Teachers
Marcia Leite
Marcia is the founder and principal Senior teacher at Yoga Essence. Since the 80's Marcia has been exploring alternative healing arts while working as a Marketing Executive for big multinational companies and Advertising Agencies in Brazil. A successful marketing career was not as exciting and fulfilling as expected, apart from all the material things that money could provide.
Although practicing yoga since 1996, it was in 2000 when the hahhh moment came, and 35 days after that, Marcia was already living in New Zealand and convinced she had found her place.
Since 2002, Marcia has been studying, practicing, and teaching in NZ. Marcia is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher Level 2 and has been a Yoga mentor for Iyengar Teacher Certification since 2022.
Marcia is also a mother of Sofia, a writer, a Certified Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant, and an advocate of metaphysics as an integral part of yoga.
Daniela Viznerova
Daniela embraced yoga around 2014 due to injuries from her strong athletics endeavors/practice. Since then, yoga has been a strong and disciplined practice for Daniela and has helped her to deal with injuries and to keep mobility and a healthy body. Daniela started her teaching training in 2018 and became a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher in 2022 under the mentoring of Marcia Leite. Daniela is a great explorer of yoga and delivers an engaging and captivating yoga class that keeps her students coming back for more.
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