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Experts 2020

Lindsay Kassem​

Lindsay Kassem

Lindsay Kassem

Lindsay is a nutrigenomics counselor and health coach, personalizing one’s health & happiness based on one’s genetic makeup, health issues, & stress levels.

She started on the corrective pharmaceutical side, but when she encountered numerous health & stress-related issues, she became passionate about how the preventative side root-cause based approaches were much more efficient and effective.

She guides each person on a journey (no forced diets nor digging through childhood wounds) to optimize their weight, nutrition, and clear negative emotions. Leaving each person feeling fully empowered, lighter, more free, healthy, and at much greater peace.

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PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE: Sensory Experience & Meditation
[session touches on all dimensions except art]

1H30MINS

Holistic Health, Personal Development

“Harness the best from your past, awaken the senses in the present, and manifest your future

Past – Meditative journey revisiting your best memories, relishing growth, and reflecting on how certain past events have shaped you.

Present – Dynamic segment to seize the seven senses with a taste nutrition, visions of picturesque nature, refreshing smells, nice sounds, calming touch, open movement, and keen intuition.

Future – Meditative visualization for the future merged with the best from the past & present, paving the way to a future that ignites you.

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Nathalie Stemper​

Nathalie Stemper

Nathalie Stemper

Nathalie is an E-RYT200 in Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow trained in India, Pre and Post Natal Yoga instructor, a Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider, an American Council of Exercise Certified Personal Trainer, black belt in TaeKwonDo, ran the New York Marathon, and is passionate about Wakeboard.

She is also the Founder of Pur’Nam-The Studio and Pur’Nam Clothing, the only yoga and active wear made in MauritiusOriginally a Martial Artist, Nathalie understands that not only power and strength, but control, balance and focus are essential to perform in any type of physical activity.

Beyond Asanas, Nathalie uses Akashic field activation, Akashic Records reading and Pranic Healing principles to guide her clients to a sweeter and more genuine life, helping them to realign with their own Truth.

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Posture Clinic 1. Back to basics: Step by step Ashtanga sun salutations A & B

1H15MINS

Mind Boby Practice

Understanding proper alignment to build a solid, safe and strong foundation for your yoga practice.

The Sun Salutation sequence is a fundamental part of many yoga practices and yet, it can often be quite challenging. Join Nathalie for this workshop and learn about the fundamental principles and alignments to flow through the different sun salutation postures with ease. 

Learn how to adapt, modify and feel the proper alignments while staying totally conscious and aware of YOUR OWN body.

Posture Clinic 2.Chaturanga Dandasana, & Bakasana (Crow pose)

1H

Mind Boby Practice

Understanding proper alignment to build a solid, safe and strong foundation for your yoga practice.

Chaturanga Dandasana is one of the foundational postures of the Vinyasa practice. However, this posture is so demanding that we often compromise alignment to make up for the challenge, thereby leading to physical discomforts. 

Nathalie will help you overcome this love/ hate relationship with Chaturanga Dandasana through practical techniques and tools, and show you how to practice this Asana with greater clarity and ease.

We will then learn how to use basic Chaturanga Dandasana principles to guide us trough our practices of arm balances, here with an introduction to Bakasana or Crow pose. A basic practice and knowledge of Asanas is recommended for this Workshop.

Blindfolded Yoga Vinyasa Flow

1H15MINS

Mind Boby Practice

How much are your relying on your vision during your yoga practice? Try to feel instead!During our Blindfolded yoga practice, Nathalie will invite you to practice some of your favorite asanas using a totally new perspectiveWith the use of your eyesight removed, this practice will invite you to turn inwards and connect with all other senses.Explore your practice by sensing, feeling, and moving from a deeper place and discover how extremely capable you are, and how easily you adapt to new surroundings.Recommended for all curious and adventurous minds that are willing to try something new!

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France Guillain

France Guillain

France Guillain

France Guillain is a famous skipper, who sailed around the world many times with her very young children. She started from Tahiti, sailing to Pacific islands, Philippines, New Guinea, Europe, Florida, etc, during 17 years. She is a mix of Polynesian, African, Spanish and Russian blood. She studied physics and mathematics, music and went to study health to keep her family safe. She has written bestsellers and longsellers, some of them are translated in the USA, Great Britain, Italia, Spain, etc. She published 65 books until now. She’s been more than 700 times on TV, a lot of newspapers until nowadays. She has a lot of good reasons to contribute to the well being of Mauritius!

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Oxidation and the inflammatory state are the two killers in modern life : how avoid them ?

1H15MINS

Holistic Health

Oxidation damages our cells, our immunity is lowered, our skin ages as do our bones and intestines. The causes are mainly the food we eat and the failure to masticate.

Raw organic vegetables are the best answer to oxidation, including oxidative stress.

Inflammation is responsible for triggering diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, ankylosing spondylitis, cancer, many rheumatic illnesses, cold intolerance and a host of other illnesses as diabete’s and overweight.

