What a wild thing to introduce yourself ! but let me try to give you a little sense of who I am and what made me.

By tittle I go as somatic guide and expressive arts practitioner, yoga instructor, board member, food engineer.

I am a french woman. I identify as such while knowing deep within my bones that nature precedes culture. I am 38 and I relate to the icelandic artist Björk when she says “I am half child, half ancient.”

I have lived and explored various corners of the Earth and lived quite a few different lives. From very self-imposed disciplined upbringing, performance oriented by decade of synchronized swimming competition, a great love for challenge and appetite for risk and intensity, to becoming a food engineer, working and living in NYC and Sao Paulo, to becoming yoga instructor, studio and retreat co-owner, to last but not least board member of my family business which I see as a big part of my dharma and responsibility.

All this to say that I have transformed tremendously throughout the years and became quite intimate with the process of change.

I cultivated with the years a softer, more sensitive and more creative side of me which had suffocated until my late 20’s. I’ve learnt to turn my sensitivity, empathic and nurturing side into an ally. That’s balanced by an inner wild fire, which I had to learn to harness so it doesn’t destroy but transform. I have learnt to dance with these polarities so I could integrate and work with them. 

I have also moved through a fair amount of absence, pain and grief from a young age. Which inevitably informed who I became so far and surely my interest in the Human condition, how we relate, how we love, how we grieve and how difficult this all thing can sometimes be. Having encountered death closely has marked me and taught a few things, including to love life dearly and keep nurturing this faithful spirit !!

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

I have trained in hatha yoga, yin, himalayan and tantric yoga as well as advaita vedanta, shri vidya and non dual shaiva 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) and in somatic modalities (with Authentic Flow tribe, Satu Tuomela, Anja Bergh, 12 steps of Somatic Experiencing, some Continuum). 

I also trained in Creative Resolution as part of my initial corporate career, and the latest in the Expressive Arts process (with Aisha Radwan, Expressive Arts Egypt and Markus Scott-Alexander, World Art Organization).

Mostly I would say that my approach is one of raw 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.

I see myself as a forever student of life, and yet the experience gathered so far makes me feel qualified and backed-up for this work.