Intro
Thomas is a yoga & meditation teacher and mentor. He is also a body- and energy worker. Above all he is a practitioner himself, who shares what he is most passionate about.
After a strong pull to head to the Thailand at a young age to explore meditation, he has spent over a decade studying and traveling the world. After being encouraged to teach, he started the journey of sharing this work, and since has supported dozens of people across the globe in private mentorships, bodywork, and hundreds through online courses, workshops. and teaching at retreats and festivals all over the world.
His studies have been diverse. He started his spiritual training in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in Thailand, and later in the famous Goënka Vipassana school, famous for the 10-day intensive retreats. His search further expanded over the years through many of the classical traditions of the east, as well as modern off-springs, including Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Tantra and Tibetan Buddhism. During these years he spent many periods in solitude and retreat.
He currently spends most of his time living in southern Portugal, where he lives with the seasons, in touch with the land, close to the ocean, and embracing love and relationship as a spiritual path in devotion with his partner.
Recognition
He has taught alongside names such as modern Tantra pioneer Margot Anand and world-leading breathwork teacher Michaël Bijker. He is a faculty member at Awaken as Love, and teacher trainer and faculty at yogalap, where he created and hosts a Meditation Teacher Training, which has graduated over 100 students. His private mentoring practice has welcomed a diverse array of individuals over the years, including business leaders, creatives, and fellow teachers and practitioners looking to deepen their inner work.
The work
As a yoga and meditation teacher, he weaves knowledge and experience from his diverse studies together through a few core pillars.
Meditation - Concentration training, yoga sutra and Buddhist dhamma explorations, direct path explorations of consciousness, and meditation in daily life.
Yoga & Pranayama - To harmonize and invigorate the body. Ancient Hatha Yoga techniques, and potent postural explorations from Black Lotus Yoga by Ty Landrum.
Philosophy and ancient texts - Talks and explorations of the deeper contemplative dimensions. With a focus on Yoga, and extending to all traditions and scriptures that inspire.
Embodiment - The deep integration work of living in alignment in livelihood, relationship, intimacy, and healing of body, shadow, psychology and nervous system.
Besides yoga and meditation teaching, he works with people individually as a coach and mentor, as well as bodyworker, supporting people through deeply personal processes.
Style
His teaching style is compassionate and invites committed practice. Students who want to explore deeper dimensions of yoga and meditation beyond modern fluff are the ones that stay with him for years. People who look for a spiritual mentor can find a potent and transformational safe space with him to heal and develop.
His yoga and meditation is held in quiet and focused environments. Lectures, workshops and retreats are interactive and have a community spirit.
Training & Influence
Having spent over a decade studying with dozens, if not hundreds of teachers, mentors and schools, some famous and some unknown, many have had an important influence on him.
Some have remained with him until this day. Those who remain with him to this day are the sangha and monks of the Theravada tradition, Ty Landrum with whom he studies the Black Lotus Yoga sequences and philosophy, and Lama Lena with whom he studies Tibetan Buddhism and Dzogchen.
Beyond formal teachers, his biggest teachers have been romance, loss, nature, plants, silence, solitude, and ancient Sufi poetry.