This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 30, 2026, a suspended early morning in which we learned to let ourselves be inhabited rather than to act.

There are mornings when the practice feels more like a caress than an effort. 🌅 That Thursday, dawn settled on our shoulders like a veil, and something ancient stirred in the room.

Do you feel it too, that moment when sound becomes a doorway? When simply breathing together opens an inner corridor you had long forgotten was there? ✨ From the very first seconds, Alexandre set the frame with a gentle obviousness: pair the sound with the altered state of consciousness, so that the yoga begins even before the movement.

And that is exactly what happened. 🕊️ An immediate entry into presence, with no transition and no effort, as if the body remembered the way all by itself.

When the Body Remembers Its Vertical

There is one phrase, murmured toward the end of the session, that changed everything: “Memorize it.” 💫 Memorize what? This strange posture, pressed against the wall, suspended from the crown of the head, shoulder blades and buttocks flat against the cold surface.

A posture that, oddly enough, does not feel natural — when it is precisely the one our body has forgotten. 🌿 The whole session circled around this return: finding the sacred vertical again, the vertical of the tree, of the being suspended between earth and sky.

And then, running quietly beneath it all, another revelation: it is not you who is moving. Something in you puts away the mat, walks, breathes. You only have to give the order, and it happens. 🦋

The Morning’s Teaching

There is one discreet phrase, slipped in almost in passing, that carries the entire teaching of this session. Alexandre invites us to put away our mats and says: “Feel that it is not you who is putting it away. Something is putting away the mats.” ✨

Do you hear what that means? All our lives, we believe we are the authors of our actions. We say “I did,” “I decided,” “I’m tidying up.” And yet, in the altered state of consciousness, this illusion begins to crack. 🦋

Alexandre’s teaching this morning revolves around a radical shift: moving from the mode of doing to the mode of being inhabited. Give the order, and let the inner yogi act. This is the heart of Yoga Anatman: realizing that the Non-Self is already at the controls, and that all we have to do is stop interfering.

The morning’s mantra says it all: “I surrender to the inner yogi.” 💫 To surrender is not to give up. It is to recognize. To recognize that something in us is wiser, vaster, truer than our frantic little self.

Then comes the second pillar of the teaching: memorizing the vertical. In the posture against the wall, Alexandre insists. “Memorize it, even if it doesn’t feel natural at all.” 🌿

It is deeply moving. What seems unnatural to us is precisely our original state. We have lost our vertical. We have slumped. And now we must relearn, through the body, this uprightness of being alive. 🌟

The third teaching is hidden in the simplest instruction of all: “To life: I love you.” 💖 Saying I love you to life itself. Not to a person, not to a dream, not to a goal. To life, for what it is, just as it is, in its raw breath.

This is the morning elixir, the one we carry into the day: a gratitude with no object, a tenderness with no particular recipient, an unconditional yes. Saying yes to what comes. Saying thank you to what breathes. 🕊️

And finally, the ultimate teaching, the one that brings everything full circle: being the life that lives itself. Not the life that acts, not the life that struggles — the life that lives itself through us, consciously, in bodily and emotional presence. All day long. All the time. ✨

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The session opens with a founding gesture, almost imperceptible: sitting down and pairing the sound with the altered state of consciousness. 🙏 Alexandre puts it with disarming clarity: with practice, the association engraves itself. The simple OM becomes a key that instantly unlocks the inner door.

This is one of the morning’s major insights: we no longer need long preparations. The body learns. The body remembers. ✨ One sound, and over it goes.

“Pairing the sound with the altered state of consciousness — because the association forms as we keep practicing yoga — will allow us to drop straight into the yoga from the very start.”

Then comes the first mantra, the one that colors the entire practice: “I surrender to the inner yogi, I surrender.” 💞 This phrase runs through the session like a golden thread. It is the foundation. It is the permission granted to something vaster to take the reins.

We stand up. The hands rise toward the sky, arms above the shoulders, shoulder blades pulling. And there is this magnificent instruction: “I push out my lower back as it stretches.” 🌱 The back becomes aware of itself, the deep muscles wake up, the vertical axis begins to assert itself.

Next comes the rise onto the tiptoes, Padangusthasana in spirit — a paradoxical grounding. 🌟 We engage the calves, the thighs, the glutes. We become planted in the ground, and yet we rise. Alexandre breathes these words that linger long afterward: “I feel a strength, a power awakening.”

The blindfold settles over the eyes. The outside world disappears. 🕊️ And then begins the slow, conscious, infinitely slow descent, hands behind the back, thumbs hooked, folding forward. The standing forward fold (Uttanasana — an intense stretch of the posterior chain) reveals itself: lower back, hamstrings, the neck letting go. We go down to touch the mat, then to the right-angle pose, then rise from the lower back, vertebra by vertebra.

The jaw massage arrives as a surprise. 💫 We open the jaws wide and relax this place where so many tensions take up residence. Then the hands rise again, the neck bends to the right, the neck bends to the left, and the chin draws conscious circles, with the whole body following the movement.

And here is the tree. 🌿 Tree pose (Vrikshasana — grounding and balance), but the Anatman version: both feet on the ground, arms raised, hands toward the sky, head tilted slightly back. And there, Alexandre asks us to say: “To life: I love you.” 💖

“Say it for real, from the heart: I love you, I surrender to you. Gratitude for being alive, gratitude for living.”

This is one of the most deeply moving moments of the session. Saying I love you to life. Not to a person, not to an idea — to life itself, to this breath that inhabits us without our ever having asked for it. ✨ An energy healing settles into the lower back during the Five Tibetans.

The pelvic circles follow, slow at first, then wider. 🦋 Right, front, left, back. The pelvis becomes a living wheel. Then we change direction. We feel the great mobility, this freedom regained in a place so often frozen.

Then the squats. Chair pose (Utkatasana — strengthening the thighs and glutes), up and down, as if we were holding a barbell. Alexandre slips in a touch of lightness: “We’re getting ready for ski season.” ⛷️ And then the frog, that hip-opening posture, a little each day, without forcing.

Lying down on our backs comes as a relief. 🤍 The arms stretch overhead, we pull, we pull, then we let everything go. Alexandre insists on this crucial point: “On the exhale, I surrender, I disappear. I let go, I let go, I disappear, there is nothing left.”

This is the teaching of disappearance. Daring to disappear on the exhale. Daring no longer to be. 💫 Daring to let the Non-Self emerge exactly where the little self was fading away.

The right leg rises. The lower back stays pressed to the floor — an essential instruction for protecting the lumbar spine. 🌟 We pull on the imaginary strap, the thigh stretches, it may tremble. “If it trembles, it trembles.” Then the left leg. Same protocol, same surrender. Up to the trembling and beyond the trembling: total letting go.

“I go all the way to the trembling and I surrender. I love you, I love you, I love myself.”

Hands behind the head, a stretch through the shoulder blades. Inhaling through the nose, the exhale releasing. 🕊️ Then comes the moment to put things away — but to put them away consciously, and this is where the session tips into a rare dimension.

Alexandre invites us to put away the mat without judging, to simply give the order and let the body do it. ✨ “It is not you who is putting it away. Something is putting away the mats.” This is automatic mode, the embodiment of the inner yogi taking over. We simply rest in the sensations.

Then the walk to the wall. We press ourselves against it — shoulder blades, back of the head, buttocks. 🌿 And there, the mysterious instruction: “Memorize this posture, even if it doesn’t feel natural at all.”

It doesn’t feel natural because we have forgotten our original vertical. Our bodies have sunk, slumped, curled around our screens and our fears. The wall becomes a silent master. It gives us back our uprightness. 💞

And then the simplest instruction in the world: “Walk.” And the walking happens by itself. Bare feet touch the floor, forward, backward — going backward creates a lot of stretching. 🦋 If someone crosses our path, a hug. Yoga becomes embodied tenderness.

Finally, on the count of three, the eyes open. The creation of a visual reality. But the presence remains. The feet remain. The vertical remains. ✨ That is the whole point: carrying this bodily and emotional presence into the day. Being the life that lives itself.

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Extended Mountain Pose — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet grounded, the hands rise slowly above the shoulders, the arms lengthen toward the sky, the shoulder blades pull, the lower back actively stretches. Deep inhale.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides of the torso, opens the rib cage, mobilizes the shoulder girdle and improves overall posture.

🧘 Tiptoe Pose — Standing Padangusthasana
The posture: From extended mountain, rise onto the tiptoes, arms reaching upward, engaging the calves, thighs and glutes, gaze straight ahead.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves and the arches of the feet, improves balance and engages the deep stabilizing muscles.

🧘 Standing Forward Fold with Hooked Thumbs — Uttanasana Variation
The posture: Hands behind the back, thumbs hooked, descend very slowly forward, knees bent at first, then try to straighten the legs. The hands come to touch the mat.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, lower back and neck, releases the shoulders and stimulates circulation toward the head.

🧘 Right-Angle Pose — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Hands on the knees, back horizontal and forming a right angle with the legs, gaze forward, spine long.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the paravertebral muscles, lengthens the spine and prepares the hamstrings.

🧘 Lateral Neck Bends — Parsva Grivasana
The posture: Standing, arms alongside the body, bend the neck to the right and then to the left, raising one hand to accompany the stretch, then draw slow circles with the chin.
Benefits for the body: Releases tension in the cervical spine, improves neck mobility and relaxes the trapezius muscles.

🧘 Tree Pose, Anatman Version — Vrikshasana
The posture: Standing, both feet rooted like a tree, the arms rise, the hands join toward the sky, the head gently tilts back, without forcing.
Benefits for the body: Grounding and balance, a stretch along the entire front of the body, heart opening and gentle neck mobility.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman Movement
The posture: Standing, knees slightly bent, the pelvis draws slow and then wider circles: right, front, left, back, then change direction.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hip joints and lumbar spine, loosens the lower back and stimulates pelvic circulation.

🧘 Chair Pose — Utkatasana
The posture: Feet parallel, bend the knees as if sitting on an invisible chair, back very straight, arms as if holding a barbell, then rise and lower.
Benefits for the body: Powerfully strengthens the thighs, calves and glutes, improves muscular endurance and stabilizes the knee.

🧘 Frog Pose — Standing Mandukasana Variation
The posture: Feet apart, toes pointing outward, hands on the floor or on the knees, descend a little further each day, opening the hips, with breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, stretches the adductors and stimulates deep diaphragmatic breathing.

🧘 Reclined Stretch with Arms Overhead — Supta Tadasana
The posture: Lying on the back, arms extended overhead, a full-body stretch, then total release.
Benefits for the body: Lengthens the spine, stretches the rib cage and relaxes the entire body.

🧘 Leg with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying down, lower back pressed to the floor, raise one straight leg toward the sky, pulling gently with an imaginary strap, while the other leg stays long on the floor and the neck stays relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, mobilizes the hip and strengthens the abdominal wall that protects the lower back.

🧘 Shoulder Blade Stretch with Hands Behind the Head — Anatman Movement
The posture: Lying down, hands clasped behind the head, inhale to open the elbows, exhale to release.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the pectorals and frees the shoulder girdle.

🧘 Standing Pose Against the Wall — Tadasana Against the Wall
The posture: Standing, back to the wall, press the shoulder blades, the back of the head and the buttocks against the surface, suspended from the crown of the head, back long.
Benefits for the body: Retrains the posture, aligns the spine, stretches the deep back muscles and corrects tension in the neck.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman Movement
The posture: Barefoot, walk slowly forward and then backward, holding the memorized vertical, with the sensations in the soles of the feet at the forefront.
Benefits for the body: Stimulates proprioception, strengthens the feet and ankles, improves balance and circulation.

Memorize it, even if it doesn’t feel natural at all.

It is not you who is putting it away. Something is putting away the mats.

To life: I love you. Say it for real, from the heart.

Voices from the We

Warm Reunions

From the very first minutes, the chat thread wove itself into a garland of hearts. 💖 Each person arrived with their light, their gratitude, their joy at being there.

• “Hi there 😊 ❤️‍🔥🎊🙏💛🐉” — Préma
• “Good morning everyone, gratitude, kisses ❤️” — Valérie
• “Hi there 😊♥️♥️♥️🙏” — Sandrine
• “Good morning, gratitude” — Francis
• “Hi to the whole team” — Cécile

The Courage to Take the Plunge

One message particularly touched the group this morning — from a practitioner who dares in spite of her apprehension. ✨

“I watched the beginning of yesterday’s session, it’s tough! But I’m going for it.” — Phenomena

In that sentence lies all the beauty of embodied courage: seeing the difficulty and moving forward anyway. 🦋

Luminous Greetings

• “Hi Alexandre.” — Cathy (Veuzac)
• “Have a good day, everyone.” — Cathy
• “Have a beautiful day, have fun…!!!” — Rafaël

The Morning’s I Love Yous

At the end of the session, the chat caught fire with pure love. 💞 As if Alexandre’s instruction — “To life: I love you” — had spread through every heart.

• “I love you all” — Cécile
• “I Love You ❤️‍🔥” — Préma
• “Thank you so much for this yoga, a luminous day to all, kisses, I love you all” — Valérie
• “Thank you” — Francis
• “Kisses!!!! Have a good day” — Typhaine d’Amour

Themes: surrender · verticality · inner yogi · body memory · gratitude · presence · non-self · elixir

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Mémoriser la verticale sacrée du corps

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 29, 2026, a short and gentle morning, suspended between the silence of the body and the vibration of the mantras.

There are mornings when yoga is like a door left ajar. 🌅 You give it the slightest push, and on the other side, something within you is already waiting. That Thursday, the practitioners knew it: only twenty minutes, just a little yoga, and yet so dense that it held everything.

Bernard, Cécile, Francis, Marie-Noël, Prema, Raphaël, Sandrine, Valérie, and all those present on YouTube — each with their blindfold, their strap, their shawl, their mosquito repellent for chaos. 🦋 Trivial details? No. Anchoring rituals. Little doors opening onto the immense.

And then this phrase, breathed out in the very first seconds: “I surrender to the inner yogi, I surrender.” ✨ A phrase which, repeated, stops being a phrase and becomes a state.

When the Body Becomes Prayer

Have you ever wondered what happens when you stop wanting to do the posture, and let it do itself through you? 🌿 That is precisely where the teaching begins. In that narrow gap where the practitioner disappears and something vaster takes over.

Alexandre Anatman does not teach gymnastics. He transmits a passage. A threshold. And that morning, the threshold was called surrender. 🕊️ Surrender to the inner masseur. Surrender to being. Surrender to love.

Get ready: what follows is not just an account. It is an invitation to embody, at home, right now, what the session revealed. 💞

The Morning’s Teaching

No long speeches this Thursday. A short yoga, preparing the psychomagic structures to come. But within that brevity lies a dense, crystalline, almost secret transmission. 🌟

The heart of the teaching: association. Alexandre said it explicitly — associate an altered state of consciousness with a signal (the sound of the bell, a mantra, a breath). Why? Because the human mind works through anchors. 💫

Once the association has been created, a simple sound can, at any point in the day, instantly bring you back to the sacred state of the morning. No need to go through the whole session again. One signal, and you are there.

“Not coming back, for we never left. Consciousness cannot leave, for it is everywhere in the non-localized.”

A dizzying phrase. In a dozen words, it dismantles the whole illusion of separation. 🦋 You have never strayed from consciousness. You do not find it again, you recognize it. An infinite nuance.

The second central teaching: the inner yogi. That entity, that presence, that something within you that knows exactly how to massage you, stretch you, free you. 🕊️ You don’t have to know. You have to yield. To give the order: I surrender. And the rest happens all by itself.

It is a form of radical trust in the intelligence of the body. In the intelligence of the invisible. In the intelligence of the Non-Self acting through you once the ego stops wanting to be in charge. 💖

The third pillar: love by name. Saying “I love you” to each person by their first name. Saying “I love you” to your own body. Saying “forgive me, I forgive you, I forgive myself.” 💞 Abstract love heals nothing. Love that is named, embodied, personal, mends everything.

Finally, a subtle but powerful teaching: adaptation. Each person adapts the postures to how they feel that day. Push-ups or meditation? Frog or a free pose? You choose. 🌱 For Yoga Anatman is not a rigid discipline. It is a living dialogue between you and that within you which knows.

Just a little yoga, Alexandre said. But a little yoga contains the immense when you know how to listen. ✨

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

With the first in-breath, a sound. With the sound, an altered state of consciousness. ✨ Here lies the first realization of the morning: practice does not begin when you move, it begins when you associate. When you link an inner gesture to an outer signal — here, the bell, the breath, the staccato sound through the nose.

And the founding mantra resounds: “I surrender to the inner yogi, I surrender.” 🙏 This is not about performing. It is about yielding. About letting something deeper, something older than the ego, take the reins of the body.

The feet take root. The hands rise. The lower back stretches. 🌱 And already Alexandre asks the question — not rhetorical, not instructional, but intimate: “Do you feel the stretch in your lower back?” It is an invitation to inhabit the body, not to operate it.

“At the same time, there is something that surrenders — inner yogi. If it isn’t stable, well, I contract the muscles, I become even stiffer, and then it becomes easy.”

A luminous paradox: the more you contract the base, the more you can let go at the top. 💫 The firmness of the thighs, calves and glutes creates the verticality that allows everything else to hang free. Like a tree: solid roots, unfettered foliage.

Then comes the right-angle posture — a pivotal moment. The back folds, the hands touch the floor, the knees bend, then straighten on the out-breath. A dialogue between pushing and surrender. Between wanting and allowing. 🌿

The blindfold comes down over the eyes. And here, another realization: voluntary blindness opens another kind of sight. 🦋 When the eyes close, consciousness moves. It sinks into the lumbar spine, climbs back up the vertebral column, journeys into the nape of the neck.

The side bends arrive. Right hand in the air, leaning to the left, elbow rising, massage of the neck and trapezius muscles. And here, Alexandre passes on a major key:

“It is an order you give to the universe, and it creates the inner masseur who will massage you. It is automatic. It is no longer you massaging yourself, it massages itself all on its own.”

Do you hear the distinction? 💖 Between massaging yourself and being massaged by the invisible. Between action and grace. Intention becomes a command, and the body responds from beyond the mind. All the tension drains away. The back of the skull, the cheeks, the jaws — everything melts.

Then the circles with the chin. The heel lifting, the head tipping back to the left, the whole body following the movement. 🌟 Alexandre insists: “Look at everything he has you doing.” The he is the inner yogi. The one who choreographs when you stop choreographing.

Then comes the moment of the individual sounds. Hands in the air, elbow bent, and a cry rising. “I welcome all emotions, I welcome.” ✨ Out loud. Together. For to welcome what rises is already to release it. Let it weep if it weeps. Let it laugh if it laughs. Refuse nothing.

Then the posture of surrender: arms outstretched in a cross and moving backward, head tipped slightly back, thighs contracted. “To life, I love you. I surrender to you. To being, to love, I surrender to you.” 🕊️ A sacred phrase, a key phrase, a phrase that turns the posture into an offering.

The hands come to rest on the lower back. Energy care. You send love — literally, consciously — into the lumbar area. Then the 5 Tibetans posture, lower body taut, upper body stretching backward in complete safety. 💞

The deep territorial OM rings out. 🙏 A sound that plants itself. That roots identity and territory. Not a decorative sound, but a vibratory act that says: I am here, I inhabit this body, I claim this space.

The pelvic circles follow. Then the frog, a posture of deep pelvic opening, accompanied by the breath of fire — continuous inhaling and exhaling through the nose, for three minutes. A fire that cleanses, activates, awakens the energy centers. 🌱

Each person then chooses: push-ups, meditation, staying in the frog, or a free posture to rest. Adaptation reigns. Yoga Anatman imposes nothing, it offers everything.

Lying on your back, hands drawn backward, a sacred dialogue opens up with the physical body:

“To my physical body, I love you. I am sorry. Forgive me. I forgive you everything, and I forgive myself everything.”

Ho’oponopono embodied in the flesh. 💖 How many of us spend our lives holding a grudge against our body? Judging it, forcing it, ignoring it? That morning, each person had the chance to mend this most intimate relationship of all.

Next the legs rise, one at a time, perpendicular, held by the strap. The neck stays relaxed. If it trembles, it trembles. If it pulls, it pulls. You don’t resist the trembling, you welcome it as a sign of release. 🌟

And the heart beats. Strongly. Alexandre invites: “Feel the heart that saves. Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude. I love myself, I love myself.” ✨ A reversal: we usually say I love you to someone else. Here, we begin with ourselves. For the love we give the world is the echo of the love we grant ourselves.

The session closes with the bell — a sacred anchor point. 🕊️ A sound that can, throughout the day, instantly bring you back to the altered state of consciousness. “Not coming back, for we never left. Consciousness cannot leave, for it is everywhere in the non-localized.”

A dizzying phrase. You are already where you think you must go. 💫

Then the ritual of the “I love you” by name. Each first name spoken, each presence honored. Christian, Florence, Lily, Alexandre, Frédérique, Monique, Marie-Elvire, Kevin, Anaïs, Alexis, Guillaume, Vincent, Cécile, Corinne, Francis, Gwendahl, Karine, Marie-Noël, Prema, Raphaël, Valérie, Sandrine, Nadine, and all the anonymous ones on YouTube. 💞 Each one exists. Each one is seen.

The Postures of the Session

🧘 The Suspended Mountain — Tadasana
The posture: standing, feet rooted, calves, thighs and glutes contracted. The hands and arms rise toward the sky, the forearms stretch, the back and head stay very straight. You feel suspended by your hands while your feet push into the ground.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the muscles of the legs and glutes, stretches the spine, improves posture and overall verticality.

🧘 The Backward Neck Bend — Tadasana Variation
The posture: from the vertical, the head gently tips back, gaze toward the sky (blindfold over the eyes). Inhale through the nose without exhaling through the mouth, keeping the hooked thumbs pulled backward.
Benefits for the body: stretches the throat and the front of the neck, opens the rib cage, releases tension in the trapezius muscles and shoulders.

🧘 The Standing Forward Fold — Uttanasana
The posture: the head drops down, the hands come to touch the mat, the knees may bend. On the out-breath, push to straighten the legs as far as you can.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the hamstrings and lower back, decompresses the spine, promotes blood flow to the brain.

🧘 The Right-Angle Posture — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: torso horizontal, back flat, hands resting on the knees. Inhale and exhale deeply while maintaining the alignment.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the back, stretches the hamstrings, loosens the hips and stabilizes the lumbar girdle.

🧘 The Side Bend with Massage — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: one arm rises, the body leans to the opposite side, the heel of the opposite foot lifts. The elbow of the raised arm bends and the hand comes to massage the neck, skull and trapezius muscles.
Benefits for the body: stretches the sides and intercostal muscles, releases cervical tension, makes the spine more supple laterally.

🧘 The Neck Circles — Anatman Movement
The posture: the body leans back to the left, heel lifted, with wide circles of the chin that draw the whole body along. Then change direction.
Benefits for the body: frees the cervical spine, loosens the shoulders and upper back, improves blood circulation to the head.

🧘 The Posture of Surrender — Anatman Movement
The posture: arms outstretched in a cross and gently moving backward, head tipped slightly back, thighs, calves and glutes contracted to secure the lower back.
Benefits for the body: opens the rib cage and shoulders, stretches the psoas, strengthens the posterior chain.

🧘 The 5 Tibetans Posture — Back-Extension Variation
The posture: thighs contracted, lower body taut, stretch backward in complete safety. Hands on the lower back for support.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the lumbar muscles, stimulates the thyroid, opens the chest, energizes the energy centers.

🧘 The Pelvic Circles — Anatman Movement
The posture: knees slightly bent, the pelvis turns in wide circles — front, right, back, left. Then change direction.
Benefits for the body: loosens the hips and pelvis, frees the lumbar spine, eases digestive and pelvic tension.

🧘 The Frog — Mandukasana
The posture: sitting on the heels, knees apart, back and head very straight. Accompanied by the breath of fire: continuous, rapid inhaling and exhaling through the nose for three minutes.
Benefits for the body: deeply opens the hips, stimulates the digestive fire, floods the blood with oxygen, activates the solar plexus.

🧘 Legs Vertical with a Strap — Supta Padangusthasana Variation
The posture: lying on your back, lower back pressed to the floor, one leg rises perpendicular, held by a strap looped under the foot, the forearms pulling. The neck stays completely relaxed.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the hamstrings, decompresses the lumbar spine, promotes venous return, calms the nervous system.

🧘 Final Seated Meditative Posture — Sukhasana
The posture: sitting cross-legged, back and head straight, eyes closed beneath the blindfold. Natural breathing, associated with the sound of the bell.
Benefits for the body: loosens the hips, aligns the spine, calms the mind, supports energetic integration.

Not coming back, for we never left. Consciousness cannot leave, for it is everywhere in the non-localized.

It is an order you give to the universe, and it creates the inner masseur who will massage you. It is automatic.

To my physical body, I love you. I am sorry. Forgive me. I forgive you everything, and I forgive myself everything.

Voices from the We

Morning Greetings

The first messages in the chat already carry the vibration of the gathering. Simple hellos, presences making themselves known, a circle taking shape. 🌱

• “hello” — Francis
• “Hello everyone” — Valérie

The Love Flowing at the End

As the session ends, the chat turns into a field of love. Each person leaves their I love you, their gratitude, their flower emojis. 💞 It is the psychomagic act extended: clicking, writing, sending love.

“I love you all” — Cécile

“✨️🕯 Love to you all 🪷💝🌺💞🌸🩷” — MaryAm Christi

“I love you all, have a good day, thank you so much ♥️🙏” — Valérie

Every message is a little bell ringing out. 🕊️ A reminder that the We exists beyond the screen, in this invisible thread woven morning after morning.

Themes: surrender · inner yogi · inner masseur · love · forgiving the body · verticality · non-localized · psychomagic

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : L’art sacré de s’abandonner au yogi interne

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 28, 2026, a morning when together we explored the power of creating space, of welcoming every emotion, and of revisiting our unfinished adolescences.

There are mornings when the mat becomes a threshold 🌅. A fragile, intimate threshold, where the breath comes to say what words are still searching for. That morning, Alexandre opened the session with a bell, and then with a sentence that sounds like a key: “I surrender to my inner yogi”.

And already, something settles. The feet find the ground. The hands rise. A warmth climbs through the thighs, the glutes, the calves. We are alive, he tells us. And that’s a good sign.

This morning, Shakti Anne is listening from her bed, 💞 feverish but present. And perhaps that is the sacredness of Anatman: being here, even fragile, even imperfect, even trembling.

The Doorway to Inner Space 🕊️

What if everything, absolutely everything in your life, began with a space to be created within you? That is the question the session asked, gently, without ever forcing it.

Not a space to conquer. Not a territory to defend. A space that creates itself, like a breath, like a deep inhalation between two thoughts. A space where consciousness can at last look at what is, without judging, without running away.

That is what we realized together this morning. And that is what I’d like to share with you now, scene by scene, breath by breath. ✨

The Morning’s Teaching

There are mornings when a simple sentence comes to set everything back in order. That morning, it was: “I create space”. Three words. And yet, a whole cosmos. ✨

This morning Alexandre offered us a central teaching, laid down like a quiet self-evidence: my greatest power is to create space. Not to conquer. Not to control. To create. Within me first. And because the outer world is a projection of the inner one, this inner space becomes the canvas of my whole life.

And the morning’s elixir sealed this realization. An elixir of creation, he told us. To align fully. To see, to feel, to embody that I can create whatever I want. 🍵

But be careful, there is a precise mechanism at work. Space isn’t created from within space. It is created from the non-localized. From what you are beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond the ego. From the absolute, from the Non-Self.

“If I am in space, I cannot create space. But if I am in the non-localized, I can create as much space as I want.”

And that is where the elixir takes on its full meaning. It isn’t a drink. It is a ritual of shifting, a passage, a bridge to that non-localized place within you. Every sip, informed by the mantras, by sound, by gratitude, becomes a seed of space. 💫

And then the teaching unfolded like a cascade: I create my identity. I create my life. I create a body in full health, joy, love, laughter, balanced relationships. I create a love story. I create work I enjoy. I even create, why not, an apple pie.

Because everything, absolutely everything, begins with an inner permission. “If I believe I can’t, I can’t. If I believe I can, I can.” It’s technical. It is the self that creates the space. And the absolute that manifests it. 🌱

And then this last, overwhelming realization: we came here to create. It is our deepest nature. Animals create little. Human beings carry this unique capacity to generate space, to imagine, to manifest. So the question becomes simple: what have I created so far? And what am I going to create now? 🦋

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

It all began with a suspension. The arms rise, and rise, and rise — and a voice invites us to dare to stay there, in the stretch, in the delicious discomfort of the lower back lengthening. 🌱

And then the first mantra falls like a seed: “I release in love everything that keeps me from being here and now”. Do you hear it? Not get rid of. Not fight. Release in love. It is a whole art, a whole path.

The thighs warm up, the calves tremble, the abs contract. The plank. Grounding. And already the shoulders stretch, the neck unfolds, the shoulder blades come unstuck. 💫

“In other words, you are alive.”

That little warmth rising, that vibration in the legs, isn’t effort. It is proof. Proof that the body responds, that life is flowing, that you are here.

Then comes the forward fold, the right angle, the hands reaching down to the floor, knees bent if needed. And the mantra returns: “I release in love all thoughts, everything that keeps me from being here now”. 🙏

And then, suddenly, the posture of surrender. Arms spread wide. And these words resounding like an intimate prayer:

“Life, I love you. Gratitude, I surrender to you. Show me what you are.”

Do you feel that opening? It is alignment with the best scenario. It is choosing life rather than enduring it. It is saying yes to the mystery.

Then Alexandre guides us into an energy healing of the lower back, hands resting there, sending softness, offering love and tenderness to this area that so often carries our most archaic fears. The head tips back, the thighs hold firm, inner strength supports the stretch. 🌿

Then the hula-hoop of the pelvis — to the left, forward, to the right, back — unlocking the center, awakening creativity, telling the body: you can move, you can sway, you can exist in roundness.

And the squatting frog, hands in Namaste, breath of fire, each at their own pace. The fire that cleanses. The fire that purifies. The fire that prepares the ceremony. 🔥

The Elixir and the Great Teaching of Welcome 🍵

And then comes the sacred moment. The elixir of the day. Cups held between the hands like little suns. Each person’s own sound vibrating in the water, informing it, bringing it to life.

The mantras arrive one by one, like pearls on a string: “I am consciousness”. “I remember what I am.” “I welcome all emotions.” “I dare to fully live all that I am.”

And there, the great realization of the morning emerges: we are going to evolve within our zones of discomfort. Not by avoiding them. Not by going around them. By going to look at them, gently, with courage. 💖

“If there is a zone of discomfort, it means there is something to go and look at. What is uncomfortable in me? What is not being welcomed?”

Can you hear the inner revolution this carries? Discomfort is no longer an enemy. It is a messenger. A bright signal pointing to a door waiting to be opened.

Then Alexandre unfolds the central teaching: “I am infinite welcome”. And he clarifies, with rare finesse, that this isn’t about accepting anything and everything from others. It is a stance rooted in the absolute. An inner capacity to welcome everything before deciding, before reacting.

First step: what does this do to me? That step so often short-circuited, skipped over, fled from. The step without which our programs take over and rob us of consciousness. ✨

And that is when the pivotal mantra dropped in, self-evident: “I create space”. Say it with me. Feel it. I create space.

“My greatest power is to create space.”

Space for silence. Space for the other. Space for my healings. Space for my creativity. Space for a love story. Space for work I enjoy. Space even for an apple pie 🥧.

Because everything starts there: an inner permission. If I don’t have this space within me, nothing can manifest outside. It’s technical, Alexandre tells us. This is how consciousness creates the universe.

Cow, Cat, Dragons and Coming Back to the Body 🐉

Then the body takes its place again. Cow and cat alternate, the lower back stretches then rounds, the belly empties, the breath flows. The shoulders unknot. 🌊

The dragons, on the right and then on the left, open the hips, stretch the psoas, kindle the inner fire. Breath of fire that pulses, that cleanses, that embodies.

And finally, lying on the back, gentle stretches, the legs rising one by one with the strap. And there another teaching emerges, overwhelming in its simplicity: creating your adolescence now, even long afterwards. 🦋

“It’s never too late. I’m only just beginning.”

