Hi, I'm Brisa.

I grew up between Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro and rural southern Brazil before finding my way through Park City, Aspen, Boston, Seattle, Durham, and eventually Ann Arbor. Along the way, I became a wife and a mama to two girls and a doggie.

I've spent much of my life following my love of people, new landscapes, and the experiences that change us.

I'm an experienced yoga teacher, manifesting coach, retreat leader, world traveler, lifelong student, and someone who has always loved bringing people together. I'm also the creator of Rebel Yoga Retreats.

I feel most alive when I'm having fun with wonderful humans, moving my body, exploring nature, and finding adventure wherever I go.

I've found my teachers everywhere: in nature, travel, adventure, and motherhood. In yoga and spiritual practices. In friendship and community. In profound love and loss.

They've taught me to trust my intuition, stay curious, choose joy, and question what I've inherited. To believe that belonging begins within but reaches far beyond ourselves. And that if we want a more loving, just, and beautiful world, we have to participate in creating it.

Most importantly, they've taught me about our shared humanity. That beneath all the ways we are different, there is something that connects us to one another. Love. And the more deeply we understand that connection, the more capable we become of meeting ourselves and one another with acceptance, compassion, and an open heart.

My life is a practice of learning, unlearning, and becoming. Of trying to live more fully from that place of love, and letting it shape how I move through the world.

And I'm still very much in it.