Learn how to relax & release unnecessary tensions and expectations
Practice dropping in an open and receptive state so it becomes a second nature
Become more welcoming and genuinely curious of events occuring in your life
Melt away resistances
Allow and trust in the organic process of life unfolding for you
Fall in love with your life again
Navigate with more ease, dance with synchronicities
Individual or collective sessions online, in Bordeaux, & elsewhere upon request or invitation (workshops, retreats)
Mindful Meditation, Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, sacred Ceremony facilitation and Intuitive Dance
Discover the Art of Surrender with gentleness
Learning to be more fully present, embodied and regulated by regularly releasing unnecessary charges of overwhelm also means learning to live differently, in a more healthy way, for you, for the people around you and for the planet.
It also comes with great benefits, like to have more energy and to develop a new relationship with your environment. It’s like learning to live again and growing into a better quality of life. The practice of letting go is learned through a variety of exercises, tools and techniques.
Imagine taking in that first breath of fresh air after a deep long dive. Yes, that’s it, it’s like coming back to life.
The “Letting go sessions” are for you if you want to start or deepen a personal journey to explore the magnificent benefits of relating differently to yourself, others and the world around you, getting grounded in a more serene state of being to become more peaceful & resilient.
Deep relaxation, meditation, reconnecting with your breath, and embodiment practices are used to release those tensions and have you drop more into who you really are : a human being – not a machine – and it’s time your start treating yourself more like one.
Yes, your brainwaves have something to do with it too, and so does connecting with your heart.
Discover the power of having more gentleness with yourself held in a safe and loving space.
Format 1 hour / standard price 69 €
Evolving from tension to attention, then from attention to focused intention
Do you find it difficult to “get out of your head” and reconnect with serenity ?
Is it challenging for you to release the grip of control, overanalysing and overthinking ?
Do you feel overworked dealing with too much of a mental load ?
Do you find it difficult to let go of emotional overwhelm ?
The return to self fostered by practices of relaxation allows to gradually eliminate tensions, to make oneself more available to the flow of life that circulates and that requires us to extract ourselves from the automatic mode to immerse ourselves in the deepest depths of ourselves, in BEING.
The only thing that anchors us in the present is our body.
Our breathing is essential to connect us to the body. This is why the practice of full and deep breaths, deep relaxation (yoga nidra) and mindfulness meditation are effective tools as they help us strengthen the body/mind bond and being anchored in the present moment.
Another effective tool available to us: intuitive dance, as the movement of the body is also a determining factor for releasing tensions and emotional charges we may be carrying. Transported by music, dancing how and what we feel helps us to move it and release it, to lighten up and find joy and grace through any kind of experience we may be going through. Dancing is healing.
Reconnecting to the breath, listening to it, following it, and then becoming aware of this vehicle that you live in and that is your body, are practices that allow you to gradually return to where your feet are, here and now, with an attitude of gratitude, openness and lightness too.
Being aware that you need to practice letting go and releasing is already a positive first step!
One part of our mind has a role that systematically leads it to a past on which we can no longer act (except to change our outlook on it), or to a future most likely with the anxious scenarios that we can imagine, and if we do not pay attention to it, the back and forth are a constant, and deplete our mental energy.
Learning to press the STOP key in a world that only accelerates can be guilt-inducing, deemed useless because it is perceived as not productive or even impossible to implement because there is no time, yet it turns out to be a real source of deep regeneration, to better navigate our environment.
What matters most is to allow oneself to make the time to practice, and to honor this engagement with oneself.
What can you experience as a result ?
A clearer mind
A heart at peace
A discerning outlook
A pacified being
Spiritual anchorage via physical anchorage
One of the reasons that can lead us to be caught up in or taken away by the fluctuations of our mental state is the lack of grounding, the lack of physical anchoring that can be generated by a mental overload. A loss of attention, lack of focus and discernment can occur, sometimes to the point that our state of inattention leads us to mistakes, injuries or even accidents.
A return to one’s center is therefore necessary, meditation is an ideal tool for this because it allows to develop and consolidate our core resources and grounding.
In these sessions we practice a specific meditation starting with an anchoring body scan and then a work on the different energy centers, called Chakras, and the various elements that are related to them. We also reconnect with the elements of nature and the Universe of which we are an integral part.
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Mindfulness Meditation
The benefits of regular meditation practice are numerous and have been amply demonstrated by various studies.
Learning to meditate is a positive choice because it reflects a willingness to take charge of your own well-being and to bring yourself care through an inner listening that changes the quality of your inner dialogue as well.
Guided meditation sessions are ideal to learn to meditate before considering a personal practice, and as with any practice it is regularity that pays off: it is building a form of “muscle” of mental discipline which will gradually make it easier or more direct to access the state of meditation and to deepen it gradually.