The inner adolescent who sets their boundaries, who defines their territory, who creates their sovereignty. The adolescent who says: I’m 20, even if the body is 60. Who allows themselves sensuality, laughter, boldness, the exceptional.

And the bridge, pelvis lifted, third chakra activated, power and strength rising: “I have the right to live”. “I decide to live.” “I am magnificent.” “I am irresistible.” Anatman’s own Coué method, cellular reprogramming through mantra. 💞

And then this infinite gratitude, at the end, to Flavia, always present in our hearts, eternally. 🕊️

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Suspended Mountain — Tadasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and well grounded, arches of the feet aware of the floor. The arms slowly rise toward the sky, the hands reach upward, the crown of the head draws skyward, the back stays straight, the shoulders open backward. Long inhalation through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the spine, opens the rib cage, improves overall posture and grounding.

🧘 Vertical Plank on Tiptoes — Anatman movement
The posture: Up on the toes, calves, thighs, abs and glutes engaged. The body becomes a vertical plank, gaze straight ahead, head upright. Full, ample breathing.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves, thighs and core, improves balance and venous circulation.

🧘 Backward Stretch with Hooked Thumbs — Ardha Chakrasana
The posture: Thumbs hooked behind the back, arms straight, torso upright. Gently stretch backward, then return to vertical. Slow breathing.
Benefits for the body: Opens the shoulders and upper back, releases the shoulder blades, frees the neck area.

🧘 Standing Forward Fold — Uttanasana
The posture: The hands descend toward the floor, the knees may bend, the back lengthens. Then push to straighten the legs into a right angle, hands on the knees or on the floor.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings and lower back, eases lumbar tension, encourages mental relaxation.

🧘 Neck Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Torso upright, right hand on the lower back. The chin draws large, slow circles, seeking the fullest stretch. Then in the other direction.
Benefits for the body: Releases the cervical spine, stretches the trapezius, frees upper-back tension.

🧘 Arms Outstretched and Back Extension — Anatman movement
The posture: Arms extended horizontally, pushing invisible walls to the left and right. Then arms open behind, posture of surrender.
Benefits for the body: Opens the chest, stretches the pectorals, releases the shoulders and rib cage.

🧘 Five Tibetans Back Extension — Anatman movement
The posture: Hands on the lower back, thighs and glutes engaged, head gently tipping back. The lower back is protected by the active thighs.
Benefits for the body: Opens the solar plexus, stretches the front of the body, stimulates vital energy.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman movement (hula-hoop)
The posture: Knees slightly bent, torso upright. The pelvis draws wider and wider circles: left, front, right, back. Then the opposite direction.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hips, loosens the lumbar area, boosts circulation in the pelvis.

🧘 Squatting Frog with Breath of Fire — Malasana + Kapalabhati
The posture: Squatting, hands in Namaste in front of the chest, gaze straight ahead. Breath of fire: short, active exhalations through the nose, passive inhalations.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, strengthens the thighs, cleanses the lungs, stimulates digestion and the digestive fire.

🧘 Cow — Bitilasana
The posture: On all fours, hands under the shoulders, knees under the hips. Inhale: the belly drops, the lower back arches, the head lifts.
Benefits for the body: Makes the spine more supple, releases the lower back, opens the chest.

🧘 Cat — Marjariasana
The posture: On all fours, on the exhale the back rounds, the belly draws in, the head drops. Alternate with cow.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the spine, massages the abdominal organs, improves spinal mobility.

🧘 Mountain (Downward-Facing Dog) — Adho Mukha Svanasana
The posture: Hands on the floor, feet hip-width apart, pelvis pointing to the sky. Push through the hands and feet, heels reaching toward the floor.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the entire posterior chain, strengthens the arms and shoulders, soothes the nervous system.

🧘 Dragon (Deep Lunge) — Anjaneyasana
The posture: From mountain, one foot steps forward between the hands, heel aligned with the palms. The back knee lowers, shoulders above the hands. Breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, stretches the psoas and quadriceps, releases pelvic tension.

🧘 Leg Stretch with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed into the floor, one leg rises vertically with the strap. The other leg stays extended on the floor, heel active. Neck relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, mobilizes the hips, relieves sciatic pain.

🧘 Bridge — Setu Bandhasana
The posture: Lying on the back, knees bent, feet flat. The pelvis rises toward the sky, the shoulder blades and head stay on the floor. Full breathing into the belly.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the glutes and back, opens the chest, stimulates the third chakra and vitality.

My greatest power is to create space.

If I believe I can’t, I can’t. If I believe I can, I can.

It’s never too late. I’m only just beginning.

Voices from the We

Morning Presence and Gratitude 🌅

• “Good morning everyone, enjoy your yoga, thank you for this yoga every morning 🙏❤️☀️” — Valérie
• “Yes, enjoy your yoga and have a lovely day, everyone” — Cécile
• “Happy to be with you again, good morning everyone” — Michel

Fragility Honored 💞

“I’m sick, listening to you from my bed 😘” — Shakti Anne

And perhaps that is the most beautiful collective realization: being here, even trembling, even bedridden, even vulnerable. The session welcomes everything. Infinite welcome isn’t a theory; it is lived. 🕊️

Heartfelt Outpourings after the Practice ✨

• “Gratitude 🙏” — Shakti Anne
• “So much love and happiness 💝” — Shakti Anne
• “I love YOUUU all” — Michel
• “Have a wonderful day… hugs and kisses…” — Rafaël
• “Thank you so much, have a good day, gratitude, I love you ❤️” — Valérie
• “Gratitude I love you 💜💜💜🙏 have a lovely day 😊” — Sandrine

Themes: creating space · infinite welcome · elixir of creation · zones of discomfort · sovereignty · inner adolescence · non-localized · gratitude

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Créer de l’espace pour tout accueillir

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 27, 2026, a morning when something rare happened — a brand-new realization, the 4,400th since the adventure began.

There are mornings when you step onto your mat thinking you’re simply going to practice. And then, somewhere in a breath, a stretch, an unexpected burst of laughter, something tips over 🌅. October 27 was one of those mornings.

For some, it was their very first time in person. Emotion hung in the room like a subtle fragrance. “Let the tears come,” the voice murmured. And the tears flowed, gentle and freeing, before the body had even begun to move 💞.

There was something in the air that morning. A particular quality of presence. As if the veil were thinner than usual.

When the “I” turns out to be only an idea

Can you imagine, just for a moment, that what you have always called “me” is only an idea? An elegant construction, practical, useful — but an idea all the same?

That is precisely the brand-new realization that swept through this morning’s session. Not a theory. Not an intellectual concept. A lived certainty, in the flesh, in the breath, in that strange silence that follows the collapse of a belief 🦋.

What if the Non-Self were not an absence, but an immense freedom? Follow me through the winding paths of this special morning. You’ll see — something wants to speak through these words.

The morning’s teaching

There are mornings when a sentence rises out of nowhere and gently cracks the invisible edifice of our certainties. On October 27, that sentence was: “The I is an idea.”

Alexandre announces it with an almost childlike simplicity. “There’s a realization this morning — the first time for this one, actually. We’re at 4,400. The idea that the I, that I is actually an idea.” ✨

Can you feel what that stirs up? For a whole lifetime, we have built a “me.” We have named it, decorated it, defended it, wounded it, comforted it. We believed it was real. Solid. Permanent. And then one morning, in the silence of the mat, someone whispers that this “me” is an idea. Practical. Well designed. But an idea 🦋.

Then comes the central moment: the morning elixir. Everyone holds their cup of chai, green tea, or herbal tea. This is no ordinary drink. It is an energetic vessel, a receptacle for intentions. Alexandre explains with that simple depth of his: “A mantra is a sound, a sacred word, an expression that will bring order to matter and command the coders of reality.”

“Since everything is energy, we inform our cup and this drink with our intentions.”

The chai then becomes an elixir of love. Infused with forgiveness, with gratitude, with love. Each sip taken consciously becomes a communion with oneself, a physical absorption of what we choose to be 💞.

And the teaching goes deeper still: “My body is my joystick.” In the cosmic video game that is reality, the body is not a prison. It is the interface. The sovereign tool that lets us feel, act, create. Pain, pleasure, emotions — all of it is feedback. Precious information.

Then comes the transformative mantra: “I take command of my life. I’m becoming the system administrator now.” 🌟

What if this morning were the beginning of a new way of inhabiting your life? No longer enduring. But commanding. No longer believing yourself limited by a narrow “I.” But realizing that beyond this practical idea lies pure consciousness — infinite, free, the creator of everything 🙏.

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

It all begins seated. Eyes closed. A deep sound, like a bell from somewhere else, opens the sacred space ✨. “I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.” This mantra, gently repeated, lays the first stone of an invisible edifice: that of total letting go.

Then comes verticality. The arms rise, and rise, and rise. The spine lengthens like a tree growing toward the light. We rise onto our tiptoes, contract the calves, the thighs, the glutes. And suddenly, a strange sensation: being suspended. Suspended by the hands, by the head, by an invisible thread that ties us to the sky 🌟.

The question, gently asked: “What does this do to me?” Asked again and again, this question becomes the common thread of the whole session. Not “what should I do?” but “what is happening in me, right now?”

“Just feel. The question is: what does this do to me?”

The side-stretching postures come next — the right arm rising, the body leaning to the left, the shoulder blade stretching. Then the inner masseur, that wonderful Anatmanian metaphor: the thumb pressing firmly into the nape of the neck, the skull, the trapezius muscles. “I surrender to my inner masseur, I surrender.” And Alexandre points out, with that knowing tenderness: this yoga is specially designed for computer people, for everyone who spends their days in front of a screen 💫.

Then comes a deeply moving moment: the mantras to life. “Life, I love you. I’m in love with you. I love you. I’m sorry. Forgive me. I forgive you everything. And I forgive myself everything.” These words are not recited phrases. They are offerings. Doors swinging open 🕊️. Many people weep. Softly. Tenderly.

“Gratitude for being alive. I love you, I surrender to you.”

Then the pelvic hula hoop — that circular dance that wakes up the obliques, the abs, the hips. The pelvis turns and turns, drawing wider and wider circles. “I surrender to my inner yogi.” The body becomes fluid, alive, sovereign.

Next comes the frog, squatting, with the breath of fire. Three intense minutes of air being pushed out through the nose, again and again. For some, push-ups take over — that slightly athletic moment that builds courage and strength, a little more each day.

And then, the moment of mantras with the elixir. One of the high points of the session 🌿. Everyone holds their cup of chai, herbal tea, or green tea. And the mantras rain down, one after another, like a shower of blessings: “In love, I release everything that keeps me from existing. In love, I release everything that keeps me from opening my heart. In love, I release everything that keeps me from creating my reality.”

Alexandre then shares an essential realization: My body is my joystick. We are in a cosmic video game, and this body we inhabit is the controller that lets us interact with reality. “I take command of my life. I take the controls.” ✨

“If it burps, it burps. If it yawns, it yawns. If it cries, it cries. If it laughs, it laughs.”

Then comes the lying-down posture, with the strap. The right leg rises, perpendicular, held by the strap. The forearms pull. The neck stays relaxed. And there, something extraordinary happens: Kundalini rising. Laughter. Trembling. Unexpected ecstasy. “I combine laughter and stretching, I combine.” 🦋

Alexandre then guides a cascade of joyful, liberating, almost crazy mantras: “I am not standard. I am original. I am special. I welcome. I am weird. I am strange. I am mysterious. Unpredictable. I am what does not yet exist. I am new and brand new.” The body laughs. The heart laughs. Even the silence laughs 💖.

The toe stretch follows — subtle work on the acupuncture meridians. One by one, each toe is pulled, stretched, honored. “Here, we take care of everything, even the toes.” That sentence sums up the whole ethic of Yoga Anatman: nothing is too small to be loved.

“Gratitude for having created a we, gratitude. Gratitude for having created a tribe, gratitude.”

And then comes THE realization of the day. The 4,400th. The one that had never come before. In the stillness of lying down, Alexandre murmurs: “The I disappears. It can disappear easily because it never really existed. It’s a construction, an idea.” 🤍

Can you feel the gentle vertigo of that sentence? The I is an idea. Not a person. Not a substance. Not a solid soul. An idea, among other ideas. Very practical, granted. But an idea all the same.

The session ends with the raised-pelvis posture, arms stretched back, muscles engaged, the power of life embodied. And this playful, superb mantra: “It’s time for nothing.” It’s now. It’s golden. It’s golden to wake up 🌅. The Shaktipat initiations then follow, in private mode — those age-old transmissions from India, adapted by Alexandre, which blend dialogue with the Self, clairvoyance and energetic transmission.

The session’s postures

🧘 Vertical stretch on tiptoes — Tadasana Urdhva
The posture: Standing barefoot, the arms reach up to the sky, the hands pull upward, the body lifts onto the tiptoes. The calves, thighs and glutes contract, the gaze rests on a point straight ahead, the breath is full, through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Full lengthening of the spine, strengthening of the calves and thighs, improved balance and proprioception.

🧘 Gentle backbend with hooked thumbs — Ardha Anuvittasana
The posture: Standing, the thumbs hook together behind the back, the blindfold over the eyes, the body leans slightly back, the spine lengthens without forcing, the breath stays fluid.
Benefits for the body: Opening of the rib cage, stretching of the shoulders and the front of the body, loosening of the lower back.

🧘 Standing forward bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, the torso folds forward, the hands touch the mat or the knees, the legs gradually straighten, the head hangs loose.
Benefits for the body: Intense stretch of the hamstrings and lower back, decompression of the spine, drainage of the head.

🧘 Side stretch with raised arm — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: The right arm rises, the hand suspended toward the sky, the body leans to the left, the right heel lifts; then the other side stretches.
Benefits for the body: Stretching of the obliques, the latissimus dorsi and the shoulder blade, opening of the intercostal space, release of the lower back.

🧘 Self-massage of the neck and trapezius — Anatman Movement
The posture: In a side stretch, elbow bent, the hand massages the back of the head, the neck and the trapezius with firm circular movements of the thumb.
Benefits for the body: Release of neck tension, relaxation of tight trapezius muscles, specific relief for long hours spent sitting in front of a screen.

🧘 Chin circles — Anatman Movement
The posture: Standing, the heel of one foot lifts depending on the direction, the chin draws large, sweeping circles, first one way then the other; the hands can come down to touch the floor as the chin passes forward.
Benefits for the body: Mobilization of the cervical spine, loosening of the obliques, massage of the upper buttocks and lower back.

🧘 Posture of surrender to life — Anatman Movement
The posture: Standing, the hands slightly behind, the head tilted back, the heart open to the sky, the breath free.
Benefits for the body: Deep opening of the rib cage and throat, stretching of the psoas, relaxation of the nervous system.

🧘 Five Tibetans posture (energy healing) — Hands on the lower back
The posture: Standing, the hands placed on the lower back, thighs, glutes and abs engaged, the breath sends love to the lumbar area.
Benefits for the body: Strengthening of the posterior chain, lumbar support, maintaining an upright stance, energy circulation.

🧘 Pelvic hula hoop — Circular Kati Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, knees slightly bent, the pelvis draws large circles — right, forward, left, back — gradually widening the range.
Benefits for the body: Mobilization of the sacrum and hips, strengthening of the obliques and abs, massage of the digestive organs.

🧘 Squatting frog with breath of fire — Malasana + Kapalabhati
The posture: Squatting with feet flat (or on blocks), hands free, the breath pushes the air out through the nose in a rapid rhythm; the inhale comes on its own.
Benefits for the body: Opening of the hips, strengthening of the pelvic floor, deep oxygenation, stimulation of the digestive fire.

🧘 Push-ups — Chaturanga Dandasana (optional)
The posture: In plank facing the floor, the body lowers and rises, arms bent close to the torso, with pauses in child’s pose every ten push-ups.
Benefits for the body: Strengthening of the chest, triceps, shoulders and core, overall toning.

🧘 Reclining strap stretch, leg perpendicular — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed down, a strap catches the foot, the forearms pull, the leg rises perpendicular, the neck stays completely relaxed, the other leg extended on the floor.
Benefits for the body: Deep stretch of the hamstrings, mobilization of the sciatic nerve, release of the pelvis.

🧘 Stretching the five toes — Anatman Movement
The posture: Lying down, each toe is gently pulled one by one, the thumbs grip, the neck stays relaxed, the legs can rise.
Benefits for the body: Balancing of the acupuncture meridians, regulation of the nervous system, loosening of the foot joints.

🧘 Low bridge with arms back — Setu Bandha Sarvangasana
The posture: Lying down, knees bent or legs straight, the pelvis lifts, the arms pull back toward the floor, glutes and abs engaged.
Benefits for the body: Opening of the pelvis and hips, strengthening of the posterior chain, stretching of the psoas and the front of the body.

🧘 Final meditative Savasana — Shavasana
The posture: Lying on the back, arms alongside the body, eyes closed under the blindfold, breath free, awareness open to everything.
Benefits for the body: Deep integration, regulation of the parasympathetic nervous system, complete cellular rest.

The I disappears. It can disappear easily because it never really existed. It’s a construction, an idea.

My body is my joystick. I take command of my life.

Here, we take care of everything, even the toes. Everything is welcome.

Voices from the We

A collective heart, beating

From the very first moments, the tribe wove itself together in the chat with touching tenderness. Préma opened the dance with a declaration that captures the whole spirit of this session:

“Hi 😊 I love Us ❤️‍🔥🎊🙏” — Préma

Then the greetings blossomed like so many little lights, each one carrying its own emotional signature:

• “good morning gratitude” — Francis
• “Good morning everyone” — Valérie
• “Hi 🙏💜” — Sandrine

A presence beyond distance

Typhaine, though physically far away, sent words that speak this Anatmanian truth: love knows no geography 💞.

“Good morning everyone. I love you from where I am 🥰” — Typhaine d’Amour

“Love, my friends” — Typhaine d’Amour

Gratitude as the grand finale

At the end of the session, gratitude poured out in a cascade, carried by the whole tribe:

• “Gratitude I love you have a beautiful day everyone 💜💜💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “Gratitude!! I love you all!!!” — Cécile
• “gratitude” — Francis
• “Thank you so much, have a good day everyone, I love you” — Valérie
• “hugs and kisses” — Rafaël
• “Gratitude thank you ❤️‍🔥🎊” — Préma

And Maryamchristi and Isabelle, relayed by Alexandre from YouTube, offered their lotuses, their sacred candles and their gratitude 🪷. A living, pulsing, very real we — far more real, perhaps, than the idea of the “I” that crumbled away this morning ✨.

Themes: non-self · elixir of love · mantras · joystick · kundalini · surrender · gratitude · consciousness

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Et si le « je » n’était qu’une idée ?

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 24, 2026, a Saturday morning when the word “peace” ran through the practice like a golden thread, stitching together every posture, every breath, every silence.

There are mornings when the practice begins gently, almost shyly, and then something reveals itself. 🌅 This Saturday was one of them. A session that at first seemed like any other, and which, through the stretches, the mantras, the steaming elixir held between the palms, gradually brought a realization to light: peace is never outside.

Alexandre Anatman said it with that gentleness so characteristic of him, the way one shares a secret. 🤍 Peace is created, lived, embodied. It is not waiting to be found somewhere else, in some future, in someone else. It is already here, within, as long as we dare to welcome it.

What if peace were not a destination?

Imagine for a moment. ✨ For years you have been searching for something you already carry. You have been chasing a horizon that recedes with every step you take. And one morning, barefoot on the mat, eyes closed beneath a blindfold, you hear these words: “Peace is never outside.”

And everything turns around. Gently, without a sound. 🕊️ You understand that the quest was never a journey toward, but a return within. And that every posture, every breath, every mantra spoken from the heart was already a creation of the very peace you had been seeking.

This is the journey we are now going to take together. From the first blissful stretch to the final mindful walk, from the informed elixir to the tears set free. 💫 Let’s step into the session.

The morning’s teaching

At the heart of the session, around the steaming elixir, a teaching slowly unfolded, like a lotus opening. 🌸 It bore a simple name: peace. But behind that word, a whole inner architecture was revealed.

Alexandre began by recalling the ancient science. The chai, made with coconut milk and almond milk, was not just a drink. It was an elixir informed by mantras. The science of the Himalayas, the science of India, the science of the sacred word. ✨ Every word spoken from the heart becomes a frequency, an energy that brings order to reality.

“Since we are in a video game where it is expression that creates reality, the way you express yourself from the heart, what you say with words, with mantras, with sounds — these are frequencies that will bring order to reality.”

Then came the crucial warning. 🤍 Often, it isn’t you who is speaking. Programs and conditionings speak in your place. So the mantras you say aren’t truly your own, but those of your history, your memories, your unconscious. Hence the first liberating mantra to repeat: “I lovingly release all programs, memories, conditionings.”

The teaching then turned to the realization of the day, the key phrase that ran through the entire session: “Peace is never outside.” 🕊️ It can only be within. It is not something to seek; it is something to create. And this creation happens on several levels.

First, peace in the physical body: pleasure, orgasms, freedom from pain and illness, physiological harmony. Then, peace in the heart: being in love, welcoming love. Then mental peace: freeing yourself from the programs that wage war on one another or on other people. 💫 And finally, emotional peace: welcoming every emotion without fighting it.

Next came the philosophical gem of the morning: the teaching of contrast. Why so many wars on earth? To better savor peace. Why suffering? To feel bliss all the more deeply. 🌅 The universe is contrasted by its very nature — hot water and cold water, love and non-love, ecstasy and pain. Without contrast, there is no video game, no living existence.

“If I block life, I block all of life. I can’t block just the suffering. If I block suffering, I block bliss.”

So Alexandre invited us to bring contrast to the personality itself. What if, instead of always playing the same note, we had 25 octaves at our disposal? Sad at times, joyful at times. Angry at times, ecstatic at times. 🦋 Living life in its wholeness — unpredictable, improvised, full.

And then, a series of hammer-blow mantras to seal the teaching into the body: “I create peace. I live peace. I am peace. I preserve my peace. I defend my peace. I embody my peace.” 🙏 Each phrase adds another layer of embodiment, from creation all the way to total identification.

The most unexpected mantra of the session will remain this one, offered with a smile: “Gratitude for agreeing with myself.” A simple foundation, so often missing. Because so many people are not in agreement with themselves — which creates constant inner conflict, especially when it comes to making decisions. 💞 Agreeing with yourself means making peace among all your parts. It is an inner celebration.

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

The first sound rises, individual, singular. Each person sends their own vibration out into the space, then the bell takes over, dissolving the voices into a single sound. 🌿 Already, something is falling into alignment. Alexandre invites everyone to stand up and really feel their feet on the ground — the sacred foundation of all practice.

Then comes the stretch. And with it, a surprising revelation: “Right at the start of yoga, it begins with the pleasure of stretching.” 💖 Pleasure and stretching, joined together from the very first seconds. A mantra to repeat with him: “I associate pleasure with stretching, I associate.”

The hands rise, fingers interlaced above the head. Calves, thighs, glutes, abdominals — everything contracts like a rigid plank. And yet, in this maximum tension, something surrenders. The paradox of Yoga Anatman: contract in order to let go more fully. 🦋

“I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender. I let the inner yogi do it, I watch, it happens all by itself.”

The blindfold comes down over the eyes. Visual reality fades away. 🌟 The thumbs hook together behind the back, the spine arches backward, then returns, then dives forward. The chest meets the thighs, the hands touch the floor. Every movement becomes an exploration of that fine line between effort and surrender.

Then comes a tender gesture: the right hand massages the back of the head, the nape, the neck. “I surrender to my inner masseur,” Alexandre murmurs. It isn’t a caress, he points out. It’s the thumb circling, pressing firmly. And within this massage, an immense gratitude wells up. 🙏

“Gratitude for being at the spa every morning, gratitude for living like a millionaire.”

Then the same gesture on the left. The elbow rises, the hand massages. The jaw and cheeks receive their care too. Everything that tightens in the face is released. ✨ And the mantra resumes: “To life, I love you. Thank you, gratitude.”

Circles of the chin trace an ancient ritual in space. Awareness travels to wherever it pulls — the lower back, the top of the buttocks, the neck. 🌱 Then comes the surrender posture, the sacred preparation for the Five Tibetans. And here, a powerful mantra bursts forth, to be spoken with your whole being:

“Peace for all my parts. Every part surrenders to life, to love, to the universe, now.”

The body leans back, drawing an arc. The thighs and buttocks contract firmly — essential muscular support, Alexandre explains, which prevents injury and makes it possible to hold the pose for a long time. This is not slackness. It is a conscious contraction in the service of surrender. 💫

Then, hands on hips, the pelvic circles begin. Small at first, then growing wider. And here, a luminous insight from Alexandre: “It’s this release, this surrender, that allows stored emotions to rise up. You may cry, yawn, burp — and that’s perfect.” 🤍 The body lets go.

The frog arrives, with breath of fire. Air in, air out, the belly pumping. A few minutes that awaken the whole system and raise the vibration. Then push-ups or rest, depending on what the body asks for. 🌿 And then comes the long-awaited moment: the seated position, the elixir.

Chai with coconut and almond milk steams in the cups. But before drinking, the drink must be informed. The ancient science of the Himalayas, the science of the sacred word, the science of mantras. Sounds create frequencies; frequencies bring order to reality. 🌅

“I lovingly release the programs, memories, conditionings, everything that keeps me from seeing the whole unconscious.”

Tears rise. Alexandre invites us to let them flow: “I welcome all my emotions, I welcome.” ✨ Then the most powerful decision of all: “I decide to realize my true nature, I decide.” The ultimate mantra, which commands the entire system to converge toward awakening.

And then comes the teaching of contrast, explored further below. The mantras keep falling like a nourishing rain: “I create peace. I live peace. I am peace. I preserve my peace. I defend my peace. I embody my peace.” 💞

A brand-new mantra emerges, one no one had ever heard before: “Gratitude for agreeing with myself.” And the group laughs softly, because it is so simple, and yet so rare. 🦋 Being in agreement with yourself — a fundamental foundation, so often missing, and the source of so much inner conflict.

“I knew I was peace; I just had to find it deep within.”

At last the elixir is drunk, slowly, in full presence. Every sip is an embodiment of the mantras spoken. 🌟 Then Alexandre invites us to understand the mechanism of contrast: hot water and cold water, war and peace, suffering and bliss. Without contrast, there is no video game.

Then comes the mindful walk, bringing yoga into everyday life. First, the back pressed against the wall — heels, back, shoulders, head. Verticality restored. “There is a direct link between posture and the level of consciousness,” Alexandre shares. 💫

Then walking with eyes closed, barefoot. Forward, backward. Awareness dwelling entirely in the feet. Every step becomes a meditation, a grounding. Hugs arise from chance encounters, silent offerings. 🙏

Finally, on the count of three, the eyes open — but the body keeps walking on its own. No “I,” no “me”. There is no one walking. Walking is happening. A subtle, dizzying realization that will carry the practice on throughout the day. 🕊️

The postures of the session

🧘 Vertical plank on tiptoe — Urdhva Hastasana (variation)
The posture: Standing, feet together and firmly grounded, the hands rise above the head with fingers interlaced. Contract the calves, thighs, glutes and abdominals all at once. Rise onto the balls of the feet while inhaling through the nose, keeping the whole body as rigid as a plank.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the deep muscles of the calves and thighs, improves balance and proprioception, lengthens the spine and opens the rib cage.

🧘 Backbend with hooked thumbs — Ardha Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, hands behind the back, thumbs hooked together. Gently tilt the spine and head backward, without forcing, keeping the feet firmly planted on the floor. Return to vertical, then begin again.
Benefits for the body: Opens the chest and shoulders, stretches the front muscles of the neck, stimulates chest breathing.

🧘 Standing forward bend — Uttanasana
The posture: With the thumbs hooked behind the back and the arms rising behind you, lower the torso forward to meet the thighs. The hands come to the floor and you press to straighten the legs, then rest in a right-angle position with the hands on the knees.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings and lower back, decompresses the spine, promotes venous return.

🧘 Side stretch with massage — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, one arm rises like the Statue of Liberty. Lean toward the opposite side while lifting the heel, then bend the elbow and use the hand to massage the back of the head, the nape and the neck with a firm thumb. Do both sides.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the intercostal muscles and the latissimus dorsi, releases tension in the neck, loosens the shoulders.

🧘 Neck rotations — Griva Chalana
The posture: Standing tall, tilt the neck back to the left, then draw large circles with the chin, slowly, inhaling and exhaling deeply. Then change direction.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the cervical vertebrae, relaxes the trapezius muscles, improves blood flow to the head.

🧘 Backward surrender posture (Five Tibetans) — standing Ushtrasana variation
The posture: Standing, with the legs and glutes contracted, draw an arc by leaning backward, arms open wide in a cross, head slightly back. The muscular support of the thighs and buttocks is essential to hold the pose without injury.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the rib cage and solar plexus, stretches the quadriceps and hip flexors, strengthens the posterior chain.

🧘 Pelvic circles — Kati Chakrasana
The posture: Hands on hips, knees slightly bent, rotate the pelvis in gradually widening circles, first in one direction and then the other, imagining a hula hoop around you.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the lower back and hips, stimulates the digestive organs, releases pelvic tension.

🧘 Frog posture with breath of fire — Mandukasana + Kapalabhati
The posture: With the back straight and the head held tall, practice breath of fire: short, powerful exhalations through the nose, letting the air flow back in naturally. Everyone at their own pace, for a few minutes.
Benefits for the body: Deeply tones the abdominals, stimulates the diaphragm, strongly oxygenates the blood and awakens the vitality of the whole system.

🧘 Seated meditative posture — Sukhasana
The posture: Seated cross-legged, back straight, hands holding the cup of elixir. Inform the drink with mantras before drinking it slowly, in full awareness.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, aligns the spine, supports mindful digestion and a calm nervous system.

🧘 Mindful walking — Chankramanam
The posture: Barefoot, first with eyes closed beneath a blindfold, walk forward and then backward, with all your awareness dwelling in your feet. Then the eyes open without the “I” taking back control of the walk.
Benefits for the body: Improves balance and reduces the risk of falling, strengthens proprioception, stimulates circulation in the soles of the feet and grounding.

Peace is never outside — that is the realization of the day. Peace can only be within.

If I block suffering, I block bliss.

I knew I was peace; I just had to find it deep within.

Voices from the We

Morning greetings

• “good morning gratitude” — Francis
• “Good morning everyone ❤️” — Valérie

Heartfelt gratitude after the practice

“Thank you so much, have a lovely day everyone 💖 gratitude” — Valérie

• “Gratitude 💜💜💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “have a wonderful day…” — Rafaël

Yoga embodied in being

“I am yoga 😊” — Sandrine

Three words that say it all. ✨ Not “I do yoga”, but “I am yoga”. The practice becomes identity; the practice becomes being. This is exactly what Alexandre passed on this morning — moving from doing to being, from creation to embodiment. 🕊️

Themes: inner peace · mantras · contrast · elixir · surrender · sacred word · mindful walking · embodiment

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Je crée la paix, j’incarne la paix

This article is a summary of the Yoga Anatman session of October 23, 2026, a morning suspended between breath and silence, when we learned to let the body walk without us.

There are mornings when surrender ✨ slips into the room before the mats have even been unrolled. This was one of them. Tiphaine, Isabelle, Céline, Cécile and so many others were there, settled into the friendly half-light, ready to bring sound and altered states of consciousness together. And already something was whispering: this session will be unlike any other.

Do you know that feeling 🌱? The one where, the moment the headband rests on your forehead, the body seems to know before you do what it is about to offer. An inner yogi takes the lead. You are no longer leading the dance — you are receiving it.

Alexandre said it from the very first moments: “He’s got big ambitions today, it’s funny.” And all we had to do was consent 🙏.

When the Body Walks Without You

Imagine a thread 🕊️ stretched down from the sky, gently lifting you by the crown of your head. Your feet still touch the ground, yet something in you grows lighter. You are no longer walking — walking is happening. Without an I, without a me.

That is where everything shifts. This October 23 session was a quiet initiation into pure observation 💫, the state in which you become a kindly witness of your own body in motion. A secret passage between posture and freedom.

What if awakening 🌟 were nothing more than this: letting the body live, and simply watching?

