KARINA
GUSALOVA

Karina is a certified Advanced Jivamukti Yoga teacher (800h), mentor and facilitator for 75h teacher trainings, and mentor for 300h and 500h Jivamukti Yoga teacher trainings.
Born in Latvia and having lived in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, she now considers Barcelona home. Teaching the Jivamukti method since 2012, Karina integrates yogic philosophy, conscious movement, and work with the physical and energetic body into her classes, creating a space for self-exploration, growth, and inner connection.
Her teaching, characterized by rhythm, grace, and a deeply human presence, invites each practitioner to discover their limitless potential through a dynamic and meditative practice.
Beyond being a yoga student, Karina has another passion: the world of therapy. She is trained as a Gestalt therapist and integrates therapeutic approaches into her workshops and classes. Yoga and Gestalt therapy share several deep foundations, although they come from different traditions: one more body-based and spiritual, the other psychological and humanistic. Both support her in her own life and in guiding students inward.

JOSE
CARBALLAL

He began practising yoga in 2000, looking for tools to cope with anxiety and improve his posture. After exploring different styles, he discovered Ashtanga Yoga in 2001 and, in 2002, travelled to Mysore for the first time, where he met his teacher, Sharath Jois, with whom he studied regularly until his passing.
His teacher considered him ready to teach the Primary and Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga. Together with his practice partner Rafa Martínez, he shares this method and supports his students in their processes of practice and transformation at Mysore House Madrid, alongside a wonderful team of teachers whom they have trained.
His deep interest in and commitment to processes of mental transformation and the spiritual path have led him to undertake a long-term therapeutic process, allowing him to deepen his self-understanding, something he considers fundamental on this path.
He has trained in Gestalt Therapy and Trauma, bringing a deeper understanding of mental and emotional processes into his teaching. His main interest in teaching Ashtanga Yoga is to support a profound transformation in each person, enabling them to meet life with greater awareness and cultivate a form of happiness that is less literal, but more grounded and lasting.

RODRIGO
SOUZA

Rodrigo Souza (he/him) is an internationally recognised Accessible and Adaptive Yoga teacher, educator, and disability advocate dedicated to creating a more inclusive and human approach to yoga.
A wheelchair user following a spinal cord injury, Rodrigo’s relationship with yoga became a journey of returning home to his body — an experience that continues to shape the way he teaches, mentors, and advocates for greater accessibility in yoga spaces.
Through Allihopa Yoga and his Brazilian initiative Lhe Tenho Amor, Rodrigo teaches students with diverse bodies and lived experiences and trains yoga teachers and healthcare professionals to facilitate practices rooted in dignity, autonomy, belonging, and care. He also serves as a mentor and training facilitator with the Accessible Yoga School.
In 2026, Rodrigo was recognised by Yoga Journal USA as one of eight yoga teachers shaping the future of yoga.
At the heart of his work is a simple belief: yoga does not belong to one kind of body. It is a practice of belonging — and every body deserves to feel that they are welcome.
Beyond teaching postures, Rodrigo dedicates his life to transforming how we understand yoga: not as a practice reserved for a few, but as a path of care, belonging, and freedom for every body.

MARTA
CARRASCAL

She graduated in Psychology and specialized in Gestalt Therapy and Psychopharmacology of Addictions. In the same year she graduated, she travelled to India for the first time to take part in a volunteering project, an experience that changed the course of her life. It was during this journey that she took her first yoga class and spent a month at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala. Since then, she has continued her training and learning.
Following this experience came relocations, a change of profession, travels across Asia and Peru, training with different teachers, hours devoted to practice, encounters with wonderful people, and the challenges of life’s crises and questions.
Since 2011, she has dedicated herself exclusively to teaching yoga. Her training has evolved through the meeting of psychology, embodiment, neuroscience, yoga philosophy and contemplative practices.
In recent years, her interest has focused particularly on Yoga Nidrā. She firmly believes in everything that frees us from the inertia of everyday life and in the transformative power of disciplines that foster compassionate introspection. Through what she shares, she aspires to be a companion to those navigating life’s changes and journeys, who, like her, seek to live and dream wide awake.

