Rebecca Murbach - Content Creator and Art Director

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CONNECTING TWO BIG PASSIONS: YOGA AND TRAVEL

With time, Rebecca started falling more and more in love with the practice, philosophy and lifestyle of Yoga. After living in California, Hawaii, Bali and Australia, She decided to move to Portugal in 2016, to start a new life that was more aligned with what she wanted for herself. She took her first 200hr Teacher Training Course in 2018 in Lisbon and a secondary 300hr Training in India in 2020, a Sound Healing Course with bowls in Nepal and an Introduction to Buddhism Meditation Course in Northern India.

That set her started in a beautiful journey of teaching and sharing Yoga. In the meanwhile she completed in 2023 a Masters Degree in Cinematography at the University Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal.
People describe her as a creative soul of many talents, apart from being a passionate yogini and an enthusiastic cinematographer, she also leads beautifully Sound Journeys with bowls, experience that she includes in her retreats. She's a warm and bubbly person, and always try to rise the vibes of any room with her smile. She's caring, compassionate and passionate about all the things she puts her heart into. She thinks these characteristics are essential to thrive as Yoga teacher, and also as a human being ;)

Rebecca recently decided to start studies in Osteopathy as all things related to the human body, mind and emotions fascinates her. And when she isn't studying (one more of her passions) you can find her teaching Yoga, Pilates around Ericeira and Lisbon.

My Story

The Beginning

When Rebecca was at the 17 years old she had her first contact with Yoga at an old gym in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, named Academia da Praia, the instructor full of tattoos, very thin and tiny guy, filled the room of people and she felt something deep in her body and mind. For the first time in her life she was able to focus on her breath, inhaling and exhaling deep and slow, challenging herself with the new postures. She was very anxious, as many of the teenagers are and finally for the first time she was experiencing the art of breathing correctly and observe herself, she felt relaxed, calm and in peace.

From being fired to having a New Life Opportunity

In Brazil she used to work as a seller-woman, wellness marketing/receptionist, publicity trainee in a tv company in Rio, Marketing: selling spaces in a train company for clients to promote their business. She was fired by this last company in Rio and she saw as a big opportunity to finally follow her heart. The money that she received from the company after being fired, she decided to invest on her exchange program, applying for an English School in California, LA. She lived around 3 years and half. During this time she started to travel to the best surf and beach spots around the world, with her ex-boyfriend, he was a professional surfer. The goal was: they should film and edit him surfing the perfect barrels around Bali, Mentawaii, Costa Rica, California, Marroco, Panama, Lanzarote island, to promote his sponsor brand. This helped Rebecca to be motivated to film and learn film editions. They used to work as a team to promote him as a freestyle surfer to make a good films and photos contents. Was the beginning of social media (2011 to 2015).

Trying To Figure Out My Passion

To be able to pay for her costs while she was traveling, Rebecca experienced new types of work as a babysitter, waitress, dog walker, cleaner, host in a art gallery, filmmaker, film editor, event promoter, translator, English teacher, model, marketing assistant, bartender, wash dishes, after at all she was not happy... but she still looking for something that could be able to fulfilled her soul and find out her life purpose.

New Chapter: Moving To Portugal

Rebecca arrived in Portugal in Oct 11th of 2016, the plan was stopping to visit a friend and after fly to AUS, but the plan totally changed. She decided to stay, apply for the Visa student, work and live in Portugal. New life, after few years flying around, this was the moment that she started creating roots. Was not easy, up and down, until she figured out that she had to focus on herself. Stop in a place to expand and dive on her career .

She decided to make a dream list. The first one was learning how to plant, put her hands in the soil and learn as much as she could, so Rebecca took a permaculture course in Sintra, in 2017. Here she started to connect a little more with herself. After long years, inspired by Yoga she took her first teacher training in Hatha yoga (200hs on Feb/2018) in Lisbon, Portugal, at the same time she started her Master-Degree in Cinematography, Lusófona University in Lisbon.

