A former dancer, Filipa Veiga has started Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga practice, as taught by Sri K. Patabhi Jois, in Lisbon in 2004 with Isa Guitana and Tarik van Prehn Praça.
Ever since she embraced different kinds of yoga in her travellings to India and Bali and research about this ancientknowledge.
Filipa goes every year to Mysore, India to learn from her guru, Sharath Jois at the KPJAYI. She also learns meditation and attends to mantra sessions with her Guru in Mysore.
2012 was the year she became a Certified Yoga Teacher by Yoga Aliance UK. Filipa also attended several Ashtanga Yoga immersions with internationally recognised teachers including Eddie Stern, Dena Kinsberg, Mark Roberds, Tim Feldman, Peter Sanson, Dany Paradise, Therese Poulsen, among others.
Filipa is committed with her own ashtanga daily self-practice. She feels blessed to be able to share this ancient knowledge with all interested in learning about yoga and its fundaments.
She studied law and has been since 12 years a TV as well as magazine journalist reporting about the world and the practice of yoga as well other subjects related to wellness. She is also a mother of 2 beautiful little girls and is presently living with her family in spiritual Ubud, in Bali.