Daniel Fonseca is the Co-founder, Head master and Teacher of Wise Living Yoga Academy in Chiang Mai Thailand where he conducts Yoga teacher trainings along with his wife Jeenal Mehta . He was born in Brazil and decided to change his life completely and dedicate it to Yoga.
Daniel has spent several years in India learning traditional Yoga with his Gurus Hansaji and Dr. Jayadeva. He also travelled around India to different spiritual places meeting and learning with different Yoga masters, then adopting the Yoga Philosophy as his way of life. He inspires his students with teachings based on Classical Yoga, Bhagavad Gita & Shri Yogendra’s methods for the practice of Hatha Yoga. Besides his formal training in Yoga Education & Therapy at The Yoga Institute of Santacruz, Mumbai, India, where Daniel was a faculty teacher for several years, he holds a Diploma in Buddhist studies & Vipassana Meditation from University of Mumbai.
In his young age he did Martial Arts and Adventure sports and got his bachelor degree in Tourism. Since then, Daniel is very fond of nature and animals, studying and experimenting with concepts of sustainability and permaculture. After spending a few years in Europe and completing a pilgrimage throughout Northern Spain, in 2005 he made his way to India where he lived from 2006 onward. Nowadays, he lives in Thailand with his wife, Jeenal. Together they run the Yoga Ashram of Wise Living Yoga Academy, and maintain the big organic garden where Daniel grows and harvests a great amount of the plant based food, which they serve to the students during the retreat.
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