Instructors
Samuel Urtado
Founder of the SOMASANA centers, Osteopath DO & Yoga teacher
Samuel has been practicing yoga for ten years on the sidelines of a past of high level sports (Triathlon, Ultra Trail, Manager of Team Trail Paris). After several trainings and internships in different schools, he created his Osteo Yoga method.
He began to teach Osteo Yoga in 2014 in the Alps, in les Contamines-Montjoie where the retreat takes place. “Osteo Yoga is an interior and experiential journey that allows everyone to reconnect to their body and develop their potential using the tools of yoga.”
In 2016, he created the first Osteo Yoga Wellness center in Paris, in the 9th district, in which teachers who are also therapists teach yoga (osteopaths, naturopaths, yogotherapists, midwives).
In 2018, he opened a second center, "Somasana" in the 8th district, with the motto "Eat better, move better and stress better for wellness".
Since 2018, Samuel & Rachelle Tersigni have been offering a 200H Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin certified Yoga Alliance training with their school, Le Moderne Yoga.
Rachelle Tersigni
Rachelle Tersigni is a diversified and experienced yoga teacher. She has been teaching regularly since 2008 after receiving her first certification in 2007 in India. She has studied at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandarim in Chennai, India in 2011, and with many highly regarded Western teachers such as: Rod Stryker of Para Yoga, Jill Miller of Yoga Tune Up® , and Simon Borg-Olivier of Synergy Yoga (with whom she completed her 300 hour advanced certificate, in November 2018).
She has been teaching full-time yoga in various styles (Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative) in Vancouver, Canada and in Paris, France. Her teaching emphasizes the importance of being adaptable to the needs of the student using yoga as therapeutic tool for the mind, body and spirit.
Rachelle created Le Moderne Yoga Teacher Training in Paris in 2017 with the intention to teach others how to teach with safety in mind. She currently lives in Montenegro and is creating an online Health & Wellness and Personal-Development resource for women called Radiant Wellness Club.
Jenni Dawes
Jenni works as a strategist and wellness advisor, melding 14 years experience in brand, content and design thinking with nine years in mindfulness, meditation, qi gong and holistic living.
As a wellness advisor, she helps executives and employees enhance their creativity, re-energise their physical and mental state and increase their emotional intelligence.
She has consulted for the likes of Maybelline, New York Fashion Week and TEDxWomen, spoken on mindful leadership and corporate wellbeing for Ralph Lauren, Palantir and Viacom, led meditations at TEDActive, Worktech and for Lululemon’s Healthy on the Hudson series, and guided over 200 corporate mindfulness and meditation sessions for companies such as Spotify, Airbnb, Dentons, WeWork and Kickstarter.
Her classes pair time-honored meditation traditions with the latest scientific studies and perspectives from art and travel, providing sessions that are simple, accessible and non-sectarian.
Jenni began her mindfulness training in Sydney, Australia under the tutelage of a Buddhist monk, and furthered her study with retreats in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia and Bali. She recently settled in Paris, after two years living nomadically and five in New York.
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