The cultivation of embodied awareness is central to my practice and my approach to teaching.
In 2023 I graduated from the Mindfulness Training Institute’s teacher training under the guidance of Martin Aylward and Mark Coleman.
I consider myself to be rooted in the western Theravada / Insight Lineage of Buddhism with the Thai Forest tradition as a main influence.
Other modalities of awakening and self-inquiry such as inner-child awareness and plant medicine work seep in my way of teaching and relating to the dharma.
I was born and raised in Normandie, France and moved to New-York City in 2012.
I was fresh off college, landed a job in an advertising company and thought I was making it big. And then things started to feel hollow. New-York showed me other possibilities I had never considered. I became enamored with photography and filmmaking which led me to work in the film industry for nearly a decade.
While this change of lifestyle and artistic pursuits certainly opened me up to more depth and meaning, I was still moving the through the world as if there was something to attain, after which maybe I’d be happy.
Around 2014 I started going to New-York Insight regularly. I had heard of the benefits of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction was looking for a place to learn how to meditate. There I met teachers and started feeling curious about Buddhism.
Meeting teachers with whom I resonated with is what inspires me to teach today.
Bart van Melik’s Insight Dialogue sessions greatly expanded my practice and anchored it in my body. Sustaining meditative awareness while speaking and listening is powerful and revealing. As time went on, Bart and I got to know one another and he became my first mentor. I cherish our relationship.
I later met Martin Aylward, who’s embodied way of living and lively way of teaching instantly resonated with me. After sitting on several of his retreats and visiting him at the Moulin de Chaves, he too became my mentor.
I feel fortunate to have such wise and inspiring spiritual friends and teachers looking over my shoulder and supporting me on this path.
