yoga Retreat, will take a while for me to be able to help with. Sorry for that! But for future projects, you can reach out! I always am interested to help people and get in touch with new souls.

As I mention before, I am Web-Developer too and in case you need a Website, Online Shop or training to learn how to build it yourself, you can also contact me. The Website you surf now is made by myself. I develop it based on the simplicity to communicate what I have to offer.

Let me think…what more can I say about myself? I enjoy cooking flavorful dishes, meeting new people, and balancing that social interaction with some solitary time in introspection. I also strive to make positive changes in my life and in the lives of others and am always looking for ways to make a meaningful difference.
Probably that´s why teaching Yoga comes into my life!

Thanks for reading!
Ricardo Santanna