“Self-confidence” Meditation
Mindfulness meditation makes it possible to be with all that is present in oneself, and to welcome it all from a witness posture, the inner observer who will allow us to objectify the experiences and emotional burdens that are present and to so without judgment. This practice facilitates freeing ourselves from the overwhelm that these charges can create.
Getting to know and understand oneself more profoundly and intimately is to better understand our emotional experiences and how to articulate them skillfully. To an extent, it also helps to understand what other people can be experiencing too, a supportive aspect to develop and maintain healthier relationships with others.
The process of self-acceptance enhances self-esteem, self-care and self-actualisation by changing negative patterns to cultivate the best.
Meditation, healing emotional wounds and developing self-confidence go hand in hand.
The evening meditation to sleep
Ending the day with a meditation moment allows for you to integrate the experiences of the day, sort out the events that occurred, clarify the learnings of the day and set priorities and focus for the next day. It also allows for you to make yourself more available for your evening and a better quality of sleep (this in particular avoids the imaginary meeting or discussion that wakes up in the middle of the night because the mind is bursting).
Morning Meditation/ Day Meditation
Getting out of the automatic mode to sit in consciousness in your daily life is a very beneficial exercise to be more focused on what is important and to gain perspective. Starting your day with a meditation actually saves time as well as it provides more mental availability and clarity.
Where our accelerated lifestyles might make us think we “don’t have time”, a morning meditation practice quickly shows us that taking this time to prepare at all levels for the day actually saves us time and efficiency. This allows for example to have more discernment and to be more in conscious actions than in a «reactive mode to what happens».
Making this commitment with yourself and honouring this commitment with yourself is a way to give yourself love, kindness and compassion. And it always feels good to want to do good, as a bonus it brings positive changes by way of consequence.
Different types of meditation
There are many different types of meditations, some of which are rather focused on the experience of the moment through the senses (hearing, touch, taste, sight, smell), others aimed rather at the withdrawal of the senses to generate the development of the subtile senses perceptions. Finally, there is also a difference between the practice of meditation and concentration (focus on an image, a thought, a mantra for example). Each particular moment has a meditation or concentration practice that meets it perfectly !
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Breathwork : How to breathe for more aliveness
Knowing how to breathe is very closely linked to well-being and being able to let go of what one no longer needs to feel attached to.
To breathe is to let the breath of life circulate fully within. (When one no longer breathes or has breathed their last breath … we all know what it means, don’t we?)
Breathing is essential to life, and I would even go so far as to say that our quality of life depends on our quality of breath.
It is often the stress and emotional loads that will cause our breathing to begin to decrease in quality. With stress the diaphragm gets contracted and breathing only happens in the upper part of the chest, as the abdomen is contracted. When we are in “upper chest breathing” the diaphragm can no longer perform the internal massage of the digestive organs and this results in an accumulation of tension, emotional and energetic loads, all feeding the fact that the diaphragm is increasingly contracted.
It is however a vicious circle that can be stopped, and which is important to break also for the proper oxygenation of all cells and an optimized functioning. Breathing well also allows you to reconnect with your vital energy.
Knowing how to breathe is learned … or rather, can be relearned
In fact, if you look at a baby lying down, breathing is ample, fluid, whole. The abdomen goes up on the inhale, and down on the exhale. We have all been this baby one day who breathes well naturally, who has these full breathing cycles. By becoming more aware of the breath and the 3 necessary levels for complete breathing, we can reconnect with the full amplitude of our breath and all the benefits it brings in terms of energy, relaxation but also in terms of health for the digestive organs.
Here, I invite you to take a little pause of conscious breathing, and observe how you breathe here, now. Do you notice that your breathing is more in your chest? Or is your abdomen relaxed?
Abdominal or ventral breathing
With simple exercises that are accessible to everyone, releasing complete breathing means reconnecting with abdominal or ventral breathing. The emphasis is also placed on breathing only through the nostrils when inhaling and exhaling, to keep the energy inside. The mouth is actually part of the digestive system and not the respiratory system, so there is a great interest in breathing only through the nose, and if there are breathing practices not the mouth elsewhere, they generally have very specific objectives.
Pranayama
In the range of Pranayama-type breaths from yogic traditions, Ujjay breathing for example or Kapalabhati or Bastrika-type breaths are going to generate sounds. Their benefits range from an increase in diaphragm tone, the rise of vital energy, mental clarification and the prevention of various ailments in the cold season.
Breathing with breath retention
More advanced techniques of Pranayama – energetic practices derived from Yoga – enhance the development of the respiratory capacity as well as the increase of vital energy. Here we practice having longer breaths and include suspensions/retentions of breath in phases. Even further in this practice and gradually of course, the integration of body locks called Bandhas will also optimize the quality of the air intake, energy and optimize the proper functioning of the various physiological functions by stimulating them.