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Amy Attenborough​

Amy Attenborough​

Amy Attenborough​

Amy is a South African-born safari guide, yoga teacher and life coach that leads transformational experiences in Africa’s wilderness areas. After gaining ten years guiding experience at three of South Africa’s most prestigious lodges, she founded Wild Again to lead specialised wellness safaris. These amplify our re-connection to nature through yoga, meditation, curated silence and specially crafted wilderness experiences and she now travels throughout the continent sharing her love of all things wild. Amy shares the practices and learnings that have helped her drop out of the verbal mind and deeper into feeling and have brought her closer to nature throughout her life. It’s through these experiences that her guests re-discover the wisdom of nature that lives within each of them.

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Loving What Is Yoga Flow

1H

Mind Boby Practice, Holistic Health

This is a Hatha-inspired slow flow intended to help you drop deeply in feeeeeeling. Through slow, intentional, meticulous movement we start to really see what’s going on inside and meet any resistance with love, which is the alchemical gold of yoga.

Come sink into the delicious sensation of your body. Open to all levels of experience. As you learn to meet all sensation with non-reactivity you regain true power.

Learning To Speak With Trees: A forest bathing experience

1H30MINS

Nature Connection, Holistic Health

Did you know that trees can heal people? Or that trees communicate with each other? That they keep each other alive when one is sick or slow the growth of their young to benefit them later in life? The power of trees is something ancient healers have known intuitively for centuries and western science is just catching up to. We now have proof that trees have real and measurable impacts on our wellbeing and on our immune systems. Come join us as we drop into our bodies, engage all our senses, and learn TO CONNECT with some of Mauritius’ pristine, indigenous forest including a 600 year old ebony tree. There is a part of everyone that feels at home in nature, so allow yourself to come home to the forest. This forest bathing practice will serve you anywhere in the world after this.

Tales Of A Game Ranger: Wild animals and what they taught me about life outside my comfort zone

1H

Nature Connection, Personal Development

The stories of a South African game ranger and her awakening experiences with animals. Although these are one woman’s experiences they are universal stories. One particular story Amy Attenborough recounts is about the night a wild elephant touched the crown of her head through her tent and elephants had always intimidated her most. It pushed her well out of her comfort zone but she realised you can only be as happy as you allow yourself to be scared. Come hear tales from the wild and the wisdom in nature’s encounters that are ultimately your story too.

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Sherri Griffin

Sherri Griffin

Sherri Griffin

Meet Sherri Griffin, the Intuitive Evolutionary Guide on your most sacred life quest. This powerful Energy Healer puts the pieces together and hands you the roadmap to the integration of your intuitive gifts. She is on a mission to help others align and heal with love. As a prior nurse and as an Integrative Nutrition Coach, she has the science background and tools to help you navigate this physical world. When she unites the mind-body-spirit with intuition, energy work, and healing the inner self, that’s how you experience a powerful life-changing shift.

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Can You Heal Yourself with Energy?

1H15MINS

Mind Body Practice / Holistic Health

7 years ago my body, my mind, and my spirit all broke down at once. In 6 months, I cured myself when medical science couldn’t help me. Join me to learn how I healed myself by aligning the powerful abilities of mind-body-spirit. You will also experience a 101 chakra balancing and energy clearing session.

Do you have intuitive gifts?

1H15MINS

Spirituality/ Holistic Health

Have you ever wondered if you have intuitive gifts? During this workshop, I will teach you the 7 main types of intuitive gifts and which ones you may already be experiencing. We will practice basic chakra clearing movements, create a healing energy ball and you’ll receive an exclusive 3rd eye opening shift session to expand your intuition and help you claim your gifts.

Experience Intuitive Healing

1H15MINS

Spirituality/ Holistic Health

What is intuitive healing? Come experience it for yourself! We will do live energy healing sessions for participants! You may experience energy work, channeling of spirit guides, breath work, or anything that I am guided to do for you! We will also talk about what it takes to be an intuitive energy healer, if it’s a good fit for you, and how you can heal yourself and others by tapping into your intuitive gifts and the power of energy work.

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Susan Gwaltney

Susan Gwaltney

Susan Gwaltney

Susan Gwaltney is a certified Vibrational Sound Therapist and has completed Iyengar Yoga teacher training in 1997. She has been trained by KRI in Kundalini Yoga and Meditation and is a certified Deeksha healer with Oneness University in India. Her in-depth knowledge of Sound Healing, Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Meditation allows her to guide students (of all levels and backgrounds) into expanding their energy pathways, awareness, vitality in health.Susan will be offering Kundalini Yoga sessions during the festival to help guests.

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Balancing All Chakras as a Whole

1H30MINS

This Kriya will methodically open and balance the chakra system, allowing a flow of energy through these energetic wheels. The healthy flow of these energy centers can affect our psychological, emotional, and spiritual states of being~ and so we use specific meditations and healing modalities to raise our conscious flow of energy, and begin to experience “Pure Awareness” and feel a connection to “all that is” and a deeper peace that we know ourselves to be.

