About Me

I was born and raised in intense and beautiful Brazil.

Where I grew up, it was very common for families to have certain recipes to heal all sorts of ailments using the vast biodiversity of Brazil. You could hear about things ranging from “teas with bad taste” to “old pearls of wisdom” on what to do and not to do. Brazil is also a very religious country. There is a mix of traditions and they coexist in a form where people try to incorporate what they feel is good about each religion. For example, my parents educated me (tried to) in Catholicism, but I was (and my parents too) always dressed in white during New Year’s Eve in honor of Yemanjá (an African deity) and I also used to practice meditation. It was not at all uncommon to have spiritual attention to health. When I was a toddler, for example, I had an episode of severe loss of appetite and after many unsuccessful medical attempts, my mother took me to an elder healer from our city who prayed for me and had a vision that I wanted a lollipop that I'd seen from another kid and that was the problem. My mother bought the lollipop from the healer’s vision at a grocery store, and the problem was solved. Every family will probably have these stories.

My own vocation as a healer (well, definitely not seeing lollipops) didn’t manifest early in my life as I grew up fascinated by technology. I obtained a bachelor’s in Computer Science and then a master’s in Artificial Intelligence. And as fascinating as that is, something was missing, a form of fulfillment that was hard to describe.

As a consequence of my fascination, I moved to San Francisco following the tech world, and after a few years living in America, my health state deteriorated quite fast. Not a single doctor was able to give me an actionable and efficient solution to my complaints. So I turned to alternative medicine and started experimenting with different solutions.

In my search for help, I discovered Ayurveda. The theory was (still is!) fascinating and so simple. It only uses natural resources to help people, in the same curious ways those strange teas from my family would do, but this time, there was a science behind it to explain everything in minimal detail. I was hooked and couldn’t stop reading and talking about it.

So I decided to have my first Ayurvedic consultation in San Francisco, and it changed my life. The holistic approach and deep understanding of all the aspects of my life shocked me. I regained my health and I wanted to understand everything about it. My engineer mind, once skeptical, was craving to understand this science that was so simple, beautiful, and efficient.

I enrolled in an Ayurveda school in California, Kerala Ayurveda Academy, and I was devouring all the knowledge. As part of our assignments, we had to give mentored consultations to a number of people. At one of the consultations, I was able to help a friend with depression. Something I never imagined I would be able to do with the little knowledge I had back in time. That surprise changed my life, the feeling was (still is!) indescribable. I didn't want to stop helping people and couldn't wait for the next consultation. The fulfillment I felt was the feeling I was missing all those years. I quickly realized this is what I was born to do.