LE FESTIVAL DE SATIAM YOGA

 

My first passion was gymnastics, which I practiced as a top athlete and where the alignment of the body is essential. Then it’s with the love of mountain and nature that I came to alpine skiing, high level too, but not the one I destined myself unfortunately.

I therefore turned to physiotherapy in order to help athletes. This practice seemed quickly insufficient to cure and so I continued training in posturology, naturopathy, sensory input studies so that the body suffers as little as possible.

I myself have experienced physical suffering through the intensive practice of high level sports but also with 10 years of anorexia and 8 years of insomnia. I had the chance as part of my thesis to leave for a month in Vancouver to study the posture of the dancers of one of the most prestigious school in the city.

 

There, I reluctantly agreed to take part in a Yoga session. Me who was unable to stay more than 3 minutes still and whose opinion on the discipline was very fixed. I was conquered by the approach made to this side of the Pacific, very influenced by Asia and India. This is how the month turned into two years of training in Anusara Yoga, based on a Tantric philosophy. A revelation.

 

 

 

I travel a lot but the place where I find myself most at home is in Annecy. La Clusaz is where I spend most of the winter and both destinations are so close both in distance and in population. Annecy is a city of passionates and I feel the same dynamic in La Clusaz.

And then, there is Elodie Lantelme without which the festival would not have emerged. She was my student and at the end of the first class, she said, "I want to become a Yoga teacher and I want you to train me". She has lived in La Clusaz for many years and has put a lot of energy into this project. She is my pillar and a humanly incredible person.