Yogi Mage Yoga (Grand-Lancy)

The path of interiority was already within me when I was 11. It was much later that the world of yoga was offered to me, during a trip to India, in the Himalayan mountains. I found myself chanting mantras! An incredible initiation, I felt a profound change, and for the first time in my life, I felt connected to more than myself. From that moment on, I never stopped searching, never stopped understanding the meaning of life. Back home, I signed up for my first postural yoga class, raconte Yoga, in 2000, and discovered the sensations of the body through the inner eye - what magic! I was finally approaching Socrates' "know thyself", which I had studied in philosophy class but whose meaning had completely escaped me until then! Attracted by this universe that seemed to answer my unanswered questions, I confidently entered a postural practice that lasted 8 years. In 2008, some unseen magic prompted me to sign up for the 4-year Yoga 7 course in Geneva. These years gave me the opportunity to "dig" like an archaeologist into the depths of my psychic mechanisms, as well as deepening my postural and breathing practice. 4 years of intensity, during which my path to inner knowledge opened up. Know thyself" still guides me, and always will.

I love the approach to yoga as it was taught to me: "passing through the physical body to the spiritual body, the SELF". That's what works for me, but I'm also open to other approaches that take a different path from the physical body. Practice is a constant search, everything is constantly changing. I'm in a posture, I feel the alignments and adapt, I feel the inner mood and let go, I feel the physical body in layers of depth. In the posture, nothing is ever achieved, not physically and certainly not internally, and that's what I love about yoga.

BKS Iyengar, from whom I like to draw inspiration, said: "Constant observation and testing are necessary to educate and shape the limbs of the body to adapt to each posture. When performing an asana (posture), action, reaction and reflection help the practitioner to readjust his attention sensitively and precisely to check his limbs from one end to the other. If we learn to extend this intellectual sensitivity to all parts of the body too, as well as to the home, then the asana becomes a contemplative or meditative asana. This should be the goal of every sadhaka, attaining an ultimate descriptive statement in every asana. His practice is then a divine practice".