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Lettre de Paris Interview: Michael Hewett…

27th December 201629th December 2016 admin 0 Comments Indian Yoga, Le Tigre Yoga Club, Meditation, Michael Hewett, Sarva Yoga Academy, Yoga Teachers in Paris

I first encountered Michael Hewett on a warm Sunday in October at Le Tigre Yoga Club in Paris.. he was the instructor leading the two-hour “Shamatha Meditation Atelier” I had signed up for.

I was looking forward to starting my formal initiation into Meditation, a discipline which I had long yearned to start practising. The workshop promised to take us “step by step through the Buddha’s stages of meditation”. Having long been fascinated by everything spiritual and read extensively about the subject over the years, I knew that I finally needed to put the theoretical into practice. Meditation seemed to be the natural next step into a brave new world and a practical, more attainable entry into a sublime state of being that I had so far touched for only brief moments.. I wanted to access that state far more frequently. I knew it was the right path to follow, long ago convinced that we are indeed all spiritual beings having a human experience…

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Elodie Garamond’s Le Tigre Yoga Club…

19th July 2016 admin 0 Comments Elodie Garamond, Le Mini Tigre, Le Tigre Yoga Club, Meditation, Mindfulness, Wellbeing, Yoga Clubs in Paris

As someone who’s experienced a major professional life change – in my case from the rigid but secure banking, to the more fulfilling yet hazardous terrain of creative entrepreneurship – I was fully cognisant of the path that Elodie Garamond has tread, from high-flying communications executive to founder and director of Le Tigre Yoga Clubs, in tandem with juggling the joys and pressures of marriage and motherhood…

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Celebrating International Yoga Day.. in Paris

17th June 201617th June 2016 admin 0 Comments Elodie Garamond, International Yoga Day 2016, Le Tigre Yoga Club, Paris Aéroport, Un Cours de Yoga Géant

Do you know that International Yoga Day is celebrated annually on the 21st of June, a day which also happens to be the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and a day of special significance in many parts of the world?

The idea of an International Yoga Day was first proposed by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on the 27th of September 2014, in which he stated: “Yoga is an invaluable gift of India’s ancient tradition. This tradition is 5000 years old. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being”…