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Deep relaxation or yoga nidra to release and surrender
One of the fundamental principles of Yoga Nidra is the conscious circulation of awareness in the body, laying in a comfortable position. The aim is to surrender to the state of relaxation which allows for the brain to switch to Alpha waves, very regenerative ones.
By turning the attention inward, disconnecting more and more from all external stimuli, the brain will gradually pass into Alpha waves. After a Yoga Nidra session, one can feel recharged, rested or even like at the end of a night of deep sleep, deeply recharged.
The practice of Nidra Yoga also makes it possible to widen one’s consciousness and to develop latent potentialities especially through the practice of Sankalpa: in other words, to cultivate one’s heart intention from a deeply relaxed state and gradually observe how, from these deeply planted seeds, these intentions will organically create changes, encounters and opportunities supporting them to materialize in our lives little by little.
Sankalpa.
The deepest layers of the subconscious are very sensitive to the suggestions of the conscious will. Yoga nidra gives us access to this region, and induces us into a state of very high receptivity to conscious suggestion. The suggestions made at this time will be supported by the formidable strength of the subconscious and can then exert a great influence on the personality of the individual. Sankalpa is a direct order given by the conscious to the subconscious. The power of the subconscious will eventually bring this order to the conscious level, and it will manifest in an effective way in your behavior.
— Extract from the book Yoga Nidra – Swami Satyananda
Yoga nidra for deep sleep
Yoga nidra is also called the state of deep sleep or even lucid sleep. From this state, deep recovery and regeneration capabilities are directly accessible. A session of less than 1 hour can bring you as much (or more?) benefits as a good night’s sleep, and especially help you to more easily access your deep sleep and sleep at the appropriate times.
Why lucid? It is in connection with the awareness that one can experience during the practice of deep relaxation and the calm in which one bathes, which can feel like an infinite sensation of nirvana.
Yoga nidra and healing
From a state of deep relaxation, the being is very open to conscious suggestion, the practice of Sankalpa is a way to send your desired messages and programming directly to the subconscious as the barrier of the mind has been lifted. This is in order to bring about progressive changes in the behaviours that we want to change positively, for example. Formulating a Sankalpa is also a practice of formulating intentions and affirmations in a positive way, that is to say focused on what we want to see emerge and exist rather than focused on what we want to stop. Regular practice also leads to an ability to change perspective and adopt a more positive focus because the attention is more easily placed on the desired states and what one wishes to cultivate.
On the other hand, working with visualizations of symbols also allows us to connect to the universal consciousness, to feel a deep and growing gratitude, and to let ourselves be touched by the beauty of life by connecting us in depth to our humanity.
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Intuitive dance to practice presence and surrender
Sometimes, there are more poetic inspirations to the movement of the body in the context of letting go … or even that border the limits of self-expression.
The benefits of strengthening the link between the body and the mind are clearly established and even reinforced by current neurosciences that promote the movement of the body as one of the 5 key factors to develop brain neuroplasticity, just like sleep, nutrition, hydration and relaxation.
We do not all enjoy running, playing sports in the gym or playing combat sports. However, all physical activity remains very beneficial.
Free and intuitive dance: distinctions
Inspired by my years of practice of various dances (classical, modern-jazz, Salsa, Samba no pé, afro-brazilian dances, rhythms and movements of the Orixas), my personal explorations in allowing what is, and nourished by my practice of 5 Rythms dance in Bordeaux, I love to open a space on the dancefloor too !
The proposal here is to develop a high quality of presence, of listening and receptivity of all rhythms and energies present, and this can be experienced as a dance meditation or a moving meditation.
Another possibility is to live it as a danced ritual, an embodied and incarnated experience, as an intention can be set before the dance, for example «to dance the emergence of a project to give it life», «to dance the closing of a chapter of one’s life», “dancing the arrival of a new season” etc.
Intuitive Dance: Details
The experiment is an invitation to go a little further in letting go.
Set in motion by music, listening and letting the body express what it generates in us, also allows to sublime emotional charges that have been stored and need to be released. Surrendering to intuitive and instinctive movement, to the energy of the moment, then the moment, then the moment.
Welcome the present energies, let them win you and animate you, beyond a will of intention in the movement or a form of control of the movement.
It is a matter of connecting directly to an intuitive and instinctive form of dance, beyond the mind. No words are spoken by practitioners during a session, even when there can be activities to bring people in connection.
To fully enjoy the experience, free yourself from representations about what dance is, from aesthetic or choreographic requirements, in order to leave room for the emergence of an organic, natural, spontaneous, fluid movement – which can also be very still or very inwards.
And let the energy circulate to dance your body&soul according to the musical inspiration! And let yourself be guided and submerged by this reliance.
A circle of connection opens the dance within the group and there is a longer closing circle. Intuitive dance is a space of exploration, a sacred space, an intimate space leaving room for connection to oneself and others from a different state of being.
