About us
Established in 2025
Azimuth Azores is a Nature Guiding company focused on promoting meaningful and inclusive experiences that interpret the natural and built heritage of the Azores. Its mission is to help people understand the islands’ landscapes—unique and of rare beauty—their habitats, fauna, and flora, integrating them into the history, geomorphology, and climate that define them. Always guided by a spirit of conservation, the company aims to foster respect and protection through knowledge and connection, while awakening a sense of belonging that inspires values and behaviors leading to a more sustainable existence.
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The Author / Guide
Born and raised in Lisbon after the Revolution of Freedom, he felt from an early age that there was something beyond the belief systems and values of the society of his time. True to the revolutionary spirit and his own adventurous nature, he felt, within oppression, the need for liberation—abandoning a career in law to discover himself and the world.
He studied Astrology at Quiron – the Portuguese Center for Astrology – which opened his cosmic vision and a higher purpose: the deconditioning that allows one to dream, recreate oneself, and contribute to creating a better world.
Soon after, he was called to the practice of Ashtanga Yoga, the cultivation of Being, which became his personal discipline, along with the study of Buddhism through Mindfulness meditation, the Mayan calendar, Shamanism, and the myth of the New Age.
His search for meaning—for a more conscious and purposeful existence, connection, and synchronicity—led him to travel the world, through many countries and traditions, eventually circling the globe from West to East with the purpose of Uniting Diversity: discovering what connects us despite our differences. This journey awakened in him a deep respect and constant need for compassion, tolerance, and adaptability to relate to different peoples and ecosystems.
During his travels, he encountered numerous Shamanic tribes and traditions, living among them—from Peruvian Pajés to Ayahuasqueros of the deep Brazilian Amazon—and even crossed the desert of northern Mexico on foot to meet the Wixárika (Huichol) people and their traditions.
He traveled to India multiple times, for a total of two and a half years, where he had the privilege of being a disciple of Sri Guruji B.N.S. Iyengar, the highest living authority and YogaVishrarda at the Mysore Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute.
He also spent about two years in Thailand, where he trained as a massage therapist at the International Thai Massage School and the Supattra Traditional Blind Massage Center. There, he also attended several Insight Vipassana meditation courses at the Buddhist Monastery Wat Ram Poeng, following the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—a path toward a better and more peaceful life through clear self-understanding. Altogether, he spent eight months in silent retreat.
His travels also brought him to the Azores Archipelago, where he first discovered São Jorge Island, the Island of the Dragon, in 1999. A surf trip—spiritual and self-sustaining—led him to the legendary Caldeira de Santo Cristo, then an even more remote place. There, he camped for two months beside a spring, learning to explore and live with the natural resources, embracing a contemplative and healthy life surrounded by surf waves, idyllic lagoons, waterfalls, fajãs, and mountains, with their scenic trails, rainbows, and indescribable beauty.
In this remote, pristine, and inaccessible place, he directly experienced the true impact of human actions on the environment—the need to preserve and cultivate good habits, to understand ecosystems and their resources to contribute to their sustainability, and the importance of creating a harmonious relationship between Humanity and Nature. He seeks to replace the old paradigm of competition between the two with one of cooperation and interconnection among all forms of life—including our own.
The first time he visited São Jorge Island, he knew it would one day become his home and life. He returned several times before permanently moving there in 2007. After a year of yoga practice in India, he lived for a year in the Caldeira de Santo Cristo, teaching yoga on the island.
In 2008, he felt the academic call to deepen his understanding and experience of Nature in a scientific and systematic way, earning a Degree in Nature Guiding and Conservation from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of the Azores. This took him to Terceira Island, in the city of Angra do Heroísmo, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site—a place of exceptional Historical, Cultural, Patrimonial, and Natural richness. There, in close connection with Nature and under the guidance of professors from various fields—Natural Sciences, Environmental Health and Leisure, Tourism, and Built Heritage—he expanded his knowledge.
Since 2012, he has lived on a farm on São Jorge Island, where he restored a ruin that is now his home. He has two children and believes in humanity’s ability to reinvent itself, to take responsibility for our actions, and to honor our legacy.
He is driven by Permaculture, the Yoga he practices and teaches, and the Nature that teaches him and where he serves as a guide.
We live in an age of great transformation—of information, purification, healing, and awakening—an age to break the chains so essential to our personal and collective transformation.