Ayurvedic Health Specialist & Yoga teacher
*Hello, I’m Charlotte !*
I am originally from France and recently settled down in Ibiza after 5+ years in NYC and a year traveling Africa. Once upon a time, I was a ballet dancer, a strategy management consultant, and a social entrepreneur. In another life, I’d be a medical anthropologist. I have reinvented myself many times and I can say there has been one constant throughout these changes: my unflappable enthusiasm for sustainable wellbeing & empowerment.
My yoga mat is where I find energy and mind space no matter where life takes me. Half leopard, half hummingbird, I want to spread joy & ignite passion. I’m a creature of habit when I’m not out trying new things. I love sipping a spicy chai under the sun. I love electronic music. I love tattoos. I love connecting with other people and sharing about mindful movements, meditation, food as medicine, integrative well-being and earth-friendly products.
Values
Daring greatly - Vulnerability is an act of courage. It's about taking risk and exposing yourself.
Spontaneity - Discipline is not a dirty word, but cultivate presence and place complete faith in the process.
Authenticity - Fall in love with yourself. The raw, real, unique flaw-some you.
Lifelong studentship - Everything and everyone around you is your teacher
Curiosity - There is wonder everywhere, if you choose to see the world through child-like eyes
Kindness - Everything that stands the test of time has been tendered to with love
Integrity - Walk the talk. Assert your vision against the creatures of the commonplace.
Certifications
- **Kundalini Yoga & Meditation** (KRI Level 1 - 220h) - led by Siri Sat Kaur and Guru Dharam in Metta Center, Rhinebeck NY
- **Jivamukti Yoga** (800+ h) - 300h month long training with Senior teachers Rima Rani Rabbath and Carol Issa in NYC / Costa Rica + 500h apprenticeship with Maria Macaya in Barcelona (Spain)
- **Pre/Post-natal yoga** (method Khalsa Way + mamadoula - 108h) with Yoga Con Gracia
- **Trauma-informed yoga** (80h) - including 40h of Trauma informed yoga and social justice training with Hala Khouri + 40h Liberation Prison Yoga training led by Anneke Lucas
Certified health practitioner rooted in Ayurvedic tradition - trained by
- Dr. Naina Marballi at Ayurveda's World Programme in NYC (150h),
- Dr. Vasant Lad at Ananda Ashram NYC (75h),
- the California College of Ayurveda (700+h) - currently working towards my AyD in Clinical Ayurveda
Additional trainings in :
- Redefining **Mobility** - a 20-Hour Online Training with Matt Phippen
- Fundamentals of **Anatomy & Physiology** - 100h online self-paced course (Corexcel) - *in completion*
Teaching experiences
Since 2016, teaching experience includes:
- **Public group yoga classes** at
- The Assemblage - John St (co-coworking & co-living space in NYC) - several Jivamukti classes per week as part of their daily wellness programming
- Studio X (Bushwick, NY) - Jivamukti and Kundalini classes, weekly
- Hara Yoga Studio (Barcelona, Spain) - weekly Jivamukti class, 2x per week
- Yoga Bindu (Barcelona, Spain) - weekly Jivamukti class
- **Corporate classes** at McKinsey & Company, Mara Hoffman, Adore Me.
- **Private classes**
- **Seva i.e. Volunteering** twice a week with
- **Kula for Karma,** bringing yoga to runaway and exploited teenagers
- **Liberation Prison Yoga,** supporting transgender inmates and incarcerated men
- Co-founder of **Sharanam Yoga Project**, a global yoga service initiative aiming to give access to the healing benefits of yoga and meditation in at-risk populations, impoverished communities, & to trauma survivors (year 2018/2019)
- Co-taught weekly yoga classes (trauma-informed) to kids with cancer, at-risk youth, women with mental illness, incarcerated transgender women, refugees and sex workers in USA, France, South Africa, and Kenya
- Facilitated trauma informed yoga workshops reaching 45 yoga teachers, therapeutic care providers, and social workers in South Africa and Rwanda.
Ayurveda counseling includes:
- **Seminars** at Je Suis Io (center for wellbeing) in Marseille and Hara Yoga Studio in Barcelona
- **Seasonal (Fall and Spring) Ayurvedic Kitchari Cleanse program** - a group oriented and facilitated 3-, 5-, and 7-day cleanse (10 people)
- **Private consult + counseling** to 15+ clients
Personal practice / experiences and readings
- **8+ years of training in ballet** at École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille
- **10+ years of yoga practice** with renowned yoga instructors in Norway, London, Paris, New York, Paris, Cape Town, Barcelona, Ibiza. Explored different yoga systems and lineages - mainly Ashtanga Yoga, Traditional Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga & Meditation
- Yoga Retreat with Yogeswari in Costa Rica (2014)
- Jivamukti Tribe Gathering in NYC (2017)
- Yoga Retreat with Ian Szydlowski-Alvarez in Ibiza (2019)
- Yoga Immersion with Rima Rabbath and Moris Ulrich in Berlin (2019)
- **3+ years of daily meditation practice** mainly informed by S.N. Goenka **Vipassana approach**
- Sat in 2 ten-day courses in Dhamma Pubbananda (Philadelphia, 2018) and Dhamma Pataka (Cape Town, 2019)
- 2+ years of **learning and practicing tantra**
- Intro to Skydancing Tantra with Philippe Wyckmans + reading of Margot Anand's books (Orgasme Diving, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy)
- Online tantra course for couple with Astiko
- Years of personal development (never ending 🙂 ) through:
- Plant ceremonies
- Psychoanalysis
- EMDR
- Coaching
- All methods & modalities are spiced with years of self-education in
- gut health (inspiring reading incl. Dr Bernard Jensen: Tissue cleansing through bowel management)
- women’s health (inspiring reading incl. The Woman Code by Alicia Vitte, Period repair manual by Lara briden)
- somatic practices (inspiring reading incl. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self‑Help Exercises for Anxiety)
Motivation comes from within — and I’m here to help you activate it.
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