YOGA · SANTA MARIA, CABO VERDE
Closed Sept 15th to October 31st. Reopens November 1st
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Five Elements
In the yogic tradition, all of existence — including the body and the breath — arises from five fundamental elements, our practice moves through all of them.
AKASHA
Space
Pure awareness, stillness, and the container in which all else arises. Space is the silence beneath the pose — the vast, open quality of an undisturbed mind.
VAYU
Air
Breath, lightness, and the space between movement and stillness. Air is pranayama — the conscious direction of life force through the body.
AGNI
Fire
Transformation, will, and inner radiance. Fire lies in the core — in tapas, the disciplined heat burns away what no longer serves us.
JALA
Water
Flow, feeling, and the wisdom of letting go. In practice, water teaches us to move with the breath — fluid, adaptive, and deeply present.
PRITHVI
Earth
Stability, nourishment, and the body as ground. Earth asks us to root down — to feel the floor beneath our hands and feet and trust it completely.
WHAT WE OFFER
Group Classes
Two ways to practice, each shaped by the light, landscape, and elemental energy of Cabo Verde
Sunrise Yoga
SUNRISE ON THE OCEAN DECK
Tue · Sun – 7:15am
75 mins
All levels
Open air sessions of ancient and traditional yoga flows, asanas, and pranayamas. All set in the presence of the powerful five elements.
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Meet at the Ocean Deck
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Mat and great joy provided
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Arrive 5 minutes early
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5 students maximum
Sunset Yoga
SUNSET IN THE STUDIO
Mon · Wed · Sat – 6:15pm Thu – 5:00pm
75 mins
All levels
Deeper practice that resets your nervous system, opens your energy channels, calms the mind and takes you on a journey to the true you.
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Meet at the Studio
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Mat, blocks, straps provided
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Arrive 5 minutes early
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11 students maximum
€20
CLASS
€90
5 CLASS PACK
Valid for 2 months
Private Classes
The power of one to ones to deepen your practice and create inner shifts within you
Yoga Sessions
TAILORED ENTIRELY TO YOU
By Appointment
70 mins
All levels
This class may be used to learn to breathe, explore pranayama's for moving your energy, be guided through meditation, or anything which helps you improve your overall practice.
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In the Studio
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Mat, blocks, straps provided
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Two people maximum
€50
PER PERSON FOR 2
€90
1 PERSON
Asanas & Sound
CREATE SPACE AND RELEASE
By Appointment
75 mins
All levels
Allow yourself to be gently guided into supportive poses, creating space for your body to release. Healing sound vibrations will be played on you to allow light and energy to move freely through your body.
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In the Studio
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Mat, blocks, straps provided
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Two people maximum
€65
PER PERSON FOR 2
€105
1 PERSON
Sound Healing
RETREAT INTO YOU
By Appointment
75 mins
All levels
A deeper immersive experience where ancient sound instruments are used to wash healing vibrations over you to raise your awareness and to be gently guided back home to your true self — a place of pure light.
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In the Studio
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Mat, blocks, straps provided
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One person maximum
n/a
PER PERSON FOR 2
€130
1 PERSON
QUESTIONS
FAQs
Curious about our classes? We thought so.
BORN FROM THE ISLAND
About
The energy here supports healing and transformation. The elements remind me what is the meaning of life.
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Namaste, my name is Sheena. I am an Indian, born and raised by the world and wild animals. For the last twenty years I have been living in Cabo Verde. I have walked the yogic path for 22 yrs, studying all the limbs of the ancient traditions of yoga. In 2024, I entered the guru-taught path of Naad yoga with a guru in India.
Every class is different and each class is a mix of Hatha, Iyengar, Yin, Kundalini, Naad, Restorative, Pranayama, short Meditations, and the healing vibrations of sound bowls played on your body. Every class is bathed in joy, laughter, curiosity, and the belief that there is not a you and an I, there is just an US.
Whether you are advanced or can barely touch your shins, there is zero judgement, full acceptance of where you are at, and the support to expand beyond your percieved limitations.
Meet the parts of you that you did not know existed.
Meet bliss.
IN PRINT
Books
These are not just books, they are journeys.
Burning of the
Indian Girl
MY STORY
How I went from dating the head of one of the largest organised cartels in Southern Africa as a teenager, confronting death in the wild, to becoming a yogi and a spiritual teacher with a guru on a desert island.
All of it told as a story, to the five elements, as they raise awareness of how that story came into reality. The five elements whose consciousness I have begun to connect to and their role as humans.
Yoga: Where the Impossible Meets the Possible
A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THE UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN
They began to arrive at the cove at the centre of which sat a 3000 year-old Baobab surrounded by hundreds of plants and animals from across the planet. At edge of the cove lay Ocean in a bay filled with marine representatives from every ocean and sea on Earth.
They had all come to tell the story of the most ancient discipline known to humankind, Yoga. This is what they told the sole human
that sat among them.