The Morning’s Teaching

Sometimes an entire session converges toward a single revelation ✨. This morning, it wore the face of a walk. A walk without a walker.

Alexandre’s central teaching on October 23 crystallized into one simple gesture: press yourself flat against a wall, memorize that perfect verticality, then walk while keeping the invisible thread that suspends your skull from the sky. 🌟

But beyond the gesture lay the teaching of the Non-Self. The one that says: you are not the one who walks. You are the consciousness watching the body walk.

“It walks all by itself. I stay in my feet. I am the observer of the body walking all by itself, without me. Yes, it walks without me — it actually doesn’t need me to walk.”

This sentence is a door 🚪. Step through it and everything changes. Because if the body walks without you, what else happens “without you”? Digestion. Breathing. The beating of your heart. Even your thoughts themselves.

The me then reveals itself for what it is: a superfluous commentator, a narrator taking credit for a dance it does not orchestrate.

And in that freed-up space 🦋, something immense can finally happen: presence. True presence. The kind that takes in the landscape, notices the details, welcomes emotions, feels the sensations in the soles of the feet — without commenting, without judging, without identifying.

Alexandre summed it up with infinite tenderness: “Throughout the day, I am going to learn to remain in this state of observation. All bodily sensations are welcomed, and so are the emotions.”

That is the daily practice of Yoga Anatman. It isn’t an hour on the mat. It is a way of inhabiting every step, every sip at breakfast, every stroll in the forest or along the beach. 🌿

And what about the morning’s Elixir? Alexandre added with a twinkle: “The elixir is on Tuesday.” The date is set, on YouTube, for the psycho-magical structures that will carry this path further. 💫

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The session opened with a mantra of breathtaking simplicity: “I surrender, my inner yogi, I surrender.” Three times. The way you knock three times on a sacred door before entering. 🌅

Then the headband on the forehead, not yet over the eyes. The arches of the feet take root. The in-breath through the nose becomes an offering. And already the body begins to speak its silent language.

“He’s got big ambitions today, it’s funny. I surrender, I let him do it. He has some rather wild desires.”

That sentence, dropped almost in passing, said it all. The inner yogi ✨ is not a metaphor. It is a living intelligence that inhabits the body and knows, far better than the mind, what we need. This morning, it wanted to go far. And it took us with it.

Stretching as Delight

The hands rise, and rise, and rise. The thumbs hook together. And suddenly the body hangs suspended. You lift yourself, you rise 🌿. Calves, thighs, glutes and abs engage as you come up onto your toes. “I feel my strong, muscular body — gratitude.”

Then Alexandre spoke a key phrase, a transformative mantra: “I join pleasure and stretching together.” 💖 Do you see what that opens up? Every stretch becomes a sacred pleasure. Every fiber that unfolds, a small liberation. The body is no longer a vehicle to be disciplined — it is a temple of delight.

And the mantra rolls on, powerful as a wave: “I release in love everything that keeps me from feeling pleasure. I release in love.” 💞

Circles of the Pelvis, Circles of the Neck

Big circles with the chin first, the whole body following. The lower back finally gets to speak. Then circles of the pelvis, wider and wider. You settle into your hips, into your buttocks. Things are moving. 🦋

There is something primal in these circles. A memory of life itself. The pelvis, seat of the first chakra, loosens and releases what has sometimes lain dormant there for years.

The Posture of Surrender and the Healing of Love

Hands on the lower back, head tilted slightly back, legs straight, glutes engaged. And the mantra rises like a prayer offered to the invisible:

“To life: I love you, I love you, I surrender to you. I trust you, and I am you.”

In that instant, something opens. A heart 💖 that is no longer just a muscle, but a portal. The hands become instruments of healing. Love flows, concrete and palpable.

The Frog and the Breath of Fire

The squat prepares the thighs. The back stays straight, the head held high. Then the frog 🌿 — crouching, gaze forward, body low and steady. The breath of fire bursts forth: exhaling through the nose, the air flowing back in on its own, at its own pace. It’s intense. It heats up. It cleanses.

And as always in Yoga Anatman, kindness comes first: “Everyone goes with how they feel today.” You can keep going, do some push-ups, or sit in half-lotus. No dogma. Just listening 🙏.

The Sphinx and the Marriage with Gaia

Lying on your belly, pelvis pressed to the floor, the spine gently stretching upward. The sphinx. And this mantra of rare poetry:

“I breathe in through the nose, I breathe out through the pelvis, the first chakra. And I wed Gaia.”

To wed the Earth 🌍. Not to tread on her, not to pass across her — to wed her. To offer her your breath, to receive her vibration. This mantra alone turns the practice into a sacred act.

The Strap, the Foot, the Opening of the Heart

Lying on your back, the right leg rises with the strap. The forearms do the pulling — not the neck, never the neck. And Alexandre guides: “Gratitude, I love you. The heart opens.”

And we repeat, aloud or silently: “I love you, I love you, I love you. I surrender to you, to my inner yogi, I love you.” 💫

Whatever trembles is allowed to tremble. Whatever coughs is allowed to cough. Whatever yawns is allowed to yawn. “I express myself, it expresses itself.” The whole Anatman approach lies in that sentence: welcoming without judgment 🕊️ whatever the body wants to release.

Walking Without Self — The Central Teaching

Then came the pivotal moment. Standing, back against a wall or a window, shoulder blades pressed flat, head touching, feet rooted. Suspended by an invisible thread from the crown of the head. Absolute verticality. 🌟

And the mantra: “I welcome all my emotions, I welcome.” Then, holding that memorized posture, keeping that thread: “Walk.”

And then, a miracle. Eyes closed at first, then open. Walking happens. Without an I. Without a me. The body moves forward all by itself. You become the observer. You take in the landscape, the details of your surroundings, while your feet unfold their ancient wisdom.

“It walks without me — it actually doesn’t need me to walk.”

This realization ✨ is one of the most profoundly moving of the Non-Self. You always believed you were the one walking. And now you discover that the body knows. That it has always known. And that the me was nothing but a superfluous commentator.

The Session’s Postures

🧘 Vertical stretch on tiptoe — Urdhva Hastasana (variation)
The posture: Standing, feet parallel, the hands rise slowly toward the sky, thumbs hooked together. You lift up onto your toes, engaging calves, thighs, glutes and abs. The breath stays deep and through the nose, the head tilted slightly back.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves, thighs and deep core muscles, lengthens the spine, improves balance and venous circulation in the legs.

🧘 Forward fold with hooked thumbs — Uttanasana (variation)
The posture: From standing, thumbs hooked behind the back, you gently lean forward as the arms rise toward the sky. Then you bring the hands down toward the floor, bending the knees if needed.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back, opens the shoulders and rib cage, supports venous return.

🧘 The right angle — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Hands resting on the knees, back horizontal, forming a right angle with the straight legs. Gaze forward, the neck in line with the spine.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the paraspinal muscles, stretches the hamstrings, improves posture and spinal alignment.

🧘 Lateral elbow bends — Anatman movement
The posture: Arms raised high, the right elbow bends and drops behind the neck, then the left elbow. You draw the shoulder blades in with each out-breath, feeling the stretch on the opposite side.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the triceps, shoulders and sides of the body, releases tension in the trapezius, opens the rib cage.

🧘 Big neck and torso circles — Anatman movement
The posture: The chin traces large circles, the whole body following the movement, even dipping forward with the hands. You change direction without ever holding your breath.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the cervical spine, mobilizes the entire spine, releases tension in the lower back, improves coordination.

🧘 Arms outstretched against invisible walls — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet rooted, the arms open out into a cross and push sideways as if against invisible walls, forming perfect right angles.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the shoulders and upper back, improves posture, develops grounding and bodily presence.

🧘 Posture of surrender with backbend — Anuvittasana
The posture: Hands on the lower back, the spine stretches backward, the head tipped slightly back. Legs straight, glutes and thighs engaged, the heart opens toward the sky.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the abdominal muscles and the psoas, opens the chest, strengthens the lower back, encourages deep breathing.

🧘 Pelvic circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, knees soft, the pelvis traces wider and wider circles, first one way, then the other. Breathe in through the nose, breathe out through the mouth.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the hips, lubricates the hip joints, frees the first and second chakras, aids digestion.

🧘 Deep squat — Malasana (preparatory variation)
The posture: Back straight, head high, you lower into a squat and rise again at your own pace, in preparation for the frog and the skier.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the thighs, glutes and calves, makes the ankles and hips more supple, builds muscular endurance.

🧘 The frog — Malasana
The posture: Crouched in a deep squat, back straight, head upright, gaze forward. You practice the breath of fire: exhaling through the nose, the inhalation happening on its own, at its own rhythm.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, stretches the ankles and groin, stimulates the digestive system, oxygenates and energizes through the breath of fire.

🧘 The sphinx — Salamba Bhujangasana
The posture: Lying on your belly, pelvis pressed to the floor, forearms resting in front, elbows beneath the shoulders. The spine gently lengthens, the head lifts, gaze forward.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the lower back, gently stretches the front of the body, opens the chest, stimulates the abdominal organs.

🧘 Strap stretch (straight leg) — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on your back, the right leg rises, the strap catches the foot, and the forearms pull without tensing the neck. Press lightly through the heel of the other leg.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back, improves hip flexibility, releases pelvic tension.

🧘 Reclining posture with hands behind the head — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on your back, hands behind the head, elbows open to the right and left, knees bent or straight depending on how you feel.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the shoulder blades and upper back, opens the rib cage, encourages full, expansive breathing, releases tension in the neck.

🧘 Conscious walking against the wall — Anatman movement
The posture: Back pressed against a wall or a window, shoulder blades, back, buttocks and head touching it. You memorize that verticality, then walk while keeping the invisible thread that suspends the skull, eyes closed at first, then open.
Benefits for the body: Retrains posture, strengthens the deep postural muscles, improves balance, anchors awareness in the sensations of the soles of the feet.

It walks without me — it actually doesn’t need me to walk.

To life: I love you, I love you, I surrender to you. I trust you, and I am you.

I join pleasure and stretching together. I release in love everything that keeps me from feeling pleasure.

Voices from the We

Morning Greetings, Open Doors of the Heart

Even before the practice began, the chat was already humming with kindly presences. Each person left their little greeting, the way you light a candle on a shared altar.

• “Hello ❤️🙏” — MaHA
• “good morning gratitude” — Francis
• “Good morning everyone ❤️” — Valérie
• “Hi there 💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “Hi there ❤️‍🔥” — Préma

The Gratitude of the We

And then MaHA summed up in a single sentence what was vibrating between all the connected hearts:

“Hello, dear We ❤️🙏 Gratitude for sharing this moment ❤️🙏” — MaHA

Luminous Farewells

At the end of the session, hearts were still overflowing:

• “Thank you so much, have a lovely day, I love you all ♥️” — Valérie
• “Gratitude 🙏” — Sandrine
• “Have a beautiful day 😊” — Sandrine

And over on YouTube, Nadine also sent her “hi everyone 🥰”, a reminder that the We reaches far beyond the walls of the living room.

Themes: surrender · inner yogi · non-self · conscious walking · observation · gratitude · verticality · presence

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’abandonner au yogi interne et marcher sans soi

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 20, 2026 — a morning when sacred laughter swept through our bodies, when tears washed old memories clean, and when each of us allowed ourselves to become once more what we have always been.

Imagine for a moment. ✨ It is barely 7 a.m., and day is breaking over Rishikesh — or perhaps over your living room, it hardly matters. The Ganges is flowing somewhere inside you. A cup of chai is steaming in your hands. And a gentle voice invites you, once again, to surrender.

That morning, something unusual happened. 🦋 The cosmic clown walked into the room. Nobody had invited him, and yet he had been awaited for lifetimes. He slipped in between the postures, between the mantras, between the tears and the living silences.

And he swept everything away.

When Laughter Becomes a Doorway

There are mornings when yoga waits for you politely on the mat. 🌱 And then there are mornings like this one — when yoga grabs you, turns you upside down, and makes you weep with joy and laugh with gratitude, sometimes in the very same breath.

This morning, Alexandre Anatman offered something rare: to give ourselves permission. Permission to be wonderful. Permission to be irresistible. Permission to be already perfect, just as we are. 💫

How many times in your life have you granted yourself that permission? Not the lukewarm kind, the one you barely whisper. The other one. The kind that makes your lower back tremble and sets off cascades of liberating tears. 💞

The Morning’s Teaching

At the heart of the session, Alexandre offered a transmission that deserves to be unfolded slowly, the way you would unfold an old letter. 🕊️ It fits in a single sentence, repeated by a whole room in tears: “I have no need for an unconscious. I am conscious of everything.”

At first hearing, it may sound bold. The unconscious, we have been taught, is an impregnable fortress, a dark continent whose maps we spend a lifetime exploring. And here is Alexandre suggesting, with disarming gentleness, that we simply do without it.

His explanation is crystal clear: “It’s an alignment with the absolute. Because the absolute, of course, is conscious of everything. And it’s identification and identity — which is not a problem in the relative — that creates that blind spot, that shadow zone.” ✨

In other words: the unconscious does not exist as such. What we call the unconscious is the zone that identification with a little “me” refuses to see. The absolute, however, sees everything. And when you align with the absolute — through mantra, through breath, through surrender — that shadow zone dissolves.

This is where the morning elixir comes in — the chai. 🍵 Not as a mere hot drink, but as a vibrational medium. Each person places a sound into it, infuses it with mantras, then drinks it slowly. The elixir then becomes the physical vehicle of the intention: “I offer myself the very best in this life.”

And Alexandre continues with mantras that each give back a permission: “I am already loved just as I am. I am already perfect. I honor and celebrate my perfection. I fully own my genius.” 💫 Each of these sentences works like a reversed ho’oponopono — not to repair, but to recognize what is already there, intact, and always has been.

Then comes total forgiveness, addressed first to the physical body, then to oneself. The body is thanked, apologized to, forgiven. We start again from zero. 🌅 This is not a symbolic gesture: it is a vibrational renewal which, practiced regularly, clears away whole layers of cellular memory.

The teaching closes on the simplest and hardest injunction of Yoga Anatman: dare. “I dare to be what I am. I am wonderful. I am brilliant. I am irresistible.” To dare — not out of vanity, but because it is the only way to give back to being the place it should never have left. 💖

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

As always, the session opens with the sound of a bell that seeps into every cell. ✨ And then that first mantra, whispered, repeated, embodied: “I surrender to my inner yogi.” A handful of words that, spoken with awareness, already unlock something. Because to surrender is to dare to believe that within you lives a yogi infinitely wiser than your mind.

Then the hands rise. Slowly. The shoulder blades stretch, the neck unknots, the lower back lets out a sigh of gratitude. Alexandre slips in a sentence that resonates: “If you are not completely filled with bliss and pleasure, it means you haven’t done enough yoga.” 🌟 That says it all. Yoga is not an austere discipline — it is a rendezvous with your own bliss of being alive.

“In our yoga, what matters is: what does it do for me? That’s all it is, an experience between me and me.”

This sentence, dropped in the middle of the practice, changes everything. 🕊️ It frees the practitioner from all performance, from all comparison. There is only you and you. And between the two, infinity.

Then comes a suspended moment: blindfold over the eyes, thumbs hooked behind the back, the body gently tips forward. 🌿 Visual reality disappears. And in this chosen darkness, something else appears — a finer awareness, a listening to the body that daylight usually switches off.

Then comes grounding. A deep Hamsa into the feet, the legs imagined as roots plunging into the earth. Alexandre repeats: “Gratitude for having a territory.” 🌱 Because yes, before being light, you are also a body that occupies the ground, a relative identity that asserts itself, an embodied presence.

The Brazil surrender posture — arms outstretched in a cross, head tilted slightly back — becomes a declaration of cosmic love. “Life, I love you. I surrender to you.” 💖 And as the phrase is repeated, something cracks open in people’s chests. Tears rise. Alexandre welcomes them, always: “Let the tears come, I welcome every emotion.”

Next comes the energy healing for the lower back — hands placed there, spine stretching backward, one of the postures of the Five Tibetans. Conscious love sent to the area that carries so much of our silent weariness.

Then the frog: squatting, back straight, breath of fire. 🔥 Air in, air out. The belly pulses. Three minutes that feel like three centuries — and on coming out of it, the body glows.

The Elixir and the Mantra of Total Awareness

After the standing postures, the practice tips into its most intimate dimension: the elixir. 🍵 Everyone takes their cup of chai. Each places their own individual sound into it. The drink is infused with mantras. And there, in that living silence, Alexandre offers a deeply moving transmission.

A brand-new mantra moves through the room: “I have no need for an unconscious. I am conscious of everything.” 💫 And as it is repeated, tears burst out all around. Alexandre explains: “It’s an alignment with the absolute. Because the absolute, of course, is conscious of everything. And it’s identification and identity — which is not a problem in the relative — that creates that blind spot, that shadow zone.”

“I am already loved. Just as I am. For I am already perfect. I honor and celebrate my perfection. I fully own my genius.”

These sentences, spoken aloud, are gentle detonations. 🌅 They awaken places we had learned to lull to sleep. How often have we been led to believe that love must be earned? That perfection is won through effort? Alexandre turns it all upside down: you already are. There is nothing to conquer, only to realize.

Then comes the ho’oponopono addressed to the physical body: “To my physical body, I love you. I am sorry for everything that has happened. Forgive me, I forgive you everything, and I forgive myself everything, and I start again from zero.” 🙏 And then the same ritual, this time addressed to oneself, to everything one is. Total forgiveness. A complete renewal.

The Cosmic Clown Takes the Stage

Then comes the turning point of the session. 🦋 Lying on the floor, strap in hand, one leg rises to vertical. The back of the thigh stretches. And there, something unexpected arrives: laughter. Not polite laughter. Laughter rising from the belly, laughter that Alexandre tenderly calls the “torment of laughter”, the “cosmic clown”.

“I surrender so completely that I disappear, and maybe it will just laugh all by itself. If you do yoga every day, at some point the cosmic clown is going to show up.”

It is a revelation. 🌟 Yoga Anatman is not a discipline that manufactures spiritual seriousness — on the contrary, it sets free the inner child, the playful being, the sacred that delights in itself. Alexandre then invites everyone to repeat: “I associate bliss with stretching.” Two things we would never have thought to marry. And yet, in the body, it becomes blindingly obvious.

The mantras follow one after another, carried by the wave: “I fully own my sensuality. I fully own my voluptuousness. I fully own the sacred woman I am. I dare. I dare to be what I am. I am wonderful. I am brilliant. I am irresistible.” 💞 And each repeated phrase is a layer of conditioning falling away. A permission restored. A royalty reclaimed.

Conscious Walking and Chance Hugs

The session closes with an unusual practice: conscious walking, blindfolded. 🌿 The mats are put away in silence so as not to switch the mind back on. Each person goes to stand flat against a wall or a window — shoulder blades back, head high, suspended from the crown. Alexandre says: “I memorize this posture.” And this memorization becomes the gift: the more you practice, the more your spine straightens on its own — in daily life, at the supermarket checkout, on the subway, everywhere.

Then comes the invitation: “Walk.” A single word. And the body walks all by itself, forward, backward — Alexandre points out that walking backward creates incredible bliss. And if chance leads you to someone? A hug. A whispered “I love you”. Eyes blindfolded, no need to know who it is. Just heart to heart. 🤍

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Upward Stretch with Arms Raised — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and firmly grounded, inhale slowly through the nose as the hands rise toward the sky, palms facing each other. The spine lengthens, the shoulder blades stretch, the head stays suspended from the crown.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the intercostal muscles, releases tension in the shoulders and upper back, opens the rib cage and makes for a fuller breath.

🧘 Rising onto the Toes — standing Padangusthasana
The posture: Arms still raised, rise gradually onto the balls of the feet. Calves, thighs, abs and glutes engage, the gaze fixed on a point ahead for balance.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves, ankles and abdominal core, improves balance and proprioception, boosts venous circulation in the legs.

🧘 Backbend with Thumbs Hooked — variation of Ardha Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, hands behind the back, thumbs hooked, an inhalation that opens the chest and a gentle tilt of the head and upper back backward, without forcing.
Benefits for the body: Opens the shoulders and chest muscles, stretches the throat and the front of the body, relieves the fatigue of prolonged slouching.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From upright, the hands rise and then the head slowly descends, torso toward the thighs, knees slightly bent at first. The hands reach for the floor, then the legs gradually straighten.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, the calves and the entire posterior chain, decompresses the spine, soothes the nervous system.

🧘 Standing Side Bend — standing Parsva Konasana
The posture: One arm raised, a side bend drawing the spine toward the opposite side, the inner foot lifting slightly, then the elbow rises and massages the back of the neck.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides of the body, the obliques and the quadratus lumborum, makes the ribs more supple, releases neck tension.

🧘 Head and Chin Circles — Anatman cervical movement
The posture: Head tilted back to the left, then wide, generous circles with the chin, the whole body following the movement.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the seven cervical vertebrae, loosens the trapezius muscles, releases tension in the neck and upper shoulders, promotes drainage.

🧘 Energy Healing for the Lower Back — Five Tibetans variation
The posture: Standing, hands pressed against the lower back, spine gently stretching backward, deep breathing, an intention of love sent to the lumbar area.
Benefits for the body: Decompresses the lumbar spine, loosens the lower back, stimulates the energy of the vital center, eases stiffness from prolonged sitting.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman pelvic movement
The posture: Standing, feet grounded, hands free, wide, generous circles of the pelvis in one direction and then the other, three rotations per cycle.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the hips and sacrum, releases blockages in the pelvis, improves lumbar mobility, stimulates circulation in the lower pelvis.

🧘 Squatting Frog — Malasana
The posture: Squatting, heels on the floor if possible, back and head nice and straight, gaze forward, practiced here with the breath of fire (Kapalabhati).
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, makes the ankles more supple, strengthens the pelvic floor; Kapalabhati tones the diaphragm and clears the airways.

🧘 Push-ups on the Floor — Chaturanga variation
The posture: Lying on the belly, hands under the shoulders, push through the arms to lift the body in one line, then lower with control.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the arms, chest, shoulders and abdominal core, tones overall posture.

🧘 Resting on the Belly — Makrasana
The posture: Lying on the belly, head resting on the mat, arms relaxed alongside the body, slow, deep breathing.
Benefits for the body: Fully rests the back and shoulders, calms the nervous system, aids digestion.

🧘 Leg with a Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed firmly to the floor, a strap around the sole of the foot, the leg rises to vertical at a right angle. The forearms pull on the strap, the neck stays relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Intensely stretches the hamstrings, the calves and the sciatic nerve, loosens the hips, relieves lower-back tension.

🧘 Knees to Chest — Apanasana
The posture: Lying on the back, knees drawn in toward the chest, hands holding the feet, back rounded on the floor, the back of the neck resting well.
Benefits for the body: Massages the abdominal organs, decompresses the lumbar spine, relieves bloating, soothes the back after the stretches.

🧘 Standing Against a Wall — supported Tadasana
The posture: Standing, back and shoulder blades pressed against a wall or a window, head held high, suspended from the crown, feet firmly grounded.
Benefits for the body: Retrains posture, corrects imbalances in the spine, strengthens awareness of alignment, imprints verticality into the body’s memory.

🧘 Blindfolded Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, blindfolded, awareness in the arches of the feet, slow walking forward or backward, hugs whenever chance encounters happen.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception and balance, refines awareness of how you bear your weight, loosens the posterior chain (walking backward), releases emotions.

If you are not completely filled with bliss and pleasure, it means you haven’t done enough yoga.

I have no need for an unconscious. I am conscious of everything.

I dare to be what I am. I am wonderful, I am brilliant, I am irresistible.

Voices from the We

Hearts Greeting One Another

From the very first minutes, hearts showed up for the gathering. The chat turned into a tender vigil, a circle of luminous greetings.

• “Hi tribe, I love you ❤️” — Shakti Anne
• “Such amazing guidance” — Shakti Anne
• “Hi ❤️‍🔥” — Préma
• “Hi 💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “Hello💞 🙏 Welcome” — MaHA

Presence from Afar

Even separated by miles, some found a way to be there. Valérie, writing from Rennes, sent a message that touched the whole tribe — a presence proving that this yoga knows no borders.

“Hello everyone, sending you all my love. I’m in Rennes on a 30-minute break, have a lovely day and a good yoga session, big hugs, I love you ❤️” — Valérie

“Thank you again for this beautiful retreat” — Valérie

Closing Gratitude

At the end of the practice, simple words were enough. Nothing to add — just gratitude flowing around.

• “Have a wonderful day” — Rafaël
• “Have a beautiful, gentle day! Dear tribe, I love you ❤️” — Shakti Anne
• “❤️‍🔥🥰” — Préma
• “Thank you” — francis
• “Have a good day…” — Rafaël

Themes: surrender · cosmic clown · elixir · forgiveness · awareness · permission · sacred laughter · gratitude

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’autoriser à rire, à aimer, à être soi

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 21, 2026, a morning when the breath learned to slow down, when tears found their way, when the mind gave way to life itself.

There are mornings when you sit down on the mat and feel, from the very first moments, that something is about to open. 🌅 On this October 21, the air carried that particular quality, that tenderness which comes before the great inner transformations.

The arches of the feet settle. The eyes close behind the blindfold. And already, in the inhabited silence of the We, a vibration ✨ begins to rise. As if the whole group were becoming a single breath, a single presence.

Then Alexandre spoke the word. A simple word, almost ordinary, and yet it was about to change everything. Slow down. 🌿

When Life Becomes the Yoga

Have you ever realized, in the middle of a breath, that you had spent years living beside your life? That programs, automatic reflexes and habits had spoken in your place, eaten in your place, loved in your place?

That was the realization 💫 that swept through the room that morning. A gentle, overwhelming truth: I can live a thousand times more by truly being here.

And something in us wept. Not from sadness. From gratitude. 🤍 As if the whole being were finally saying yes to its own existence.

The Morning’s Teaching

The shared elixir — that steaming chai served in the cup — is not just a drink. 🍵 It is a threshold. A moment when the group slows down together, breathes together, and something sacred settles in.

Alexandre reminded us this morning that each day, a realization ✨ comes to enrich what he calls the Theory of the Creation of Reality. Our human lives, he says, are the sum of our realizations. Everything we understand each day about what we are, about this great video game we call existence, shapes the texture of our days.

And the morning’s realization was overwhelming in its simplicity.

“In the end, I won’t be doing yoga every morning anymore. My life will be the yoga.”

Can you feel what this opens up? Yoga stops being one practice among others. It becomes the very texture 🌿 of being alive: eating consciously, breathing consciously, inhabiting the body consciously, welcoming every emotion consciously.

Alexandre also touched on the delicate subject of the unconscious. The unconscious, he realized live this morning, does not exist the way we’ve been told. It is our automatic patterns, the habits piled up since childhood, that live and speak in our place. 💫

But I can, consciously, go and look at all of it. Open everything up. And choose anew. This is the essence of Yoga Anatman: not fighting our programs, but looking at them until they become transparent again.

And then the key dropped, like an obvious truth hidden for far too long: slow down. 🕊️ If I slow down, I have time to feel my emotions, my bodily sensations, to truly live what is happening. Rather than living in a virtual world of the mind, I live in life itself — the emotions and the body.

The second great transmission of the morning was about the We. 💖 Since each of us creates our own reality, and since we are together, we create a shared reality. Every person around us is a mirror. They reflect something of us.

“Why did I create all these people in my life? To reflect something of myself.”

Then Alexandre had us recite this powerful mantra: I love you, you are beautiful, I welcome you just as you are while respecting my limits, without letting myself be overwhelmed. I’m sorry, please forgive me, I forgive you everything, I forgive myself everything. We are innocent. Everything is forgiven. I start again from zero. 🤍

Ho’oponopono revisited, rooted in the Non-Self. The promise of an infinite new beginning.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

From the very first minutes, Alexandre invites us to surrender to the sound. 🎵 An altered state of consciousness sets in, the blindfold rests over the eyes, and already the room vibrates with a special quality. No performance. No effort. Just this opening: being here.

The session opens with the arches of the feet. Feeling the soles of the feet, sensing the grounding, then raising the element of air. The arms rise, the lower back stretches, the body becomes suspended. The calves contract, then the thighs, the glutes, the abs — the whole body becomes completely stiff, completely stiff, the better to let go afterwards in a wave of surrender. ✨

And then comes the first mantra, repeated like an offering: “I release in love”. I release everything that keeps me from being here. I release everything that keeps me from feeling my bodily sensations. Each sentence is a door swinging open. 🌱

“I release in love everything that keeps me from being here.”

The forward bend arrives, hands toward the floor, knees bent at first, then legs gradually straightening. The right angle takes shape. The back pushes, the hands anchor. And on the exhale — that letting go so characteristic of Yoga Anatman — the practitioner disappears. There is only the breath doing the yoga.

Alexandre then guides chin circles to free the throat chakra. 🕊️ A deep OM rises from the belly. The neck stretches, the lower back too, and awareness observes what it feels like. How do I feel? What am I sensing? Each question is an invitation to inhabit the body a little more deeply.

Then the posture of surrender: arms outstretched, head tilted slightly back, and this sacred 💖 spoken declaration: to life, I love you, I surrender to you. To love, I love you. To my soul, to being, I love you. To the universe, I love you. A great OM of love for this video game we call existence.

“Gratitude for this great video game, gratitude.”

Next comes one of the 5 Tibetan Rites: hands on the lower back, the spine arching backward, love sent through the hands on the exhale. Everyone adapts. Nothing is forced. What matters is not the range of motion — it is presence in the stretch. ✨

Pelvic circles follow, bigger and bigger, one way and then the other. The little crouching frog welcomes the breath of fire 🔥. Air in, air out, the belly at work. Then sitting, resting, and once again that mantra returning like a gentle tide: I release in love everything that keeps me from feeling all my emotions.

The plank is prepared. For those who can, the pelvis rises, the head tilts back, and the breath of fire joins the movement. For the others, the intermediate posture is enough — spine leaning back, head soft. No hierarchy. Just bodies listening to themselves. 🌿

Back to a seated position, soles of the feet touching: the butterfly. 🦋 The knees sway, rise, fall. And in this childlike rocking, something in us remembers the time before the wounds. Before the programs.

After the elixir — that sacred moment of shared chai — comes the great floor sequence. The right leg rises with the strap, lower back pressed down, neck relaxed. And here Alexandre introduces an unexpected mantra: “I combine pleasure and stretching”. 💫 If laughter comes, let it laugh. If moans come, let them come. The body gives itself permission. I allow myself to express my pleasure. I allow myself every form of expression.

“I release in love all the childhood systems of castration that castrated my expression in all its forms.”

Tears flow. A lot of them, this time. Alexandre himself weeps, and the invitation is clear: let the tears come, I welcome all emotions. 🤍 The left leg rises in turn, and an initiation moves through the room: tantric mistress, tantra master. Gratitude. I own my sensuality, I own it.

The knees come up toward the chest. The hands stretch the toes, one by one. The senses grow sharper. Everything becomes clearer, more present, more alive.

Finally, standing, blindfold still over the eyes, each person finds a wall. We press our backs against it. We memorize the position: back nice and straight, head suspended by an invisible thread from the crown of the skull. Then Alexandre speaks the word: walk. And the walking happens all by itself. 🌱 The heel, the arch, the toes. We meet someone, we share a hug. We walk backward, we feel the temperature of the floor, every millimeter of skin in contact with life. This is the preparation for conscious walking in the forest.

The session closes with an observation: I am the observer. The eyes open, but awareness stays in the feet. Nothing has changed — and yet everything is different.

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Vertical rise onto the arches of the feet — Tadasana variation
The posture: standing, feet parallel, Alexandre guides the rise onto the tiptoes, the arms lift above the head, gaze straight ahead, the whole body contracts — calves, thighs, glutes, abs — then releases on the exhale in a wave of surrender.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the calves and arches of the feet, improves postural balance, stretches the spine and releases tension in the lower back.

🧘 Standing forward bend — Uttanasana
The posture: thumbs hooked together behind the back, Alexandre first invites a slight backward stretch, then a forward bend, hands descending toward the floor, knees bent if needed, then legs gradually straightening while pushing on the hands.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the backs of the legs and the lower back, decompresses the spine, promotes blood flow to the head.

