Diana Rodrigues

Diana Rodrigues has spent over a decade exploring the intersection of the body, the breath, and the mind not as separate disciplines, but as a single integrated system that, when understood, gives people precious tools to navigate the challenges of everyday life.

Her academic foundation is in Communication Sciences (BSc, 2010) and Marketing (MSc, 2012), a combination that shaped her understanding of how external stimuli can influence decision making and self-awareness, but also how she thinks about behaviour change at scale. Her experience with corporate communication and group dynamics led her to develop emotional skills to deal with stress and conflict management. Her career later evolved to become Human Resources Manager, deepening her work with corporate wellbeing and guiding people to improve their performance on the job.

In parallel to this path, she became a yoga teacher in 2015 with a 500-hour yoga teacher training at Portuguese Yoga Confederation - a programme that included deep immersion in meditation, pranayama and other techniques, and specialised training to teach children and pregnant women. Over the following decade, she continued across two further internationally recognised programmes, accumulating years of practical experience and more than 1,500 hours of structured training in yoga, breathwork, and contemplative traditions. She also has a certified training as physiotherapy assistant.

More recently, she completed a certified training in Bioenergetic Analysis applied to children and adolescents - a psychocorporal approach formally recognised by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists - and hopes to finish her BSc in Psychology in 2026, bringing formal academic grounding to what has, for over a decade, been built through practice and direct experience. She is especially fond of the concept of embodied cognition, with a particular interest in neuropsychology and cognitive psychology, focusing on perception, attention, memory and speech.

At Begin, Diana reviews all editorial content across mindfulness, breathwork, sleep, and children's wellbeing. She ensures that what we write is accurate, grounded in evidence, and, above all, actually useful to the person reading it.