About Me

From Truth telling to Truth experiencing

In 2009, while on duty posting for the United Nations in the Middle East, I started teaching Yoga to wonderful yogis, and many aid workers like me, as a way to nurture grounding and connect to inner calm feelings, which is important when living in a rather challenging environment. That’s how I started, pushed by the circumstances of Life happening around and within me.

Mainly based in Geneva (Switzerland) now, I continue teaching or rather “facilitating” Embodied Hatha Yoga Flow & Yin classes in various studios and to cool groups of yogis.

I have been deeply touched by somatic & trauma based approaches which greatly influence how I now teach, moving away from the word & world of “instructing” to the world of “suggesting”, softly moving away from alignment based yoga teaching to yoga exploring & sensing. I profoundly believe in notions of “Diversity” including in bodies, experiences and perspectives. Your experience is always first.

Certifications and mainly, Experience

I have reached a stage on my yoga journey where I have stopped counting the number of teaching certificates I have. My long standing experience as a teacher (above 15 years), my own practice (22 years) but also my maturity (I reached 50 in 2024!) are the quintessence of my sharing.

I could however mention few formal training which greatly impacted me:

• Yoga Alliance® 600 hour advanced certified teacher in Hatha Yoga & Embodied Flow. I was originally certified with the Anusara™ lineage and later continued my yoga explorations through Embodied Flow™. Deeply rooted in the Tantra philosophy, the Embodied Flow™ and affiliated teachings offers me the possibility to dive further (and transmit to others) with authenticity and freedom. I tune in the sensations and in the understanding of the body, heart and mind, using yoga, somatic movement and body mind centering as my current doorways. With immense gratitude, I feel blessed to be part of the gang of the Embodied Flow ™ Inspired Teachers.

• I have also been seduced with slower mindful expressions and movements. Madly in love with Yin Yoga and Nidra practices, I am also certified in Yin & Nidra Yoga Alliance® 200 hours. Lately, I have been exploring synergies between the notion of “Flow” and Yin, allowing for a more Embodied Yin (with yet another Yoga Alliance® 100 hours certification!) practice to emerge with probably greater freedom, at least from my own experience.

• Yoga is an opportunity to deeply feel the composite of your multidimensional Being, and for such explorations, I continue exploring other types of body and somatic movements, Some could be perceived as less “traditional” Yoga, but, to me, any mindful move is Yoga. I love the idea of shaking pre-conceived or existing knowledge (which becomes bondage) in order to get closer to the dogma free layers of the Self. Dissolving what I think I know in order to meet what I do actually feel is what nurtures my curiosity and growth. This could be called “Shaking the dust” as peeling layers of the Self in another way with the idea to meet the authentic Self. And I also got certified in this form of body and mind enquiry (yes yes, another Yoga Alliance® 50 hours certification, ha!)

• I also trained (50 hours) in Somatic yoga cueing as well as in Trauma informed women’s yoga teacher training (50 hours), which approaches immensely converge.

• Finally, I am inviting more live music & mantra chanting into my classes. I am currently being supported through a one year journey on Bhakti Yoga & Kirtan with Audrey Sarquilla.