🧘 Right angle with hands on knees — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: in a half forward bend, hands resting on the knees, back horizontal, head in line, Alexandre guides deep inhales and exhales.
Benefits for the body: lengthens the spine, strengthens the deep back muscles, prepares the hamstrings for deeper stretches.

🧘 Standing side stretch — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: standing, arms raised, Alexandre guides the lean to the left and then to the right, the opposite side stretching long, the pelvis staying stable, the breath full.
Benefits for the body: stretches the sides of the torso, opens the rib cage, makes the spine more supple laterally, improves breathing.

🧘 Chin circles — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, the chin draws wide circles, the right heel lifts, the whole body follows the movement, one way and then the other.
Benefits for the body: releases neck tension, loosens the trapezius muscles, decongests the throat, stimulates the throat chakra.

🧘 Arms extended out to the sides — standing Virabhadrasana II variation
The posture: arms perfectly horizontal, hands pushing invisible mountains to the right and left, upright stance maintained, held for several seconds.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the shoulders and trapezius muscles, improves posture, builds muscular endurance in the upper limbs.

🧘 Posture of surrender with arms back — Ardha Chandrasana variation
The posture: arms raised and then carried backward, head tilted slightly back, chest open to the sky, full breathing.
Benefits for the body: opens the heart and solar plexus, stretches the pectoral muscles, frees the rib cage, encourages deep breathing.

🧘 The first Tibetan Rite — movement from the 5 Tibetan Rites
The posture: hands on the lower back, the spine gently arching backward, a deep inhale, then a very slow return to vertical, starting from the lower back.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the spine, stretches the psoas, stimulates the flow of energy, revitalizes the glandular system.

🧘 Pelvic circles — Anatman movement
The posture: knees slightly bent, back straight, the pelvis draws circles that gradually grow wider, one way and then the other.
Benefits for the body: loosens the hips and pelvis, mobilizes the lumbar spine, releases digestive tension, activates sacral energy.

🧘 Crouching frog — Malasana
The posture: squatting, feet flat on the floor, back straight, head upright, Alexandre guides the breath of fire — short, powerful exhales from the belly.
Benefits for the body: deeply opens the hips, stretches the ankles, tones the pelvic floor, stimulates the digestive fire.

🧘 Reverse plank — Purvottanasana
The posture: seated, hands behind, the pelvis lifting continuously, the head gently tilting back, breath of fire. An intermediate version is offered for those who prefer it.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the arms, shoulders and posterior muscles, opens the chest, stretches the psoas and the front of the body.

🧘 Butterfly — Baddha Konasana
The posture: seated, soles of the feet touching, back straight, suspended from the crown of the head, the knees gently swaying up and down.
Benefits for the body: opens the hips, makes the inner thighs more supple, stimulates pelvic circulation, eases lower-back tension.

🧘 Leg stretched to the sky with strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: lying on the back, lower back pressed to the floor, neck relaxed, one leg extended vertically, the other stretched out on the floor, strap around the foot, the forearms gently pulling to deepen the stretch. Same movement on the other side.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the hamstrings and calves, lengthens the lower back, loosens the hips, relieves sciatica.

🧘 Knees to chest — Apanasana
The posture: lying down, both knees drawn up against the chest, hands wrapped around the shins, breathing full and calm.
Benefits for the body: gently stretches the lower back, massages the digestive organs, calms the nervous system, encourages deep relaxation.

🧘 Conscious walking — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, back suspended by a thread from the crown of the head, barefoot, the heel lands first, then the arch, then the toes. Walking forward or backward, eyes closed and then open.
Benefits for the body: awakens proprioception, strengthens balance, refines awareness of the soles of the feet, brings the practice into everyday life.

In the end, I won’t be doing yoga every morning anymore. My life will be the yoga.

Maybe I could live a thousand times more by truly being here.

Why did I create all these people in my life? To reflect something of myself.

Voices from the We

Hearts Opening 💖

“Have a beautiful, gentle day! Dear tribe, I love you ❤️” — Shakti Anne

These simple words hold all the tenderness ✨ of the Anatman We. A tribe that recognizes itself, names itself, and loves itself beyond the screens.

Inner Fires 🔥

• “❤️‍🔥🥰” — Préma

Sometimes words overflow and only symbols remain standing. A heart on fire, a moved smile — everything has been said.

Gratitude and Goodbyes 🙏

“❤️🙏 have a good day, everyone, I have to leave, could you send me the link again so I can do it again, thank you so much, I love you ♥️♥️” — Valérie

• “thank you” — francis
• “have a good day….” — Rafaël

These little phrases whispered at the end of the session are the golden threads 🌟 that connect our hearts as the mats are rolled up and the day begins.

Themes: slowing down · awareness · presence · Non-Self · unconscious · We · gratitude · realization

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Ralentir pour devenir la vie

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 16, 2026, a morning when verticality became the teaching, when every posture became a doorway back to yourself.

There are mornings when you stand, simply stand, and that ordinary gesture becomes a revelation. 🌅 There you are, feet rooted, the crown of your head suspended from an invisible thread, and suddenly something aligns. Not just the body. Something deeper.

On this morning of October 16, the session opened in Olympic form, carried by the cumulative effect of a whole week of practice. And then, at the heart of a living silence, a sentence dropped in with complete clarity: I create my own practice. ✨

A paradigm shift. The end of the era of copying the master. The beginning of the era of being inspired, of daring, of choosing. Alexandre said it with that gentleness that never wavers: I came here to decide.

From Copying to Inspiration

For a long time, we learned to obey. 🕊️ Society wanted to standardize us, to make us identical, interchangeable. We copied other people’s paintings, their music, their postures, their lives. And then one morning, something turns around.

That morning was this one. A morning when you understand that the teacher is no longer a model to imitate, but a muse, a source of inspiration who gives you back to yourself. 💫 Can you hear the difference? Copying impoverishes. Being inspired enriches.

So here is the question that will run through this entire session, like a golden thread stretched between the postures and the mantras: would you dare to create your own practice, suited to your body, your age, your flexibility, to who you truly are?

The Morning’s Teaching

At the heart of the morning elixir, Alexandre offered a teaching that changes everything: you are the resource life for all your other lives. ✨ This sentence, spoken softly between two sips of chai, is a silent revolution.

According to this teaching, there are parallel lives that may be going through difficult things. Parts of you suffering on other planes, in other dreams, other existences. The point is not to ignore them, but to remain steady in this one, without being swayed, so as to become a luminous source that shines out across the dimensions. 🌟

Hence the expanded practice of Ho’oponopono: to all those other selves in my parallel lives, I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, I forgive you everything. And also: to all my suffering parts, I welcome you into my heart, into my love. 💞

Then comes the powerful mantra: I create a space of love within me, to welcome everything, to bring peace to everything, in all my lives. The space of love is not a metaphor. It is an inner architecture you build with every practice. 🕊️

The elixir’s second revelation: the end of the copying paradigm. 🦋 You no longer have to copy teachers, instructors, perfect postures. You are the creator, the author. In the beginning, yes, we copy in order to learn, the way you reproduce a painting to grasp the brushstroke. But at some point, you create your own practice.

You adapt it to your body, your flexibility, your age, your abilities. From all the spiritual journeys, you choose what nourishes you: the chime, conscious walking, the mantra. It’s a buffet, I choose what I like. 🌱

And finally, the central teaching: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. The being, the soul, expresses itself. It puts its intentions into words. I dare to express myself, I express everything I want, and I let the universe do the rest. 💫 The coders of reality take care of the technical details, like a cosmic AI agent at your service.

It is no longer programs that decide for you. It is your heart. It is I am the one, she and he, who chooses, I am. ✨ Alignment with the one who decides: that is the deep purpose of Yoga Anatman.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

From the very first seconds, a mantra falls like a seed into the soft soil of the morning: I surrender to the inner yogi. 🌱 This inner yogi is the guide who never leaves you, the ancient knowledge lodged in your cells. To surrender to it is to stop forcing, to welcome what is already there.

Then comes the sacred triad, repeated like a heartbeat: gratitude for being peace, gratitude for welcoming all bodily sensations, gratitude for living all emotions. 🙏 Three gratitudes, three doorways, three ways of saying yes to the moment.

Massaging the cheeks and jaw opens the body. The hands rise, slowly, and already it is a revelation: what Olympic form, says Alexandre, amazed by the cumulative effect of the whole week of practice. 💫 Yes, yoga adds up. Each morning lays down another layer of light within you.

Verticality becomes the common thread. You are suspended from the crown of your head, glutes engaged, abs drawn in, and you rise, rise, rise onto the tips of your toes. I combine pleasure and stretching, Alexandre murmurs. 🦋 And it’s true: there is something deeply blissful in a conscious stretch, a cellular celebration.

“I vibrate peace, love and joy. Say it with me: I vibrate.”

The heart opens. Tears rise. 💞 Tears are coming, I welcome the emotions, let them flow. There is no practice without these tears, which are neither sadness nor joy, but simply life finally flowing freely through a body that is opening.

Next comes the lateral work. The right arm rises, the left hand massages the neck, the nape, the back of the head, tenderly, with small circular movements of the thumb. 🌿 Then the other side. And already, tensions held for days begin to melt away.

Large circles with the chin, back rounded on the way down, maximum stretch on the way up. The pelvis, the hips, everything wakes up. I love you, life, I love you. 🌟 A declaration of love whispered while the body dances.

Then the pivotal moment: arms spread wide, fingers apart, the posture of surrender to life. Alexandre says: this is my life, this is my very own life. And he adds this moving sentence: I’m starting over from zero this morning. 🌅 Every morning, a fresh start. Every morning, the sacred permission to begin again.

The hands come to rest on the lower back and suddenly become healers’ hands. I rediscover my healing hands, I rediscover them. 💖 You have nothing to learn: you have to remember.

Cow and cat on all fours come earlier than usual. A gentle alternation between stretching the lower back and rounding the back as the belly draws in. Optional: progressive push-ups for those who feel the momentum, one a day, two a day, alternating with mountain pose to breathe. 🌱 Each at their own pace, each according to their body.

“Every day, we free ourselves from everything that was not truly chosen.”

The Elixir and the Liberation of Parallel Lives

Seated, a cup of chai in hand, the elixir part of the session begins. ✨ And there, something profound settles in. An emotion is a signal, says Alexandre, an echo from the universe in response to events, to realizations. Emotion is not an enemy: it is a messenger.

Then comes a rare teaching: releasing the dreams and nightmares of the night, and beyond that, practicing Ho’oponopono with parallel lives. 🕊️ To all those other selves in my parallel lives, I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, I forgive you everything. Tears flow. Something settles into peace across the dimensions.

And this luminous revelation: gratitude for being a resource life for all my other lives. 💫 You are not alone in this existence. What you resolve here, now, in this body, creates vibrational keys that help all your other lives. You are a lighthouse for yourself, across the planes.

The pain-bodies, as Eckhart Tolle called them, show up and are released. No force. No willpower. Just presence that welcomes. 💞 And the more you welcome, the more you become peace. Peace equals welcoming everything.

Then comes the initiation into infinite courage. 🌟 Yes, it takes courage to feel, to cry, to let yourself be moved through. Gratitude for finding the strength within. Gratitude for being stronger than you think. The invincibility of the heart cannot be decreed: it reveals itself.

“I came here to decide. I am sovereign. I decide.”

Conscious Walking and the Ultimate Letting Go

After the elixir, the practice shifts into conscious walking. 🌿 Back pressed against a wall or a glass door, shoulders aligned, head held straight. Memorize this posture in the body. Then step away from the wall and walk, keeping the thread suspended above your head.

At first you walk with your eyes closed, a blindfold over your eyelids. Then, on three, the eyes open, but the body keeps walking all by itself. 🦋 I set an intention, to go straight ahead for example, and all I have to do is observe. Life takes care of everything. You become a kindly spectator of your own existence.

This is the concrete application of the Theory of the Creation of Reality: you put your intention into words, you express it, and you let the universe handle the technical details, like a cosmic AI agent. 💖 You don’t have to control everything. You have to choose, to dare, to let yourself be carried.

The Session’s Postures

🧘 Suspended Mountain — Tadasana
The posture: standing, feet parallel and firmly grounded, calves, thighs and glutes engaged, abs drawn in. The arms rise toward the sky, hands above the shoulders, then up onto the tips of the toes, the crown of the head suspended by an invisible thread, gaze straight ahead.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the legs and the deep back muscles, improves spinal alignment, develops balance and grounding.

🧘 Backbend with Hooked Thumbs — Anuvittasana variation
The posture: standing, thumbs hooked together behind the back, the spine bends gently backward, without forcing, without pain. Then return to upright, blindfold over the eyes to turn inward.
Benefits for the body: opens the chest and solar plexus, stretches the shoulders and pectorals, encourages deep breathing.

🧘 Standing Forward Fold — Uttanasana
The posture: from upright, the torso slowly lowers toward the thighs, head toward the floor, hands drop to the floor and gradually press to straighten the legs as far as possible. Then a right angle, hands on the knees, back horizontal.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the hamstrings and lower back, calms the nervous system, promotes circulation to the head.

🧘 Side Bends — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: one arm rises vertically, the body leans to the opposite side, the heel on the side of the raised arm lifts, the other hand tenderly massages the nape, the neck and the back of the head with circular movements of the thumb.
Benefits for the body: stretches the sides, shoulder blades and trapezius, releases neck tension, makes the spine more supple laterally.

🧘 Chin Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, the chin traces large, slow circles, starting to the left and back, then down with the back rounded forward, then to the right, then back. Change direction regularly.
Benefits for the body: loosens the cervical spine, mobilizes the pelvis and hips, stretches the entire lower back.

🧘 Posture of Surrender to Life — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, arms spread horizontally, fingers wide apart, body leaning slightly back, palms open to the sky. A posture of total welcome.
Benefits for the body: fully opens the chest and heart, stretches the pectoral muscles and shoulders, encourages expansive breathing.

🧘 Cow — Bitilasana
The posture: on all fours, hands under the shoulders, knees under the hips, the buttocks move back, the lower back lengthens, the head lifts and the gaze moves forward.
Benefits for the body: stretches the spine, makes the lower back more supple, opens the chest and stimulates abdominal breathing.

🧘 Cat — Marjariasana
The posture: on all fours, the back rounds toward the sky, the belly draws deeply in, the head drops toward the chest, all the air is exhaled.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the deep back muscles, makes the spine more supple, massages the digestive organs.

🧘 Plank and Push-ups — Chaturanga Dandasana
The posture: optional, from all fours or plank, gradually bend the elbows toward the floor, then extend. Alternate freely with mountain pose to breathe.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the arms, shoulders, pectorals and core, develops trunk stability.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, first pressed against a wall to memorize the shoulder-back-head alignment, then walking freely while keeping the invisible thread that suspends the crown of the head, eyes closed then open; the body walks on its own while awareness observes.
Benefits for the body: strengthens grounding and upright posture, improves proprioception, calms the nervous system through conscious movement.

I vibrate peace, love and joy. Say it with me: I vibrate.

I came here to decide. I am sovereign. I decide.

Every day, we free ourselves from everything that was not truly chosen.

Themes: verticality · parallel lives · ho’oponopono · creating your own practice · sovereignty · elixir · conscious walking · surrender

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Oser créer sa propre pratique

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 15, 2026, a morning suspended between the verticality of the body and the sheer gift of laughter.

There are mornings when the mat becomes a portal. ✨ You arrive with eyes still misty, your back heavy with the night’s dreams, and then — in three breaths — everything shifts. The sound of the bell. The silence. The presence.

That morning, many of us gathered around the breath: Valérie, Cathy, Isabelle, François, Guillaume, Alexis, Lilit, Prema, Bernard, Francis, MaHA, Marie-Noël, Sandrine… 🌿 Each in our own home, and yet together, woven by the same vibration.

And at the heart of the practice, one sentence rose up as something self-evident. A sentence that could change everything about the way you inhabit your life. 🦋

The Secret of the Coders of Reality

Imagine for a moment that you no longer had anything to force. That your only role was to set the intention, and that the universe — or what we call here the “coders of reality” — took care of all the rest. 💫

Too good to be true? And yet that is exactly what is lived in the altered state of consciousness this yoga brings about. A kind of radical trust in what is.

This morning, the teaching revolved around that very door. How do you cross the threshold? How do you dare to let go of the mind’s machinery and let being act? Follow me, I’ll take you there. 🙏

The Morning’s Teaching

In this session there was a moment when everything condensed into a single sentence. A moment when Alexandre, standing in the middle of the conscious walk, let fall these words that changed the whole atmosphere:

“All you have to do is give the initial intention, and everything happens by itself.”

You read that right. Everything happens by itself. ✨ Not everything is forced. Not everything is controlled. Not everything wears itself out. Everything happens, in the grammar of the middle voice, the grammar of letting be.

The Coders of Reality

Alexandre named these invisible forces the “coders of reality”. 💫 It’s a powerful image. Imagine that reality is a vast program — not cold and mechanical, but alive, loving, attentive. Every time you set a clear intention, the coders get to work. They orchestrate the encounters, the synchronicities, the openings.

Your role? Set the intention. Then welcome. 🌱 No longer step in with the anxious mind that wants to control everything, anticipate everything, earn everything.

The Elixir, Living Matrix of Intention

That is why the elixir ceremony took on such depth this morning. ☕ Preparing a hot drink, infusing it with mantras, drinking it consciously — this is programming the day. It is inscribing the day’s intention into the body, into the water, into every cell.

Alexandre offered several mantras to pour into the elixir: “With love, I release everything that keeps me from being here and now”, “I choose peace, joy and love”, “I am loved, I accept being loved, I deserve to be loved, I love being loved, I am love.” 💞

Each sip then becomes a consecration. The elixir is not just a drink — it is a living matrix in which intention takes shape.

Three Concrete Examples

Alexandre was very clear, very down to earth. Three examples:

👉 Bringing a sweetheart into your life. You set the intention. You don’t badger the dating apps. You don’t force anything. The coders take care of everything.

👉 Creating a professional activity. You set a clear intention for the work that truly reflects who you are. Then you welcome the signs, the encounters, the opportunities.

👉 Selling a house. You send out the intention. You express it. And the coders of reality bring along the right buyer.

A Word of Warning — the Addictive Side of the Practice

But Alexandre also slipped in a precious warning. 🕊️ There is an addictive side to this practice. When there’s nothing left in your head, it’s so restful that everything runs by itself. But since there’s no one left, there’s also no one left to stop.

Hence the need to bring the identity back at the end of the session. To stay functional in the world. To honor both dimensions: the meditative Non-Self AND the embodied I who lives their life, keeps their appointments, loves their friends. 🌟

This is the subtle balance of the contemporary yogi: being non-localized in consciousness, and fully present in everyday life.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

Everything begins with the feet. Always. 🌱 The invitation is simple: breathe in, feel the arch of the foot, and let yourself be suspended from the crown of your head like a cosmic puppet tied to the sky. This morning, Alexandre recalled yesterday’s body memory — back against the wall, perfect verticality — and asked us to summon it, here, now.

The hands rise. The arms rise. The lower back stretches and something is already laughing. “The bliss of stretching first thing in the morning,” breathes the voice. And already, in the group, you can feel the tears welling up, the laughter bursting out, the emotions flowing. 💞

Then comes the first grounding mantra, chanted up on tiptoe, the whole body reaching upward:

“I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.”

And in this surrender there is no giving up. On the contrary, there is an active yielding, a full yes, a whole-body yes. 🕊️ This is where the subtle work begins: contracting the thighs, the calves, the buttocks, the abs — the whole body lights up like a conscious string of fairy lights.

The Mantra That Sets You Free

At the heart of the session, one mantra returned again and again, like a breath of the soul:

“With love, I release everything that keeps me from being here and now.”

Each time it resounds, something dissolves. The old voices. The programs that whisper you are not loved, you will be rejected, you must isolate yourself. All those invisible mechanisms that steer our days without our knowing. 🌟

Alexandre insisted: “With love, I release all the programs that want to decide for me.” This is not a fight. It is a transmutation through light. You don’t battle the shadows; you light the candle. 🕯️

Allowing — the Sacred Verb of the Morning

Then came the posture of surrender to life, arms out wide, then hands behind, chest offered to the sky. And a litany, at once gentle and wild, swept through the space:

I allow myself life. I allow myself joy. I allow myself pleasure. I allow myself orgasms. I allow myself ecstasy. I allow myself euphoria. I allow myself fun.

Every “I allow myself” is a door swinging open. 🚪 How many times in your life have you waited for someone else’s permission to fully exist? This morning, the permission comes from within. It returns to you.

And then, in the same momentum, hands on the lower back for an energy healing — sending love to where it pulls, to where it asks. Such a simple gesture, and yet so rare. 💖

Pelvic Circles and the Frog

Next comes the dance of the pelvis. Very gentle circles, then wider and wider, one way, then the other. “I feel good in my feet, good in my pelvis, and it turns,” guides the voice. 🌀 The center of gravity awakens, the sacrum loosens, the hips open to life.

Then the frog — three minutes, each at their own pace. Some hold it, others switch to push-ups, others sit down. Performance isn’t what matters. What matters is staying present with whatever is happening. 🌿

The Elixir: the Heart of the Session

And then comes that moment unique to Yoga Anatman — the elixir. Everyone prepares their cup of chai, sits down, and the hot drink becomes a consecration. ☕

Alexandre invited everyone to connect with all their lives as a yogi, in the mountains, in the caves, in forgotten temples. And from there, slowly, the names began to be spoken. One by one. Valérie, Cathy, Isabelle, François, Guillaume, Alexis, Lilit, Prema, Alexandre, Bernard, Francis, MaHA, Marie-Noël, Sandrine… then Kévin, Anaïs, Baptiste, Margot, Chaktiblou.

With each name, an “I love you”. 💞 Online or in person, it made no difference. Tears flowed. So many tears. Because hearing your name spoken means existing. Because receiving a free, unconditional “I love you” is a medicine the world has forgotten.

“Gratitude for contradicting all the programs that say nobody loves me. I am truly loved, even if they don’t like it.”

The Trio of Charlie’s Angels and the Cosmic Clown

And then, suddenly, laughter swept everything away. 🤣 Cathy in fits, Valérie and Isabelle as partners in crime, Lilit joining the round — Alexandre dubbed the group the trio of Charlie’s Angels, a fond wink to a bygone era, and the giggles rippled across the screens.

The cosmic clown had invited himself in. 🎭 The one who burps, who farts, who laughs at everything, who transmutes through wholeheartedly embraced silliness. “Gratitude for being natural. Gratitude for having friends who understand me.”

And here, a precious teaching: laughter is a sacrament. There is nothing more serious than real laughter. 🌟

The Strap, the Legs, the Tantric Goddess

Lying on the floor, we brought out the straps. The right leg rises, perpendicular, the forearms pull — never the neck. The lower back stays pressed to the floor. “I combine bliss and stretching,” the voice repeats. 💫

Then the movement of the hands behind, sitting on the heels, chest offered — the tantric goddess for women, the tantra master for men. The invitation is clear: welcome sensuality, own it, stop being ashamed. 🦋

Then the left leg’s turn. And in that moment, Alexandre shared one of the most deeply moving sentences of the session:

“I let go of everything, I welcome everything. For I am everything. I am non-localized. And of course, I am not.”

The whole philosophy of the Non-Self is condensed right there. 🙏

The Conscious Walk, Blindfolded

Finally, we stood back up. Blindfold over the eyes, back against a wall or a window to memorize the royal posture, and ten minutes of conscious walking. Keeping the verticality, shoulders slightly back, and letting the body walk all by itself. 🚶

Then, on three, eyes open. And the great revelation:

“The feet don’t need the I to walk. The body doesn’t need the I and the me to walk; it walks all by itself. It does yoga all by itself. It eats all by itself. All you have to do is give the initial intention, and everything happens by itself.”

This is the secret of the coders of reality. ✨ You set the intention — a sweetheart, a professional activity, a sale, a friendship — and you let the subtle forces organize themselves. You welcome. You observe. You no longer step in with the anxious mind. And everything happens by itself.

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Extended Mountain — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and firmly rooted in the ground, arches active, head suspended as if by a thread from the crown. The arms rise slowly on the inhale, hands overhead, thumbs hooked. The back stays straight, the shoulder blades stretch upward, and the breath passes through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Lengthens the entire spine, decompresses the lower back, opens the rib cage and improves breathing capacity, stretches the muscles of the sides and shoulders.

🧘 Mountain on Tiptoe — Urdhva Hastasana in Prapadasana
The posture: From Extended Mountain, rise onto your tiptoes, keeping your arms overhead. Engage the calves, thighs, glutes and abs. The gaze stays straight ahead, the back reaching upward.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves and arches, improves balance and proprioception, tones the thighs and core.

🧘 Gentle Backbend — Anuvittasana
The posture: Standing, thumbs hooked above your head, very gently tilt your upper body backward. The movement stays supple, never forced. Then return to an upright position.
Benefits for the body: Opens the chest and solar plexus, stretches the abdominal muscles, makes the thoracic and lumbar spine more supple.

🧘 Standing Forward Fold — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, fold your upper body forward toward your thighs, hands coming to touch the floor. At first the legs may be bent, then you press into your hands to gradually straighten them.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the backs of the thighs (hamstrings) and the calves, decompresses the spine, soothes the nervous system.

🧘 Half Forward Fold — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Hands on the knees, back horizontal, forming a right angle with the legs. On the exhale, you “disappear” into the posture, letting go of everything in the lower back and the backs of the thighs.
Benefits for the body: Lengthens the spine with gentle traction, stretches the hamstrings, strengthens the back muscles.

🧘 Lateral Neck Stretch — Parsva Griva Asana
The posture: Standing with a straight back, tilt your head to the right, then to the left, lifting the crown of your head toward the sky. Awareness stays in both feet and in the stretched neck at the same time.
Benefits for the body: Releases tension in the neck, stretches the upper trapezius, improves circulation to the brain.

🧘 Neck Circles — Griva Chakra
The posture: The chin draws slow circles, first one way, then the other. One foot may lift to engage the whole body. A deep OM accompanies the movement.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes all the cervical vertebrae, unknots tension in the upper back, stimulates the throat chakra.

🧘 Arms Out Wide — Utthita Hastasana
The posture: Standing, arms stretched out horizontally to each side, you push right and left against “invisible walls.” Feet firmly planted on the ground.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the deltoids and the stabilizing muscles of the shoulder blades, opens the chest, improves posture.

🧘 Surrender to Life — Reverse Virabhadrasana variation
The posture: From arms out wide, the hands move behind the body, chest offered to the sky, chin slightly lifted. You feel the heart opening.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the rib cage and the cardiac plexus, stretches the pectoral muscles, improves breathing.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, hands on the hips or free, the pelvis draws slow circles that grow wider, one way and then the other. The feet stay rooted.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the sacroiliac joints and the hips, makes the lumbar spine more supple, stimulates digestion and the vital center.

🧘 Frog — Mandukasana
The posture: Kneeling on the floor, knees spread as wide as possible, ankles in line with the knees, hands or forearms on the floor in front of you. Hold for three minutes.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips and inner thighs, softens the groin, releases tension in the pelvis.

🧘 Leg Stretch with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on your back, lower back pressed to the floor, a strap around the sole of the foot, raise the straight leg to vertical. The forearms pull on the strap, the neck stays relaxed. The other foot presses lightly into its heel.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, mobilizes the hip, relieves lower-back tension, improves venous circulation.

🧘 Seated Backward Stretch on the Heels — Vajrasana variation
The posture: Sitting on your heels, the hands reach behind and draw the body backward, chest offered to the sky. The “tantric goddess” and the “tantra master” fully embrace their sensuality.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage and the heart, stretches the quadriceps and the belly, improves posture.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, back aligned as if against a wall, shoulders slightly back, blindfolded. Walk slowly for ten minutes, listening to the sensations in your body. Then, with eyes open, let the body walk all by itself.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception and balance, strengthens the deep stabilizing muscles, anchors correct posture in the body’s memory.

All you have to do is give the initial intention, and everything happens by itself.

I let go of everything, I welcome everything. For I am everything, I am non-localized.

With love, I release everything that keeps me from being here and now.

Themes: intention · coders of reality · elixir · surrender · love · cosmic clown · conscious walking · mantras

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Poser l’intention et laisser les codeurs du réel faire le reste

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 14, 2026, a morning when something shifted. A morning when silence gave way to laughter, when tears opened the doors to freedom, when every breath became an act of inner revolution.

Picture a room in the early morning ✨. Blindfolds come down over the eyes, the bells ring out, and a momentum builds — that very particular momentum of the We. There is Cathy, Valérie, Isabelle — the divine trio that life placed side by side, as if it could never have been otherwise. There is Guillaume, Préma, Marie, Eric, Francis, Sandrine. And there is you, reading these lines, already invited to the dance.

That morning, Alexandre Anatman had sensed it coming: “I knew what was going to happen when I brought them there. It was written.” 💫 A session that would touch the very heart of what we are: free beings, in a cosmic video game where every expression creates reality.

When the Butterfly Dares to Spread Its Wings

There are mornings when you suddenly realize you have spent years obeying. Fitting the mold. Becoming standardized 🌱. And then one morning, in a yoga studio, something cracks open — gently, lovingly.

That morning of October 14 was one of those mornings. A morning when the mantra “I create my territory” came knocking at the door of the sleepiest cells. A morning when we dared to laugh for no reason, to cry without shame, to exist without permission 🦋.

So breathe. Put on the blindfold. And step with us into a morning that looks strangely like a birth.

The Morning’s Teaching

The heart of this morning fits into one simple, yet bottomless, sentence: “I create my territory. I am my own authority.” The whole of the day’s teaching revolves around these words — an invitation to step out of thousands of years of obedience and into sacred sovereignty 👑.

Alexandre sets the frame right away with the TCR, the Theory of the Creation of Reality. Our physical body is the joystick of a cosmic video game. This is not a playful metaphor — it is a precise spiritual mechanism. “It’s actually this body that is going to order matter, command matter. Through all these bodily expressions — there’s the sacred word, of course, but not only that.” ✨

And this realization widens: animals, cats, dogs, insects — all living beings create their reality through the same mechanism. Bodily expression, positioning, the vibration they give off. Which means: every gesture, every word, every silence sculpts your world.

From this understanding flows the second part of the teaching: the liberation of expression. For thousands of years, systems — patriarchal or matriarchal, family, religious, political — have conditioned beings to obey. To keep quiet. To fit the mold. Alexandre names it with rare courage: “society, families program us, they condition us to obey, really” 🌿.

And he dares the mantra that unties everything: “I lovingly release everything that would have me obey”. Not for the sake of sterile rebellion — for embodied freedom, the kind that allows every being to remain original, unnormalized, unstandardized.

Then comes the love elixir — this chai shared in full awareness, drunk after an individual sound that honors the unique color, fragrance and frequency of each being 🤍. The elixir is not just a drink. It is an act of communion. To drink together is to recognize that each of us is both unique and connected. That the inner revolution is shared cup by cup, breath by breath, laugh by laugh.

Alexandre closes with a prophetic flash: “I realize that maybe my yoga won’t be broadcast in every country in the world. Because obviously, there are systems that don’t allow this kind of mantra.” And right after, he offers: “gratitude for testing all systems, gratitude for stretching all systems” 💫. Yoga Anatman then becomes an act of peace and freedom. A yoga for all those who dare to exist fully.

Finally, the teaching comes full circle with conscious walking and its revelation: the self is a set of automatic systems. Walking, eating, thinking — everything runs on autopilot, programmed since childhood. Becoming an observer of these automatisms is already the beginning of choosing. It is the first gesture of true inner authority 🦋.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The session opens on a striking image: a body rising, rising, rising still 💫. Arms to the sky, abs engaged, glutes engaged, tiptoes lifting the whole vertical line. “Oh wow, what strength, what vitality this morning” — and already the tone is set. This will not be a lukewarm session. It will be a session of gentle fire, where every stretch becomes a prayer and every breath becomes a revolution.

Then comes the first mantra, the one that opens every door: “I welcome all my emotions”. And right away, the tears come. No resistance, no holding back. Alexandre guides: “let it cry, there are lots of emotions here”. In Yoga Anatman, tears are not a drama — they are sacred waters 💧 that wash away buried memories.

