I am a husband, a father, a mentor, a mystic, an artist, a scout, a Brazilian man with a genetic makeup as diverse as these lands.

I believe humanity, in our purest presence, is the heart of a system connecting Earth’s core to the center of the galaxy.

Growing up, my parents strived for upward mobility, embracing Westernization – a path that initially obscured my innate knowing. From childhood, sensing unseen realities, this gift became early trauma in an uncomprehending world. Surviving a near-fatal accident at three, enduring silence around childhood abuse, and feeling perpetually out of place – these experiences catalyzed my quest for soul expression.

My journey embraced academia and the arts, leading to classical music performance and composition. However, in my early thirties, profound burnout became a necessary turning point, shattering constructs of external expectations and calling me to a much deeper and original path. This awakening coincided with departure from a structured spiritual school, leading to rebaptism in 2016 as Yabô Boyè – “The Silent Praise” – crowning a dedication to deep listening, sacred stillness as communion with the unifying One Life.

Now husband and father, I am building o’dojo – a space to practice the most honourable art of becoming Human through the arts of initiation, integration and identification.

Based in Vale do Capão, Bahia, I offer pilgrimages, mentoring, retreats, and practices to honor everyday life as sacred, inspiring leaders and change-makers to come to center and be inspired by the heart of being.

In these lands a Temple of Synthesis is emerging. It is here to nurture new lineages for the Aquarian Age, welcomes an emerging global spirituality, and contributes to spiri in tual governance that orients not only political affairs but our daily lives. 

We stand at a critical juncture. The tension of a dominant paradigm – pushing rational thinking and extraction from land and people for an ever-accumulating agenda, selling a narrow desire to join – opposes innate wisdom, closeness to nature, life’s expanded rhythms. This tension is alive in these Southern American lands.

Like the land itself, my journey is synthesis, woven from diverse threads of Europe, Afrika, and Abya Yala.