Yoga: “a poise of the soul which enables one to look at life in all its aspects evenly.”[1]
Yoga: “the means to the realization of one’s true nature.”[2]
Yoga: A union, an alignment, a path, freedom, liberation, peace, knowledge

With yoga, learn to have a different experience - Robert Boustany

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Yoga was my mid-life crisis. I was out of shape, in serious need of a regular physical activity and my body, which had gone through a traumatic accident 20 years earlier, was aching more and more as the years went by. The future was scary. I had to do something!!!

I searched for an activity that would be respectful of my body, challenging, develop my strength, give me flexibility and teach me to relax and manage my stress. I found my answer with Pralaya yoga.

After following a first TT in France I was introduced to Robert Boustany and his Pralaya practice.  Since then my practice, has been largely influenced by him and when I opened my studio in 2012, it was Pralaya that I decided to teach.

Our practice of yoga has a great influence on our lives, and every practice is an invitation to a voyage, an exploration that deepens our senses / awareness / consciousness, and brings us closer to the inner stillness, the peace, the purusa. It reminds me of Charles Baudelaire’s poem: L’Invitation au Voyage: “Là tou n’est qu’ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme, et volupté”. Invite the practice and trust that it will take you where you need to go.

Thanks to yoga, we feel better. We feel stronger. We feel more energized. And then we see the changes around us. We feel more connected and more confident. Our mind is clearer, our stress more manageable. We can go to our center and find our peace, our “self”.  

It is this experience of yoga that I hope to share with all students who venture by Dharma Yoga in Saint Germain en Laye.

[1] B.K.S Iyengar, Light on Yoga, Schoken Books, 1966

[2] Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Yoga Mala, North Point Press, 1999