Creating Self Love and Opening the Heart Chakra followed by Healing Circle of Chants

One of the first step to “self-love” is clearing and opening the energic field around your heart center and repairing the nervous system, as well as receiving blessings from yourself and others. This Kyiya is a beautiful and powerful set, one that develops a strong lower base so that it will support your heart~ from our beloved heart, we can now elevate into our divine spirit.

The Neutral Mind Kriya for Guidance” and Meditations to Calm the Mind

Spirituality

The year 2020 in numerology is the year of “4” and in the Ten Yogic Bodies, the number “4” is the Neutral Mind. This Kriya is to integrate the dual-qualities of the “negative” and “positive” mind into a “neutral” mind~ a state of non-attachment, calm, higher intuition, and ultimate guidance. Calming and tranquilizing meditations and breath work will follow the Kriya.

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Elodie Garamond

Elodie Garamond

Elodie Garamond

I come from a large and joyful family of 8 kids and grew up in Paris where urban life can be particularly harsh. I started yoga 20 years ago and progressively adopted an healthier lifestyle through organic food first, then through clean beauty, health cares, etc. Yoga has helped me going through the difficult years… until I decided to radically switch and dedicate my life to sharing the wisdom of it.

By creating yoga & wellness clubs in Paris (Le Tigre Yoga Club) I fulfilled the call to help people use their challenging health/life situations as an opportunity to heal & boost their lives. I have now about 10 locations in which our teams help people raise to a new level in life: become stronger physically and mentally, grow more confident and inspired for the future.

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How yoga's pillars can help travelling through a change of life

1H30MINS

Personal Development

Changing life requires determination as well as discipline, and a clear road map on why and how the change may happen. The limbes of Yoga provide both wisdom and strength to go through those changes, however the reason why they occur in someone’s life.

Let’s explore together what yoga can bring into everyone’s life to ensure a smoother and more successful change … or unchange of life!

Pranayama, meditation and daily routine

1H30MINS

Mind Boby Practice

A smooth and self-caring morning practice to explore breathing techniques, mindful meditation and easy daily routine that anyone can set in its life for a better morning energy !

Exploring the Chakras system

1H30MINS

Mind Boby Practice

The chakras’ system is a fantastic way to travel in your own body and energetic system. Understanding the philosophy, the functionment and the impact of each of our seven chakras in a comprehensive exploration will be a great asset to enhance your yoga practice’s effects on body and mind.

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Natasha Booljiwahon

Natasha Boojiwahon

Natasha Booljiwahon

British-born Mauritian, Natasha Anand Boojihawon has been on a journey of self-mastery over the last 17 years. She is qualified in Naturopathic medicine, Internal family Systems Psychotherapy, Energy Medicine, Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation.

Her intuitive and integrated practice draws on the Himalayan Yog-Vedantic and Tantric tradition, natural medicine, holistic frameworks and conscious youth and community development work. Natasha Anand draws much experience from her own journey overcoming 2 autoimmune conditions (ulcerative colitis and iritis), hormone imbalances, emotional and spiritual health crisis, addiction, burnout and ancestral trauma and guides other awakening souls to find their power and heal themselves.

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Conscious Relating to Self & Other

1H30MINS

Personal Development

Never before has the poloarised nature of this world been so apparent. All around us we see families, political parties, couples, activists and even national leaders pitch against each other as sides are drawn in all arenas of life. We find ourselves triggered in the face of difference and often feel compelled to defend our personal position. These reactions create high levels of emotional tension and can feed into fear patterns and deepen polarity. On this evening we will discuss how conscious beings can maintain a dignified sense of presence in these times and use the reactive energy to deepen connection to self, expand consciousness and hasten the path to unity.

How to Spiritually Awakening, Gently

1H30MINS

Spirituality

The process of awakening or enlightenment often starts unexpectedly when we face a challenging situation and can feel disorienting. We often default to feelings of difficulty, fear, discomfort, unworthiness, blame, shame and other lower vibrational feeling states. How can we transform these challenging experiences into the fuel for a gentle awakening to our true potential and power? How can we move through these new phases of awakening with grace and ease? How can we let go of the need to hold onto the old and resist the new? How can we open up and embrace our spiritual awakening?

Consciousness, Karma & Kundalini

1H30MINS

Spirituality

You are SOUL experiencing itself as body, mind, consciousness, nature, energy. Our kundalini energy is the fundamental power that enlivens our body, mind and soul. When we clear stagnant energies, awaken the kundalini and other energy systems – we get access to greater depths of Self, connection to nature and human experience.


We can clear trauma, karma and programming which binds us to the lower realms and prevents us from evolving into our full potential.


We can raise our consciousness and deserving power, connect to who we really are, step into our true essence and power and manifest our reality.