Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence and benevolence of spirit.
(Patanjali, Yoga Sutra I.46)
PATRIZIA MAZOU
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Jean Lechim gave her the passion of yoga and meditation on her first course in 1989. Ten years later, in Senegal where she lived with her family, she started teaching after completing a Sivananda teachers training. She then decided to improve her skills in India with the Iyengar family and continued with a 3-year Iyengar teachers training with Christian Pisano and June Whittaker which she completed in 2007. Back in Switzerland in 2010, she opened the Atelier de Yoga Espace Heureux in Vevey. She is a Level 2 certified Iyengar teacher and a member of the Swiss Iyengar Association.
Since 2010, she participated to many meditation retreats with Anne Michel of the Mudita Association and was part of her study group of buddhist teachings for 3 years. Yoga and meditation are an important part of her life. She is grateful to her teachers who have transmitted her this wisdom which guides her towards a harmonious life. She is grateful to her students who allow her to share this wisdom and walk together on the path of mindfulness, happiness and awakening. Tel : 079 6279721 Email : patrizia.mazou@bluewin.ch |
VALENTINE PALEY
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Born in 1986 in Vevey, Valentine is a dancer and a choreographer. In 2012, she starts yoga with Patrizia Mazou. She is immediately seduced by the richness and the precision of the Iyengar technique. She discovers and experiments with tenacity and enthusiasm various styles of yoga. In 2016, a workshop with Usha Devi in Rishikesh (India), confirms that Iyengar yoga is the path she wants to follow.
In 2017, she starts a three year long teachers training course with Christian Pisano et June Whittaker at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Nice. She is now a certified Iyengar Teacher Level 1. Valentine nourishes her practice following workshops with famous teachers such as: Zubin Zarthosthimanesh, Gabriella Giubilaro, Catrina Ganzoni and Stéphane Bourhis. She enjoys sharing this generosity of the heart and body with her students. Tel. 079 246 03 61 Email: v.paley@hotmail.com photo: Céline Michel |
JULIEN TURINI
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Julien discovered the goodness of Yoga during a trip to India in 2010. Back on the Riviera, he explores various yoga styles before coming across Iyengar Yoga with Patrizia Mazou in 2012. After a second trip to India and a visit to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, he follows courses with an Iyengar teacher in Pondichery and decides to dedicate himself fully to this method. After a two-year immersion course with Billy Konrad, he continues with a 3 years teachers training course with Christian Pisano and June Whittaker at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Nice. Julien shares with enthusiasm his understanding of this art to his students. He is now a Level 1 certified Iyengar teacher and is member of the Swiss Iyengar Yoga Association. Tel. 076 822 29 16 Email: contact.julien@gmail.com |
Marjolaine
obrist
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Marjolaine has been practicing regularly Vipassana meditation since 2008. She has done various retreats in Switzerland, India and Malaysia and lived with monks of the forest of the Theravada tradition in Thaïland. She is a member of a group of study of buddhist teachings with Anne Michel of the Mudita Association. She shares her experience with enthusiasm during the meditation sessions she has been leading since 2017 at the Espace Heureux center.
Tel. 078 788 84 62 Email: marjolaine.obrist@gmail.com |
Stephane bourhis
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Ex professional dancer, Stéphane Bourhis is an Iyengar teacher holding a Junior 1 degree. He studies with Corine Biria at the Iyengar Yoga Center in Paris and travels every year to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India to deepen his practice and teaching technique. He teaches at the BKS Iyengar Center of Brussels and to the dancers of the P.A.R.T.S. school of Anne de Keersmaekers. Email: stephane.bourhis@gmail.com |
