Portrait of a Yogini: Nadine Andreewitch, Passionate About Yoga and Healthy Eating
Nadine, originally from Sweden and the happy mother of a little boy, moved to Paris with her family. After a stressful career in fashion, she decided to take her life back in hand.
She runs her blog providing wonderful health & nutrition advice to help people feel well, in harmony, with natural products.
Sharing the same values as our site tayronalife , we have set up a partnership with her blog nadineandreewitch.com where you can find products specially selected by Nadine, including our products.
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?
Over the years, we realize that health and good vitality are what we have most precious. Health is an important key to personal well-being, self-realization, and to be good with others too! So I find the time, because I know that it is also a priority to be able to do my job well.
What practice for your well-being?
Yoga every day of course, and I try to get massages regularly. I make sure to eat very healthy and spend time in nature with my family.
What is the ritual of your practice?
Right now, no fixed ritual, except that I practice yoga every day, in one way or another. In an ideal world, I wake up in the morning with a meditation session followed by an hour of practice. But with my son it's complicated in the morning. So I adapt, I change according to the day's schedule but I don't go to bed without having done at least a few minutes of yoga / pranayama.
What do you get out of it?
That you have to stay flexible in life and not rigid. It was difficult for me at the beginning as a young mother to accept that I could no longer do what I wanted when I wanted! But precisely, it is a wonderful life lesson. You have to accept "the here and now" and stay flexible with those around you, know how to adapt.
What do you carry in your yoga bag?
Coconut water, lip balm, a book for the subway
What is your favorite object/accessory?
Hmm... nothing special except my necklace that I wear every day. A gold chain with a lotus and an E for Elias (my son). I really care about it, I ordered them from the US. The lotus is linked to Elias because it makes me grow every day, it helps me to surpass myself and become someone better (I hope so anyway ;-)
What would be your advice for Tayrona Yoginis?
Above all and always: "listen to yourself", follow your intuition and don't listen too much to others to know how to live, how to practice your yoga etc. In the end, you are always the one who knows best, what is best for you. And without this listening, we can never live free and fulfilled.
Where/how do you practice?
I practice in my living room, in my bedroom, in various centers in Paris, at home with clients and as often as possible in magnificent places in France and elsewhere when I manage to escape for a few days for a training course ;-)
All means are good to practice, and what's cool is that you can do it absolutely EVERYWHERE. Even if you can't do a full vinyasa due to lack of space for example, you can always do pranayama or meditation.
What is your mantra/ favourite phrase?
The universe has my back, trust and let go.
