CERTIFIED TEACHERS

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Arjuna Das
(Gustavo Plaza)

Gustavo Plaza (Arjuna) is an experienced yoga teacher and orientalist, with more than 30 years of experience in training students around the world.

Founder of the Rahasya Yoga School and Method, Gustavo will bring you closer to yoga with a firm and solid teaching style, while being kind and funny.

His classes include several aspects of the yoga tradition, such as Hatha Yoga (alignment oriented practice), Pranayama, Meditation, Yoga Nidra, Philosophy and the Metaphysics of Yoga.

Cintamani Devi Dasi
(Claudia Musello)

Passionate about nature and a biologist by profession, Cintamani has been on the path of yoga for more than 20 years. She devotes herself fully to the Yoga life philosophy thanks to the inspiration of her guide Andrei Ram, and she studies Ayurveda Therapy and Nutrition under the guidance of Dr. Jorge Luis Berra and Lic. Rossana Molho.

Cintamani is a disciple of Sri Sadhu Maharaja and Swami Veda Bharati, from whom she received direct guidance and initiation.

Her melodious voice is a gift of healing and inner awakening. A spiritual warrior and connected to Mother Earth (Pachamama), her workshops are characterized by their clarity, objectivity and practical spirit.

Caridad Ponce

Caridad Ponce is a 'Yoga Rahasya Advance Certified Teacher', with 22 years of personal practice and 16 years of experience teaching.

In her process and path, Caridad was certified in the E.E.U.U. in Iyengar Yoga and Anusara with continuous studies for several years.

She completed the Yoga Rahasya TTP program with teacher Gustavo Plaza, who has been her main guide and mentor for more than 10 years. In 2017 she traveled to India and the Himalayas with Gustavo and the sangha, where she received initiation into the tradition of the Himalayan masters at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama.

She is the founder of Shantaya, Yoga Center in Quito, Ecuador and for 12 years she has led this community with continuous training in classes, workshops and retreats.

Caridad is a central part of the faculty of the Yoga Rahasya Transformation Training Program.

She has a master's degree in clinical nutrition from the Favaloro University, Argentina with a specialty in eating behavior.

Wife, mother, friend and mentor, she enjoys life and her passion for flamenco dancing, singing and mountain hiking.

Ekadhasi Devi Dasi (Elena Siria)
Nicaragua

Eka is a graphic designer with experience in editing and audiovisual post-production, editorial layout and teaching practice.

She has been a hatha yoga practitioner since 2015 and a yoga instructor for children and adults since 2017.

Already as a certified hatha yoga teacher for children, she met Gustavo Plaza (Arjuna) in Nicaragua who would later become her teacher. She is currently a certified Yoga Rahasya teacher since 2021.

“I met Arjuna at a yoga retreat in Nicaragua in 2019, I really liked his way of teaching, firm, with a sense of humor and with love, but at that moment I did not understand the magnitude of his teaching. After that event, many difficult things happened in my life and from there really arose the need to deepen my practice, find a deeper meaning in my life, I felt the real need for guidance on my path. Two years later, Arjuna returned to Nicaragua and invited me and openly told me that he would go to Ecuador to do the Yoga Rahasya Transformation Training Program with him. That same year, almost miraculously, all the doors opened and the trip could be made.

Coming to Ecuador changed my life, it transformed me, I feel that I cleaned up so many things from the past in the process, it was a purification that allowed me to let go of things that I had been holding very lightly. 

Arjuna, Cintamani and Caridad welcomed me, hugged me (literally), taught me with love and firmness, to develop in me the true practice of yoga, which today I use and share in my classes”. 

Alejandra Saavedra
Ecuador

Alejandra Saavedra began her approach to body work through art and dedicated herself for 13 years in Argentina, Cuba and Ecuador to training and a career in contemporary dance, especially improvisation as a mechanism for expressing feelings and experiences.

That experience with bodywork leads her to Pilates training. She has been an instructor for 10 years in pre and postpartum pilates and injury recovery pilates.

From 2019 to 2022 she dedicated herself to the study and practice of Ayurveda and in 2021 she completed her training as a Yoga Rahasya teacher with the teacher Gustavo Plaza.

Alejandra is a certified Rahasya Yoga teacher and in her classes she incorporates the knowledge of the various disciplines she has practiced, as well as the intuitive wisdom of art and dance, which gives her a unique and special style.

Sati Devi Dasi (Cecilia Angulo)
Ecuador

Sati Devi Dasi (Cecilia Angulo) has a degree in initial education. Dedicated to theater for 15 years, she is currently the art and education coordinator of the Social Contract for Education, focused on working by law on the right to quality education in marginal rural and urban sectors. She has been a yoga practitioner since 2013.

Certified teacher of the Yoga Rahasya method, she is an active part of yoga training and offers courses, classes and workshops in the city of Quito, accompanying people in their discovery of this path.

“My encounter with Yoga Rahasya has been one of the most transforming and determining moments in my life. A few years ago I read that to have a spiritual path you need a teacher, a guide, I saw that possibility so far away, but I continued in the search and refinement of my practice without a very clear path, until one day the possibility appeared before me to do the Yoga Rahasya Transformation Training Program and I did not doubt it for a second.

It was there that I realized that yoga is much more than postures, well-being or even good health, Yoga is union with God, Yoga is recognizing that we are Spirit and embarking on the path of return to the source.

Thanks to Arjuna, Cintamani Devi and Caridad, I had the grace to deepen my knowledge and yearn much more strongly to be able to transmit this message of love and transformation to the world.

Today I have a Master who accompanies me on this wonderful path beyond his physical presence and even words, knowing that I have the joy of having this spiritual guide is invaluable, I always treasure my meeting with Arjuna in my heart."

Krishnamayi Devi Dasi (Cristina Landázuri)
Ecuador

Licenciada en Administración Turística y certificada de pilates en Nesta / Espenser Institute y Balance Body, Cristina practica yoga por más de una década.  

El yoga ha sido un pilar en su vida para equilibrar la maternidad, el trabajo y su tiempo libre. 

Luego de años de práctica, estudio y preparación en clases, retiros, talleres y cursos con  Gustavo Plaza y Caridad Ponce, toma la decisión de tomar el profesorado “Yoga Rahasya Transformation Training Program”.

Cristina es profesora certificada en Yoga Rahasya y sus clases están llenas de energía y carisma. 

Especializada también en yoga aéreo, actualmente cursa estudios de profundización en yoga terapéutico.

Disfruta del senderismo al aire libre, el contacto con la naturaleza y el ciclismo de montaña.