Nubia Teixeira, E-RYT 500, YACEP, founder of the Bhakti Nova School of Yoga & Dance, began teaching yoga in her home country of Brazil in 1990 and in the United States in 2001. For the past 35 years, she has been leading classes, workshops, and teacher trainings worldwide, solo or with her husband, kirtan artist Jai Uttal.
In 2005, Nubia released with Sounds True a yogic breathing course entitled Pranayama: May Our Breath Be Our Prayer (available on Spotify).
She is the author of Yoga and the Art of Mudras, a book that weaves together the bhakti-rich gestures of classical Odissi dance with the grounding practices of Hatha Yoga, offering a luminous tapestry of devotion, embodiment, and inner awakening. Rooted in the understanding that yoga is a healing art, Nubia’s teachings draw from decades of immersive study: hatha yoga, Hindu and Tibetan mythology and archetypes, singing, self-healing practices, and the sacred precision of Odissi dance.
Nubia primarily focuses on teaching mother goddess yoga, a devotional, embodied yoga tradition dedicated to the Divine Feminine that awakens the sacred feminine through breath, movement, sacred geometry, mudra, storytelling, earth-based practices, and prayer. She bridges classical wisdom with the needs, sensitivities, and longings of modern practitioners.