About Pausé.e.s
Pausé.e.s is about experimenting stuff to feel better !
Anaïs
Wellness massage practitioner and certified yoga teacher, I support you in your journey while respecting your specific needs.
Also passionate about reading, lover of languages, meetings and plant-based cooking, I look forward to welcoming you for multiple activities !
How I discovered yoga
It was while living in Jamaica in 2016 after various geographical and professional adventures that I discovered yoga and decided to immerse myself in it. A few years earlier I had tried yoga classes when living in Berlin, without being seduced by what I felt was a series of postures (some of which seemed to me the ideal ground for injuring myself), desperately trying to "time" my breathing with the movements... Apart from the relaxation at the end of the session that I appreciated (when there was any), I generally came out frustrated. I came back to it a bit by chance: personal and professional questioning, reading an article on silent meditation retreats... I left for ten days in a yoga retreat center in Jamaica (I lived nearby) to do a fast. I learned the history of yoga, its philosophy, different ways of practicing it and especially of living it, discovering a way of being beyond a "practice". I slowly acquired a taste for this inner journey and this finer understanding of the body and the mind.
I couldn't keep it for myself ! 😉
The owner of the yoga center then suggested that I come and work for the center! A few months later, I was putting down my suitcase in Jamaica, where I spent six months as manager of the place. An experience rich in lessons that made me want to go deeper. I resided and participated in a hatha yoga teaching training at the Sivananda center in France in 2017, then continued to deepen my knowledge in 2019 in India. Since then, I have continued to experiment and train, in particular by following the distance learning of teachers Serge Gastineau and Catherine Bellières initially from the Iyengar tradition who collaborate with osteopaths, to best meet the needs of our current lifestyles. Sharing with my loved ones slowly led me to offer classes in Parisian company meeting rooms at lunchtime, then in hotels and on the beach in Mexico, in private homes in Cuba, in France where I teached in associations, gyms, primary schools and at home. I have the chance to share the experience of yoga with many audiences of all ages, often beginners.
Then I discovered massages and a passion was born !
Until I was almost 30, it would have never came to my mind to book a massage! The first professional massage I received was a birthday present from my brother (thank you you're the best). But it was when I began to know my body better and learn to listen to it, during my experience in Jamaica, that I was able to fully appreciate the ABSOLUTE happiness of expert and caring touch and its power. So I started massaging, trained myself through a few workshops, before doing a year-long training in different wellness massages at the Azenday school in Paris. After obtaining my diploma and my certification with the FFMBE (French Federation of Wellness Massage Practitioners), I also deepened my practice with a therapist in Mexico.
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