GOTA
Yoga, Meditation & the Journey Within.
A journey of seeking, remembering, and service.
There are many ways to come to yoga. For Gota, the journey began long before stepping onto a mat—with a lifelong curiosity about existence and a quiet desire to understand what lies beneath the surface of everyday life.
Born in Argentina and raised in a family devoted to serving others, Gota grew up with questions about life, death, consciousness, and the nature of the self. These questions became a guiding thread through his life.
In 1998, at the age of twenty-one, he left home to travel the world. Supporting himself by making and selling handmade silver jewelry, he traveled throughout Argentina and more than twenty-five countries, encountering different cultures, landscapes, traditions, and ways of understanding life. The outer journey became inseparable from an inner one—a continuous search for meaning, presence, and connection.
In 1999, while in Ecuador, Gota encountered Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. What began as a personal practice gradually became a lifelong path of study, practice, and service.
Alongside Ashtanga, he explored traditional Hatha Yoga, meditation, Tibetan Buddhism, Soto Zen and Zazen, Kundalini Yoga, and other contemplative traditions. His journey also expanded into bodywork and Oriental medicine. In 2004, he became a certified Shiatsu practitioner, studying meridians, the Five Elements, Do-In, Ampuku, moxibustion, cupping, and related practices.
His path also brought him into contact with the shamanic traditions of South America, deepening his relationship with nature, ceremony, ancestral wisdom, consciousness, and the interconnectedness of life.
Over time, these diverse traditions became less about gathering knowledge and more about discovering what can truly be lived and embodied. The search gradually became a path of service.
Gota began teaching yoga, meditation, and mindful movement and eventually expanded his work into Shiatsu in Madrid and Mallorca . Through asana, pranayama, mantra, meditation, and bodywork, he found practices that could support a deeper relationship with the body, breath, mind, and present moment.
Today, after more than two decades of practice, study, travel, and teaching, Gota offers yoga as more than a physical practice. His approach is grounded in tradition while remaining open, experiential, and deeply human.
His classes are an invitation to listen, and become more present—to develop strength and awareness in the body, clarity in the mind, and a deeper connection with oneself and with life.
Whether you are new to yoga, an experienced practitioner, or a teacher wishing to deepen your understanding, there is no particular level you need to arrive with.
Come as you are.
Practice from where you are.
Discover where the practice can take you.
For those who wish to explore more deeply, Gota offers private sessions, workshops, retreats, and teacher training—spaces for personalized guidance, deeper practice, and a broader exploration of the traditions that have shaped his path.
His journey eventually brought him to the United States, where another profound chapter began: fatherhood. Today, Gota lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife and two daughters, continuing to teach and share the practices that have accompanied him throughout his life.
His teaching brings together the many threads of his journey—yoga, meditation, Zen, bodywork, Oriental medicine, South American traditions, travel, family, and service—while honoring the distinct wisdom of each.
At the heart of his work is a simple invitation:
to move,
to breathe,
to become present,
to explore,
and perhaps, along the way,
to remember something essential about yourself.
The path is yours.
Let’s practice together!