WHO IS
GUSTAVO PLAZA
Gustavo Plaza
Gustavo Plaza (Arjuna) is an experienced Yoga teacher and orientalist who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to train students around the world.
Gustavo’s fun character and charismatic personality make his yoga classes warm and enjoyable for yoga students of any level. Moreover, his deep understanding and knowledge of this ancient tradition ensures his students to strengthen and improve their yoga journey.
Gustavo’s classes are a source of light and inspiration.
His initiation in yoga
His first experience with yoga was around the age of 6, when Gustavo’s father gave him the first instructions for meditation. However, it was not until he was 15 that Gustavo met his guru, Father César Dávila. From then on, Gustavo started a dedicated practice and began studying the tradition of yoga.
His first experience with yoga was around the age of 6, when Gustavo’s father gave him the first instructions for meditation. However, it was not until he was 15, that Gustavo met his guru, Father César Dávila. From then on, Gustavo started a dedicated practice and began studying the tradition of yoga.
Gustavo Plaza was blessed with the physical guidance of Father Dávila during 8 years, approximately, until the master abandoned his body in 1999. By that time, Gustavo was already teaching Hatha Yoga and Meditation in Father Dávila’s organization, the Asociación Escuela de Auto-Realización.
Spiritual Guides and inspiration along the yoga path
Throughout his 30 years of dedication to the yoga path, Gustavo has received inspiration and personal teaching directly from great teachers, especially from Sri Swami Veda Bharati of the Himalayas and Sri Sadhu Maharaja.
Swami Veda Bharati was a dear friend and spiritual brother of Father Dávila, as they both came from the same tradition of the Himalayan masters. Likewise, the Bhakti Yoga saint Sadhu Maharaja also had a special connection to the message of Father Dávila.
These two teachers in particular have helped Gustavo Plaza to reach the next steps on his path, as well as having updated and boosted Father Dávila's teachings at different moments of his life.
At the same time, Gustavo Plaza maintains a close friendship with great mentors, such as Pandit Bhek Pati Sinha, Ramiro Calle, Andrei Ram and Surinder Singh, among others, who have brought great value to his path.
Gustavo travels frequently to India, where he maintains contact with the great spiritual traditions and where he keeps studying the different paths of self-knowledge and philosophy in India and Asia.
Expansion of the Yoga Rahasya School and Method
Gustavo Plaza (Arjuna) has been bringing the Yoga Rahasya method to the world for more than 10 years. He has participated as a yoga teacher and speaker in international events such as the Bhakti Fest (California, USA), Dakini Festival (Tuzla, Romania), the Yoga Journal Conference (Moscow, Russia) and Global Yoga Congress (Barcelona, Spain) among others.
Currently, Gustavo offers workshops, classes and courses on meditation and the vast method of yoga (asana, pranayama, yoga nidra, etc.). Gustavo is very actively training yoga teachers internationally, and he yearly offers the Yoga Rahasya Transformation Training Program, for all people who seek to deepen their experience in the practice of the ancient discipline of yoga.
Furthermore…
Gustavo Plaza is co-director of the Sadhana Magazine and Sadhana Yoga Conference international congress.
Additionally, Gustavo is a member of the Asociación Escuela de Auto-Realización, founded by his teacher, Father César Dávila, where he has actively served as Hatha Yoga teacher and oriental philosophy in Guayaquil.
