Ashtanga Yoga Atibaia

Atibaia is a small quiet city, about 60 km outside of Sao Paulo . Surrounded by beautiful countryside and with clean fresh air, this is a perfect location for yoga practice.

At Ashtanga Yoga Atibaia we are teaching the real ashtanga yoga system in the tradition of Sri K Pattabhi Jois, ( Mysore , India. ). The classes are mainly taught " mysore style" in which each student works at their own pace receiving individual instructions with hands on adjustments We also offer led classes and weekend workshops.

Ashtanga yoga is suitable for everyone, no matter what age or background. The foundation of this unique ancient style of yoga is asanas (postures) practiced in a precise order and in vinayasa flow which create heat in your body. Regular yoga practice enhances health, creates a strong and flexible body and mind which enables the student to get closer to who they really are. We can help on this journey with safe and correct instructions. We believe that a good teacher must have a profound yoga practice to be able to help the student in their personal development .

Sara is originally Swedish but has lived abroad, mainly in London , for more than ten years. In 1997 she discovered yoga and fell in love with the practice.

Her first main yoga teacher was Godfrey Devereux. She gave up her “normal life” to become an apprentice for eight months in his yoga retreat centre, practicing all aspects of yoga. Later she completed his teacher training and has since then been teaching yoga full time.

John Scott was the teacher who introduced her and made her strictly follow the ashtanga yoga path and soon after she became for many years a dedicated student of Hamish Hendry. Not only being a student she also assisted about three years for Hamish at the Ashtanga Yoga London, a great opportunity to become fully comfortable and experienced with hands on adjustments.

Sara's first visit to Mysore and The Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute was in 2003 and since then been studying regularly with her Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswathi and his grandson Sharath, a yoga family she holds in deep respect. Mysore has become her second home.

Sara is authorised by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois to teach the ashtanga yoga system.

Fernando is brasilian, a lawyer and has a black belt in jiu jitsu. At the age of 29 he had a serious paragliding accident, he was in coma for one week and hospitalised for one year. After this very traumatic experience he began to practice yoga as a means to speed up his recovery. Within a short time the yoga practice made him realize the depth and importance of this ancient philosophy as a result of which he was inspired to follow the yogic path in life.

Anderson Alegro was the teacher who introduced Fernando to yoga and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In 2005 he traveled to India to search for the answers, there he met the guru of ashtanga yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois his grandson Sharath Rangaswami and his daughter Saraswathi. Today Fernando considers Sharath to be his main yoga teacher.

After almost two years experience of living in India he wants to bring the ashtanga yoga he has been taught in Mysore to Atibaia, Brasil. He truly believes in the ashtanga yoga system and in the eight limbs to be the perfect method for improving general health and overcoming physical and psychological difficulties we all face in life.