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GERALD DISSE
Gérald has been practicing
yoga for over 20 years and teaching for
14. He discovered Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
in 1991 with Sri K Pattabhi Jois in Mysore,
India. He spent 8 years traveling to Mysore
spending 4 – 6 months per visit
to learn more of the system, then going
off to some other exotic location to practice
daily what Guruji had taught him. Gérald
was taught up to the third series and
was one of the first French students to
have been personally authorized to teach
by Sri K Pattabhi Jois. As he had learned
directly from the Guru at a time when
there were not so many yoga students in
Mysore, he started to give workshops around
the world. He gave Ashtanga workshops
in Australia, New Zealand, and around
the USA and Europe.
In addition to his Ashtanga yoga practice,
Gérald has done extensive stays
in Vipassana silent meditation centers
in India and Australia and continues to
cultivate a meditation and pranayama practice.
During his travels he visited Auroville,
an international spiritual community in
Tamil Nadu, South India. He related with
the place immediately. It was a way for
him to remain connected to the spirituality
of India and also still have connection
to the west, so he decided to build a
house and a yoga shala and become a part
of the Auroville community. Gerald spent
5 years there teaching daily Ashtanga
Mysore style classes in between his workshops
around the world; until 2004 when he decided,
after being away for 17 years, to move
back to France. Gérald is now settled
in Paris where he has founded a beautiful
community of yoga with Linda and their
children.
Gérald has also studied with Manju
Jois, Pattabhi Jois’ son and Kausthub
Desikachar, the grandson of Krishnamacharya.
As well, he has studied extensively with
Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi Joy. He continues
his yoga studies in asana, pranayama,
Sanskrit and Indian philosophies.
Gérald is an Experienced Registered
Yoga Alliance teacher.
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MUNRO
Linda was first introduced to yoga in 1996
in Toronto, Canada with Ron Reid and Diane
Bruni. She had been in a car accident in
1995 and was in physical therapy when she
became interested in yoga as a way to compliment
the therapy. Soon after she realized that
the yoga would be a life time practice.
A practice of asana, pranayama and meditation
but also a practice of being truthful, a
practice of being kind, a practice of being
fearless, peaceful and happy. She believes
that the practice of “yoga”
is continuous; the practice does not stop
when you roll up the yoga mat. The practice
of yoga includes the way you live your life,
the way you relate to your family, friends,
co-workers and to the strangers on the street.
This is the life long practice of developing
yogic awareness.
In 1997 she moved to New
York City with her work in the fashion business
while continuing a daily ashtanga practice
studying under Eddie Stern. The year 2000
brought her to Paris, France. After thirteen
years in the world of fashion she decided
it was the time to move fully into the direction
she had been moving since her first yoga
class. She felt a strong desire to strive
to give to others what her teachers have
given to her; so she started teaching yoga
as her own study and practice continues.
Gerald and Linda opened Ashtanga Paris in
February 2004. She studies yogic scriptures
and philosophy, having completed a 250 hour
study program of Patanjali’s Yoga
Sutra, she now continues with the Bhagavad
Gita under the supervision of Georg Feuerstein.
Linda’s completed teacher trainings
with David Swenson, Mark Darby and two with
Ron and Marla. In addition she has studied
with Sri K Pattabhi Jois in Mysore and TKV
Desikachar and Kausthub Desikachar, the
son and grandson of Krishnamacharya.
She considers Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi
Joy her primary teachers from a far. And
her husband, Gerald, along with their two
young children, Amaya and Jonathan, her
primary daily yoga teachers!
Linda is a registered yoga Alliance Teacher.
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BLANDINE BOUCHEROT
I was 15 when I took my first Kundalini Yoga
class with Guru Ans Singh. Since then yoga
has slowly entered into my life and has become
indispensable. The daily practice of Iyengar
Yoga, for 4 years, a discipline based on correct
alignment of the body, has healed my back
from 2 herniated disks. But I wanted to come
back to a more dynamic practice so I studied
Vinyasa yoga for 3 years. I discovered Ashtanga
Yoga in Thailand with William Holtby, Yogasala,
Chiang Mai. I fell in love instantly with
the Mysore practice. I was trained in Ashtanga
Yoga by Gerald Disse and Linda Munro.
The yoga, for me, is a tool of deep transformation
that allows to free oneself from past conditioning.
The yoga changed my physical posture and my
relation to the outside world. The way you
behave in life starts with the body. Waking
the body, which is a reflection of our thoughts
and past emotions, one works with its impossibilities.
Yoga is always with me because it helps me
to gather myself, to be in the present moment.
The awareness of the breath spreads awareness
to all the body parts, the mind is suspended
and it finally stretches as well.
Along the years, yoga practice has become
quite obvious. Because I’ve felt the
benefits of yoga for many years, I now want
to share this teaching with others.
Blandine is also a Shiatsu and Thai Massage
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