Portrait of Ola Jas, a luminous yogi

Ola Jas is a luminous yogini. Free and connected, she travels the world, and shares her teaching. She has just founded the Organic Alchemy school which provides yoga teacher training.

I had the chance to meet Ola at a press conference organized by Le Amazones Parisiennes.

It was only natural that I asked him a few personal questions about his yoga practice, which I am sharing with you today.

How did you get into taking care of yourself?

My quest for freedom opened me up very early to asking myself questions about the way the world works. My critical mind does not allow me to rely on what I have heard or what it seems to be. I like to explore, feel and form my own opinion. So I test what suits me and I trust the joy that lives within me to guide me and take care of me.

What practice for your well-being?

Yoga is the heart of my practice, since it is a way of life that encompasses all aspects of life. We seek to concentrate to make each gesture a conscious act, we observe what happens and how we react. Sometimes, I replace the practice of asana with dance, but a dance that extends the movement in the same way as the asana, with particular attention to breathing and intention.

What is the ritual of your practice?

I like to stretch in a very intuitive way, it's an act that I wouldn't deviate from under any circumstances.

What do you get out of it?

A stretch is the simplest movement of reconnection to one's breathing, to one's body and to a form of integrity between the two, as if one were able to touch the world of the unconscious. It is a technique to land within oneself in the most accessible way possible.

What do you carry in your yoga bag?

I like to travel with drops of orange blossom essence to perfume my water, incense, a sandalwood elixir, a symbolic stone, a card significant to the moment or a statue of Ganesh that was recently given to me to recreate my altar everywhere.

What is your favorite object/accessory?

I always have a notebook with me, to write down my ideas, to organize my heart, sometimes.

What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?

Let the void create energy. Allow your body quality to optimize your way of living.

Where/how do you practice?

At any time when destabilization threatens, when boredom and laziness try to set in, I practice by stimulating a search for unsuspected resources within myself.

In addition, my physical activity is rich and diverse, adapted to my environment. I work in phases: intensives in a given discipline, asanas at the first opportunity, physical activity to make my body functional and carry out my projects, always with this feeling of being at the service of something greater than myself and attentive to what is happening around me.

What is your mantra/favourite phrase?

Follow your Joy.

Take a look at the Organic Alchemy training that will take place between Goa, India and Paris, with the possibility of participating in the modules independently, HERE .

For other Ola news, check out the Parisian Amazons page and for inspiration throughout her travels, her Instagram account .