Then the second mantra, deeper still: “I surrender to my inner yogi”. This is where the shift happens. You are no longer the one doing the yoga. Something within you is doing the yoga, and you become the observer of this dance 🕊️. It is subtle. It is dizzying. It is the gateway to the Non-Self.

“Feel that you are the observer, and that something is doing yoga. It’s no longer you — it is doing yoga.”

Next comes the great realization of the morning, the one that will flow through the whole session: our physical body is the joystick of a cosmic video game. Alexandre unfolds the TCR — the Theory of the Creation of Reality: “it’s actually this body that is going to order matter, command matter”. Our bodily expressions, our sacred words, our postures — everything creates reality ✨. And this mechanism doesn’t only concern humans: cats, dogs, mammals, insects — all living beings create their reality through this same sacred mechanism.

And this is where the session takes an unexpected turn. Alexandre unlocks a portal few dare to open: the revolution of free expression. “I decide to express myself. I have the right to express myself. I express everything that I am.” The mantras rise, rise, rise — and with them, the tears of all the women and all the men who believed they had to stay silent 🌿.

Then arrives the mantra that shakes the foundations: “I create my territory. I am my own authority.” Isabelle struggles with it — it’s “not natural”, she says. Alexandre answers gently: “lower, in the lower chakras, Isabelle — I create my territory”. Cathy reacts strongly. “What a coincidence, Cathy”, Alexandre whispers knowingly. Because he knows: these words touch the memories of the patriarchal system, thousands of years of women being forbidden to dare to claim their authority, their territory, their divinity 👑.

“I lovingly release everything that wants me to believe that women have no right to a territory and an authority.”

The session then becomes a sacred political act. Alexandre dares to name it: patriarchy, matriarchy, Covid and that turning point when “they put the group before the individual”. And in the face of this, he offers a mantra blazing with light: “gratitude for living in a system where the individual takes priority over the group”. Not for selfishness — for embodied freedom, for preserved originality, so that every being stays original, unnormalized, unstandardized 🌟.

Then comes an unexpected surge, almost mystical: “I create my own inner revolution”. Alexandre hears John Lennon’s Imagine arriving in the room like a messenger. He says: “Anatman, the revolution.” And something releases in the air 🕊️. Gratitude for spreading peace. Gratitude for being a free woman. Gratitude for being a free man.

And that is when the miracle happens. Valérie bursts out laughing. So does Cathy. Isabelle joins in. The divine trio — Charlie’s Angels, as Alexandre calls them — laughs until they cry 💞. Yesterday Valérie cried all day; today she is laughing all day. And Alexandre offers the mantra that seals it all: “I lovingly release everything that keeps me from laughing”. If it laughs, it laughs. If it cries, it cries. If it burps, “it’s going in, that’s the chai” ✨.

Then comes the morning Shaktipat — the love elixir, this sacred chai shared in awareness. A simple act, an immense act. Drinking together, honoring one’s own individuality through a sound, a color, a fragrance, a frequency 🤍.

The session continues with conscious walking, which in turn becomes a revelation. Standing flat against a wall, you memorize the perfect posture — tall and straight, as if suspended by a thread from the crown of the head. Then you walk. Like an emperor, an empress. Like a king, a queen 👑. And there, another dizzying realization: “the self is made up of a set of automatic systems”. Walking, eating, but also thinking. Our childhood beliefs run on autopilot. Seeing them is already the beginning of releasing them 🦋.

“I realize that the I, the self, is made up of a set of automatic systems that were created in childhood.”

Finally, walking backwards — stretching the lower back, the pure delight of a body unfolding. Alexandre exclaims, laughing: “Oh, but this is actually blissful. An orgasmic day.” 💫 Yoga Anatman is not austere — it is embodied celebration, a feast of the senses, an honoring of the body-temple.

The Session’s Postures

🧘 Rising Vertical Stretch — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet grounded, Alexandre guides the arms up toward the sky while engaging the abs and glutes. The body becomes a vertical plank, the heels lift onto tiptoe, the gaze stays straight ahead, fully aware of every sensation.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the lower back and shoulder blades, strengthens the calves, thighs and abdominals, improves overall posture and proprioceptive balance.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, Alexandre invites you to come down millimeter by millimeter, hands reaching forward, until you touch the floor. The knees bend if needed, then the legs gradually straighten as the hands press into the floor.
Benefits for the body: Deep stretch of the hamstrings and spine, decompression of the lumbar discs, soothing of the nervous system.

🧘 Right-Angle Posture — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Hands resting on the knees, back horizontal at a right angle to the legs, head in line with the spine. Slow breathing, letting go a little more with each exhale.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the back and paraspinal muscles, stretches the hamstrings, gently mobilizes the pelvis.

🧘 Standing Side Bend — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Arms raised, Alexandre guides the bend to the left and then to the right, one arm stretched toward the sky, the other sliding down along the neck for a spontaneous massage of the nape and the back of the skull.
Benefits for the body: Lateral stretch of the spine, loosening of the cervical vertebrae, neck massage, decompression of the sides of the torso.

🧘 Standing Chin Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Hips shifted slightly back to the left, right heel lifted, the chin draws large circles that carry the whole body along — neck, pelvis, back.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical spine, loosens the lower back, releases tension in the jaw and shoulders.

🧘 Backward Surrender Posture — Anuvittasana
The posture: Thumbs hooked behind the back, head tilted slightly back, Alexandre invites you to stretch backward without forcing, adapting to your own flexibility.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the chest muscles, gently mobilizes the thoracic vertebrae.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet rooted into the floor, the pelvis draws wider and wider circles, first one way and then the other, keeping the back supple.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the hip joints, mobilizes the lower abdomen, stimulates digestion and circulation in the pelvis.

🧘 Frog Posture — Mandukasana
The posture: Squatting, knees wide apart, hands in anjali mudra in front of the heart, back straight, head high. Breath of fire for several minutes.
Benefits for the body: Deep hip opening, strengthens the thighs, activates the digestive fire, mobilizes the perineum.

🧘 Seated Neck Rolls — Anatman movement
The posture: Seated in lotus or cross-legged, back straight, the chin draws wide circles that stretch the whole nape, in both directions.
Benefits for the body: Decompresses the cervical spine, relieves upper-back tension, loosens the trapezius muscles.

🧘 Intermediate Posture Toward Plank — Preparatory Setu Bandhasana
The posture: Seated, arms behind you, hands on the floor, the pelvis gradually rising toward the sky, head relaxed back, breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the arms and shoulders, stretches the front of the body, opens the heart chakra.

🧘 Seated Forward Bend — Paschimottanasana
The posture: Seated with legs extended, soles of the feet touching, back rounding forward, hands catching the feet.
Benefits for the body: Deep stretch of the posterior chain, soothes the nervous system, massages the abdominal organs.

🧘 Butterfly Posture — Baddha Konasana
The posture: Seated, soles of the feet together, hands holding the feet, back straight, head high. The knees rise and fall like a butterfly’s wings.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips and inner thighs, stimulates circulation in the lower abdomen, mobilizes the sacroiliac joints.

🧘 Vertical Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: After memorizing the perfect posture flat against a wall, slow walking forward and then backward, barefoot, keeping the sensation of being suspended by a thread from the crown of the head.
Benefits for the body: Complete postural re-education, strengthens the deep muscles, proprioceptive integration, differential stretching of the muscle chains when walking backward.

I lovingly release everything that would have me obey.

The self is made up of a set of automatic systems that were created in childhood.

Gratitude for living in a system where the individual takes priority over the group.

Voices from the We

🤍 Morning Greetings

Even before the first mantras, hearts open in the chat, in that gentle momentum of the We gathering at dawn.

• “hello everyone!” — Francis
• “Hi there 😊💜💜💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “Hello” — Marie and Eric
• “Sound ok” — Préma

👑 The Emojis That Say It All

During the mantra “I create my territory, I am my own authority”, Alexandre relays in the chat the shower of emojis sent by SonEauLuminescente — kings, queens and princesses of every skin color, honoring universal sovereignty 👸🏻👸🏼👸🏽👸🏾👸🏿.

“🙏🏻❤️👸🏻👸🏼👸🏽👸🏾👸🏿👸” — SonEauLuminescente

“🙏🏻🫅🫅🏻🫅🏼🫅🏽🫅🏾🫅🏿” — SonEauLuminescente

💨 The Breath of Revolution

Then comes the mantra of liberation, and the chat echoes with emojis of wind and a falling wall — a perfect image of what is unfolding in the room.

• “🌬💥🧱” — SonEauLuminescente
• “👑💖✨️” — SonEauLuminescente
• “🌬💖😄✨️” — SonEauLuminescente

🙏 Farewells Full of Gratitude

• “see you soon” — Francis
• “🙏🏻💖😊” — SonEauLuminescente

Themes: territory · authority · freedom · inner revolution · expression · joystick · elixir · observer

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : La révolution intérieure de l’être libre

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 13, 2026, a morning when something decisive unfolded in the silence of the mats.

There are mornings when we wake up still inhabited by other people’s voices. 🌅 The voices of childhood, of our parents, of a society that forgot to ask our opinion. And then there was that morning, when a single sentence slipped like a key into a lock we thought had been welded shut.

“You have just become administrator.” Simple. Almost trivial. And yet, at that very instant, something was realized in the room. A shift. As if, after decades of invisible servitude, we had just been granted access rights to our own existence. ✨

The Morning We Take Back the Keys

Picture it. You are standing barefoot, a blindfold over your eyes. 🌿 Around you, other people breathing. And a voice that, mantra after mantra, patiently undoes the knots you had stopped seeing. I lovingly release everything that wanted me to believe my authority lay outside of me.

And then, suddenly, you realize that you had indeed handed it over. To whom? To everyone. To inherited thoughts, recycled fears, programs nobody ever taught you to spot. 🦋

This morning session was not a practice. It was a restitution. The return of a power you had always had, and that you had simply just allowed yourself to take back. 💫

The Morning’s Teaching

There are mornings when one word changes everything. 🌅 This Tuesday, the word was administrator. Not inner guru, not sage, not awakened one. Administrator. As on a computer. The one with full access rights. The one who can install, uninstall, modify, authorize.

And throughout the seated part of the session, around the steaming chai elixir, this realization came to settle in people’s hearts: for years, I used my life like an ordinary user, with limited rights that someone else had configured for me. ✨

Who? Parents, often without meaning to. School. Religions. Societies. Wounds. Traumas. All those codes installed in the background, running without you ever having chosen them. 🦋

“Nobody taught us at school that our thoughts aren’t necessarily our own. They can be residual memories from our parents, or from people who traumatized us.”

In the yogic tradition, chai is not just a drink. 🌿 It is the elixir of the Himalayan caves, hot, sweet, carrying the spirit of the plants. It warms the body, yes, but above all it seals an intention. And this morning’s intention was clear: to take back our rights.

So the mantras came pouring in, each one peeling away a layer: I am my own authority. I declare my independence. I am the one who decides my life. I lovingly release everything that wanted me to believe my authority lay outside of me. 💫

And then this sentence, almost whispered: “The secret, really, was to allow yourself.” Not to conquer. Not to deserve. To allow yourself. As if all the power had always been sleeping within, simply waiting for you to say yes to it. 💖

The teaching continued with a subtle lesson: that of discernment. Recognizing, among the thoughts passing through, those that come from the heart and those that are mere residue. 🕊️ And for that, a single tool: slowing down. The more you slow down, the deeper the altered state of consciousness settles in, and the more legible the source of each thought becomes.

At some point, Alexandre promises, there are no more thoughts at all. Something speaks through you, but without thoughts. Just presence. Just consciousness acting from silence. 🙏

So the morning ends with a sacred ritual: getting up in silence, showering in silence, yoga in silence. And afterwards? Doing everything consciously. Walking, swimming, eating, speaking, shopping. Absolutely everything, in full presence. 🌟 It is a lifetime’s training. It is also, perhaps, the true meaning of the word yoga.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

It all began with the sound of the bell. 🕊️ In Yoga Anatman, sound is not an ornament: it is the threshold. The one that tips consciousness into an altered state from the very first seconds. And that morning, the first mantra landed as something self-evident: “I surrender to my inner yogi.”

To surrender. Not to resign oneself, but to entrust. To entrust movement to the body’s intelligence, which knows far better than the mind what it needs. The arms rise, the body stiffens, hangs suspended. ✨ And paradoxically, it is in this wholehearted stiffness that surrender becomes possible. “The body is really stiff, and it’s that stiffness that makes it so easy. If I’m all floppy, it won’t work.”

Then the blindfold. 🌿 We switch off visual reality. It becomes a yoga between you and yourself, not between you and others. Nothing left to compare, nothing left to prove. Just this question returning like a heartbeat: what does this do to me?

The first side stretches arrive with the territorial OMs, dedicated to the throat chakra and the third chakra. One arm rises, the side of the body opens, the heel lifts. And already, emotions rise to the surface. If tears come, let them come. 💞 Nothing is pushed away. Everything is welcomed.

“I surrender to my inner masseur. I remove all tension and I decide to live without any tension in my body.”

Next comes the massage of the neck, the nape, the back of the skull. The fingers undo what the night had knotted. And behind this simple gesture, a major decision is made: to live, from now on, without accumulated tension. 🌱 Each morning then becomes a ritual of resetting to zero.

Chin circles follow, traced in space like slow mandalas. The whole cervical spine lengthens, and with it, the entire body dances. “The more your spine stretches, the more sensitive and receptive you are, and the more bliss can arise.” 💫 That’s the secret: flexibility is not an aesthetic goal, it is a sensory doorway.

And then comes a mantra that changes everything: “I create within me a space of bodily bliss.” Creation. Space. Two key words of Yoga Anatman. You don’t endure your life, you create it, right down to the texture of your sensations. 🌟

The Five Tibetans postures follow, preceded by an energy healing of the lower back: the hands become conductors of love, and the body heals itself. The heart opens with a deep OM, sent out from the chest like a call to dare to love once more.

“To life, I love you. To love, I love you. To this magnificent video game, I love you. Gratitude for playing.”

The video game. 🦋 This metaphor comes up often, and it is anything but incidental. It means: life is a sacred playground for experimentation, and you are both its player and its programmer. You just have to realize it.

The frog comes next, squatting, hands in namaste. Then push-ups, for those who want to feed the fire. And finally, total surrender lying on the belly, where we disappear into the exhale. 🙏 “Feel the pleasure of letting everything go.”

But the pivotal moment of the session comes with the seated part, the time of the elixir and the mantras. That’s when the mind lets itself be gently hacked by a series of sentences that defuse invisible fortresses: “I lovingly release everything that would make me believe I am judged, criticized, rejected if I express myself.” 💖

And then the morning’s revelation, murmured almost like a secret: “I am the administrator of my own systems.” ✨ In that instant, something turns over. You are no longer a user of your life. You are its administrator. With full access rights. With the power to modify.

“It’s a trick of the trade, a kind of psychological hacking in a way. The secret, really, was to allow yourself.”

To allow yourself. 🌿 Three words, and a whole inner revolution. Allowing yourself to see your unconscious, to shed light on your programs, to claim your territory, to defend your identity. And above all: allowing yourself to recognize that not all thoughts are our own. Parental memories, traumatic residue, scripts inherited from strangers. 💫

And so Yoga Anatman also becomes a yoga of discernment. The more you slow down, the deeper you enter this altered state of consciousness, the more clearly you can tell: this is an intuition from the heart, this is a residual program. And at some point, Alexandre says, there are no more thoughts at all. Something speaks through you, but without thoughts. 🕊️

The elixir is drunk with a great OM of love. The chai, hot and sweet, carried by the spirit of the plants, connects us to the yogis of the Himalayan caves. And the round of gratitude begins: Lilith gives thanks for the sacred tantric woman, Cathy for being there, Guillaume for calm and peace, Isabelle for her progress in yoga, Valérie for being herself, Alexis for being yoga, François for being birdsong. 💞

Then comes the thigh stretch with the strap, lower back pressed into the floor. And laughter bursts out. Cathy’s laughter, Lilith’s, Corinne’s, Isabelle’s. 🌟 “I associate bliss and stretching, I associate.” Impromptu laughter yoga, the morning’s gift.

The session closes with the mystery posture, feet together, soles pressed against each other. Then conscious walking: ten minutes of silence, the body suspended from an invisible thread, the spine vertical, shoulders slightly back. We walk. We no longer think. We embody. 🙏

The Session’s Postures

🧘 Initial Vertical Suspension — Tadasana
The posture: Standing, feet rooted, the arms rise along the body and then above the head. The gaze fixes on a point ahead; calves, thighs, glutes and abdominals contract. The whole body stiffens as if hanging from a thread, thumbs hooked together overhead. Full breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens upright posture, tones the deep muscles of the legs and torso, promotes grounding and spinal alignment.

🧘 Gentle Backbend — Anuvittasana
The posture: Standing, the hands reach behind, thumbs pulled, the upper body gently tilts backward. We surrender until we feel the opening, then very slowly return to the starting position.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the abdominals, mobilizes the lumbar spine and stimulates deep breathing.

🧘 Full Forward Fold — Uttanasana
The posture: The arms rise, then the body folds forward, the head drops, the hands touch the floor, knees bent. We then press the hands into the floor to gradually straighten the legs.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the backs of the legs, the hamstrings and the lower back, decompresses the spine and promotes venous return.

🧘 Right-Angle Posture — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: From the forward fold, the hands rest on the knees, back horizontal, legs straight. Gaze forward, spine aligned.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the back muscles, stretches the backs of the thighs and prepares the spine to straighten up gently.

🧘 Side Stretch — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: Standing, one arm rises, the upper body leans to the opposite side, the heel lifts slightly. We stretch the whole side of the body, then massage the neck with the free hand. Alternate both sides.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides, the intercostals and the lower back, and releases tension in the neck and nape.

🧘 Chin Circles and Cervical Stretch — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet rooted, one heel lifts. The chin draws wide circles, then in the other direction, carrying the whole body along. Free breathing, through nose and mouth.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical vertebrae, relaxes the jaw, stretches the entire posterior chain from the neck to the shoulders.

🧘 Side Bend with Raised Elbow — Standing Parsvakonasana
The posture: Arms crossed above the head, one elbow rises toward the sky while the upper body leans to the opposite side. Alternate, then stretch the arms out into a cross.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the shoulder blades, trapezius and lower back, and opens the rib cage.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, knees slightly bent, the pelvis draws circles that gradually grow larger, in one direction and then the other.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the hips, mobilizes the lumbar region, stimulates the abdominal organs and frees the energy center of the pelvis.

🧘 Frog Pose — Malasana
The posture: Squatting, feet hip-width apart, hands joined in namaste in front of the heart, gaze forward. Full breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, stretches the adductors, strengthens the ankles and stimulates digestion.

🧘 Push-Ups — Chaturanga Dandasana
The posture: In plank, hands on the floor shoulder-width apart, body aligned. Lower down and come back up, breathing.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the arms, shoulders, deep abdominals and the whole shoulder girdle.

🧘 Mountain Pose on the Floor — Adho Mukha Svanasana
The posture: Hands and feet on the floor, the hips rise toward the sky, the body forms an inverted V. Rest the head between the arms.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, decompresses the spine, strengthens the shoulders and promotes circulation to the brain.

🧘 Surrender on the Belly — Advasana
The posture: Lying on the belly, arms alongside the body, head turned to one side. Inhale deeply, then exhale, releasing completely.
Benefits for the body: Fully relaxes the back muscles, encourages abdominal breathing and soothes the nervous system.

🧘 Thigh Stretch with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed into the floor, one leg rises vertically with the help of a strap held by the forearms. The neck stays relaxed, the other leg pushes through the heel.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, mobilizes the hips, relieves lower-back tension.

🧘 Full-Body Lying Stretch — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on the back, the arms stretch back overhead, the heels push forward. The whole body lengthens along two opposite axes.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the anterior and posterior chains, decompresses the vertebrae, prepares for the pelvic undulations.

🧘 Mystery Posture — Supta Baddha Konasana
The posture: Lying on the back, the knees draw up toward the chest and then open out to the sides, soles of the feet against each other. Complete surrender.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, relaxes the groin, promotes circulation in the pelvis and soothes the nervous system.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, back nice and straight, the head suspended as if from an invisible thread, shoulders slightly back. Walk forward or backward, eyes closed and then open, for about ten minutes in silence.
Benefits for the body: Integrates verticality, strengthens proprioception, stabilizes balance and carries the altered state of consciousness into daily life.

You have just become administrator. And yes, the secret, really, was to allow yourself.

The more your spine stretches with our yoga, the more sensitive and receptive you are, and the more bliss can arise.

It’s a yoga between you and yourself, not between you and others.

Themes: sovereignty · administrator · permission · discernment · elixir · surrender · consciousness · gratitude

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Devenir l’administrateur de sa propre vie

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 10, 2026, a morning bathed in autumn light when something rare came to light: the joy of creating, the beauty of existing without a mask, and the gentle certainty that each and every one of us is an artist.

There are mornings when the air feels different. ✨ Finer, more translucent. As if the universe itself were holding its breath to listen to what was about to be born. This October Saturday was one of those mornings.

Even before the first mantra, there was a special vibration in the room. The vibration of a group no longer content just to practice: it embodies. The vibration of a tribe that has stopped seeking and started to simply be. 🌿

And then the voice settled in. Deep, resonant, rooted in the feet. “I breathe in and I let it all go.” A handful of words, and already the veil begins to lift. Already something in us agrees to disappear. 🦋

When the Sleeping Artist Awakens

Have you ever wondered why, deep inside you, something always longs to create? Why a poem welling up, a scribbled drawing, a melody hummed in the shower moves you more than any learned speech?

This morning, Alexandre asked a question that flew across the screens like a gentle arrow: “If the artist you are does not express itself, do you truly exist?” 💫

There was a silence. A real one. The kind that opens a door. And behind that door, a simple truth was patiently waiting: to express yourself is to exist. To create is to reveal yourself. And the joy of creating may well be the most beautiful gift the soul gives the body.

The Morning’s Teaching

This morning’s theme arose like a long-awaited truth: revealing the artist within. 🎨 And through it, an even vaster realization: to express yourself is to exist.

Alexandre put it with grave tenderness: “If the artist I am does not express itself, then I do not truly exist.” There is a tremor in that sentence. The tremor of a truth you recognize without knowing where it comes from.

The morning elixir, taken in silence around steaming chai, brought the first pearl: intention lives in the heart, never in the head. 💞 Mantras recited with the mind alone are empty. They bounce off the walls of thought. But when the heart expresses itself, when something in the chest weeps even as it speaks, then creation happens.

Then came the powerful image of the cosmic video game. 🎮 Our soul came to Earth to play, to feel emotionally and physically, to understand the law of cause and effect. The body is the controller. The sacred word, movement and actions are the buttons. And outer reality? The screen that displays the result of what we press.

If we spend our lives running away from bodily sensations and emotions, we are not really playing. We are watching the screen without touching the controller. And situations keep repeating until they are truly lived. 🌿

Then came the central revelation of the elixir: the halo effect. Neuroscience has shown it: when we meet someone we don’t know, the brain automatically fills in the blanks. It invents. It projects. And the more you love something about the other person, the more it fills in the rest with positive information — but invented information.

“Others can only perceive what you express of yourself.”

Dizzying. The one you love knows you only through what you let them see. Your inner beauty, if it is never sung, drawn, danced, written or spoken, remains invisible. ✨

Hence the mantra that ran through the session: “I allow myself to write poems. I allow myself to paint, to dance, to show my body. I allow myself every art.” Each I allow myself is a door opening in the invisible prison of learned modesty.

And the great liberation: art is not made to please. 🌟 It is not made to be successful, to sell, to be understood. Art exists only so that you can feel within yourself the joy of creating. That intoxication when you listen for the twentieth time to the music you have just composed, falling in love with your own work.

A magnificent paradox: the artists who couldn’t care less about pleasing are often the ones who touch the most people. Because they are completely themselves. And authenticity is the only thing that truly resonates in people’s hearts. 💖

The teaching closed with an invitation: to create an artistic space within. For the Anatman tribe, for each person, for the group. A space where we dare. A space where we embody. A space where the sleeping artist finally rises and says: here I am. 🦋

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

It all begins with the feet. Always. 🌱 The deep, resonant sound descends into the arches, settles into the legs, slowly rises again. “I breathe in and I let it all go.” And already, something gives way. An invisible dam, an old tension, a piece of armor that falls away without a sound.

The hands massage the jaw, the cheeks. Such a simple gesture, so tender toward oneself. How many of us go years without ever touching our own face with love? This morning, tenderness begins right there: in the fingertips recognizing the skin. 💞

Then the arms rise. Slowly. Millimeter by millimeter. Calves, thighs, abs and glutes contract. We rise onto the tips of our toes. Suspended by an invisible thread above the head. And there, a quiet miracle: the lower back lengthens, the shoulder blades spread apart, the whole body becomes a living arrow stretched toward the sky. 🌟

“The more I surrender, the more I disappear, the more it welcomes.”

This phrase, whispered as tears rose in some of us, became the common thread of the session. Disappearing in order to welcome. Shrinking the self to let life flow through. The welcoming consciousness is what we are when we stop clinging. ✨

Next comes the work on the sides. Right arm up, stretching to the left, the right foot lifts, the right hand massages the back of the skull. “The skull isn’t fragile.” No violence, but real pressure for a real effect. Then the other side. And already the spine breathes differently, as if freed from years of silent tension.

Then the backward stretch, right foot lifted, circles drawn with the chin. The whole body follows. The whole body listens. And that is when Alexandre slips in a sentence that changes everything:

“This isn’t just yoga, it’s a paradigm shift, a new way of living.”

Listening to your body all day long. Not just on the mat. 🌿 All day long. New pleasures, new sensations, more feeling, more reality, more life, less head and less mind. Changing direction. Moving from the mind to the body the way you would move to another world.

Then the great mantra arrives, arms outstretched, spine arching slightly back: “I offer myself to life, I offer myself. I am the gift. I love you.” And then, the tears. Many tears. Not tears of sadness. Tears of gratitude. Life loves us back, and at last we feel it. 🕊️

“I love myself, I align with my best scenario, I choose everything in my life, every detail, consciously.” The hands behind the lower back send a warm energy healing. We choose. We no longer endure. We become the author.

Then the right angle, the forward bend with hands on the floor, the knees gradually straightening. “There’s nothing to succeed at. A little bit every day, and at some point it will happen.” The gentleness of these words disarms all inner competition. 💖

Hands on the hips, the pelvic circles begin. To the left, forward, to the right, back. We break it down. We feel the right buttock stretching, the obliques working, the lower back strengthening in joy. “What a body of a goddess and a god. Gratitude.” 🌟

Then comes the frog. Three minutes squatting, breath of fire, back straight, gaze straight ahead. Air rushing in and out through the nose. The belly pulsing. The inner fire rekindling. Everyone adapts: seated, lying on the belly, or a few push-ups. 🔥

Then the elixir arrives. A cup of chai, green tea, something warm between the hands. The sacred settles in. And with it, the mantras that will change everything.

“Intention is not a thought in the head. It is in the heart, in the chest, in the heart chakra.”

A central revelation: mantras recited with the head alone don’t work. It is the heart expressing itself, not the mind repeating. Intention lives in the chest. It weeps, it vibrates, it knows. 💫

“I release in love everything that keeps me from putting my creation into words.” “Gratitude for recognizing my sacred word.” “Gratitude for recognizing my authority.” Each mantra becomes an act of courage. Each sentence, a step toward oneself.

Then the great image: life as a video game, and the body as the controller. The sacred word, movement and actions are the buttons. And outer reality, the screen. The soul plays at feeling, at understanding the law of cause and effect. Simple. Dizzying. 🎮

And another pearl: “I am learning to learn.” The mantra school forgot to teach us. The most serious mistake in all of education, says Alexandre. We were taught to obey. Never to learn on our own. Never to draw from within. Gratitude for creating an autonomous learning system. 🌱

The realizations keep coming, strung tight like pearls. Live with those who love you, not with those who have something to gain. Sort things out gently, naturally. Dare the initiation of discernment in love. Recognize that the heart loves for no reason, and that this is precisely where everything is at stake. 💞

“The more I am who I am from the heart, the more people will leave. And that’s perfect just as it is.”

Then comes the heart of the elixir: I reveal the artist within me. The halo effect explained with perfect clarity: when we don’t know someone, the brain fills in the blanks with invented information. The more you express yourself, the more the halo effect fades, and the more others see you for real. 🦋

“Others can only perceive what you express of yourself.” Others cannot see your beauty if it is never expressed. Through a song, a poem, a drawing, a dance. Anything, absolutely anything.

And the ultimate liberation: art is not made to please. Art is not made to be successful. Art is made so that you can feel within yourself the joy of creating. Period. 🌅

The session ends with conscious walking, eyes first closed under a blindfold, then open. The body walks on its own. The mind lets go of the controller. And something happens: the body prefers to walk backward, finds pleasure in stretching, wants to touch an object, wants a hug. The body has different interests from the mind, and it invites us to follow it. 🙏

The Postures of the Session

🧘 The Suspended Rise — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: standing, feet anchored in the ground, slowly raise the arms and hands above the head, contract the calves, thighs, abs and glutes, then rise onto the tips of the toes as if suspended by an invisible thread. The breath is full, deep, through the nose.
Benefits for the body: stretches the spine and shoulder blades, strengthens the calves and arches of the feet, improves balance and overall posture.

🧘 Backbend with Hooked Thumbs — Ardha Chakrasana
The posture: standing, thumbs hooked behind the back, gently lean back, pelvis forward, chest open, head following the spine. The breath stays nasal and fluid.
Benefits for the body: opens the rib cage, stretches the psoas and belly, mobilizes the lower back and stimulates breathing.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: from standing, descend millimeter by millimeter toward the floor, the hands come to touch the earth, the knees may bend at first, then the legs gradually lengthen and the head draws closer to the knees. Inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the backs of the thighs and calves, decompresses the spine, soothes the nervous system.

🧘 The Right Angle — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: torso horizontal, hands on the knees, back long and straight, neck in line with the spine. Surrender completely to the sensations.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the back muscles, stretches the hamstrings, aligns the spine and prepares for deeper forward bends.

🧘 Standing Side Stretch — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: right arm up, lean to the left, the right heel lifts, the right hand massages the back of the neck and skull with firm but gentle pressure. Same movement on the other side.
Benefits for the body: stretches the sides, obliques and shoulder blades, releases neck tension and stimulates circulation in the scalp.

🧘 Chin and Neck Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, beginning with a stretch back and to the left, then slowly draw circles with the chin, the neck guiding the whole body. Full breathing, no holding the breath.
Benefits for the body: releases neck tension, makes the nape supple, relaxes the jaw and loosens the upper back.

🧘 Outstretched Arms Backbend — Anatman surrender movement
The posture: standing, arms outstretched and slightly back, spine arching backward, head following, chest open to the sky. A posture of total offering.
Benefits for the body: fully opens the rib cage, stretches the chest muscles and shoulders, stimulates the heart chakra and deep breathing.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: hands on the hips, draw slow circles with the pelvis: to the left, forward, to the right, back. First break it down, then let it flow.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the obliques and deep abdominals, mobilizes the lower back, loosens the hips and stimulates digestion.

🧘 The Frog with Breath of Fire — Malasana + Kapalabhati
The posture: squatting, feet flat or heels lifted, back and head straight, gaze forward. Practice the breath of fire: short, powerful exhalations through the nose, letting the air come back in naturally. Three minutes.
Benefits for the body: deeply opens the hips, strengthens the thighs and calves, stimulates the digestive fire and oxygenates the brain.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, eyes first closed under a blindfold, then open. The body walks freely, forward, backward, while the mind lets go of the steering. Feel the feet, the emotions, the body’s desires.
Benefits for the body: retrains proprioception, massages the arches of the feet, calms the mind and reconnects with overall bodily awareness.

The more I surrender, the more I disappear, the more it welcomes.

If the artist I am does not express itself, then I do not truly exist.

Others can only perceive what you express of yourself.

