Your teacher

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Marcia is the founder and principal Senior teacher at Yoga Essence.  Since the 80s, 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 practising yoga since 1996, it was in 2000 that the 'aha' moment came, and 35 days after that, Marcia was already living in New Zealand, convinced she had found her place.

Since 2002, Marcia has been studying, practising, 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.