Rebecca had always wanted to own her own business. She set out to find the tools to prepare the ground for one day starting her own company. She applied for a scholarship in Northern Portugal and won an entrepreneurship course, which took her to live in Porto for three months while studying. She took classes with some of the best professors and coaches in Portugal, learned how to develop the pitch to support her business, and gained practical experience in evaluating possibilities, risks, and advantages.

Rebecca travel video "What is your dream?" for the National Geographic Exodus Aveiro Festival 2017 won the "most voted" award on social media. The same year, she developed an adventure project, traveling from Portugal to Morocco with influencer and actress Joana Duarte, sponsored by Hyundai.

A Ticket To India: Diving Into The Yoga Philosophy And Culture

Rebecca´s love for studying lead her to deepen her Yoga path. The year was 2019, my birthday would be in few months, November, so I decided to give me a gift: A ticket to India, 4 months traveling with my backpack south and north to learn, improve, volunteer in a ashram, experience the real taste, colours, sounds, smell and teachings of India.

So the first step would be learning how to meditate, how to keep in silence during 10 days? Introduction to Buddhism Meditation, Dharamshala, India (Nov 7th - 17th of 2019) Teachers: Glens Vensson and Felipe. " I remember when I told my father about this present to myself, he made a joke telling me that I would struggle being in silence so long and he though I would run away to not be able to talk. But you know what? I completed the 10 days in silence and I was wondering to stay longer, because was so nice for the first time had this experience to discipline myself to be able to quiet and listen all surround me. Was an amazing experience, was not Vipassana."

A Special Present That I Gave to Myself: 10 Days In Silence

Introduction to a Buddhism Meditation Course

Sound Healing Bowls Course Pokhara, Nepal

Sound Healing bowls, I was always connected by music, instruments, dancing, singing, so why not to visit the country where Buda born: Nepal with the Himalayan mountains and learn Sound healing bowls?! During 3 days, (9 hours, 03/12/19 to 05/12/19)I had an amazing teacher called Anup Panthi, he taught me "Nada Yoga = The Yoga of the sound" was an introduction and he explained about the power of the sound healing bowls when vibrate and the waves reach our body, was incredible. I bought and brought from Nepal my Tibetans singing bowls.

South of India, Kerala-Varkala (09/12/19 to 13/01/20), developed and produced a short film about Co-dependence in love/relationships. You can watch on my YouTube channel.

Shakti Ashram: Developed And Produced A Short Film

Traditional Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga, Teacher Training Course conducted from 20/01/2020 a 18/02/2020, lead trainer Rohit Kumar.

300 hours Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh, India

YOGA, MEDITATION, SOUND HEALER,

When Rebecca was the age around 6 to 7 years old, her father introduced her a camera. In every trip he used to carry this big camera and film Rebecca and her sister with their relatives and friends. And she remember showing up in front of the camera talking and smiling very natural, it looks like that was part of her. She wasn't feeling shy, she was very confident in front of the camera. And curious at the same time to understand how this equipment could be able to create images of herself and her family.

She was born in Rio de Janeiro. After her parents divorced, Rebecca, her sister and mom moved to Brasília, the capital of Brazil, where the family of her mom lives. Every time when her father visited them she remember he was bringing gifts, and one of the presents she really loved: was a speaker with a record voice, so she used to play as a journalist, interviewing every one in her family or pretending that she was narrating a story. Her mom used to teach Rebecca and her sister how to use the hands playing with clay, she used to sit them on the ground and read the newspaper, Rebecca used to be very interested about travelling and trying to understand the politics and economy of the countries around the world. When she turned 10 years old, Rebecca and her sister moved to Rio, to live with their father. When she turned 12 years old, her father gave them a hand cam, that was amazing. Rebecca loved developing her own film projects, she was always holding a camera, filming her family, playing around with cousins, friends, pretending to be like actress, those moments were so much fun and a lot creativity! She was always art directing, creating the storytellings and having fun watching later with their relatives.