CANDIDA
VIVALDA

Originally from Rome, Candida has practiced yoga and meditation for 20 years with renowned teachers from different traditions. She has spent long periods studying, on retreat, and in service in Buddhist monasteries, Hindu ashrams, and Christian communities, cultivating a broad perspective –both contemplative and active– on the spiritual path.
She is a Jivamukti Yoga and Meditation teacher and trainer, as well as a facilitator and mentor of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion programs. Together with the Rādika Foundation, she created the first Trauma-Sensitive Meditation teacher training in Spanish.
She directs the training activities at The Yoga Gallery and is the creator of Yoga for Change: Embodied Spirituality and Activism for Yoga Teachers, a pioneering program that interweaves body, mind, spirit, neuroscience, and activism.
Candida is committed to teaching yoga as a spiritual practice and a path of transformation. Her purpose is to accompany practitioners in recognizing, through stillness and presence, what is sacred within oneself and in all things, and thus awaken a commitment to life, to others, and to the world.
She continues to deepen her training in order to offer an increasingly inclusive, compassionate, and engaged approach to teaching, centered on active hope and the practice of ahimsa: not causing harm and not remaining silent in the face of it, because there can be no true nonviolence without social justice.

ALEXIS
RACIONERO

Traveler and writer, specializing in Asia, counterculture, and the Hero’s Journey. He holds a PhD in Art History and a degree in Geography and History, and has devoted much of his career to exploring the connections between East and West, travel as an experience of transformation, and different ways of understanding life through philosophy and practice.

He is a Kundalini Yoga, Dharma Yoga, and meditation teacher, trained in New York with Dharma Mittra, and leads retreats through his Wakenpath method. He is also a generative coach and Gestalt therapist, disciplines he integrates into his approach to personal development and self-knowledge.
He understands yoga as a philosophy of life to be applied to real life, as well as a tool for self-knowledge and transformation. His sessions combine energetic work with the subtlety of meditation, seeking to integrate body, mind, and consciousness. For him, yoga is harmony, much like the encounter between India and Japan that shapes his life.
He is the author of books including Darshan, Mushin, El viaje del héroe, Ecotopía, La mirada de Oriente, Shoshin, cultiva la curiosidad y vive feliz, Sendas de meditación, and El arte de no complicarse la vida.

ADRIANA
JARRÍN

For Adriana, yoga is a journey of inner transformation that, when shared with others, allows us to awaken a sense of meaning in life. She discovered this path more than 20 years ago, while undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. From then on, yoga offered her a new way of looking at life, as well as tools to navigate it with greater serenity.
Alongside her career as an anthropologist, working in international cooperation and research, she trained in different branches of yoga in various parts of the world. Over time, she felt called to share what she had received and specialised in therapeutic, prenatal and postnatal yoga, and later in Yoga for the Cancer Patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Rādika Trauma-Sensitive Yoga.
Her own experience with illness, together with her work accompanying others, gave rise to the Yoga Oncology methodology. In 2021, she launched the first Spanish-language training programme together with the Rādika Foundation and, a year later, founded the International Yoga Oncology Network, now present in 14 countries. Through the Network, she provides ongoing training and develops yoga programmes in public hospitals.
Through yoga, she discovered that accompanying others is the dharma that defines her path, and that within community lie the strength to create change and the spirit of hope.

LORENA
COUTIÑO BOSCH

Coming from a background in communication, Lorena now integrates both facets of her life to offer trainings, classes, workshops, retreats, and individual support through yoga. Her main purpose is to bring the yoga tradition—its philosophy and techniques—into everyday life, learning to live yoga beyond the mat.
She began her practice in 2001 in Mexico and, in 2010, trained as a Hatha-Vinyasa yoga teacher in Barcelona (200 h). Since 2011, she has followed the lineage of Krishnamacharya and Desikachar, studying with various teachers in India—at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (300 h)—and in Europe. In 2015, she became certified in Yoga Therapy with Dr. N. Chandrasekaran, learning to design personalized practices according to each person’s needs, and has accumulated over 800 hours of training.
Since 2013, she has deepened her studies each year with her teacher Chandra Klee in the Yoga Sūtras, the Bhagavad Gita, and techniques from the Desikachar–Viniyoga tradition, oriented toward self-inquiry and spiritual development. Since 2017, she has co-directed and taught 200-hour teacher trainings, as well as courses, retreats, and workshops. She travels regularly to India to be nourished by the tradition and to return, again and again, to the essence of yoga.

