Meraki is a Greek word. It means doing something with your soul, with love, leaving a piece of yourself in what you do. When I needed a name for what I was building, there was no other.
This is my story: the practice, the language, the sky and the people who came along the way.
Thus the yogi in a state of meditation remains empty within and empty without, like an empty pot in space. At the same time, the yogi feels fullness within and fullness without, like a pot immersed in the ocean.Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā IV:56
Yoga has been in my life for many years, long before there was a school, a channel or a website. It was a mat rolled out on the floor and an hour of the day set aside for it.
I am a hatha yoga teacher. Over time I went deeper into Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga, and the two techniques came together in a way where each one supports the other. Movement warms, the pause settles. Almost everything I teach today comes out of that meeting.
I went to study Languages and Literature. It was there, among classes on how languages work from the inside, that I came to Sanskrit. The yoga that had been a practice became reading as well.
Sanskrit is a carefully constructed language. Every sound has its exact place in the mouth, and Pāṇini's grammar described this in around four thousand rules, in the 4th century before the common era. Learning to read changed my practice: आसन, āsana, means "seat". Once you know that, what happens on the mat is something else.
I never stopped. Today the study of the language is one of the layers of Meraki, and I teach what I keep learning, from the devanāgarī alphabet to the Yoga Sūtra, verse by verse.
Vedic astrology appeared while I was learning Sanskrit, still at university. Jyotiṣa is one of the Vedāṅgas, the auxiliary limbs of the Vedas, and it is often called the eye of the tradition, the part that serves to see time. It sat right next to what I was already reading.
I started out of a reader's curiosity and kept going because the sky explains rhythm. The Nakshatras, the 27 houses of the Moon, say a lot about each person's emotional landscape. That is why even the practices on the channel follow what is happening out there: an eclipse, the waning moon, Saturn retrograde.
That part grew so much that it got a home of its own, with a different identity and a different rhythm: Meraki Astrology.
In 2015 Meraki Yoga started in Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo state. It was born from the dream of creating a space for self-knowledge, love and responsible practice, and that is still the most accurate description of what we do.
Then came São Carlos, and with it more people.
In 2020, when everything shut down, the classes moved to the screen. We were pioneers online, and the community grew precisely when nobody could meet. That is when I discovered that there is no distance for our connection.
Since then the practices have been recorded and gathered in the library on the website.
Today Meraki is eleven years old. In 2025 we held our first retreat and closed the first decade in person, all together.
From here on I want to be a reference for quality online yoga, with a welcoming experience wherever you are, and to take the retreats around Brazil and the world, making memories and deepening the practice together.
Meraki Yoga is more than a place, it is a community. We keep spreading Merakians everywhere.