French Yoga Community

Happy parents of 2 boys (7 and 10 years old) Amaury and Isabelle are lovers of the great outdoors, yogis and hummingbirds, painters, poets and great athletes. Moving towards positive parenting, zero waste, voluntary simplicity and veganism. In a word, supporters of more love!

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?

Isabelle: We discovered yoga when our eldest son was sick and hospitalized. Yoga then became essential to our lives: a therapy, a philosophy of life and of course, also a set of movements that keep us fit!

Amaury: I started yoga a few years ago and then I stopped. Except that at 39, I had sciatica which really affected my mobility and also my summer vacations. I told myself "you're only halfway through your life, if you want the second half to go well, take care of your body".

What practice for your well-being?

Amaury : For my well-being, 15 minutes of yoga every morning of the week, when I get up.

Isabelle: I practice 30 minutes every morning of the week and between 45 minutes and an hour on Saturday and Sunday.

What is the ritual of your practice?

Amaury: I have 5 videos of 15 minutes, one per day. And every week I redo them.

Isabelle: At 5:20, I get up, walk through the sleeping house, finish everyone's lunch boxes while the wifi starts up. I roll out my mat, choose my online course and off we go!

What do you get out of it?

Amaury: A routine that meets the needs of my body. For example, on Fridays, I do a session dedicated to the neck and shoulders. After a week sitting in front of a computer, I really need it.

Isabelle: For me, yoga is much more than a sport, it is a philosophy of life. Yoga led me to veganism, positive parenting and non-violent communication, among others.

What do you carry in your yoga bag?

Amaury: My ecoyoga mat from Tayrona. ;-) in coral color

Isabelle: my purple ecoyaga rug , a piece of wood found in the Somme Bay which I use as a brick.

What is your favorite object/accessory?

Amaury: My Eco Yoga Coral mat . It's the one I see every morning when I wake up. It's the one that motivates me for my session. I chose one in a rather bright color to brighten up my start to the day.

Isabelle: My EcoYoga Lavender mat ! I really like the feel of the jute under my hands. I find its grip and size perfect.

What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?

Amaury: Adopting a 1/4 hour ritual per day is doable. And the well-being in your body is worth this small investment in time. Afterwards, if possible, do a long session on the weekend.

Isabelle: Yoga is a life story. Nothing is impossible.

Where/how do you practice?

Amaury: At home, when I wake up, in the living room, watching a video on my cell phone.

My wife does the same but we don't follow the same videos. When we're traveling, I like to take a few classes at a local yoga studio.

Isabelle: Same! But what I prefer is when we are traveling and we create sessions for each other based on our favorite sequences.

As soon as the temperatures are mild, I like to practice in the garden even at night. I hear the hedgehogs busy, the birds chirping and the trees rustling.

What is your mantra/favourite phrase?

Amaury: A healthy mind resides in a healthy body.

Isabelle: Be the change you want to see in this world

To follow Isabelle on social networks

blog:https://lathelize.blogspot.fr/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lathelize/

Julien Levy is a certified vinyasa and Acroyoga teacher, body therapist, book author and columnist for the yogic press. He transmits these arts in courses in France and Switzerland, but also through the music he composes (Jiven Nithaya) and painting.

His approach "Free the body, soothe the mind" is one of the bases of his personal development method. A former martial arts practitioner, yoga is for him a metaphor for life: postures are as many situations in life that we tame through breathing. He emphasizes self-respect and awareness of movement .

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?

When I was 8 years old, doctors discovered that my back and leg pain was due to a spinal malformation called spondylolisthesis. Very athletic and quite a daredevil, despite regular osteopathic and physiotherapy sessions, I suffered enormously from my back until the age of 25. That's when I was referred to an extraordinary physiotherapist who practiced the Mézières method, based on stretching synchronized with breathing. This "yoga without saying it" led me to the practice of yoga, which saved my back! And opened the way to an initiatory journey that is still ongoing.

What practice for your well-being?

Yoga, acroyoga, meditation, slackline, karate, composing wellness music, painting, writing… They all have one thing in common: balance and connection.

What is the ritual of your practice?

My only ritual is listening to my needs. My practices are therefore very varied: dynamic or very gentle yoga, meditation, activations of various energy systems, chanting mantras. This can be early in the morning before writing, in the evening before going to sleep, while driving my car...

What do you get out of it?

Inner joy, without external reason, a feeling of space and freedom. A liberation of the body which, when I do not use it, tends to seize up quickly. A calming of the mind that allows me to let the flow of my creativity flow freely through the spaces found. And by slipping into these luminous interstices, the possibility of connecting to the magic of life, which I like to thank every day.

What do you carry in your yoga bag?

My breathing, music to listen to and play (ukulele, melodic percussion, etc.), a mat and a block .

What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?

Yoga postures are just pretexts for more connection to the body, the breath, the Self and the magic of life through them. Whether we place our leg behind our head or not, the important thing is what we feel and how we welcome and soothe what is present while we have our leg behind our head (or not).

Where/how do you practice?

Anywhere, anytime, awareness of breathing is possible. It took me a while to understand, but yoga is not limited to asanas on the mat.

What is your mantra/favourite phrase?

By learning to move our limits, rather than exceeding them, the whole field of our inner potential opens up, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. For this, I call upon

Ganesha: Om gan ganapataye namaha !

Find him on his Facebook page: Julien Levy