WE BREATHE. WE ARE.
Yoga means lot of different things to different people. Some people focus more on the time spent on the mat going thru physical asanas to build up a strong body while some insist quieting the mind through meditation is it’s true purpose. Still for others it’s more about the time off the mat doing what is called seva or service, making it their life’s purpose to connect by helping others.
Whatever your approach, yoga is about turning the gaze inward while acknowledging that ultimately we are all intrinsically connected. Through the planet we live on, through the consciousness we share, through the air that WeBreathe.
We created this site to share our common (& not so common) experiences. How yoga affects and transforms us. We want to wipe away the dusty corners of the day when we have doubts, doubts about ourselves, our practice, about how to confront the chaos that swirls all around us. We’d like to invite you too to share your recollections, of the first or the last time you stepped on a yoga mat and it’s ripple affect on the rest of your day.
We would like this site to be about sharing our yoga stories, to create a new cultural narrative based on these transformative experiences.
Raeann, originally from New York, she lives and has set up a series of small businesses in Paris. After opening a restaurant and a vintage shop with it’s own clothing line, she sought and found a discipline that shed light on the secret to a healthy body/mind connection. She is a successful entrepreneur, but you wouldn’t tell, as Raeann is very humble, always keen to learn and improve.
She travelled and lived all over the world. The experiences she gathered during her travels made her not only rich in experience but also rich in knowledge and wisdom. Raeann is able to share wonderful stories always accompanied with great sense of humor. Even if she’s been thru a lot in her life, she still manages to keep a certain (almost childish) naivety and to cherish the little things in life.
“I am very grateful to have discovered kundalini and feel a very definite before and after divide in my life. I feel like before I lived in an empirical world measured by success and failure and now I live in a magickal world where kindness is the world’s greatest resource.”
Ella, a Bosnian graphic designer based in Amsterdam, graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and instead of frantically pursuing a solo career in the design world chooses to graphically emphasis what holds humanity together and not what keeps us separate.
Her project You Are Therefore I Am started way before she even heard about Kundalini yoga sutra’s, uses film, fashion, ecology, graphic design and other mediums to highlight the first sutra of the Aquarian age ‘Recognize the other is you’.
“Once a refugee – always a refugee that’s how I felt before I entered my first Kundalini Yoga class 5 years ago. Always looking for a home. Always escaping. Running away from reality. And now I can finally say that this wonderful technique of Kundalini yoga helped me to find the warm and safe home I was always looking for. I didn’t find it in a beautiful city or on a warm sandy beach. No. I discovered it deep in my very own heart. My dream is to help others to discover it too.”
Olivia, who comes from the french part of Switzerland, is an avid skier, hiker and outdoor sportswoman. She has worked in the beauty & cosmetic world as well as the high stress corporate world as an executive assistant.
Being in contact with nature always gave her a sense of a deep connection with the planet long before she stepped on a yoga mat. And then when Kundalini came into her life all those feelings of connectedness and deep fulfilment made complete sense. The rush of sports paled in comparison to the feelings of contentment and awe the yoga unleashed.
She decided to travel for a year to get her accreditation as kundalini yoga teacher and deepen her appreciation of the planet we all share.
Demonstrating a unique sensitivity and ability to connect to her inner grace, she is back in Switzerland and very looking forward to sharing this amazing technology that is Kundalini yoga.