Voices from the We

Hearts Greeting One Another

• “good morning Alexandre and everyone” — Francis
• “Hi there 😊 ❤️‍🔥” — Préma
• “🙏🌟😉” — Corinne

Shared Gratitude

“gratitude I love you I love us” — Shakti Anne

• “gratitude” — Francis
• “hugs, I love you” — Rafaël
• “💖💕🙋🏻‍♀️🙏🌟🤗” — Corinne

The Echo of Biodanza

“biodanza yes, wonderful!” — Shakti Anne

Themes: artist · expression · joy · creation · surrender · heart · authenticity · halo effect

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Révéler l’artiste en soi

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 9, 2026, a morning bathed in laughter, tears, and a revelation that may well change the way you see living together.

There are mornings when the mat becomes a threshold. 🌅 A quiet threshold, almost ordinary, that you cross in silence, barefoot, with that tiny trust that something, today, is going to be said differently. That morning, the room was filled with the scent of chai with coconut milk and hazelnut, an aroma that warmed you even before the first sip.

And then came the laughter. 🦋 Valérie’s first, then Corinne’s, Marie’s, Anaïs’s, Kévin’s. An epidemic of laughter yoga, as Alexandre would call it, while a leg stretched toward the sky opened the hips and released years of holding back. But beneath the laughter, something deeper was seeking to emerge.

Because that morning, behind the apparent gentleness, a radical teaching was taking shape. A teaching that, in just a few words, overturns 40,000 years of human history. 💫

What if all your needs were, by nature, legitimate?

That is the question that swept through the room like a breath. Asked without emphasis, almost whispered between two inhalations. My needs are all, by nature, legitimate. 🕊️ How many of us were raised — or worse, castrated, to use Alexandre’s blunt word — to believe exactly the opposite?

How many times did we learn to keep quiet, to swallow our tiredness, to downplay our hunger, to push away a need for silence because it wasn’t the right time? That morning, in the surrender of the breath and the warmth of the cup, something cracked open. The tears came. 💞 They had been waiting.

And behind them, a dizzying proposal: to create a new system together, one where the individual comes before the structure. A gentle revolution, almost a family one, which nonetheless begins with a very simple gesture — daring to say, in real time, what you feel. 🌿

The Morning’s Teaching

There are mornings when a single sentence, spoken almost discreetly between two breaths, holds a revolution within it. This was one of those mornings. 🌟 Alexandre, at the heart of the elixir ceremony, offered a proposal of disarming simplicity — and dizzying reach.

“Gratitude for creating a new system together. A system that takes every need into account. And that puts the individual first, before the system.”

Take a moment. Read it again. Because this sentence, so gentle on the surface, overturns what Alexandre names without hesitation: 40,000 years of human civilization. 💫 Since the dawn of the first organized societies, humanity has run on a single principle — the system first, the individual second. Tribes, kingdoms, empires, nations, companies, even families: everywhere, the structure prevails over the person.

“In our society, it’s always the system before the individual. Practically every system for 40,000 years has crushed people and couldn’t care less about them.”

Alexandre doesn’t mince his words. And yet there is no anger in his voice — only a tender clarity. Because this is not about condemning what was, but about daring to invent what comes next. 🕊️ A system in which, for the first time on a large scale, the individual and their needs become the cornerstone.

The morning elixir — that shared cup of chai, warm, fragrant with coconut milk and hazelnut — is the perfect symbol of this teaching. 🌿 Each person prepares their own. Each drinks it at their own pace. And yet, together, we create a ritual. The elixir is the liquid metaphor of a community that honors the individual without sacrificing the collective.

But Alexandre goes further. He specifies: “For it to work, we need to clearly distinguish true needs from false needs.” And this is where the teaching becomes demanding. Because if we want a world where individual needs come first, we still have to learn to discern. 💖

True needs are those of safety, personal territory, tenderness, love, affection, being listened to. Being heard, welcomed, loved, and loving. The primary, essential, non-negotiable needs. False needs, on the other hand, are desires shaped by the system itself — compensations, addictions, needs manufactured to mask the real ones.

And to access this discernment, you need a tool: mindfulness. ✨ It is mindfulness that allows you, in the silence of the morning or in the turmoil of the day, to feel what truly comes from you and what comes from conditioning. It is mindfulness that turns a pious wish (respecting everyone’s needs) into a concrete practice (listening, discerning, expressing).

The teaching ends with an almost childlike invitation, and therein lies all its beauty. Dare to voice your needs in real time. Say when it’s too much. Say when you’re tired. Say when you need silence, space, gentleness. 💞 Not as a whim, but as an act of the sacred toward yourself — and, in turn, toward everyone who will benefit from your rediscovered authenticity.

Because a new system cannot be decreed. It is woven, one expressed need after another, one I love you after another, one shared cup of chai after another. 🦋

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The session opened with words from Alexandre that already set the frame: “As every morning, a deep inhalation.” 🙏 But that morning, the breath carried a special significance. After the jaw massage — the jaw where nighttime tensions nest, along with unspoken words and swallowed anger — the body was invited to remember itself.

The hands rise, the thumbs hook together, the back stretches backward. And already, in this simple stretch, a truth surfaces: the body doesn’t need to be taught how to open; it is only waiting for permission. The permission we finally give ourselves to breathe wider than usual. ✨

“With love, kindness and benevolence, I deny myself nothing.”

This mantra, repeated like a wave, ran through the entire practice. It is no small thing. In a single sentence, it holds the whole philosophy of the session: kindness toward yourself is not a privilege, it is a foundation. And on that foundation, everything else can be built — respect for others, rightness in relationships, inner peace. 💖

Then came the great vertical stretch, hands toward the ceiling, that sublime image of a body pushing the clouds, leaving planet Earth and pushing all the stars. 🌟 A cosmic metaphor to remind us that the human being, standing upright, is not a fragile little reed — they are sovereign, territorial, immense.

And it was precisely this sovereignty that came into play in the declaration of love to the universe. “To the universe, I love you. To life, I love you. To myself, I love you. I’m crazy about you.” 🦋 These words, spoken with faces hidden behind eye masks, opened a breach. Because daring to say I love you to yourself means overturning an entire upbringing.

The elixir ceremony arrived like a sacred pause. 🌿 Everyone prepared their cup of chai, and Alexandre invited us to surrender to the sound of the bowl. A sound that, repeated, becomes an anchor — an instant gateway to the state of surrender, usable at any moment of the day. This is one of the keys of Yoga Anatman: linking an inner state to a sound trigger so you can return to it, even amid the turmoil of daily life.

Then came the elixir mantras. Gratitude for receiving the initiation of the breath of life, from the sacred mountains. 🕊️ Gratitude for remembering those lives in the Himalayas, in damp caves, the cold, the hot drinks shared. And at the heart of this evocation, a deeply moving reminder: Zari, zari — the word Valérie remembered, like a memory rising from very far away.

“I welcome all my emotions, I welcome.”

Then the heart of the session revealed itself. An avalanche of mantras — love, kindness, benevolence, welcome, surrender — punctuated by sacred permissions: If it laughs, it laughs. If it cries, it cries. If it isn’t happy, it isn’t happy. It’s natural. 💫 This phrase, childlike in its simplicity, is in fact a revolution. It says: you don’t have to filter, censor, or tidy up your emotions to make them presentable.

And this is where Alexandre offered the key of the day. After reminding us that we must dare to express all our needs in real time — the need for space, for silence, for gentleness — he opened the great door: “I release in love everything that would have me believe my needs are not legitimate.” 🙏

Tears flowed abundantly. Alexandre underlined it: “Let a lot of emotions cry out, because it’s often the opposite of what was trained or castrated out of us in childhood.” That sentence resonated for a long time. How many inner children, that morning, finally heard that they had the right to exist? 💞

“My needs are all, by nature, legitimate.”

Then the group mantra came, like a collective offering: “Gratitude for creating a new system together.” A system that takes every need into account. A system where the individual comes before the structure. That was the moment the session’s scope shifted. We were no longer simply in an intimate yoga practice — we were touching a civilizational paradigm. 🌟

The lying-down sequence extended this opening. Right leg stretched toward the sky with the strap, lower back pressed into the floor, and suddenly — laughter. 🦋 Contagious, unpredictable laughter that spread through the whole room. Valérie, Anaïs, Kévin, Marie, Sari, Corinne, Lilit. Alexandre, clear-eyed: “It’s an epidemic of laughter yoga.” And he named this jolting Kundalini — the energy that, when welcomed, shows itself in joyful tremors.

Mindful walking closed the practice. Eyes closed, barefoot, each person silently repeated the mantra walking and let the body move forward on its own. Then came Alexandre’s unlikely encounter with the cosmic clown 💫 — a reminder that even awakening keeps its share of lightness, mischief and play.

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Jaw massage and stretch — Hanumukha mudra
The posture: Seated or standing, the fingers gently massage the jaw muscles, then the jaw moves left, right, up, down, and the tongue comes out freely. The breath stays nasal and relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Releases tension built up overnight, relaxes the masseter muscles, loosens the temporomandibular joint and supports vocal expression.

🧘 Great vertical stretch, hands to the ceiling — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet rooted in the floor, both hands rise toward the ceiling, palms to the sky, as if pushing the clouds. The lower back lengthens, the upper thighs engage, the breath is deep and nasal.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the spine along its entire length, opens the rib cage, improves posture and stimulates lymphatic circulation.

🧘 Standing forward bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, the body folds forward from the lower back, the knees may bend slightly, the hands drop toward the floor. The exhalation accompanies the descent.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings and lower back, relaxes the neck, calms the nervous system and supports venous return.

🧘 Half forward fold — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: From the forward bend, the back rises to horizontal, hands on the knees, gaze forward, legs straight. The inhalation opens the chest.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the back, stretches the hamstrings, makes the spine more supple and prepares for opening postures.

🧘 Side stretch with bent elbow — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, one arm rises to the sky, the elbow bends, the other hand stays low. The body stretches toward the opposite side. The breath accompanies each stretch.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides of the body, the intercostal muscles and the quadratus lumborum, and improves the lateral mobility of the spine.

🧘 Chin and head rotations — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, the chin draws large, gentle circles, moving left, back, right, forward. The shoulders stay low.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the cervical spine, loosens the neck and releases tension in the head.

🧘 Hip circles — Anatman movement inspired by Kati Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, feet rooted like a heavy tree, the pelvis draws large circles, right, back, left, forward, then changes direction. The nasal breath is deep.
Benefits for the body: Loosens the hips and lower back, stimulates the digestive organs and strengthens grounding.

🧘 Energy healing, hands on the lower back — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, the hands rest on the lower back, palms warm, and the spine gently stretches backward. The inhalation is nasal and deep.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the lumbar area, opens the hips and supports circulation in the sacral region.

🧘 Leg raised to the sky with a strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed into the floor, one leg rises vertically, the foot held by the strap. The forearms pull gently, the neck stays relaxed, the leg stays straight.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings and calves, relieves the lower back, improves hip mobility and stimulates circulation.

🧘 Arms overhead lying down — Supta Baddha Hastasana
The posture: Lying on the back, the arms stretch overhead and back, the shoulders open, the shoulder blades lengthen. The exhalation accompanies the stretch.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the shoulders and shoulder blades, and releases tension in the upper back.

🧘 Hands behind the head, shoulder blade stretch — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on the back, the hands interlace behind the head, the elbows fall to the sides, the shoulder blades stretch naturally.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the trapezius muscles, stretches the scapular muscles and soothes neck tension.

🧘 Mindful walking — Chankramanam
The posture: Standing, eyes closed, barefoot, the body moves forward slowly while silently repeating the mantra walking. The weight shifts from one foot to the other, the breath is free.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens proprioception, improves balance, stimulates circulation in the soles of the feet and anchors mindfulness in everyday movement.

My needs are all, by nature, legitimate.

In our society, it’s always the system before the individual, and systems crush people.

If it laughs, it laughs. If it cries, it cries. It’s natural.

Voices from the We

Morning Greetings

The chat opened with its usual warmth, each person placing a word like a candle lit in the circle. 🕊️

• “Hi there 😊🙏” — Sandrine
• “hello to all my friends” — francis
• “Hi there 😊 ❤️‍🔥🌈🎊” — Préma
• “hello Alexandre and everyone 🙏” — valerie

And already, Préma’s playful humor, quipping with obvious mischief:

“So, are we running late? 🤣🤣🤣” — Préma

Closing Gratitudes

At the end of the session, hearts were laid down, simple and full. 💞

• “thank you” — francis
• “Gratitude 💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “gratitude 🙏” — valerie
• “have a lovely day everyone” — valerie
• “Thank you for the choir” — Sandrine

Themes: legitimate needs · new system · individual before system · elixir · laughter yoga · mindfulness · welcoming emotions · sovereignty

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : L’individu avant le système, un nouveau paradigme

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 8, 2026, a Thursday at dawn when the practice was shorter and more condensed, yet carried a particular intensity — that of a teaching which, in just a few sentences, reorganized our whole perception of life.

It is barely 5:46 a.m. when the first welcomes appear in the chat. ✨ The sound of a bell rises, and already something begins to settle. The in-breath grows long, and letting go takes hold, vertebra by vertebra. There you are, standing on your mat, blindfolded, not yet knowing that at the heart of this shorter session one of the most foundational realizations of Yoga Anatman is about to unfold: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. 🌱

But before getting there, there is the path. Hands rising, thumbs hooked behind, the inner masseur tending to the back of the neck, the cow and the cat, the dragon, the frog. And above all, this sentence slipped in like a secret: “yoga is between me and me”. 🕊️

The Mirror, the Echo, and the Video Game of Life

Have you ever wondered why some days seem to answer your every impulse, while others resist each step you take? 💫 This morning, Alexandre opened a door onto that question. A simple door, almost childlike, and yet dizzying.

Life does not happen to you. Life answers you. Every gesture, every word, every silence you offer is a signal sent into the great cosmic video game. And what comes back — emotions, sensations, encounters, echoes — is simply the reflection of what you have expressed, consciously or not. 🦋

So this morning, we learned to observe. No longer to endure, no longer to judge, but to watch the echoes with the tenderness of a child discovering a mirror.

The Morning Teaching

This Thursday, the teaching arrived by surprise, in the middle of a posture of surrender to life. Arms open wide, palms toward the sky. And suddenly, this sentence whispered like a cosmic secret: “Life, I love you”. 💖

Yet behind this very simple mantra lay an immense transmission: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. Alexandre named it so with a smile, the way you name something obvious that you have always known without ever putting it into words.

Here is the principle. You are in a video game. A sacred, cosmic, infinitely subtle video game. And in this game, you do not merely receive — you emit. Every word, every gesture, every action, every non-action is a signal sent into the fabric of the living. 🌟

And life answers you. It sends echoes back to you. These echoes take the form of emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts, encounters, synchronicities. Everything that happens to you is a return of what you have expressed. 🦋

“Everything I express today — not just my words, but my gestures, my actions, what I do as much as what I don’t do — all of it will create my reality.”

So how do we go about it? There is only one instruction, and it is sacred: observe. Observe the echoes without judgment. Observe what life understands of your expression. Observe how others react, how the universe responds. 🕊️

And at the heart of this observation, a decisive mantra: “I choose and I decide my life”. You are no longer the victim of circumstances. You are the conscious creator of your experience. And every morning, you can choose what you will send out into the world.

This Thursday’s morning elixir fits into a phrase heard at dawn: “thank you for this beautiful video game”. 🙏 A radical gratitude. A joyful acceptance. Not resignation, but a celebration of the game itself. Because if it is a game, then we can play it with love, with daring, with creativity.

Then comes the second layer of the teaching, the one that touches on identity. Alexandre reminds us that we are, at the origin, unidentified universal consciousness. Before the age of six months, before anyone told us our name, we were the whole. Then identification came — “your name is Sébastien” — and with it, separation, comparison, the wounds of the soul. 💫

“In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.”

That is the key. Yoga is not an escape from the world. It is a dive into the Non-Self, into the absolute, so that we can return to the relative with more love, more consciousness, more presence. The absolute nourishes the relative. Silence nourishes speech. Surrender nourishes action. ✨

And so, throughout the day that is opening before you, you can remind yourself at every moment: I express, I observe the echoes, and I choose.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

From the very first seconds, the sound of the bell cuts through the air and something settles within you. ✨ You breathe in, you breathe out, and you hear the instruction that will return like a common thread throughout the session: “I let go, I let go, I let go.” A gentle, almost hypnotic litany that asks nothing more of you than to stop holding on.

You feel the arches of your feet. Your feet taking root. Your jaws that you gently massage, your cheeks that you awaken. Then comes the first great stretch: hands rising, rising, rising, thumbs hooked behind, and this suspension — “I am suspended by my hands” — that draws the whole spine up toward the sky. 🌟

And then the first mantra falls into place, self-evident: “I surrender to my inner yogi”. You repeat it. The blindfold is over your eyes. There is nothing more to see, no outside gaze. There is only you and you. 🙏

“I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.”

Then the descent, chest resting on the thighs, hands toward the floor, the right angle, complete release. The rise back up, vertebra by vertebra, millimeter by millimeter, in a consciousness of the body relearning its uprightness. You feel your feet clearly. You feel the earth. You are here. 🌿

Next comes the inner massage. The right arm rises, then the right hand comes down onto the back of the neck, the back of the skull, the cervical spine. And the mantra unfolds: “I surrender to my inner masseur”. Alexandre reminds you that tensions in the skull are often invisible, forgotten, buried. The inner masseur knows every one of them. You only have to let it do its work. 💞

And then, in a breath, another phrase joins in: “I surrender to peace”. Gratitude for being at peace. A deep release. As if the whole weight of the night were finally being laid down.

On the other side, the left arm rises, the body leans to the right, the heel lifts, in a slow dance in which the whole body stretches. Then the neck circles — “I have paint on my chin, I’m drawing a circle” — and laughter bubbles up in the chat as Isabelle and Valérie join the round. 🦋 Alexandre announces a summit meeting next week: Cathy, Isabelle and Valérie all together. The inner child is overjoyed. “It’s a summer camp for inner children.”

The circles change direction. Surrender to the cosmic clown sets in. Perhaps you are laughing too, behind your blindfold. And that is sacred. 💫

Then comes the territorial OM. Feet like roots, a bubble around you, your territory. The sound rises from the chest, vibrant, to train the throat chakra. The arms open wide, palms toward the sky, and you feel this sacred geometry: verticality and horizontality meeting exactly at the level of the heart chakra. 💖 As if by chance.

And then comes the heart of the morning teaching, the one that brings silent tears behind the blindfold. The Theory of the Creation of Reality. You are in a video game. You express — words, gestures, actions, and even what you don’t do — and the universe sends echoes back to you. You observe. You learn to read the signals.

“I choose and I decide my life. I express all that I am. And I observe the echoes.”

Alexandre insists: “Life, I love you. Thank you for this beautiful video game.” 🙏 And you understand, in your body, that life is not an ordeal to be endured but an active creation, a dance of echoes.

Hands on the lower back, in the posture of the Five Tibetans, you offer yourself a gesture of loving care. Then the rise back up. And a new, essential mantra: “I welcome all emotions, I welcome all the signals of the universe”. An emotion is an echo. A bodily sensation is an echo. A thought is an echo. 🌱

Then the great realization: you are unidentified universal consciousness. Just as before six months of age, before anyone told you your name, before you identified with this “thing”. You are the whole. And it is from this identification that all comparisons, all the wounds of the soul, are born. 🕊️

“In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.”

Then the descent into the right angle, and this decisive reminder: “there is nothing to succeed at — it’s about what does this do to me?” Everything is within. Yoga is not a performance. It is an encounter. And one last mantra seals it all: “I release in love everything that would have me compare myself, everything that would have me succeed at something in yoga”. 💞

The pelvic hula hoop arrives like a celebration of the body. The circles grow wider, change direction, and Alexandre reminds you that after three months of practice the body changes — not to please, but to honor the temple. “I honor and celebrate my magnificent temple.” 🌟 And then the squats, the frog, the breath of fire warming the belly, and the cow, and the cat, in this ballet of opening and turning inward.

The dragon on the right, then on the left, hands aligned with the outer foot, three minutes of breath of fire. You feel the hips opening, the psoas releasing. And then belly against the mat, head turned to the side, and this total letting go: “on the out-breath, I disappear into the mat”. 🦋

The session closes in half lotus, with the sound of the bell once again, linked to the altered state of consciousness. An anchor. A signal so that later in the day, simply hearing a bell will be enough to find this presence again. ✨

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Suspended Arm Raise — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and rooted into the ground, you breathe in as you slowly raise your hands toward the sky, thumbs hooked behind. You rise onto the balls of your feet, as if suspended by your hands, and the lower back lengthens. Slow breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the entire spine, opens the rib cage, strengthens the calves and the arches of the feet, improves grounding and upright posture.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, you descend head first, hooked thumbs rising up along the back, then the hands touch the floor, knees bent if needed. You push into the floor to straighten the legs.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back, decompresses the spine, promotes circulation toward the head.

🧘 Side Bend — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, one arm rises toward the sky while the other comes to massage the back of the neck, and you lean to the opposite side. The heel lifts to deepen the stretch along the side of the body.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides, the obliques, the quadratus lumborum and the shoulder blade, releases tension in the trapezius and the neck.

🧘 Neck and Torso Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: You imagine a pencil at the tip of your chin and draw large circles with your whole body, slowly, first in one direction, then in the other.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical spine, releases tension in the neck and shoulders, improves spinal flexibility and vestibular balance.

🧘 Posture of Surrender to Life — Anatman movement
The posture: Arms open wide, palms toward the sky, then the hands travel backward and the spine arches back in a gesture of complete opening of the heart.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the pectorals and shoulders, stimulates the heart chakra, improves deep breathing.

🧘 Pelvic Hula Hoop — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet rooted, you let the pelvis turn in circles, small at first and then growing wider, in one direction and then the other.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hips and pelvis, strengthens the abdominals and obliques, improves digestion and lumbar mobility.

🧘 Deep Squat — Preparatory Malasana
The posture: Back straight, head straight, you lower yourself as if sitting on an invisible chair, then slowly rise again. Imagine holding dumbbells in your hands for grounding.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the quadriceps, glutes and calves, mobilizes the hips and ankles, stimulates circulation in the legs.

🧘 The Frog — Malasana
The posture: Squatting on the floor, feet apart, back straight, head straight, you practice the breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, stretches the groin and adductors, stimulates digestion, decompresses the lower back.

🧘 The Cow — Bitilasana
The posture: On all fours, you breathe in while hollowing the lower back and lifting the head to look ahead.
Benefits for the body: Makes the spine more supple, opens the chest, stretches the belly and the throat.

🧘 The Cat — Marjaryasana
The posture: On all fours, you breathe out while rounding the back, drawing in the belly and tucking the chin toward the chest.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes each vertebra, strengthens the deep abdominal muscles, releases tension in the back, improves the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid.

🧘 The Inverted Mountain — Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)
The posture: From all fours, you push into your hands and feet to form an inverted V.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the entire posterior chain, strengthens the arms and shoulders, improves blood circulation, soothes the nervous system.

🧘 The Dragon — Utthan Pristhasana (Lizard Lunge)
The posture: From the inverted mountain, one foot comes to rest outside the corresponding hand while the other leg stretches far back. Breath of fire for three minutes.
Benefits for the body: Intensely opens the hips, stretches the psoas and hip flexors, strengthens the thighs, stimulates vital energy through the breath of fire.

🧘 Prone Surrender Posture — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on your belly, head turned to the side, you release the full weight of your body into the mat.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the parasympathetic nervous system, releases deep muscular tension, supports recovery and integration.

🧘 Seated Half Lotus — Ardha Padmasana
The posture: Seated, one foot resting on the opposite thigh, back straight, head straight, as if suspended by a thread above the crown of the head.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, grounds the pelvis, supports deep meditation, steadies the mind, aligns the spine.

I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.

In our practice, we go into the absolute to take care of the relative.

There is nothing to succeed at — it’s really about what is this doing to me right now?

Themes: creation of reality · surrender · universal consciousness · non-self · identification · gratitude · expression · presence

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’exprimer pleinement et créer sa réalité

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 7, 2026, a morning when breath, silence and love wove themselves together to open an inner door.

There are mornings when the body wakes up like a cathedral. Every muscle becomes a pillar, every breath a vault, and consciousness wanders through it, slowly, full of wonder. 🌅

That morning, many of us were there, in Saint-Exempt and from afar, joined by an invisible thread. A thread that only love knows how to weave. ✨

And from the very first moments, something announced itself. Something gentle, yet powerful too. Like a promise whispered into the ear of the heart. 💫

The Promise of the Flow

Have you ever disappeared into an action? Walked without there being a walker, laughed without there being anyone laughing, cried without there being anyone there to cry? 🦋

That is precisely the territory we explored this morning. A territory with no I, no me, no program. A territory where life flows through us, and where we become its current.

Alexandre Anatman invited us to dare this crossing. To leave the familiar shore of the identity-bound mind and let ourselves be carried by what he calls the flow. And in this flow, everything becomes sacred. 🕊️

The Morning’s Teaching

There is one word Alexandre spoke this morning the way one lays a precious stone on a silk cloth. That word is flow. 🌊

And during the elixir part, as we held our cups of chai in our hands, this teaching unfolded in all its fullness. He shared this with us:

“It is possible, as a human being, to train yourself to surrender to the level above, or the level within. To surrender to a flow.”

So what is the flow? It’s when we do conscious walking, and there is no longer anyone walking. Walking simply happens. It’s when we speak without there being a speaker. Speaking simply happens. It’s when we cook, when we shop at the market, and everything gets done in a kind of surrender to something vaster. ✨

In this flow, there are no more programs. No more intrusive thoughts. No more I, no more me. All the programs that usually interfere fall silent. And in their place arises a pure action, conscious and silent. 🕊️

Alexandre told us he had chopped wood the day before in this state. No need to talk. No need to be an I. The action created itself, stronger, more powerful, more intense. 💫

And he offered us this luminous comparison: this flow is what English speakers call momentum. It’s what top athletes experience when they surrender. It’s this flow that sets Olympic world records. It transcends the person and the identity. 🌟

And then this revelation, the beating heart of the teaching:

“The flow always brings the sacred.”

That is why our practice, which looks like yoga, is in fact so much more. It is a practice of surrender and liberation, but also of training to live the flow. To embody it. To let it take up all the space. 💖

And this afternoon, we will learn to dance in this state. To let movement arise from silence. Because in the flow, even chopping wood becomes a prayer. Even walking backwards becomes a sacred act. 🙏

Realizations During the Yoga Anatman

The session opens with the sound of a bell. A sound François taught us to listen to. And we welcome this sound as a threshold. From that instant on, we are no longer quite the same. ✨

The hands rise, the feet take root, the calves, the thighs, the glutes contract. We lift ourselves onto our tiptoes, suspended as if by an invisible thread from the crown of the head. This is the stretched mountain pose (Tadasana — rootedness and verticality), and already the body is vibrating. 🌱

Then comes the surrender. I breathe in, and I let go of everything. This sentence, repeated like a mantra, becomes the backbone of the practice. Letting go. Letting go again. Letting go until we disappear.

The hands clasp behind the back, thumbs hooked, and we lean backwards. Then forwards, blindfold over the eyes, the torso coming to touch the legs. The standing forward bend (Uttanasana — stretching the whole posterior chain) frees the neck, lengthens the hamstrings, soothes the mind. 🌿

Alexandre guides a massage of the neck, a massage of the cheeks, of the jaw. And he reminds us of a precious truth:

“Whenever you’re on public transport, your inner masseur is right there, available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

This inner masseur is consciousness itself. The one that knows where the tensions are, the one that knows how to dissolve them. And posture after posture, we learn to trust it. 💞

Then comes the moment of the OM. A grounded OM, deep and powerful, that makes the chest vibrate like a sounding board. The feet become roots, the body becomes a tree, and the sound rises and rises, all the way to the sky. 🙏

We draw circles with the chin. The hips follow, the lower back lengthens, the glutes unknot. And Alexandre murmurs: “consciousness feels everything”. Every sensation, refusing none. 🌟

Then comes the dance of the hands on the lower back, an energy healing. And as the warmth flows from our palms, we declare, all together:

“I declare my love to life. I love you.”

This mantra becomes a prayer. A prayer that embodies gratitude for surprises, for hugs, for improvisation, for everything that slips beyond control. 💖

We move on to the little frog (Malasana — deep hip opening). Three minutes, back nice and straight, hands in anjali mudra, breath of fire. The air comes in on its own, and we breathe out. Each at our own pace. And the fire rises, within. 🔥

After the elixir and the sound of the bowl, we explore the plank (Phalakasana — core strength and inner power). The pelvis keeps rising, pushed by a force that no longer belongs to us. Then the butterfly (Baddha Konasana — opening of the pelvis and the heart), feet together, knees rising and falling like wings.

And we lie down. The strap catches the right foot. The leg rises, slowly, the lower back pressed flat to the floor, the neck relaxed. The forearms pull, and the body begins to tremble. 🦋

Alexandre then invites us into something extraordinary:

“I join pleasure and stretching together. I surrender to tantric orgasms.”

It is no longer a posture. It is a celebration. Pain turns into pleasure, the stretch becomes ecstasy, the trembling becomes prayer. And the body, at last, knows it is loved. ✨

The same sequence with the left leg. Then lying fully stretched out. And there, after the out-breath, something remarkable happens: a natural breath suspension. Not a willed breath-hold, no. A stillness that comes of itself, the result of total surrender. The beginning, Alexandre tells us, of the states of samadhi. 🕊️

We wrap our arms around ourselves. We give ourselves a hug. And we whisper: “I love you, I’m in love with you”. And this loving vibration sends out a morphic song that resonates throughout the whole universe. 💫

The lower back trembles. The pelvis trembles. The thighs tremble. As if we were receiving an energy healing from within. The body reorganizes itself. 🌱

And we stand up again for the conscious walk. Ten minutes. Eyes closed, blindfold on. And then, a surprise: Alexandre tells us that this morning his body is walking backwards. Why? Because it finds more pleasure in it. And that, he says, is when he realizes that the body is constantly seeking pleasure. 🌟

The session closes with integration. Opening the eyes, but staying with the sensations. Keeping the presence even when the video game’s graphics card switches on. Staying in the feet, in the hands, in the heart. 💖

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Stretched Mountain — Stretched Tadasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and well grounded, calves and thighs engaged, glutes active, abs held. The hands rise to the sky, thumbs hooked, and the body lifts onto the tiptoes, suspended as if by a thread from the crown of the head. Breathe in deeply as you rise.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the calves, thighs and abdominal wall. Lengthens the spine. Improves balance and overall posture.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, the hands rise and then slowly come down towards the floor. The torso comes to touch the legs; the knees may bend slightly. The head drops, relaxed. The hands touch the floor, then press down to straighten the legs again.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back. Decompresses the spine. Encourages blood flow to the head.

🧘 Side Bends — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: Standing, the hands rise, one elbow bends, and the torso leans towards the opposite side. Alternate right and left, feeling the stretch in the lower back and the top of the buttock.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the intercostal muscles, the obliques and the quadratus lumborum. Mobilizes the hips and opens the rib cage.

🧘 Head and Neck Circles — Griva Chalana
The posture: Starting on the left side, the chin draws large, slow circles that take in the back of the head. The body follows the movement, the hips joining in. Gradually change direction.
Benefits for the body: Releases tension in the cervical spine, loosens the neck, unknots the trapezius muscles and stimulates circulation to the brain.

🧘 Pelvic Circles — Kati Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, feet pressed into the floor, knees slightly bent, hands on the hips. The pelvis draws ever larger circles. Alternate between both directions.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hips, loosens the lumbar spine, strengthens the deep pelvic muscles and improves digestion.

🧘 Little Frog — Malasana
The posture: Squatting, feet apart, back nice and straight, gaze forward, palms joined in anjali mudra in front of the chest. Three minutes of breath of fire: quick exhalations through the nose, the air coming in on its own.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips, stretches the ankles and calves, strengthens the pelvic floor and stimulates digestion.

🧘 Plank — Phalakasana
The posture: Hands and forearms on the floor, body aligned from the crown of the head to the heels, pelvis rising continuously, pushed by an inner force. The neck stays relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the deep abdominals, shoulders, arms and the stabilizing muscles of the back. Builds endurance and concentration.

🧘 Butterfly — Baddha Konasana
The posture: Seated, soles of the feet together, back nice and straight, head upright. The knees rise and fall very gently, like wings.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, stretches the adductors, loosens the knees and stimulates circulation in the lower pelvis.

