Body & Soul Adventures

Name: Michael Anthony Mitchell
Occupation: Owner, Trainer
Nationality: American, Nationalized Irish Citizen
Languages: English, Portuguese
Hobbies: Soccer, Percussion, Spoons, Dancing, Hiking, Kayaking, Yoga

Mike is the founder of Body & Soul Adventures.
He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended high school in Ireland, he received a masters degree in Physical Education (Sports Psychology) was completed at Chico State. Between the years of 1983 and 1985 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa, where he played soccer for Equipe Espoir (Team Hope).
In 1994 he moved to Brazil to work as a Physical Education teacher and coach soccer at the Escola Americana de Campinas in Sao Paulo.
Michael's passions include traveling (he has lived in four different continents) and playing percussions. Michael is married and has a 6 year old son.

Name: Malcolm Clark
Occupation: Director of Yoga & Meditation
Nationality: Australian Citizen
Languages: English
Hobbies: Anything connected to Yoga, Health & Creativity; Vegetarian Cooking, Organic Gardening, Woodcarving & Sculpture, Drawing & Watercolour Painting, Photography, Astrology & Tarot, Tango Dancing, Guitar, Reading & Writing, Philosophy, Religions, Mythologies & Metaphysics, Intuitive Art, Yoga & Meditation Sound Productions, Psychotherapeutic Techniques, Track & Field Athletics and Personal & Performance Training.

Malcolm is Director of Yoga & Meditation at Body & Soul Adventures.
He grew up in South Eastern Australia, received a Sports Blue for excellence and outstanding performance in Track and Field Athletics. He represented his State in Australian Football & played with senior Australian Football teams before leaving high school. He declined sports education scholarships in order to pursue dedicated tertiary studies, to graduate with a Bachelor Business ( Management ) in 1984. He has studied and practiced Yoga and Meditation since a teenager, applying the techniques to advanced performance and personal development. Malcolm has travelled the world. His key Yoga and Meditation influence, for over 20 years now, has been in the teachings of Eugene Halliday, the 20th Century English Artist and Mystic. For the past 7 years Malcolm has been directing his own Yoga School, Melbourne Yoga, teaching every aspect of the original ideas and practices behind the true Yoga traditions of India and Europe. He has developed his own Yoga style called Field Yoga. He joins Body and Soul Adventures in 2008 to teach the latest and most advanced Yoga & Meditation disciplines with guests and visitors – yoga purifications & diet, postures and movements, breathing techniques, meditation techniques and philosophy. Guests are invited to bring their Yoga needs and requirements to Body and Soul adventures, in the confidence they will return home with something new and improved in their minds, hearts, and physical practice.

Name: Denis Llaveria Quero
Occupation: Reservation and Office manager
Nationality: São Paulo, Brazil
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English

After working in many multinational companies in Sao Paulo, he joined BSA group in 2005.
He is the voice at the other end of the toll-free number and committed to helping you come to see his beloved country.
His passions are World history, geography and of course... soccer!