Felipe is an internationally certified teacher with over fourteen years of experience as a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and bodywork practitioner. He has owned three yoga studios, two of them in Santiago, Chile and one in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. His Yoga training and certifications have been in Iyengar Yoga with H.S. Arun, Vinyasa krama yoga with Srivatsa Ramaswami ,and Yoga Therapy with Dr.SV Karandikar.
Felipe's life long relationship with Yoga, therapy, and Bodywork started at the age of sixteen. Several years of intense martial arts practice, and sports, lead him to develop a herniated lumbar disc. A year later after trying many different Western and Eastern therpeautic treatments Felipe discovered Iyengar Yoga therapy which finally healed his back and inspired him to pursue a life-long journey in Yoga. Not long after his back recovery Felipe completed his first Yoga certification, began assisting, and was request by the owner of Yoga Shala (Santaigo, Chile) to teach classes.
"We can define Yoga as the basic human intent of perceiving the essence of life deeper than the current of thoughts, this quest has manifest in many ways for different cultures thru the times"
He started Bodywork practice at twenty-two when he developed a therapeutic approach that combined Ancient and Thai massage, learned in Nepal, his knowledge and experience acquired on Yoga therapy at Kabir Baur clinic (Pune, India) and also the assisted stretches that came derivate form assisting patients and students in his own practice.
Today his mix has grown to incorporate, the use of deep tissue massage, as a tool to get a more detailed direct hands-on release of fascia and muscular tension patterns. Felipe's experience and study had lead him to a really detailed postural assessment of the body structure with a clear understanding of how to generate deep release in the human body and emotions.
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“Is certain that thru a precise manipulation of the physical body is possible to change and dissolve patterns of pain, beyond this if the manipulation comes with a clear purpose, knowledge and compassion is possible to modify the most deep layers of the perception and experience of life”