🧘 Reclining Leg Stretch with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed to the floor. A strap catches the foot, and the leg rises slowly until perpendicular to the floor, while the other leg stays extended, heel pressing down. The forearms pull, the neck stays free.
Benefits for the body: Intensely stretches the hamstrings, calves and lower back. Decompresses the hip. Releases nervous tension along the sciatic nerve.

🧘 Self-Hug — Anatman movement
The posture: Lying on the back, knees drawn up, lower back pressed to the floor. The arms wrap around the torso as if in an embrace. Repeat “I love you” to your own body.
Benefits for the body: Opens the shoulder blades, relaxes the rib cage, soothes the parasympathetic nervous system and releases emotions stored in the chest.

🧘 Conscious Walking — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, eyes closed or blindfolded, suspended from the top of the head, feet fully felt. The body walks by itself, sometimes backwards, surrendered to the flow. Ten minutes.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception, strengthens the ankles and stabilizing muscles, calms the mind and integrates the meditative state into movement.

The flow always brings the sacred.

I declare my love to life. I love you.

In this flow, there is no more I, no more me.

Voices from the We

Shared Presence and Gratitude

As every morning, the chat turned into an altar of presences. Each message, however brief, became an offering, a thread of love stretched between hearts. 💞

• “Hi there 😊💜💜💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “hello everyone” — francis
• “Gratitude 🙏” — MaHA
• “gratitude” — francis

A Blessing for the Day

And to close this morning symphony, Rafaël left a simple, luminous blessing, like a final chord hanging in the air.

“gratitude, have a lovely day…!!” — Rafaël

Themes: flow · surrender · sacred · samadhi · love · presence · pleasure · gratitude

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’abandonner au flot sacré de la vie

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 6, 2026, a morning when laughter swept through our bodies like a sacred wave, and every repressed part of us was finally given permission to exist.

There are mornings when you arrive still wearing armor warm from sleep, and leave without knowing where it fell. 🌅 On this October 6, in the village of love — the brand-new name that replaces the old one — something happened that no one had planned. A laugh burst out, then another, then a cascade. And in that laughter, everyone heard the question life has been asking us for so long: are you finally ready to be what you already are? ✨

There was Valérie, Isabelle, Lilit, Prema, Marie-Dominique, Morgane, François, Alexis, Kévin, Anaïs, Shakti-Blue, Baptiste, Margot. There were the Belgians outdoors, at sixteen degrees, which for them was almost warm. And there was, inside as well as outside, the same breath, the same dawn, the same deep OM rising from the ground to pass through every chest. 🕊️

You will see that on that morning, the teaching slipped in through the narrow door of permission. Permission to laugh, to cry, to burp, to yawn, to express ourselves. Permission, above all, to stop holding back that part of us which has been waiting since childhood to finally be told: you have the right to exist. 💞

When Every Part Receives the Key

In everyone’s life there is an inner door, discreet, sometimes forgotten. Behind it wait the parts of us we learned to silence. The child who was too sensitive, the laugher who was too loud, the artist who was too intense, the being who was too beautiful, too strong, too alive. 🦋

This morning Alexandre spoke of a national educastration — the expression is Isabelle’s, and it will soon become a filmed sketch. Behind the humor lies a serious realization: what we call education is often a silencing of who we are. And yoga, each morning, gently comes to undo those bonds.

That morning, the guiding mantra was simple and deeply moving: I release in love everything that keeps me from letting each of my parts express itself. 🙏

The Morning’s Teaching

The theme that ran through the whole session fits in a single sentence: “I release in love everything that keeps me from letting each of my parts express itself.” 🙏 It is the new title of the yoga, as Alexandre announced himself. A title, a door, an invitation.

The morning’s elixir was especially rich. Alexandre channeled a series of mantra-releases that together form a true ceremony of permission. Each one was built on the same template: “I release in love everything that would have me believe that…” and each time, a part of us finally received the key.

That I cannot be accepted as I am. That I will be judged and criticized. That I have to be a certain way to be loved. That my sensitivity is a problem. That what I am might be too strong, too intense, too beautiful. 💫

Then came the initiations, received in gratitude: love, kindness, benevolence, surrender, nonviolent communication, caring communication. Each word is a seed. 🌱

And at the heart of the teaching, this seismic sentence: “My body is my territory. The first territory is the body.” Before inhabiting a house, a village, a relationship, we must first inhabit this flesh that has been entrusted to us.

The other major realization sprang up during the conscious walk: the question is not where you are going, since there is nowhere to go. The question is: how does this feel to me? 🦋 A radical shift. From the goal to the path. From arriving to feeling. From conquest to presence.

Alexandre also shared a personal realization, both serious and luminous: through the education he received, he had learned to deny many parts of himself. “It’s not an education, it’s a castration,” said Isabelle. National educastration — a phrase both funny and cutting that will become a sketch.

Behind the laughter, the teaching is crystal clear: every repressed part is waiting to exist. The burp, the yawn, the laugh, the tear, the Kundalini that jolts, the unexpected hug — all of this is the natural expression of life when we stop smothering it. 💞

And the last mantra, the one that brought the room to tears: “To each of my parts, I love you. You have the right to express yourself now. You have the right to exist now. You have the right to be what you want to be.” ✨

Finally, Alexandre offered a practice to carry through the day: associate the sound of the bell or the singing bowl with peace. One sound at breakfast, one at lunch, one at dinner. A sound to stop everything, suspend everything, disappear, realign and live from presence. 🕊️

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The morning began with an individual sound, the contracted breath, in which the whole body becomes rigid so as to better feel what it does when we tighten the calves, thighs, buttocks, abs. The arms rise, rise, rise, the heels lift, and in this deliberate tension, by contrast, the immense softness of letting go reveals itself. ✨

Alexandre then invites us to welcome all emotions, welcome all bodily sensations. The repetition becomes a prayer. I welcome, I welcome, I welcome. And already, in the room, Wahiri is giggling. Valérie and Isabelle, the explosive cocktail we had been warned about, slip into laughter yoga without even trying. 🤍

Next comes the backward stretch, thumbs hooked, then the slow descent toward the mat, chest on the thighs, hands sliding toward the floor. The standing forward fold reveals everything the backs of the thighs have to say when we finally listen.

“I welcome all my emotions, say it with me: I welcome all my bodily sensations, I welcome.”

Then the side stretch, right arm raised, ear against the arm, and these precious words: the delight of the stretch. 💫 Alexandre suggests we pair delight with stretching. Not putting up with it, not enduring it: delighting in it. The heel lifts, the elbow rises, and what he calls the inner masseur arrives — that intelligence of the body that knows where to go once we stop dictating to it.

The right hand massages the back of the head, the neck. I surrender to the inner masseur, I surrender. The same movement on the other side, and already the body feels different, more inhabited, more porous. 🌿

Then the deep OM resonates in the feet. The legs become roots, the inner tree rises up. And on this foundation, Alexandre guides wide neck circles that engage the whole body — one side, then the other, slowly, to surrender to the inner yogi.

Then comes the moment of vertical gratitude, arms raised, blindfold over the eyes. To life, I love you. To the delight of life. To my magnificent body, I love you. Words become a wave, the body becomes a temple. 💖

“Gratitude for having a magnificent body, gratitude to my physical body, I love you.”

Then the surrender posture, chest leaning back, hands on the lower back. Alexandre speaks of an energy healing, with the heart chakras in each palm. We imagine the warmth, we send love into the lower back. The spine opens like an offering. 🌟

Wide pelvic circles follow, slow at first, then broader. And there, in the rotation, one of the purest realizations of the morning emerges: “My body is my territory. The first territory is the body.” 💫 A sentence that puts everything back in place — before the land, before the house, before even the village of love, there is this flesh to inhabit.

Alexandre then introduces the frog, a dynamic breathing exercise, followed by squats for those outdoors who want to warm up, and a few push-ups for volunteers. Valérie does fifty — “yes 50 push-ups 👍”. The body wakes up, laughs, vibrates.

Then we lie down on our backs, strap in hand, to stretch the right leg. Lower back pressed to the floor, forearms pulling, neck free. And that’s when the epidemic begins. Kundalini for Lilit, uncontrollable laughter for Valérie, singing for Chang. 🦋 Alexandre lets it out: “I surrender to the Kundalini rising. And if it jolts, it jolts.”

“It’s a clown convention today. I love you, clowns.”

The laughter becomes contagious. Valérie writes in the chat: “gratitude for the laughter it’s contagious 🤣🤣”. And in this laughter a beautiful truth reveals itself: the nose is unblocked, both nostrils, Ida and Pingala, are open, and that is what makes us laugh. 🌱 Laughter as an energetic sign, not a distraction.

The same stretch with the left leg, the same risings, the same surrender. Then stretching the little toes, one by one, with awareness of the acupuncture meridians. Second toe, third, fourth, big toe. The body becomes a complete map.

Then comes the chai ceremony. Seated, in half lotus, back straight as if suspended from the crown of the head. Alexandre channels the mantras, and this is the high point of the morning. 🙏

“I release in love everything that would have me believe that I have to be a certain way to be loved and welcomed.”

Tears flow. “I am welcomed as I am, I am. I am already perfect, I am.” ✨ Then the initiation: love, kindness, benevolence, surrender, nonviolent communication, caring communication. Each initiation is received in gratitude.

And always this deeply moving sentence: “To each of my parts, I love you. You have the right to exist now. You have the right to be what you want to be.” 💞 This is where the morning tips over completely.

The session continues with the conscious walk, eyes closed behind the blindfold. Bodies cross paths, touch, and hugs spring up — “Conscious hugs,” says Alexandre, surprised himself by the wave of love. “It’s better than at a distance, Valérie.” 🤍

Walking backward becomes a lower-back massage. Walking forward becomes has-been. And in this reversal, a final realization: what matters is not the goal, it’s the path, and above all: how does this feel to me? 🌅

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Individual sound with arms raised, on tiptoe — Urdhva Hastasana (variation)
The posture: standing, feet parallel, arms rising slowly toward the sky with thumbs hooked, then rising onto tiptoe while contracting the calves, thighs, buttocks and abs, gaze forward, long inhalation through the nose.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the calves and the stabilizing muscles of the ankles, stretches the lower back and rib cage, improves balance.

🧘 Backbend with thumbs hooked — Anuvittasana
The posture: standing, hands behind the back with thumbs hooked, chest opening slightly toward the sky, gentle backward tilt of the torso, full breathing.
Benefits for the body: opens the solar plexus and shoulders, makes the thoracic vertebrae more supple, frees the upper breath.

🧘 Standing forward fold — Uttanasana
The posture: standing, slow descent vertebra by vertebra, chest toward the thighs, hands toward the floor, knees bent if needed, then pressing into the hands to straighten the legs.
Benefits for the body: deeply stretches the backs of the thighs and hamstrings, decompresses the lumbar spine, calms the nervous system.

🧘 Right-angle posture with hands on knees — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: torso parallel to the floor, hands resting on the knees, long back, gaze forward, slow breathing.
Benefits for the body: lengthens the spine, strengthens the back, stretches the hamstrings.

🧘 Side stretch with inner masseur — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: right arm raised, ear toward the arm, lateral bend, opposite heel lifting, free hand massaging the back of the neck.
Benefits for the body: stretches the ribs and obliques, releases neck tension, opens the space between the hips.

🧘 Wide neck circles — Anatman movement
The posture: slowly drawing large circles with the chin, engaging the whole body, with the lower back joining the movement.
Benefits for the body: loosens the nape of the neck, mobilizes the cervical spine, relaxes the shoulder girdle.

🧘 Backward surrender posture, hands behind the back — Ardha Anuvittasana (variation)
The posture: arms out to the sides then back, hands on the lower back, slight arch, sending love through the palms.
Benefits for the body: opens the rib cage, mobilizes the lower back, stimulates circulation.

🧘 Pelvic circles — Anatman movement
The posture: standing, knees slightly bent, wide circles of the pelvis in one direction then the other, breathing freely.
Benefits for the body: loosens the hips and lower back, tones the obliques and lower back, improves pelvic fluidity.

🧘 Breathing frog — Anatman movement
The posture: squatting with a straight back, gaze forward, exhaling through the nose and inhaling fully, at your own pace.
Benefits for the body: opens the hips and adductors, stimulates digestion, tones the thighs.

🧘 Squat — Malasana (standing variation)
The posture: bending the knees with a straight back, lowering and rising while staying upright.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the quadriceps and glutes, warms up the whole body, mobilizes the knees.

🧘 Push-ups — Chaturanga Dandasana (variation)
The posture: plank with arms straight, then controlled bending of the elbows, chest toward the floor and back up.
Benefits for the body: strengthens the arms, chest and abdominals, builds strength in the shoulder girdle.

🧘 Reclining leg stretch with a strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: lying on the back, strap around the foot, straight leg rising, neck relaxed, lower back pressed down, pushing through the opposite heel.
Benefits for the body: stretches the hamstrings and calf, decompresses the lower back, promotes circulation in the legs.

🧘 Knees to chest with rounded back — Apanasana
The posture: lying down, knees drawn toward the chest, back rounded, neck free.
Benefits for the body: massages the digestive organs, stretches the lower back, eases lumbar tension.

🧘 Toe stretch — Anatman movement
The posture: lying down, stretching the little toes one by one, then the big toes, with awareness of the meridians.
Benefits for the body: activates the reflex points of the feet, stimulates the flow of energy, refines proprioception.

🧘 Seated half lotus — Ardha Padmasana
The posture: legs crossed in half lotus, back straight as if suspended from the crown of the head, hands on the thighs, eyes closed.
Benefits for the body: aligns the spine, calms the mind, opens the hips.

🧘 Conscious walk — Anatman movement
The posture: slow walking with eyes closed, then open, forward then backward, fully present to the feet and sensations.
Benefits for the body: strengthens proprioception, mobilizes the lower back (walking backward), anchors you in the moment.

My body is my territory. The first territory is the body.

I release in love everything that keeps me from letting each of my parts express itself.

The question is not where you are going, since there is nowhere to go. The question is: how does this feel to me?

Voices from the We

Laughter as a Shared Offering

On a morning woven with contagious laughter, the words in the chat carry on the vibration of the room.

“gratitude for the laughter it’s contagious 🤣🤣” — Valérie

The Joy of a Body Fully Engaged

The session called on the body in all its strength, and Valérie turned it into a joyful playground.

• “yes 50 push-ups 👍” — Valérie

The Gentleness of Arrivals

Each hello is a hand held out in the morning light.

• “Ola, hi there, good morning!” — Rafaël
• “Hi 💜🙏” — Sandrine
• “good morning everyone” — Valérie
• “good morning everyone” — Francis

The Final Gratitude

At the end of the yoga, the words grow shorter, denser, like candles being blown out.

• “have a good day, hugs and kisses…” — Rafaël
• “have a good day everyone” — Valérie
• “Gratitude 🙏” — MaHA

Themes: permission · expression · release · body-territory · laughter · conscious hugs · education · presence

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’autoriser à exister pleinement

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of October 1, 2026, a morning when the body’s delight met the science of the Non-Self, and every stretch became a doorway to the absolute.

Some mornings open like petals. 🌅 On this first day of October in Saint-Nexant, the air is still mild, the unrolled mats welcome the bodies, and somewhere between two breaths, a truth emerges: we are not localized. We never have been.

Around the mat are Cathy, Cécile, Francis, Marie-Noël, Préma, Kella, Valérie, Isabelle, MaHA… and all those who, from the other side of the screen, are breathing with us. ✨ Distance fades away before the practice even begins, because distance never existed.

And then there is that little detail that changes everything: the chai steaming in the cup, the Indian spices releasing their age-old mystery, and already the body knows that something great is about to unfold. 🌿

The Sacred Joystick

Imagine for a moment that your body is a game controller. Not a poetic metaphor — a technical reality. This is the image that runs through the session like a golden thread: “The interface, the controller you use to play in the game, is your physical body.”

And with this controller, everything becomes possible: dancing, speaking, ordering matter, drawing closer or moving away, creating spaces where there were none. 💫 The body is no longer a prison. It becomes the most precious tool of the magician that you are.

So this morning, we are going to learn how to hold this controller. To massage it, to stretch it, to love it. Because it is what will take you wherever you decide to go. 🦋

The Morning’s Teaching

After the frog, after the effort and the release, comes chai time. The Indian spices release their age-old magic into the steaming cup. 🌿 And it is in this suspended moment that the central teaching emerges.

“I lovingly release the programs, memories, habits, conditionings, everything that would have me believe that the divine, that God, is outside of me.” Then comes the declaration that shakes every edifice: “I realize that God is me. I realize that God is us. I realize that we are one.”

Then Alexandre unfolds the great image of the session: the Theory of the Creation of Reality. We are in a video game. Our body is the joystick. And the question becomes radically simple: what am I expressing? Because what I express is what creates my reality.

“If I express too much of the absolute, acting as if my relative self didn’t exist, that’s what will happen. What if I balanced the two?”

And here is the mantra that opens up an entire dimension: “I create space within me to welcome my human needs.” A space for affection. A space for tenderness. A space for sensuality. A space for sexuality. ✨ We are non-localized, so there is no space by default — it is we who create the spaces in which we choose to live.

“The creator of the space, I am.” This sentence changes everything. It turns the educational, scientific and philosophical perspective upside down. At school, no one told us we were non-localized — “we’ll have to wait a few thousand years for that,” Alexandre smiles. But here and now, we can realize it.

Then comes the elixir in the cup. Warmth, spices, honey. And the reminder of the mirror: “Every time you say I love you, you receive exactly one I love you in return. It’s mathematical.” 💖 Everything you send out comes back like a boomerang — sometimes very quickly, depending on your level of consciousness.

But beware of a misunderstanding: this is not about loving everything. It is about deciding what I like and what I don’t — that is relative identity. “I welcome everything” does not mean putting up with everything. It means: within my safe space, within what I have chosen to live, I welcome everything. Discernment remains king. 🕊️

And then this beautiful agricultural image: Einstein’s compound interest, a million Chinese people with buckets making a mountain disappear, the farmer who sows for thirty years. “It’s the cumulative effect.” A tenth of a millimeter of flexibility a day, and after a year, the body is transformed. 🌱 Magic is patient.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The session opens with this mantra, which resounds like a seal: “I surrender to my inner yogi.” Then comes the massage of the cheeks and jaws — those areas where, without our knowing it, so many held-back words and swallowed smiles lodge. 🌿 Already, something settles.

The hands rise, the thumbs hook together, the body leans slightly back and then returns to vertical. And then this phrase that makes everyone smile: “The stiffer I am, the easier it is.” The whole philosophy of the morning is contained in these few words. 💫 Whoever resists finds their structure. Whoever struggles discovers their spine.

“I allow myself the delight of the stretch, I allow myself.”

Then the blindfold comes down over the eyes, and the inner world opens. The arms bend in an arc, the hands massage the back of the neck, the thumb kneads the cervical vertebrae. And this essential reminder: “I surrender to my inner masseur.” There is no one left. Only the second brain, the one that knows, the one that removes tensions without needing any explanation.

The chin draws large circles, first in one direction, then in the other. It isn’t the head that turns — it is the whole upper body that stretches, opens, releases. 🕊️ Tensions at the back of the skull appear, then melt away under the circular movements.

And then comes the territorial mantra, a sound that anchors identity in the feet: “Ah!” A sound that says I am here, this is my space, I inhabit it. Philippe struggles to find it, his breath runs short. Alexandre smiles: “Yoga every day for three months, Philippe.” The master’s kindness is never indulgent — it shows the way.

“I’m the one who decides now. I lovingly release all the programs that get tired before I do.”

Then comes the posture of surrender, back arched over the mat, with a magnificent mantra: “To life, I love you.” 💖 And this touching variation: “To this beautiful video game, I love you.” The hands go to the lower back, become suns, warm up, already weep. An energy healing given to oneself, by oneself, from oneself.

The Five Tibetans, the body stretching forward, the hands pushing toward the floor, the shoulder blades opening. “I associate delight with stretching, I associate.” The whole alchemy of Yoga Anatman is here: transforming effort into pleasure, constraint into celebration. 🌟

Then the hip circles, large, ample, sensual. One after another, the senses multiply — hyperesthesia, says Alexandre. The body becomes an instrument of infinite delight. “I welcome my sensuality, I welcome.” ✨ And the mantra that follows, deeply moving: “To my physical body, I love you. Oh, you are beautiful. I’m crazy about you.”

Then comes the frog (Mandukasana): squatting, back straight, breath of fire (Kapalabhati) setting the belly ablaze. Three minutes that feel like three hours, then lying down on the belly: “I disappear.” 🦋 Maximum effort always precedes maximum release — that is the secret of tantra.

And then this technical revelation that few people know: when the body trembles during the postures, especially with the legs in the air, it is a reorganization of the nervous system. Idâ and Pingalâ come into balance, Sushumna opens, the central channel becomes available. Kundalini can rise. 💫

“The more I let myself tremble, the more I teach my nervous system to receive more energy, more Kundalini, more Shakti.”

The legs rise toward the sky, one and then the other, the forearms pull, the neck stays supple. The lower back trembles. The left foot, suddenly, stops trembling — a sign that balance has been reached. “That’s very rare here,” Alexandre smiles. The moment is sacred.

Then the toes, one by one, gently pulled. The big toe, the second, the third, the fourth — the one that is “stuck between the big toe and the other one” — and the little one. “How many times in this life have you said I love you to your toes?” 💞 The question disarms. Laughter rises. The obvious sinks in: we ignore whole parts of ourselves.

Finally, the mindful walk, inherited from François’s ten years with Thich Nhat Hanh. 🙏 Standing tall, suspended by a thread above the head, like a puppet, like Cleopatra. And the magic word: “Walk.” Not to go anywhere. Walking as a goal in itself. Hugs happen at random, Isabelle laughs, paradise reveals itself on a yoga mat.

The Session’s Postures

🧘 Cheek and Jaw Massage — Mukha Marma
The posture: Sitting upright, the hands massage the cheeks and jaws with circular movements. Breathing stays nasal and deep, and exhaling through the mouth releases the tension built up in the face.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the chewing muscles, releases tension in the jaw, improves blood circulation in the face.

🧘 Vertical Stretch with Hooked Thumbs — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing with feet anchored, the arms rise above the head, thumbs hooked together. Tighten the thighs, abdominals and glutes, and rise onto the tips of the toes, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth. The gaze stays straight ahead.
Benefits for the body: Full stretch of the spine, strengthens the calves, tones the core.

🧘 Standing Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: Standing, the torso slowly lowers onto the thighs, the hands touch the floor, the knees may be slightly bent. With each exhalation, push the hands toward the floor and gradually straighten the legs.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, loosens the lower back, decompresses the lumbar vertebrae.

🧘 Seated Staff Pose — Dandasana
The posture: Sitting on the floor, legs stretched out in front, hands resting on the knees, back very straight. Deep breathing through the nose allows a moment of active recovery.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the back, stretches the legs, improves seated posture.

🧘 Standing Side Bend — Standing Parsva Konasana
The posture: One arm rises above the head, the body leans sideways in an arc, the opposite heel may lift. The other hand rests on the hip. Then the elbow of the raised arm bends, and the hand comes to massage the back of the neck.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides, opens the rib cage, releases the neck.

🧘 Chin Circles — Griva Chakra
The posture: Standing, the chin draws large circles, lowering down to the sternum and rising up the sides to the back. The whole upper body accompanies the movement.
Benefits for the body: Flexibility of the neck, relaxes the trapezius, better circulation to the head.

🧘 Surrender Posture with Backbend — Setu, Anatman variation
The posture: Arms spread wide, lean slightly back, the back opens, the chest arches, in a posture of total surrender to life.
Benefits for the body: Opens the heart, stretches the pectorals, stretches the spine.

🧘 Five Tibetans Posture — Deep Bend
The posture: Lean back and then come back, rolling up vertebra by vertebra from the lower back, arms extended, a full stretch of the posterior chain.
Benefits for the body: Full mobilization of the spine, overall vitality, energetic stimulation.

🧘 Hip Circles — Kati Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, hands on the hips, the pelvis draws large circles, first in one direction and then the other, keeping the feet firmly anchored.
Benefits for the body: Lumbar flexibility, hip mobility, stimulation of the second chakra.

🧘 The Frog — Mandukasana
The posture: Squatting, hands on the floor, back and head very straight, gaze straight ahead. Practice the breath of fire (Kapalabhati): the air comes in naturally, and you exhale rhythmically through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the thighs and ankles, massages the digestive organs, deep oxygenation.

🧘 Prone Posture — Advasana
The posture: Lying on the belly, arms alongside the body or under the forehead, total release, natural breathing.
Benefits for the body: Decompresses the back, brings calm, regulates the nervous system.

🧘 Alternating Leg Raise — Urdhva Prasarita Padasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed firmly to the floor, neck relaxed. One leg rises toward the perpendicular, the forearms gently pull it toward you, the other leg stays anchored to the floor, heel pressing down.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, strengthens the abdominal wall, loosens the lower back.

🧘 Toe Stretching and Mobilization — Pada Sanchalanasana
The posture: Lying on the back, knees bent toward the chest, each toe is taken and gently pulled one by one.
Benefits for the body: Toe mobility, preparation for mindful walking, reflex stimulation of the foot zones.

🧘 Mindful Walking — Anatman Movement
The posture: Standing, suspended by an imaginary thread above the skull, shoulders slightly back, the body walks slowly, in full presence, first blindfolded and then with eyes open.
Benefits for the body: Postural alignment, grounding, integration of the meditative state into everyday movement.

I allow myself the delight of the stretch, I allow myself.

I realize that God is me. I realize that God is us. I realize that we are one.

How many times in this life have you said I love you to your toes?

Voices from the We

Gratitude and Presence

• “Hello everyone, gratitude” — Valérie
• “Hello Sébastien and everyone else” — Francis
• “Hi there 😊 🔥💛🙏” — Préma
• “Hello everyone, namaste” — Valérie

Hearts Opening from Afar

“Thank you, Alexandre, for being here ❤️ I love you, I love you all. Thank you, everyone.” — Nadine

• “Gratitude ❤️ such a lovely moment” — Nadine
• “I love Isabelle’s laugh ❤️” — Nadine
• “Have a beautiful day, all of you ❤️” — Nadine
• “Gratitude 💞 🙏” — MaHA
• “Gratitude, thank you” — Francis
• “Hi everyone, too bad it cut out a lot, but I was with you all the same” — Nadine

Bodies Transforming

“Well, it found some new positions. It’s wow! Gratitude!” — MaHA

• “Beautiful day!” — MaHA
• “Have a good day, Alexandre and everyone” — Francis
• “Have a good day, everyone” — Valérie

Themes: non-self · video game · creating space · delight · kundalini · mindful walking · discernment · compound interest

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’autoriser à créer son espace intérieur

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of September 30, 2026, a late-September morning when Indian summer was still drifting into the studio, its doors flung wide open to the golden light.

It is eight o’clock. ✨ A wave of warmth moves through the room like a late blessing. Bodies settle, breaths fall into tune, and already something is coming to rest. Can you feel it? That quiet quiver, that promise of opening that comes before every session.

This morning, Alexandre Anatman invites us on a special journey: not to become someone, but to remove everything that keeps us from being what we already are. 🌿 A subtle shift. A reversal of perspective that changes everything.

What if you were already perfect?

The question hangs in the air, as light as a feather, as heavy as a century of conditioning. 🦋 For how many times have we been taught the opposite? How many inner voices still whisper that we must earn it, prove ourselves, improve?

And yet. This morning, a mantra returns again and again like a gentle wave: “I am perfect just as I am.” 💫 Not to inflate the ego, but to recognize the sacred already pulsing in each of us. To honor the divinity that has never stopped being there, patient, silent, simply waiting to be seen.

It is this recognition that the session explores, in the body, in the breath, in the tears that sometimes rise without warning. 💞 A teaching of alignment, of sovereignty, and of infinite kindness toward oneself.

The Morning Teaching

Today’s elixir is an alignment elixir. ✨ A cup of hot chai or green tea in your hands, your back nice and straight, and a series of mantras that will lay into every cell an ancient, often forgotten truth: you are already perfect.

Alexandre unfolds the central mantra: “I release in love everything that keeps me from surrendering, from letting go.” Then comes the cascade: the programs, the memories, the conditioning, everything that keeps us from saying what we feel, from expressing ourselves in real time. 💞 Each sentence is a door swinging open.

Then the teaching opens onto wider ground: speech creates reality. 🌟 Alexandre reminds us that life is a video game so advanced that it listens to everything we express. The body, the voice, our actions: all of it is user interface. That is why the Toltec agreements work: the Mexican shamans and healers understood that impeccable speech creates an impeccable reality.

“If you say just anything, you’ll generate just anything. It’s as simple as that.”

Then comes the mantra that brings the whole room to tears: “I am perfect just as I am.” 💖 Alexandre insists: this is not arrogance, it is not inflating the ego, it is stepping into the sacred. “Yes, I am divine, but so are you. Everyone is, in fact.”

The teaching points out a major conceptual error: in our society, as soon as someone loves and recognizes themselves, people call it selfishness. 🦋 But that is a confusion: “It isn’t the ego, it’s the absolute recognizing this reality.” Recognizing your own divinity changes your vibration, makes you more beautiful, more luminous. You can feel it energetically.

Alexandre also reveals the root: self-denial often comes from childhood, from parental projections. 🌿 “Sometimes, in the parents’ heads, there’s this: I’m not allowed to exist, so my child isn’t allowed to exist either, otherwise they’d show me up.” Understanding this means being able to release the root and finally choose to exist fully.

Finally, the teaching culminates in conscious creation: “I release in love everything that would have me play the same game as my parents. I create my own game within the game, I create.” 🕊️ You don’t have to play society’s game, nor your lineage’s. You can embody your own score, in full awareness, in full freedom.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

The first OM rises, low and deep. 🙏 A great OM of love that resonates through the room and through every cell. Alexandre sets the tone from the start: “Millions of details. That’s life, life is millions of details.” Awareness will seep in everywhere this morning, into the tiniest folds of the body.

First the hands massage the jaw and cheeks. 🌱 A silent zone of accumulated tension, a fortress of words held back. Then the arms rise toward the sky, suspended, the shoulder blades stretch, the lower back tenderly opens. Alexandre tosses out this line that makes us smile and cry at once:

“If you’re not moved, filled with bliss, then you haven’t done enough yoga.”

The toes contract, then the glutes, the abs, the thighs. The whole body becomes a living vertical line, stretched between earth and sky. ✨ And then comes surrender. The keyword that will return like a refrain throughout the session. “I surrender to my inner yogi master.”

The thumbs hook together at the lower back, the blindfold slides down over the eyes. 🕊️ Visual reality disappears. What remains is pure feeling, naked, offered. The torso leans back, returns, then bends forward. The hands touch the floor. The thighs stretch and it heats up, as Alexandre says, marveling at the morning’s intensity.

In the right-angle pose, emotions surface. “If tears come, they come,” Alexandre murmurs. 💖 And this is where a first great realization settles in: relaxation brings buried emotions to the surface. It is no accident; it is how a liberated body actually works. “There’s so much relaxation and surrender that emotions can come up, it’s normal. That’s also what it’s for.”

Then comes a precious teaching on the two brains. 🌟 Alexandre shares the latest discoveries: we have a conscious brain and an automatic brain. Yoga develops precisely this second brain. “I surrender, I disappear, I let the other brain take care of everything, and it rests me.” What a liberation. What a relief to dare to stop controlling everything.

A powerful mantra takes hold: “I release in love everything that keeps me from existing and expressing myself.” 💫 And every voice in the room takes it up and makes it its own. The arms open wide into a cross, vertical and horizontal, and Alexandre declares his love to life itself: “To life, I love you. To the universe, I love you.” Tears flow. Love without an object reveals itself as the true nature of the heart.

“I activate my healing hands, I activate. I remember that my hands heal, I remember.”

The hands come to rest on the lower back, warm, alive. 🤍 An energy healing we offer ourselves, in the lumbar area. The energy of healing, the energy of love circulates. And then comes the initiation into infinite kindness. “I am kindness incarnate.” Alexandre immediately adds that this gentleness rules out neither boundaries nor intelligence. Kindness and sovereignty coexist.

