Carmen is an experienced yoga teacher, having taught yoga and meditation for over 35 years. She is registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, RCYT, and YACEP. Her teachers include Sahajananda, Simona Trandafir, Master Mantak Chia (Universal Healing Tao), Ma Laoshi from China, and Master Chris Luth, a US Tai Chi National Champion.

Carmen’s avid curiosity and quest for excellence led her to earn a master’s degree in Psychology of Education; her master’s thesis was a scientific study about the influence of yoga practice on teenagers in their final year of high school. She continuously studies, practices, and shares body-mind energy arts.

Carmen is an enthusiastic healing practitioner who has studied acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing and phytotherapy and herbology at the Hippocrates Institute in Lisbon.

She resides in Portugal, where she founded the Sundari Integral Yoga School, a Registered Yoga School (RYS) recognized by Yoga Alliance. Sundari Integral Yoga School is a center for self-development that also offers yoga teaching training. She teaches in English, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Carmen shares, “I believe in the inner beauty of every human being, not only its potential but even more so in its power of manifestation.”