Rene Refi
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
I started my journey of self discovery in 2014. After many years of working in hospitality In the big city of Cape Town South Africa deeply caught up in the daily rat race, I finally worked up the courage to follow my dream of traveling South America. After quitting my job and selling all my world possessions, left with nothing but a small backpack with essentials and no Spanish or portugués language skills I took my flight to Brazil starting my adventure in a small ashram in the mountains. There was a longing I had to understand my place in the world and I felt strongly that by diving into a spiritual practice of yoga and service it would help define that place.
I found myself constantly drawn to understanding more about regenerative design, Permaculture, herbalism, and natural building, finding my way to as many schools and communities that practiced these techniques. As a trained chef, I generally ended up in the kitchen and it was here in these conscious communities where I discovered there was a new way to incorporate food into my life. Completely inspired by the realisation that food is medicine, understanding the concept of farm to plate and how controlled we are buy the food that we are brainwashed to eat by mainstream society. I felt it was my mission to delve deeper on how the body works, nutrición and help people to incorporate this into there lifestyle in a holstice way.
In 2016 I had a beautiful opportunity to apply my knowledge of permerculte and create a garden for a yoga school in the jungle in Costa Rica in exchange for a 200HR Hatha Yoga Training, another life changing event that again gave me the tools to help people to learn and grow within themselves. Continuing to study different styles of yoga I found I have deep passion for the chakra system and how these energy centers work in the body and how understanding them can have a huge impact on our emotional and mental and physical well being. Once I realised my place on this planet is only to serve and bring people into their highest alignment doors really started opening up for me. For the next few years I spent my time working closely with communities and retreat centers creating high vibrational food, running retreats and conscious festivals of all kinds, creating apprenticeship programs, the list goes on.
Co-creating this project is an incredibly huge dream for me, my biggest wish is to give all who are open to take the first step into the unknown the inspiration and the courage to continue that journey of self exploration so that they may live their life to their highest potential.
I found myself constantly drawn to understanding more about regenerative design, Permaculture, herbalism, and natural building, finding my way to as many schools and communities that practiced these techniques. As a trained chef, I generally ended up in the kitchen and it was here in these conscious communities where I discovered there was a new way to incorporate food into my life. Completely inspired by the realisation that food is medicine, understanding the concept of farm to plate and how controlled we are buy the food that we are brainwashed to eat by mainstream society. I felt it was my mission to delve deeper on how the body works, nutrición and help people to incorporate this into there lifestyle in a holstice way.
In 2016 I had a beautiful opportunity to apply my knowledge of permerculte and create a garden for a yoga school in the jungle in Costa Rica in exchange for a 200HR Hatha Yoga Training, another life changing event that again gave me the tools to help people to learn and grow within themselves. Continuing to study different styles of yoga I found I have deep passion for the chakra system and how these energy centers work in the body and how understanding them can have a huge impact on our emotional and mental and physical well being. Once I realised my place on this planet is only to serve and bring people into their highest alignment doors really started opening up for me. For the next few years I spent my time working closely with communities and retreat centers creating high vibrational food, running retreats and conscious festivals of all kinds, creating apprenticeship programs, the list goes on.
Co-creating this project is an incredibly huge dream for me, my biggest wish is to give all who are open to take the first step into the unknown the inspiration and the courage to continue that journey of self exploration so that they may live their life to their highest potential.
