Marcos Silva is currently Associate Professor (Philosophy) at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil and is also CNPq Productivity Researcher. He regularly practices Yoga since 2015 and is deeply grateful for the pervasive and deep benefits of this ancient tradition in his life. He has established a daily practice of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga’s system in Oct 2017. Currently, he humbly studies the third series of Ashtanga under the supervision of Lucia Andrade. He also studies Sanskrit and chanting with Jayashree and Zoe Slatoff-Ponte.

In the season 2019-2020, Marcos had the great honor to study in Mysore, India, for two months with Guruji Sharath Jois, the holder of the Ashtanga lineage.

Marcos is the founder of "Yoga na Federal", an Ashtanga Yoga program at the UFPE/Brazil

"Discipline, dedication, determination, devotion"

"Practice, practice, and all is coming" Sri Pathabi Jois