About
I didn't go looking
for peace.
I lost a business, a clinic, my health, and most of what I thought I was — and found it in a basement, through a cat, the moment I stopped looking.
The story
I trained as a physiotherapist in São Paulo in the late nineties, and then could not stop training. Osteopathy. Manual therapy. Acupuncture. Chiropractic. Naturopathy. Homeopathy. Phytotherapy. Two doctorates in the health sciences before I turned forty. For twenty years I taught what I had learned to other clinicians across Brazil, Portugal, and Canada. The work made a clinic, the clinic made a school, the school made a small empire of post-graduate courses across nine countries. I thought that was the answer to the question I had not yet learned to ask.
It wasn't. The clinic closed. The body broke. The empire turned out to be a job. The question finally surfaced and there was nobody left to answer it for me. What followed was three years of slow disassembly: the contemplative traditions on one side of the desk, the neuroscience on the other, a cat on the keyboard, and nothing in particular to do. The books in the Infinita Via series are what came out of it.
What I'm not
I am not a guru. I am not a coach. I am not selling a method. I am not a doctor of medicine. The credentials at the bottom of this page are clinical and scientific — they exist to ground the writing, not to sell anything. The retreats are small and the courses are few because I am writing nine books and that takes most of the time. The newsletter, Quieter, is the part you should subscribe to if you want to know me. The rest is downstream of it.
What I'm doing now
Writing the seventh of the nine Infinita Via books. Teaching one course a year. Running two retreats a year in Portugal. Hosting one online seminar a month. The rest is reading, walking, and not posting.
The clinical and academic record
Doctorates
Two, in the health sciences
Post-doctorate
Pain neuroscience research
Clinical licenses
Physiotherapy · Osteopathy · Chiropractic · Acupuncture · Naturopathy · Homeopathy · Phytotherapy
Years in clinical practice
22+
Teaching
Post-graduate courses across Brazil, Portugal, Canada (9 countries via Manual Therapy Europe)
Languages
English · Portuguese · Spanish · French
Based in
Portugal
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