A trip to Mysore
I am one of those people who live with a passion. Sometimes even an obsession. I feel deeply grateful for it, because a passion carries us forward, it heals, and it becomes even more powerful when it is shared.
Through this documentary and this website, my wish is to share that passion: yoga, and the way it is taught and transmitted.
I invite you to Mysore to explore a fundamental question: what is yoga?
Through six portraits, portraits of heroines and heroes, though perhaps not the ones you expect. Not extraordinary figures, but people grounded in humility, in the simplicity of everyday life.
For some, yoga is the union of body and mind.
For others, it is a gentle physical practice that supports health and balance.
For others still, it is a doorway toward spirituality, toward unity.
Searching for a single definition of yoga, one practice, one promise, one outcome, can be disappointing. Yoga reveals itself only through personal practice, through experience with oneself and for oneself.
Women are at the heart of my teaching.
They are as sacred to me as yoga itself.
They are heroines , the very heroines I spoke of earlier.
Women who work, for themselves and for others.
Women who remain silent and yet express everything.
Women who live, who sometimes survive.
Women who succeed and lift others with them along the way.
I love hearing children laugh when I teach yoga.
I sense their resilience, their strength, and it fills my heart with joy.
For me, yoga is about awakening and renewal.
And you?
Shall I take you with me?
