About me
I'm Ariane, a yoga teacher trained in Bali.
Before I started teaching, I lived a very different life.
For years, I worked and lived in international settings in Cambodia, in China, in France... Moving from place to place, in jobs that asked a lot of my body and almost nothing of my inner life. Yoga found me in Beijing, in 2018, as a refuge. The only place where my system would finally settle.
Two years later, in Grenoble, I was lucky enough to meet my teacher Valérie. Teaching in the Desikachar lineage, she helped me to understand that yoga is not something you do. It's something that does itself, when you slow down enough to let it.
With her teaching I discovered Yoga beyond the poses : mantra chanting, pranayama, meditation. It was through her yoga and meditation retreats that the inner door opened. Later, I moved to Paris, back into a life that looked right but felt empty.
In 2024 I left Paris and a life that didn’t nourish me and went to Bali. I lived for a year in Amed, a small village on the east coast, practicing daily with a Balinese teacher named Made. His yoga was traditional, deeply restorative, almost nothing of the more dynamic practices I'd known in Europe. What Amed taught me wasn't in the postures. It was in the rhythm, the morning offerings, the way time moved, the sense that practice is not separate from life. A sensibility I carry into every class.
I completed my 200H Yoga Teacher Training in Bali at the House of Om and a 300H Yoga & Ayurveda Lifestyle training with the American Institute of Vedic Studies, where Ayurveda is understood as self-healing and Yoga as the practice of self-realization.
Today I teach in English in Aachen, Germany and online.
My path has shaped my teaching : slow practice and restorative postures leading you towards stillness through traditional Yoga Nidra and meditation. Quietly moving you toward sattva, the clarity that arrives when the system stops fighting itself.
I don't teach as someone who has arrived. I teach as someone walking the path beside you. The work happens underneath. One day you turn around and you see a clearer mind, a steadier breath, a simplicity that feels natural. Not forced. Just there.
