Tarik was born in São Paulo,
Brazil in 1975 and lives in Portugal since 1988. He has a background
in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, Chen Tai Chi Chuan and
Chi Kung and started practice yoga in 1994. He has travelled to
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Australia and Spain to teach
Yoga. Tarik is authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois to teach the system
as he learned in India. http://ashtanga.com/html/europe.html#portugal
Isa Guitana
Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1978, Isa has been practicing Yoga for
the past 6 years. With a degree in Psychology, she is working on her
monograph about Yoga and Psychosomatics. She has taught Yoga in Singapore,
Malaysia, Brazil and Bali. Isa & Tarik
Both started practicing Iyengar Yoga, and later they were introduced
to Ashtanga Yoga by Tomas Zorzo and Camino Diez from Spain, and became
passionate about it.
Every year they travel to Mysore, India to study directly from Sri
K. Patabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswami at the Ashtanga Yoga Research
Institute.
They teach yoga in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Apart from Guruji and Sharath, they have a little teacher called Arjuna,
an enlightened being that constantly brings an unconditional flow
of love to Isa's and Tarik's hearts. "our son is our biggest
inspiration..." |