Portrait of a nomadic Yogini: Anouk Vinet
Anouk Vinet is a teacher as beautiful as a star. Her smile, her kindness, her simplicity radiate all the people she meets. She left the Parisian effervescence for Hossegor and today with her surfer husband, she travels the world to discover the most beautiful waves in the world and surfing. Always between two places, she remains well anchored. The practice of yoga, a healthy diet and meditation are her daily rituals.
It was only natural that I asked him a few personal questions about his yoga practice, which I am sharing with you today.
How did you get into taking care of yourself?
It's interesting to see that we easily take care of others, of those we love but less of ourselves. Health problems in recent years have been the trigger for this awareness. Don't wait for a glitch to listen to yourself and pamper yourself. You deserve yourself as much as your loved ones.
What practice for your well-being?
Yoga and meditation every day. The duration can vary depending on the hazards but moving my body and calming the "crazy monkey" in my head is like brushing your teeth morning and evening.
What is the ritual of your practice?
I haven't really had a home for 2 years so I don't really have a ritual, although I always start with sun salutations (A and B) and between the 2 uddiyana bandha; (it's a ritual with one of my ashatanga yoga teachers in Hawaii)
And always a meditation before or after practice depending on my form.
What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?
Follow the incessant movements of life. Everything moves around us, all the time. It's scary sometimes but I think we have to embrace these changes, climb on their backs and see where they take us, like a flying carpet. Resisting the changes that life imposes is creating a lot of suffering for ourselves! Not easy, I grant you!
What do you get out of it?
Instantly it puts a distance with everything around me, as if I were in a decompression chamber. Ideas and emotions become clearer. This chamber also allows me to connect with the simple pleasures that we forget like a soft ray of sunshine through the window or even the sound of rain, the feeling of the body relaxed after a physical activity….
What do you carry in your yoga bag?
I need to practice in comfortable clothes, I am very sensitive to materials, I always have soft and cocooning clothes... (Yoga Searcher).
What is your favorite object/accessory?
My scarf! At the end of a session I love to wrap myself in my scarf, either as a shawl or spread over my entire body from head to toe.
Where/how do you practice?
I moved around a lot these past 2 years so I practiced where I could, no excuses, in the hotel room or Airbnb, in studios sometimes, outside in the forest… And mediation the same, sometimes even sitting cross-legged on the train or plane. Recently in the car during a family weekend.
What is your mantra/favourite phrase?
I discovered it this winter and I love it
“ We don’t know enough to hope to worry ”
Terence Mckenna
(We don't know enough to hope or worry.)
