The teacher

A full-time yoga teacher

I discovered Yoga in 1998, was trained as a Yoga teacher from 2000 to 2004 by Mr. Ajit Sarkar and started teaching it in 2006.

I was fortunate to teach in various contexts (work council, sports association, community association, day care center, school) to adults, children, teenagers, pregnant women and disabled persons.

I practice meditation in the Vipassana tradition as taught by Charles and Patricia Genoud from the Vimalakirti Bouddist Meditation Center in Geneva.

I created Vimayoga in 2015 in Villeurbanne.

Teaching yoga is my full-time job and I’m grateful to be able to dedicate my whole professional time to teach. I have time to deepen what Ajit Sarkar gave me through trainings and readings. My courses are nourished by the many training sessions I attend.

I’m giving back what I received with passion. Yoga is my life; it nourishes my life and is nourished by it.

I’m a member of the  Fédération Inter-enseignements de Hatha-Yoga (FIDHY) and I am certified in pre and post-natal yoga by the DE GASQUET INSTITUT®

Laurence Tricot

Teacher

« I am free, available and confident » is a sankalpa* that Ajit offered me. It follows me everywhere I go. I wish to give the same confidence and freedom as Ajit created in everyone that came by him.

Ajit was born in Bengal but was raised at Pondicherry in Sri Aurobindo’s ashram*.

From the 60’s untill he retired, Ajit taught yoga in Paris to many future yoga teachers.

In 2007, with his wife Selvi, he founded Vellai Thamarai, a large educational, social and cultural project in India.

Ajit died on March the 4th, 2021.

Ajit Sarkar

My professor

* A sankalpa is a short, positive sentence that is mentally repeated during some relaxations and then allowed to “grow” inside the body.

* An Ashram is a monastery, a spiritual place where disciples gather around a master and retreats are possible.