CLEM
GENET

Clem came to yoga over ten years ago, with a damaged relationship with her body and the conviction that she needed to change in order to fit in. For a long time, her practice was driven by self-demand, comparison and the need to prove something.
The philosophy of yoga and feminism transformed her perspective. The concept of mokṣa, liberation, invited her to question the attachments and ideas that shape and constrain our existence. Feminism and queer thought gave her tools to challenge gender norms, question body ideals and make visible the capitalist power structures that sustain systemic inequalities and oppression. She understands liberation as both an individual and a collective process.
Her mission is to bring yoga and feminism into dialogue from a critical perspective, exploring both their contributions and their contradictions.
Trained in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga and Inclusive Yoga, she brings together tradition and critical thinking. Music, present throughout every stage of her journey, is an essential part of the way she shares yoga.
She runs Morada, a feminist, queer and inclusive studio in Puerta del Ángel, Madrid, and leads Casa Morada, her digital platform. In 2026, she also completed the first edition of TYG Academy’s «Yoga for Change» training programme.

JAMES
CROSSLEY

Known for his presence on British television as well as his deep knowledge in the world of yoga, this charismatic teacher combines his passion for Yin Yoga with his exceptional communication skills. In addition to being a television personality in the United Kingdom, he is also a master of gongs and hang, using them as powerful tools in his healing workshops.
His unique approach blends the gentle practice of Yin Yoga with the healing vibration of instruments, creating transformative experiences for his students. His gift for communication is reflected in his ability to guide and motivate others, making him a highly effective personal coach. His charismatic presence and profound knowledge make his classes not only educational but also inspiring and revitalizing for all who have the privilege to attend.

LUCAS
MASCIANO

Lucas has been involved in music since long time ago. He is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from the Buenos Aires Music School (EMBA-1999). He discovered the world of yoga, sound, and mantra in 2010 during a personal crisis, when he participated as a student at the Kundalini Yoga School in Barcelona. His work is based the Bhakti Yoga, or devotional yoga, approach. Along with Marta, he creates intimate and immersive Yoga Nidra sessions through the project El Descanso de ti.

MARCELO
SCHNOCK

Born in Argentina in 1985, Marcelo Schnock is a composer, pianist and writer. He has been developing his project “Olec Mün” since 2018, the year he released his first album. He studied piano, jazz, harmony and composition with teachers such as Nicolás Guerschberg, Francisco Sicilia, Guillermo Romero and Paula Suarez. Beyond the piano, he has been nourished by travels and studies of world music, both in northern India and western Africa, studying with masters from these lands and drawing inspiration from ancient cultures that give music a healing and spiritual place. Seven years after his first work, he now has seven albums released and more than fifteen million plays on online platforms. For the composer, music is a path of searching and an inquiry into identity, an identity that contains as many layers and nuances as questions. His music is balm and connection, enabling those who listen to connect with a deeper feeling and with the beauty of life. Marcelo currently lives in Barcelona, from where he travels throughout Europe, bringing his music and message.

ESTELA BENITA
BERNÉS

Violinist and music educator, she explores the connection between music, improvisation and spirituality. She has developed her career alongside various contemporary and experimental music orchestras and ensembles across Europe. Convinced of the transformative power of art, since 2017 she has combined performance with educational and social work, participating in projects such as Riborquestra and 4cordes. In 2019, she discovered Bhakti Yoga, beginning a journey of exploration between music, spirituality and improvisation. Since then, she has collaborated with artists such as Luca’Spirit, Kevin James, Jaya Deva, Ganesha Project and Manu Om, participating in festivals and gatherings of devotional music. Estela is also a practitioner of yoga and meditation.

JOSE MANUEL
LEAL

A percussionist by birth and a seeker by vocation, he grew up in a family deeply connected to Latin American folklore, where rhythm is an everyday language. His musical background also embraces the versatility of styles such as rock, rumba, reggae, and cumbia — a sonic richness he now places in service of devotional singing.
For over five years, he has been actively contributing to the expansion of Bhakti Yoga. His percussion is not merely technical; it is a vibration and a heartbeat that has accompanied various musicians and facilitators in practices, concerts, and festivals around the world.