Benoit
I discovered yoga over 20 years ago, through a very peculiar route: a Power Yoga videotape (yes, it existed). I then found a class of Samporna Yoga and was eventually introduced to theIyengar school. I also followed Jean-Claude Garnier, notably in Tiruvanamalai, India, and his generous teaching of Vinyasa Ashtanga Yoga (he's one of the few people to have rubbed shoulders with Patabi Jois and Iyengar, back in the heroic days)...
I soon started giving class to my friends, and trained to become an official Iyengar Yoga teacher (given by Willy Bok). I was also an assistant for many years in his Therapeutic Yoga sessions.
Then, in the Myofacial & Postural Treatments area (Tom Myers), I found a discipline very compatible with yoga and took Julles Mitchel's class Yoga & Biomechanics. This enabled me to add a deeper, more scientific dimension to the principles applied in yoga.
I've been teaching mainly Postural Yoga for many years, inspired by Iyengar Yoga, Anatomical & Biomechanical sciences and Postural Transformation.
Finally, in terms of both the body and "spirituality", I have increasingly felt the need to deglaze certain preconceptions attached to the wonderful subject of "yoga".
My authority on the subject is not exorbitant, but certainly long. Suffice it to say that I see myself as a seeker in a subject that uses the body to access more ethereal spheres: nervous, mental or, dare I say it, linked to more essential questioning.
This search, junction or pathway is complicated by the fact that yoga, inherited from India, a highly complex country, is part of our rather Cartesian, scientific society. A society which itself has a serious background in these matters: various medicines, philosophy, science.
Beyond myself, this Indo-Western, body-mind, health-wellness intersection can only be extremely confusing.
Hence my only claim: research, and my only proposition: to share the subjects of my discoveries and perplexities, in the hope of transmitting a little interest or even saving precious time in the exploration of these mazes.
In this perspective, I train (or deform) (future) yoga teachers, who are all my companions on this daring journey.