Felipe Rech is a mindfulness teacher and co-founder of Pacífico, a human development institute based in Brazil. As a journalist he worked for 17 years in television broadcasting companies and in advertising and marketing agencies in Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. After a sabbatical, when he lived at Esalen Institute in California, and attended to retreats at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Felip decided to expand his work to the development of human potentials. Today he is a certified teacher of the Search Inside Yourself and Awakening Joy Programs, and certified mentor by Cloud Sangha.