About Soana Yoga
"Constant flow keeps a mountain stream pure, but water in a ditch stagnates and nothing good can flourish in it" B.K.S. Iyengar
Soana is a stream that nourishes the Province of Turin in Italy. Its headwaters are in Val Soana in the Gran Paradiso National Park. My grandma was born in that National Park.
Like the stream Soana, this venture will nourish our community with good action and soulful wellness.
ABOUT ME AND MY JOURNEY
I am Marine, a French-Italian from Paris. I have been a Certified Yoga Teacher since 2018 and an Ayurvedic massage therapist since January 2021. Yoga transformed my life when I embraced it after a whiplash in 2014 due to a poorly performed chiropractic manipulation. Yoga & Ayurveda showed me the way to inner peace and wholesome living.
My yoga practice started inside the Art of Living foundation with a strong focus on pranayamas and meditation since 2014. I also completed a 10-day silence Vipassana meditation retreat in 2016 to learn the Vipassana meditation technique. I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training with Sarva Purnam International Yoga Society in the United States in 2018. After that, I stayed in Kerala, India in 2019. There, I did an ayurvedic purification therapy called Panchakarma within Sahyadri Ayurvedic Hospital and learned more about the origins of Ayurveda. I also deepened my Ayurvedic knowledge with Europe Ayurveda Academy. Then I trained in ayurvedic and other energetic massages (Balinese and Shiatsu) in Temana and Mains du Monde in France in 2020-2021. I also had the chance to expand my Ayurvedic knowledge with Jaisri Lambert, Ayurveda Doctor (NAMA, www.ayurveda-seminars.com) - trained primarily by renowned Dr. Vaidya Vasant D. Lad for 12 years - in British Columbia in 2021-2022.
"Marine is a very caring and positive Yoga teacher. She helped me in my practice in giving me valuable advice. I love how I can recharge my batteries in her class. Everytime I leave her class, I am at peace and full of energy." Julie R.