Oi! :) That's hi in Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. I'm Deb, and I would like to welcome you to Luminous Yoga Academy!

I found yoga the way many people do. Not because I was looking for it. Because something in me had run out of other options.

What I found wasn't a fitness class. It wasn't flexibility. It wasn't even peace, not at first. It was a practice that required me to be honest. The mat doesn't let you hide.

What you do when the pose gets hard, whether you breathe or hold, whether you stay or check out, whether you're kind to yourself or merciless, that's data, information about who you are. The practice holds up the mirror.

Yoga is not for everybody!

It's for those courageous enough to know themselves, those who can walk to their own dark corners with a light. To come to an understanding, not of the poses, but of who you actually are.

That's what yoga did for me, and that's what I teach.

I founded Luminous Yoga Academy, a virtual yoga studio, in 2024.

From the start, the vision was simple: make yoga more accessible and create a space where you can practice without performing. The truth is, I started it after being told to keep my yoga "less political."

But yoga has always been about truth, liberation, and showing up whole. So I built an online space where we don't have to edit ourselves. Where you can show up with your full experience, your questions, emotions, and identity, and still be held within the tradition and ethics of the practice.

Every class at Luminous Yoga Academy is a designed learning journey and built with the same intention, structure, and pedagogical rigor you’d find in a high-level seminar, but delivered through the fluid, felt experience of Vinyasa and Flow.