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
🎁 This 10-minute excerpt of the session's realizations (in French) is offered to you by ANATMAN TV.
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
