Born in Rome, Candida moved to Madrid in 2010, where she found not only a home but also the inspiration and courage to align her life with a higher purpose —from a career in the corporate world to a path of service and devotion through yoga and meditation, the practices that have profoundly shaped her life’s journey.
She has been studying and practicing yoga for more than 15 years with renowned teachers from the Jivamukti and Ashtanga traditions. In 2013, after one transformative year traveling around India and Asia, she got the Certification to teach Jivamukti yoga, strongly motivated to share the message of liberation through compassion that is Yoga. In 2016 she received the 800h Jivamukti certification, after one year of studies in Berlin as an apprentice of Vera Christopeit, and in 2019 she received the Advanced Certification.
Beyond her Jivamukti training, Candida is a senior Trauma-Sensitive Yoga teacher, trained by Fundación Rādika, a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher from Brown University, and is deeply committed to sharing Compassion Cultivation programs, with training from both Stanford University and different masters of the Buddhist tradition. These diverse teachings have shaped her approach, infusing a deep sense of awareness and compassion into every aspect of her work (and life).
Candida is committed to teach yoga and meditation as spiritual practices —paths to stillness and a means of reconnecting with the sacred within and moving closer to the Divine. She strives to ensure her classes are safe and inclusive spaces, where everyone can explore their felt experience with openness and no judgment, finding a deep sense of connection —both inward and outward. From that deep felt sense of connection, transformation becomes possible.
Candida is forever grateful for the life-changing teachings she was blessed to receive, for the support of the Jivamukti community and for all the teachers and students of Yoga. She sincerely aspires to a more compassionate world, and her service as a teacher is her humble contribution to it.