The pelvis begins to dance. 🌿 Circles, small at first, then large, unlocking the organs. An initiation into belly dance unfolds, in connection with the Maghreb, with everyone who follows the broadcasts. The body burps, yawns, lets go. “I release in love everything that wants to control my physical body.” Energetic digestion does its work.

Then comes the frog, breath of fire, three minutes of intensity. 🔥 Everyone chooses: keep going with the frog, do push-ups, or sit down. What matters isn’t performance, it’s feeling. Alexandre gently reminds us: “There’s nothing to succeed at, nothing to force. There’s no goal other than: what does this do to me?”

Then cat and cow, on all fours, the back undulating between hollow and arch. 🐾 The stretches flow one into the next, the tongue sometimes sticks out, like a cat stretching in the sun. And then comes the dragon, a deep hip-opening pose, preceded by the mountain that prepares the ground.

Rest on the back. Three minutes in which the cosmic clown shows up. 😄 “When there’s no one left, it laughs.” This splendid phrase from Alexandre reminds us that deep joy is not something to conquer but something to set free. Laughter emerges from the void, from total surrender.

Then the strap stretches, right leg then left leg at 90 degrees. 🦋 The thighs heat up, trembling sometimes appears. “If it trembles, it trembles. Something is adapting, actually training itself to receive a lot of energy.” We are preparing the body for Kundalini risings; it is a subtle training.

“The question isn’t how to find nirvana again, but how to simply be what I already am. Laughter, bliss, nirvana, ecstasy, euphoria: that is our nature.”

And here the heart of the teaching reveals itself. 💫 Nothing to attain. Nothing to add. Just remove. Buddha nature is already here, intact, luminous. The question turns upside down: not “how can I be happy”, but “how can I remove everything that keeps me from being happy”. Dizzying. Liberating.

The session closes with conscious walking, blindfolded. 🌅 Alexandre sets the intention, “walk”, then disappears. The second brain takes over. And it walks. All by itself. Conscious hugs multiply around the room, touch is magnified tenfold, the temperature of the air becomes perceptible, the birds are singing. It is training for the afternoon’s forest walk.

Then the blindfold comes off, the eyes open, but the walking goes on, all by itself. 🙏 The altered state of consciousness, which is in fact our natural state, settles in for the day. “It can do anything in this state, even work.”

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Suspended pose with arms extended — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet firmly rooted in the ground, the arms slowly rise toward the sky. The toes contract; the glutes, abs and thighs engage. The body becomes a suspended vertical line, held by deep breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the shoulder blades and lower back, strengthens the posterior muscle chain, opens the rib cage and encourages full, ample breathing.

🧘 Hooked-thumbs pose — Anuvittasana variation
The posture: Standing, the thumbs hook together at the lower back; then the torso gently leans back, returns to vertical, then bends forward while the arms rise behind. Inhaling through the nose accompanies each movement.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the shoulders and trapezius muscles, stretches the backs of the thighs, makes the spine more supple.

🧘 Forward fold — Uttanasana
The posture: Standing, the torso lowers toward the thighs and the hands come to touch the floor. Press into the hands with each exhale to stretch the backs of the legs. The knees can bend depending on the day’s flexibility.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings and calves, decompresses the lumbar spine, calms the nervous system.

🧘 Standing right-angle pose — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: The hands rest on the knees and the back lengthens parallel to the floor, forming a right angle with the legs. The head stays in line with the spine, gaze toward the floor.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the back, stretches the hamstrings, develops postural awareness.

🧘 Lateral neck bends — neck variation of Parsva Konasana
The posture: The arms rise overhead, then the right elbow bends and drops behind the head. Repeat on the left side. The movement is slow, breathed, surrendered.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the triceps and the sides of the body, opens the shoulders, releases tension in the neck.

🧘 Head rotations — Anatman movement
The posture: The head draws large circles in one direction, then the other. The heels lift slightly and the whole body follows the movement of the chin. Awareness stays at the chin.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical vertebrae, stretches the lower back, improves blood flow to the head.

🧘 Five Tibetans pose — backbend
The posture: Standing, hands on the lower back, the torso gently leans back without forcing. The spine extends backward at its own pace, each person according to their flexibility.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, stretches the abdominals, strengthens the back.

🧘 Pelvic circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, knees slightly bent, the pelvis draws circles, small at first and then larger and larger. Move to the left, back, to the right, forward, then change direction.
Benefits for the body: Unlocks the hips and sacrum, massages the abdominal organs, improves balance.

🧘 Frog pose — Mandukasana
The posture: Squatting, back nice and straight, head upright, hands in anjali mudra in front of the heart. The gaze stays forward. Breath of fire: the air moves in and out through the nose at a rapid pace.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the thighs and calves, opens the hips, stimulates digestion and vital energy.

🧘 Cat and cow pose — Marjaryasana / Bitilasana
The posture: On all fours, the back rounds on the exhale (cat), then hollows on the inhale as the head lifts (cow). The tongue can stick out in cat to release tension.
Benefits for the body: Makes the whole spine more supple, massages the digestive organs, relieves tension in the back.

🧘 Downward mountain pose — Adho Mukha Svanasana
The posture: The forearms press into the floor, the pelvis rises, the legs stretch. The back lengthens and the shoulder blades engage. Press firmly into the hands.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the calves and hamstrings, strengthens the arms and shoulders, decompresses the spine.

🧘 Dragon pose — Utthan Pristhasana
The posture: From mountain, one leg steps forward, the foot outside the hand. The shoulders align above the hands. To go deeper, the back knee slides further back. Alternate right and left.
Benefits for the body: Deeply opens the hips and psoas, stretches the hip flexors, strengthens the legs.

🧘 Leg stretch with a strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on your back, a strap goes under the sole of the foot and the leg rises toward the sky to form a right angle. The other leg stays pressed flat to the floor. The neck stays relaxed; it’s the forearms that do the pulling.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the backs of the thighs, relieves the lower back, improves hip flexibility.

🧘 Knees to chest — Apanasana
The posture: Lying on your back, the knees draw up toward the torso and the arms wrap around them. The back rounds; the head and neck stay completely relaxed.
Benefits for the body: Relieves the lower back, massages the intestines, releases gas and aids digestion.

🧘 Conscious walking — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, blindfolded, set the intention “walk” and then let the automatic brain take over. Feel the arches of your feet, the warmth of the floor, the temperature of the air, your balance with every step.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception, strengthens balance, refines sensory awareness and coordination.

If you’re not moved, filled with bliss, then you haven’t done enough yoga.

The question isn’t how to find nirvana again, but how to simply be what I already am.

When there’s no one left, it laughs.

Voices from the We

Gratitude for the Session

• “Thank youuuu Alexandre, it’s divine” — Cécile
• “gratitude for this beautiful day, hugs” — Shakti Anne
• “Thank you so much, have a lovely day everyone 💖 gratitude” — Valérie
• “gratitude, beautiful day to you all…” — Rafaël

Shared Love

“Thank you Alexandre for being here ❤️ I love you, I love you all. Thank you everyone.” — Nadine

• “gratitude ❤️ beautiful day to all of you, I love you 💕” — Nadine
• “Gratitude 💞 🙏” — MaHA

Themes: surrender · perfection · alignment · sovereignty · kindness · creative speech · divinity · kundalini

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : S’autoriser à exister dans sa pleine perfection

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of September 29, 2026, the first morning of a retreat week in which something opened up — gently, almost imperceptibly — like a door we had forgotten to push.

There are mornings when being late becomes a gift. ✨ Eight minutes past eight. A record, Alexandre says with a smile, and already something relaxes in the room, in Lusigny as well as online, because perfection is no longer expected.

And you, you are here. Perhaps wrapped in your blanket, perhaps with the blindfold already over your eyes, perhaps simply curious about what happens when you allow yourself to be exactly who you are, on a Tuesday morning as October draws near. 🌿

Sovereignty Rediscovered

Imagine for a moment. You are standing, feet like roots, arms spread wide, and something in you — something very old — dares to say yes. Yes to the stretch. Yes to the pleasure. Yes to this breathing body. 🦋

This is how the session begins. Not with discipline, but with permission. The central teaching will emerge little by little, as something self-evident: I am my own authority. And this authority is not something you beg for. It is something you realize.

In the mantras that punctuate the practice, one verb keeps coming back, insistent, almost haunting: to dare. Dare to express yourself. Dare to be. Dare to order from the universe. 💫 And behind this verb lies a teaching of quiet power that will unfold throughout the morning.

The Morning’s Teaching

At the heart of sharing the elixir, Alexandre speaks the words that will nourish the whole session. A hot green tea in your hands, silence all around, and this certainty settling in: you are your own sovereignty. 👑

“The more sovereign you become, the more you will command matter, since you are the authority. You are your own sovereignty. And so you have the permission, the authority to command matter and therefore to create the life of your dreams.”

Do you hear that? Authority is not somewhere out there, in some higher power you would have to convince, charm or deserve. It is within you, intact, and always has been. ✨

The teaching is woven around TCR — Thought, Command, Result — a principle Alexandre reframes that morning with a very simple image: ordering from the universe the way you order parcels. A clear intention, a signal sent out, an echo coming back. 📦

But to place an order, you first have to allow yourself. And this is where the liberation mantras take on their full power. “I lovingly release everything that would make me believe that being is not done.” How many times, as children, were we told to be quiet, to behave, to make ourselves smaller? 🌱

“I lovingly release everything that would make me believe I don’t have the right to exist fully and to express myself fully.”

The elixir then becomes a ritual of gentle reprogramming. Each sip infused with the words, each word supported by the relaxed body, each tear welcome because it carries an old belief away with it. 💞

And there is this luminous phrase that distills the teaching: “Gratitude for already being what I am.” Not gratitude for what I will become, nor gratitude for what I will have earned. Gratitude for what is, now, in this breathing body, in this beating heart, in this consciousness looking at itself.

The Non-Self gently surfaces in these words. For if you already are what you are, then there is no one left to build. There is only presence to embody, and sovereignty to exercise effortlessly. 🤍

Then, later in the practice, the live realization: life happens without you. Automatic mode. The body walks on its own, the yoga does itself, life unfolds by itself. Your job is no longer to control. Your job is to consent, to dare, and to receive with gratitude what the universe delivers to you.

Realizations During Yoga Anatman

From the very first minutes, Alexandre invites a simple gesture: raise your hands, hang as if suspended, feel your feet on the ground. 🌱 And already, in this morning stretch, something is being said: pleasure is not a bonus, it is the very path of yoga.

“If you’re not yet in pleasure and ecstasy, it means you haven’t done enough yoga yet,” he slips in, and you can hear a smile ripple through the room. The pleasure of stretching becomes a compass, an intimate landmark, a sign that the body is saying yes.

“I surrender to the inner yogi.”

This first mantra, gently repeated, sets the inner posture for the whole session. It is not about doing yoga. It is about letting it happen. There is something in you that knows. An inner yogi, an inner masseur, a body that knows its own paths. 🕊️

Then comes the side stretch, right arm raised like the Statue of Liberty, left foot lifting, spine opening. And the mantra becomes more precise: “I surrender to my inner sister.” My inner sister does her work. The tensions on the right side melt away effortlessly, because we have stopped clenching.

Next, chin circles slowly trace a geography of the neck. Each at their own rhythm, each at their own speed. ✨ And in this slowing down, the heart smiles — Alexandre says so, and it’s true, you can feel it.

“Life, I love you. I am in love with you. I surrender to you. Gratitude for this beautiful life and this beautiful video game.”

Video game. The word slips out, almost in passing, and yet it holds the whole teaching: this existence is a sacred game, and you are at once the player, the controller and the character. 🌟

Then comes the pelvic hula-hoop, and this is where the first physical releases make themselves felt. Burping, yawning, crying. Each sensation is welcomed like a precious guest. “If it burps, it burps. It can yawn, it can cry. It’s releasing.” 💞

The squatting frog, with three minutes of breath of fire, literally lights up the body. The air comes in on its own. The air goes out on its own. And in this mechanical exhalation, something deeper is at work: the inner fire, tapas, gently burning away the veils.

Then comes the moment of the elixir — this shared green tea, infused with the mantras, drunk in full awareness. And here the mantras fall like raindrops on dry earth:

“I lovingly release the memory programs, the conditioning, everything that would make me believe I will be judged, criticized, that I can’t just be me.”

Tears flow. A lot. And every tear is welcome. 🤍 Alexandre then introduces another mantra, disarmingly simple: “Gratitude for already being what I am.” Already. Not tomorrow. Not after some evolution. Already.

Each person shares a word in a pop-up to say how they feel. In love with my cells — Lilith. Stretched — a name we can guess. A smile of pleasure — Philippe. Relaxed. Nirvana. Up high. Happy. Laughing. And in this circle of simple words, a tribe takes shape, invisible and yet tangible. 💫

It is in the middle of the yoga on the back, during the leg stretch with the strap, that Alexandre has this live realization, and he shares it out loud. You know TCR, he says. Three letters for a teaching that has run through Anatman for years: Thought, Command, Result. An intention, a signal sent out, an echo received.

“It’s exactly like when you order parcels. You order and you receive.”

The image is crystal clear. The universe is a cosmic delivery service. 📦 And the mantra that follows makes everyone smile: “Gratitude for placing orders. Gratitude for ordering from the universe. Gratitude for receiving what I ordered.” And of course — Alexandre makes a point of it — the idea is to order consciously.

Then comes the most remarkable moment of the session: the conscious walk, eyes closed, blindfold on. The intention is set: walk. And the body walks. On its own. 🦋

In the inner darkness, encounters happen by chance. Isabelle is there. Lilith too. Philippe appears. A spontaneous hug, then another. The conscious walk becomes a conscious hug, and no one saw the shift coming. That’s the beauty of life, Alexandre says: chance brings people your way. Just like in real life. Just like in this sacred video game.

“You don’t need yourself to function. Your life will happen without you. That’s automatic mode.”

Automatic mode. A new expression, dropped almost by surprise, which perhaps sums up the whole Anatman path. When the little “me” stops steering, something vaster takes over. The body walks. Life happens. And you are there, a wonder-struck witness, inside a dance far greater than you. ✨

The eyes open, but the body keeps walking on its own. It seeks the stretch, it seeks the pleasure. You have become unnecessary, and that is the best news of the morning. 🌅

The Postures of the Session

🧘 Suspended Vertical Stretch — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and rooted to the ground, hands rise toward the sky as if hanging from an invisible thread. Rise onto the balls of the feet, engage the calves, thighs, abs and glutes, gaze fixed straight ahead, body as rigid as a vertical plank.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the spine and lower back, strengthens the calves and postural muscles, improves balance.

🧘 Gentle Backbend — Ardha Chakrasana
The posture: Standing, thumbs hooked behind the back, inhale, then gently tilt the spine backward without forcing, and calmly return to vertical. Follow with a forward bend, torso lowering toward the thighs, knees bent if needed.
Benefits for the body: Opens the chest, adds flexibility to the shoulders and spine, stretches the backs of the legs.

🧘 Side Stretch — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Right arm raised like the Statue of Liberty, lean to the left, right heel lifting, spine stretching long along the side. The elbow rises, the hand massages the nape and neck. Then the other side.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the flanks, obliques and lumbar area, releases tension in the neck.

🧘 Chin Circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Head tilted back to the left, then slow, wide circles with the chin, moving through the right, the front, the left. Change direction. Breath synchronized with the movement.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical spine, relaxes the nape, releases tension in the jaw.

🧘 Five Tibetans Backward Surrender Posture — Anatman movement
The posture: Hands on the lower back, spine gently tilting backward, then slowly returning to vertical, vertebra by vertebra.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the spine, opens the solar plexus, stretches the psoas.

🧘 Right Angle and Forward Bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, tilt the torso to horizontal, hands on the knees for the right angle, then lower gradually, millimeter by millimeter, hands moving toward the floor, legs stretching.
Benefits for the body: Deep stretch of the hamstrings and lower back, stimulates circulation toward the head.

🧘 Pelvic Hula-Hoop — Anatman movement
The posture: Hands on hips, the pelvis draws wider and wider circles, to the right then back, to the left then forward. Change direction.
Benefits for the body: Lumbar flexibility, releases blockages in the pelvis, mobilizes the hips.

🧘 Squatting Frog — Malasana
The posture: Squatting, feet apart, back straight, head straight, hands in namaste in front of the heart. Breath of fire: quick, active exhalations and passive inhalations, for three minutes.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, strengthens the pelvic floor, stimulates digestion, activates the inner fire.

🧘 Reverse Plank — Purvottanasana
The posture: Seated, hands behind the pelvis, gradually lift the pelvis toward the sky, head relaxed backward, neck stretching, hold with breath of fire.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the arms, shoulders and glutes, opens the heart, stretches the throat.

🧘 Swimmer Posture — Supta Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Lying on the back, arms extended behind the head, maximum stretch from the fingertips to the heels, gently pressing into the heels.
Benefits for the body: Full stretch of the front body, decompresses the spine, opens the shoulders.

🧘 Straight Leg with Strap — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, a strap around the foot, leg extended vertically, the other leg stretched out on the floor, neck completely relaxed, forearms pulling on the strap. Then the other leg.
Benefits for the body: Deep stretch of the hamstrings and calves, releases the sciatic nerve, adds flexibility to the lower back.

🧘 Blindfolded Conscious Walk — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, blindfold over the eyes, intention set to “walk,” let the body move freely around the room, forward or backward, let encounters happen, then open the eyes while keeping the bodily presence.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception, deep grounding, trust in the body, letting go of mental control.

You don’t need yourself to function. Your life will happen without you. That’s automatic mode.

The more sovereign you become, the more you will command matter, since you are the authority.

Gratitude for already being what I am.

Voices from the We

Gratitude and Sovereignty

“Gratitude for my crown, my sovereignty, my power and the 32 push-ups” — Shakti Anne

This message, posted right after the practice, sums up the morning’s teaching on its own: the inner crown, embodied sovereignty, and that joyful nod to the 32 push-ups, a reminder that the body is a path too. 👑

Hearts Opening

• “hi there, lots of hugs” — Shakti Anne
• “Gratitude 💖💖💖🙏” — Sandrine
• “Have a beautiful day everyone 💖💖💖🙏” — Sandrine
• “have a good day everyone ❤️‍🩹🙏” — Valérie
• “Thank you so much gratitude I love you” — Valérie
• “have a great day, all of you …!!” — Rafaël

In these simple words, the invisible fabric of the Anatman tribe is woven. Hearts, joined hands, “I love you”s sent to faces sometimes never seen. 💞 And yet, something recognizes itself. Something is together, through the screens and beyond.

Themes: sovereignty · dare to be · automatic mode · elixir · conscious walk · tcr · gratitude · surrender

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Oser être, oser commander l’univers

This article is a summary of the Yoga Anatman session of October 3, 2026, a Saturday morning when something unprecedented revealed itself — a door opened onto a space that fifteen years of practice had never even brushed against.

Imagine ✨. It is eight o’clock in the morning. You have set down your strap, your blindfold over your eyes, your cup of chai steaming gently beside the mat. You don’t know yet that, in an hour and a few minutes, Alexandre Anatman is going to say a sentence that had never been spoken here: “Gratitude for creating an internet network that connects all my lives.”

And you are going to realize — truly realize 🌱 — that everything you are, everything you have been, everything you could become, is connected. That your life as a yogi is not isolated. That it is interconnected with thousands of other lives which, they too, breathe, love, cook, walk, create.

The morning when all the lives recognized each other

There are sessions that massage, that soothe, that open. And then there are those that 💫 unlock something. This one, on Saturday, October 3, belongs to the second kind.

A technical glitch with the sound — the audio card shutting down right at the most intense moment — could have broken the momentum. But no. Alexandre turned this unexpected event 🕊️ into a turning point: how do you come back into feeling when the mind races? How do you shift, in a single breath, from discernment mode to body mode?

And the answer, as you will see, lies in a tiny, dizzying question: what does it do to me? 💖

The morning’s teaching

At the heart of the session, after the liberation mantras and before the great conscious walk, Alexandre placed the elixir of the day on the table. An alignment elixir 🌿. And with it, a question that would infuse the whole practice: “What does it do to me?”

Not what do I think. Not what should I do. No. What does it do to me, right here, right now, in the heart, in the gut, in the feet? ✨

“When you live from the emotions and the body, life changes completely. It’s not just the head and the mind that are ‘living’, so to speak — there is something else.”

That is the pivot. That is the tipping point 🦋. Alexandre names a mechanism many carry without seeing it: having been desensitized. Having learned, as a child, not to feel. To pretend. To push past it.

And the mantra comes, crystal clear: “I release in love everything that prevents me from feeling what it does to me.” You repeat it. And something gives way 💞. A microscopic dam, built long ago, dissolves.

Then comes the second great wave. Alexandre mentions Franck Lopvet and his example of Davy Crockett, chased by wolves, whose soul instantly creates a life as a dog trainer in order to survive. And there, the teaching opens like a flower:

“We have the capacity to develop all kinds of abilities according to our needs.”

When you cook, it is your life as a chef that expresses itself. When you walk, it is your lives as walkers. When you code, it is the computer scientist from another era. All your parallel lives are there 🌟, available, interconnected.

And the sacred mantra of the day, never heard before in fifteen years of practice, reveals itself: “Gratitude for creating an internet network that connects all my lives.” You are the router. You are the server. You are also every one of the terminals 🙏.

That is what the alignment elixir is: daring to believe that your imagination is not limited. Daring to ask: what do I need? What do I long to live? And letting the soul, in its sovereignty, summon the parallel life that will know how to respond.

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

It is barely eight o’clock. The room in Belgium is full, and on the screen the faces arrive one by one: Valérie, Francis, Sandrine, Marie-Noëlle, Shakti Anne 🌅. Alexandre begins gently, with the words that seal the entrance: “We need a strap and a blindfold over our eyes, because we are going into our inner universe.”

The feet root into the arches 🌱. And already the first mantra lands as something obvious: “I surrender to my inner yogi.” Not abandoning oneself, but surrendering to something greater than oneself. The reversal is precious.

Cheeks are massaged, the tongue comes out — yes, it really comes out, that small absurd gesture that instantly undoes the body’s seriousness. Then the rising begins. I rise, I rise, I rise 💫. Thighs tighten, buttocks, abs. And already Alexandre slips in, half smiling, half grateful: “The chai is starting to work.” Two kilos of spices have arrived, and he will be able to make some for the whole tribe.

The body stretches backward, without forcing. Then the great descent, nose toward the floor, hands touching the earth, thighs lengthening, lower back opening 🕊️. Each at their own pace. Everyone does what they can. The right-angle pose arrives, hands on the knees, and the backs of the thighs reveal themselves, so often forgotten.

“At some point, it’s not you doing the massage — it moves all by itself. It’s an intuitive massage. And it knows you. It knows exactly where to massage, and how.”

And that is when the first great realization emerges: there is an inner masseur within you. You say “I surrender to my inner masseur”, and the hands begin to move on their own, finding precisely the tension in the skull, the neck, the nape. The body knows itself better than you know it 💖.

The right arm rises, fully suspended. Then the lean to the left, the arc, the heel lifting. Same gesture on the other side. The side stretches open the ribs, the obliques, and something in the flank breathes for the first time.

Then the chin circles 🌿. Slow, wide. “The chin leads — express the sacred word with an OM in your authority, in your sovereignty.” And the great OM of love comes out, settled, deep, rooted.

Then comes the mantra “To life, I love you”, repeated until gratitude overflows 🙏. “To the universe, I love you. To love, I love you.” Tears rise in several people. Alexandre simply says: “Let the tears flow.” And that’s all. No drama. Just welcoming.

Energy healing on the lower back, warm hands, then the backbend inspired by the Five Tibetans. Back to the right angle, to vertical, and the pelvis begins to move — left, right, small circles that grow larger, the Anatman hop. The obliques wake up, a strange joy rises, a brand-new suppleness 🦋.

The frog arrives with its breath of fire: exhale, and the air comes in all by itself. Each at their own rhythm. Three minutes that open the whole perineum and diaphragm. For those who prefer, push-ups or a resting seat — “depending on how you feel today”.

Then lying flat on the belly, complete letting go. “I disappear.” Two words that are a whole practice.

Then comes the most moving passage 💞. Seated in half-lotus, cup of chai in hand, the series of liberation mantras unfolds, each one deeper than the last:

“I release in love everything that prevents me from loving, from being loved, from expressing love in my life.” The tears return. Alexandre repeats: “Feel it in the heart.”

“I release in love everything that prevents me from having a daily practice of awakening and transformation.” This one hits hard — for how many of us are quiet saboteurs of our own rituals?

“I release in love everything that prevents me from having a relationship of equal to equal, sovereign to sovereign.” The mantra of relational verticality. The end of invisible hierarchies ✨.

Then the alignment elixir is drunk, and the great question arises: “What does it do to me?” — which becomes the axis of the whole morning’s teaching.

Lying on the back. The hands stretch overhead. And there, Alexandre enters a state of overflowing love for the physical body: “I am beautiful, I am gorgeous, I am magnificent. I love my physical body.” You have to hear him say “Oh, I love you — how I love you!” to his own body to understand that it is possible 💖.

Total forgiveness. “I forgive you everything, I forgive myself everything. Everything is forgiven.” And the mantra of the new day: “Today I start again from zero.”

The right leg rises, neck relaxed, lower back pressed to the floor. The forearms pull, not the neck. Then the left leg, a beautiful right angle, a scissor between the thighs 🌟. And it is during this posture that the unprecedented revelation arrives.

“Gratitude for creating an internet network that connects all my lives. Connected interconnection. Now that’s a new one, that’s a first — we’ve never had that one before, in fifteen years.”

Alexandre stops himself, surprised. A teaching never seen before in fifteen years of practice has just revealed itself. All the parallel lives — the lives of a yogi, a cook, a walker, a musician, a dog trainer — are connected and can be summoned according to our needs 💫.

The self-confidence mantras follow one another: “I declare my Genius” (a nod to Oscar Wilde at customs), “I came here to be, not to please”, “I welcome my magnificence”. And the sublime liberator: “I release in love everything that would want me to be normal.” 🦋

Finally, the conscious walk. Eyes closed, blindfold first, then without. The body walks all by itself, forward, backward, sideways. You are a spectator. You simply gave the order “walk”, and it walks 🕊️. And Alexandre slips in the obvious: “You can do this for everything in your life. You can also say: earning money — it happens all by itself.”

Spontaneous hugs pass through the room in Belgium. Isabelle speaks in English. Love circulates, without reason, without justification. “It’s the heart that loves, that’s just how it is. There is no reason for love.”

The postures of the session

🧘 Standing grounding posture — Tadasana (mountain pose)
The posture: Standing, feet parallel and rooted through the arches, the body rises from the lower back, thighs and buttocks engaged, abs active, head suspended from the crown, full breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the thighs, calves and abdominals, aligns the spine, improves overall posture and energetic grounding.

🧘 Standing forward bend — Uttanasana
The posture: From standing, a slow descent nose toward the floor, hands touching the ground if possible, thighs stretching, lower back opening, each at their own pace without forcing.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings and lower back, decompresses the spine, encourages blood flow to the head and calms the nervous system.

🧘 Right-angle pose — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Torso horizontal, hands resting on the knees, back straight, legs extended, the backs of the thighs come alive, a long exhale lengthening the back line of the body.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings, strengthens the deep back muscles, opens the chest and awakens awareness of the body’s back line.

🧘 Standing side stretch — Parsva Tadasana
The posture: Right arm raised, suspended, side bend to the left in an arc, the heel of the opposite foot lifting slightly, hand on the hip. Same on the other side.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the obliques, the latissimus dorsi and the intercostal muscles, opens the rib cage and improves lateral breathing.

🧘 Self-massage of the neck and skull — Anatman movement
The posture: Hands trace the tensions upward from the nape to the crown of the head, then the body lets the hands move on their own (inner masseur).
Benefits for the body: Releases neck tension, improves scalp circulation, soothes the vagus nerve and relaxes the jaw.

🧘 Chin circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, head tilted to the left then back, the chin draws wide, slow circles, the whole body discreetly following the orbit.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the cervical spine, stretches the throat and nape, improves spinal mobility and releases jaw tension.

🧘 Arms in a cross — horizontal stretch
The posture: Standing, arms extended horizontally, maximum stretch to the left and right, verticality maintained from the feet.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the deltoids and trapezius, opens the chest, improves posture and develops awareness of the body’s horizontal axis.

🧘 Backward surrender pose — inspired by the Five Tibetans
The posture: Hands on the lower back for support, head slightly back, torso leaning backward, inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth.
Benefits for the body: Opens the throat and upper chest, stretches the psoas and solar plexus, stimulates the thyroid and releases blocked emotions.

🧘 Pelvic rotations — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, knees slightly bent, the pelvis draws circles that gradually widen, in one direction then the other.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the hips, works the obliques, loosens the lower back and improves balance and coordination.

🧘 The frog — Mandukasana (Anatman variation)
The posture: Seated or squatting, hands in anjali mudra in front of the heart, back straight, head straight, breath of fire — active exhale through the belly, passive inhale that happens on its own.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the core, stimulates the diaphragm, improves digestion and intensely oxygenates the blood.

🧘 Letting go face down — Advasana
The posture: Lying on the belly, arms alongside the body or stretched out, total surrender, slow breathing through the nose.
Benefits for the body: Completely relaxes the spine, releases lumbar tension, calms the nervous system and supports energetic integration.

🧘 Half-lotus seat — Ardha Padmasana
The posture: Seated, one foot resting on the opposite thigh, back straight, hands on the knees or holding the cup of elixir, calm breathing.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips, aligns the spine, calms the mind and supports extended meditation.

🧘 Reclining extended leg — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: Lying on the back, lower back pressed firmly to the floor, one leg extended on the floor, the other rising slowly to vertical, neck relaxed, forearms doing the pulling (never the neck).
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings, decompresses the lower back, strengthens the deep abdominals and improves venous circulation.

🧘 Conscious walk with eyes closed — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, eyes closed (blindfold, then without), the body moves by itself forward, backward, sideways, awareness in the arches of the feet.
Benefits for the body: Develops proprioception, strengthens the stabilizing muscles of the ankles and pelvis, sharpens balance and refines body awareness.

Gratitude for creating an internet network that connects all my lives. Connected interconnection.

When you live from the emotions and the body, life changes completely.

I came here to be. Not to please — to be. That’s something else entirely.

Voices from the We

The tribe arrives

From the very first minutes, warmth flows between those present, from Belgium to Brittany, from the screen to the mat.

• “Hi there 😊” — Sandrine
• “Good morning everyone ♥️” — Valérie
• “Good morning Alexandre, good morning everyone” — Francis

The technical hiccup, weathered together

The sound drops out, comes back, drops out again. The tribe keeps watch, gives notice, points it out gently — and the practice carries on regardless 🕊️.

• “The sound is acting up” — Valérie
• “No sound” — Marie-Noëlle
• “It cuts out at times” — Francis
• “There were a few problems with the sound” — Valérie

Reunions and final gratitude

Shakti Anne arrives after waking up, and the closing overflows with hearts ❤️.

“Hello tribe, I woke up too late this morning! 😘😘😘” — Shakti Anne

“Gratitude, I love you ❤️😀” — Valérie

• “Have a lovely day” — Shakti Anne

Themes: interconnection · parallel lives · bodily feeling · liberation · sovereignty · self-confidence · conscious walking · alignment elixir

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Interconnecter toutes mes vies parallèles

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of September 26, 2026, a morning when the mat turned into a game controller and every breath revealed the secret backstage of the great cosmic game.

It is eight o’clock. Light slides softly across the mats. A cup of homemade chai steams beside you, crowned with a silky foam of coconut and hazelnut milk. Outside, the world keeps racing on. In here, something comes to a stop. 🌅

What if, this morning, everything you thought was a problem was really the secret signature of how alive you are? What if your difficulties were scattered clues in a game far vaster than you ever imagined? 🦋

The secret gameplay of your existence

There is an English word that French still struggles to translate: gameplay. What makes a game worth playing. What keeps you coming back, what you love, what you happily lose yourself in. Alexandre Anatman made it the common thread of this session — and he gently invites you to turn the question back on yourself.