Portrait of an energetic Yogi: Lauranne Bondoerffer
Let me introduce you to Lauranne Bondoerffer, a nurse for 6 years, an energy care practitioner and an Aloe Vera advisor.
Lauranne discovered yoga 4 years ago thanks to her twin sister who is a physiotherapist and yoga teacher. The well-being of people has always been essential to her through her profession as a nurse and now through energy treatments and Aloe Vera. Energy treatments allow people who want to feel better to return to their essence, to who they really are by working on cellular memories as well as clearing away everything that no longer needs to be. Bringing lightness and radiance back to your life. Aloe Vera pulp helps detoxify the body and alleviate all somatizations of the human body. Giving it a boost of vitality. Getting the machine going again. Her latest project in progress is training to become a yoga teacher and to be able to take care of a person in their entirety: physical and emotional.
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 to take care of yourself?
Since life is not a long quiet river ... I found myself in the trough of the wave several times (like anyone else.) My bull and tenacious side allowed me to try to get out of it as quickly as possible, life being too short to stay down there. Through reading, meetings, exchanges and my former job as a nurse I learned a lot about life and I also learned to discover myself. To know who I really was. A lot of questioning about myself and all the beliefs with which I was able to evolve during my life. I realized that no one could take better care of me than myself ... so I started the machine, one thing leading to another ...
What practice for your well-being?
Listening to yourself, to your desires. The main key to well-being for me. Being able to act in line with who I am and what I want. Each person being different (thank goodness) we will never all have the same desires at the same time. On the other hand, everyone can listen to themselves to shine more!
Here's what works for me:
Mindfulness in everyday life,
Thank you for what life offers me and brings me every day
Nature and sport: since I arrived in Annecy I have this need to be outside as much as possible... in the mountains! That's where I feel best, where I clear my head, where I recharge my batteries, where I calm down.
Love: friends, family. Knowing how to surround yourself well is essential for my balance. "Alone we go faster, together we go further"
Having a job in which I thrive and shine. Because at the moment, work represents 80% of our time... if we are not happy in our work, it is difficult to be happy in our daily lives!
Eat good foods that excite each of my cells, like the epicurean of life that I am! Here are some ingredients to RADIATE in your life.
What is the ritual of your practice?
Take a few breaths, find inner calm, clear my mind in order to reconnect with my inner voice and be able to act as accurately as possible in my daily life. It keeps me from getting lost!
And I ask a lot of questions to find solutions that I don't have, or simply so that what happens in my life is even better than what happens to me!
I practice positive thinking a lot! It changes life!! It becomes lighter. Try it, you'll see!
What do you get out of it?
Calmness, clairvoyance, a certain freedom, a lightness
What do you carry in your yoga bag?
Aloe vera pulp to hydrate my body as best as possible during the sessions, provide the vitamins and minerals lost through perspiration during the session, allow optimal recovery to avoid aches and pains and amplify the detox of the yoga session!
What is your favorite object/accessory?
I don't really have any...
What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?
LISTEN to yourself! Listen to that little voice inside you that is just asking to be listened to. It alone knows what is good for you! No one else!! Practice yoga and meditation (even active) to (re)find yourself and thus be able to shine. As Katy Misson would say, “return to your essence”. Take care of yourself a little bit every day. Even if it’s only 5 minutes! It becomes addictive and we attract beautiful things later.
Where/how do you practice?
I practice everywhere and all the time. Yoga is not just posture, it is also mindfulness. Becoming aware of everything around us. Loving and savoring. Seeing all the positive that life brings us every day, even in the more "down" moments. Relearning to feel, listen to the outside but also what is happening inside us. Contemplating the landscape during a hike, feeling the water sliding on my skin when I go swimming in the lake, feeling my feet slide when I go skiing, paying attention to the effects that certain foods can have on me ... all this is YOGA for me. It is a way of living and understanding things.
