Pri Leite, who is this?  Biography, history and career of the yoga teacher

Pri Leite, who is this? Biography, history and career of the yoga teacher

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Pri Leite is a yoga teacher, a pioneer in promoting online classes of the ancient practice in Brazil, through her YouTube channel.

In times of pandemic and social isolation, people find themselves in a complicated situation, and it has never been so difficult to maintain their mental health. Therefore, more and more people are looking for ways to alleviate and channel all this heavy energy that surrounds our heads. In this sense, the practice of yoga has never been so sought after on the internet. In Brazil, when looking for online Yoga classes the first name is Pri Leite.

Priscilla Leite, known simply as Pri Leite, is a Brazilian Yoga teacher who lives in the United States. She is one of the pioneers in promoting classes and content focused on the technique in Brazil, being the creator of the largest exclusive Yoga channel in the country.

If before the pandemic it was already highlighted in the segment, now it has seen its numbers and reach triple. Today, Pri Leite is one of the main health, well-being and self-care influencers on the internet. With free content, the teacher teaches didactic classes for those looking to get started in Yoga and also for those who are already accustomed to the technique.

Therefore, today we will learn more about who Pri Leite is, her life story and how she became one of the biggest names promoting Yoga in Brazil.

Biography Pri Leite

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Priscilla Leite was born in the city of Maracaju, in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Therefore, having grown up in the interior, she had a very peaceful childhood. The youngest of a family with four children, as a child she was the type to climb trees, ride horses, pick fruit, always close to nature.

At school, Pri really liked physical activities, however, she didn’t have much flexibility, much less she was competitive. Therefore, physical education classes were not her strong point, in addition to being very shy, she was always the last to be chosen to participate in sports teams.

So, until she was a teenager, she never imagined that one day she would be a Yoga teacher. In fact, she dreamed of being a veterinarian, but that was put aside. When he finished his studies, Pri decided to take the Social and Political Sciences course at UFSCAR, Federal University of São Carlos, in the interior of São Paulo. At that same time she fell in love with martial arts, especially kung fu, aikido and taichi.

Life’s history

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A few years later, an opportunity arose and Pri Leite moved to London and after that his life changed completely. Living in England, in 2008 Pri met Darren, with whom she would marry and have a son, Oliver.

Darren is American and one thing led to another, the couple moved to the United States in 2010. Pri Leite and her family, made up of her husband, son and dog Sky, currently live in Los Angeles, California. At 34 years old, Pri Leite’s family will soon gain another member. Six months pregnant, she is expecting another boy.

Pri Leite is a woman with many facets, wife, dedicated mother, yoga teacher and entrepreneur. In addition to the YouTube channel, she also has a platform called Yoga Co, where she offers exclusive content, with more complete classes, meditations and also a podcast about well-being and self-care. In fact, this project has been a big step in her career, giving her new horizons and challenges. A way to get out of your comfort zone.

Yoga na vida de Pri Leite

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The first time Pri Leite heard about Yoga she was a teenager, just 15 years old. At the time, she really wanted to learn more about the practice, but it wasn’t something accessible at the time.

A few years later, as an adult, the trained social scientist found in Yoga a way of escaping, of forgetting the human condition. The practice positions were, for her, a way to reach nirvana. Already living in Los Angeles, Pri Leite delved deeper into the practice of Yoga and took her first course, Bhakti Yoga Vinyasa, lasting 200 hours. Soon after the course she started teaching classes, and since then, she felt that she had found her mission in life.

In 2012, on a trip to India, her perception of Yoga changed even more. This immersion made her understand that the ancient practice was not an escape, but rather a way of finding herself. There, in the country of origin of the practice, she stayed for four months, and completed more than 500 hours of training in Hatha Yoga, in addition to studies in yogic philosophy, yoga Nidra and yin yoga. In addition, she has training in Yoga for fertility and Prenatal Yoga.

Quite a CV, right? She has plenty of training and knowledge and decided to share this with thousands of people over the internet.

Canal Pri Leite Yoga

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The Yoga channel on YouTube emerged in 2013, shortly after she was invited to teach video classes in the United States professionally. For Brazilians, the classes were inaccessible, precisely because it was an American platform, and the content was in English.

So, from this came the idea of ​​starting a channel aimed at the Brazilian public. Therefore, she became the pioneer in sharing yoga classes in Portuguese on the internet, for free.

For Pri Leite, the channel was born from the desire to share the practice with other people in a free and quality way, something she didn’t have when she became interested in Yoga as a teenager. In the beginning it was something without much pretension, the videos were intended mainly for Brazilian family and friends. But things grew so much that she realized that the channel had great growth potential.

After the birth of her son, Oliver, Pri Leite abandoned face-to-face classes and began dedicating herself more to the Yoga channel on the internet.

Therefore, the idea with the channel is, of course, to share your knowledge about the practice with more people, but also a way to connect yogis and yoginis who seek to learn and experience a fulfilling life.

Yoga in quarantine

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The new Coronavirus pandemic changed everyone’s routine, and this had a major effect on Pri Leite’s business. The online yoga teacher saw her channel triple in subscribers and views during this period. With series focused on dealing with the moment, Pri Leite’s name has never been so in vogue. From 300 subscribers to the channel before the pandemic, it jumped to 981 thousand after social isolation.

The explanation for this phenomenon is that the pandemic has awakened in most people a greater need to look at themselves and take care of their body, mind and soul. And the ancient Indian practice is one of the most sought after in this context, and for being one of the pioneers in disseminating this type of content, Pri Leite gained even more prominence.

Therefore, in this scenario, the teacher became a guide for those seeking balance through yoga and the internet. One of the most eye-catching series during this period is the video playlist “Yoga to not freak out”, which makes a lot of sense in this difficult time.

Until then, it was Pri who recorded the classes alone, but with the increase in demand she had to hire a team to edit the videos and help with the channel. Nowadays, her channel has almost 300 million monthly views and is a reference when it comes to Yoga classes.

In fact, in 2020 Pri Leite was one of the finalists in the fitness category of the Influency.me award, considered the “Oscar of digital influence” for influencers in Brazil.

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