Portrait of a yogini teacher in Annecy: Maud Dreyer
Maud studies and practices in Paris and the United States .
Measuring every day, as she teaches, the benefits of yoga on the body and mind, she decides to train in yoga therapy. It is a holistic method located at the meeting point between modern medicines and the ancestral traditional discipline that is yoga. This approach offers us the possibility of becoming actors and responsible for our health again.
The yoga that Maud teaches invites everyone to listen to themselves, to go and meet themselves. The practice of yoga is for her a tool to reconnect with our deep nature.
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?
A yoga class in the United States was a real revelation and initiated a profound transformation in me. It allowed me to glimpse that I was not only this limited body and intellect. Perceiving, without yet understanding, this dimension that was until then unknown to me touched me to the depths of my being…
What practice for your well-being?
Yoga in its many facets. Bhakti, Hatha, Karma, Jnana …
What is the ritual of your practice?
I light a candle on my little altar, chant a few mantras, then enter into my practice of postures, pranayamas and meditation…
What do you get out of it?
I find my axis again… Not every time, but often… And so I contact more and more inner peace, even when outside, life shakes hard! I try to transmit from this space of authenticity.
What do you carry in your yoga bag?
My mat! The less stuff I have, the better I feel! But for my practice, a good mat is still essential!
What is your favorite object/accessory?
My mala, charged with the energy of my mantra. It accompanies me everywhere, if it is not around my neck, it is in my bag.
What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?
What is the source of much fatigue and pain lies in resistance to what IS! Listening to yourself, accepting and loving what we are in this moment, is for me a big part of the journey. And it can start on your yoga mat!
Where/how do you practice?
I practice at home facing the window, with my cat slaloming between my feet in downward dog and eventually purring on my lap during my meditation.
