What a wild thing to introduce yourself …

By tittle I go as somatic guide and expressive arts practitioner, yoga instructor, board member, food engineer. I guess it tells a little bit about me but certainly not the whole picture.

I am a french woman. I identify as such while knowing deep within my bones that nature precedes culture. I am 37 and I relate to Björk when she says “I am half child, half ancient.”

I have lived and explored various corners of the Earth and lived many lives. I have transformed tremendously throughout the years and especially the last 6 years after I left for good my hometown, the community I was living in and the yoga studio I was running with friends. Transformation and exploration are major themes of my life and I am becoming at peace with it. I guess this is why people call me a soul alchemist which is a definition I start to embrace (as I am embracing the complexity of being, including a Pluto complex in scorpio in 12th house if stars speak to you).

I am a sensitive water being (cancer moon 8th house), I’ve learnt to live well with it and to turn my sensitivity into an ally. I am also a wild fire and I was born to explore and transform. These two water and fire beings have fun times living together in one body, so the folk story of the half girl and the dilemma of the pirogue to go explore and the forest calling home have resonated so much on my journey. I have learnt to enjoy and dance with these polarities and to work with them. 

I have also moved through a fair amount of absence, pain, loss and grief from a young age. Which inevitably informed who I’ve become so far. Having encountered death closely has taught me a few things, including to love life dearly and an unwavering faithful spirit.

The foundation for my life and healing approach is that every experience is valid, welcome, and an opportunity to become curious, know more about ourselves, create and grow toward a more authentic living.

I have trained extensively in hatha, yin, himalayan and tantric yoga as well as advaita vedanta, shri vidya and non dual tantra (Trimurti and Shanti Atma yoga, ICEYR of Swami Gitananda, Janita Stenhouse, Paramanand Yoga institute, Dr Omanand, Swami Yoganand, Maa Uma-Parvathi Nath, Shiva Rea, Daniel Odier), in somatic modalities (with Authentic Flow, Satu Tuomela, Anja Bergh, Somatic Experiencing 12 steps, Continuum with Catherine Kocher) as well as in creative resolution of problems and the expressive arts process with Expressive Arts Egypt and World Art Organization. Mostly I would say that I have embodied the work as a long term practitioner and student of life. I have chewed on my practices, swallowed and metabolized them. I have learnt to dance with my shadows, make peace and befriended the darkest corner of my experience. I have walked through many initiatory fires and retrieved some invaluable life lessons.

My approach is one of deep honest embodiment, fostered by somatic awareness, nervous system restoration and capacity building, cultivation of inner ressources, the healing power of creation and the arts. I rest on the foundations of non-dual philosophies, especially the one of Kasmir Shaivism aka Non dual Shaiva Tantra, and the closest to it in the western world, phenomenology, along with chaos theory, which have been pillars of study during my recent 2 years Somatic Expressive Arts therapy training.

Even though I am a forever student of life, all this makes me feel today qualified and supported in the work I do.