Maureen Esivert

Founder of D'âme and Aum

Ayurveda practitioner, lifestyle and nutrition consultant, yoga teacher / pre- and post-natal yoga

"I do not seek to know the answers, I seek to understand the questions."— Confucius

My path has guided me from artistic creation to the path of Indo-Tibetan yoga & Ayurveda through paths that I will briefly outline to you.

My professional life began artistically around the age of 20, alongside university studies in sociology, then literature and civilization.

I ended up choosing the musical path.

After traveling the roads as a saxophonist in various formations, and studying in the jazz department of the Paris 9 conservatory as well as at the prestigious Bill Evans School studying singing, orchestration, composition; I became interested very early in musical pedagogy. During my training in this field, I began teaching in schools and associations; and continued for ten years.

I then took a break from teaching to devote myself to musical composition and the creation of shows.

At the same time, I continue to train:

stage expression, Feldenkrais method, sophrology, systemic constellations, &…yoga. My intuition about what the body conveys in all its dimensions is confirmed, & becomes a central point in my practice & my teaching. And of course the prima, the awareness and the mastery of the breath as a common thread of these disciplines, creating the bridge between our body, our mind and our quality of presence.

From yoga to Ayurveda

Following this treatment in India which I must say put the fuels back in a state of performance, and with the hygiene of life that the practice and teaching of yoga requires; I am more and more interested in this ancestral Indian medicine. What gave me confidence was the real intention of healing of the doctor and his colleagues towards their patients, praying for you before each treatment to establish the connection with your soul. But not only that… Ayurveda does not offer you an immutable method that applies to everyone in the same way with medical diktat. No, in its principle, it is a medicine at the service of the human in all its dimensions, well aware of the specificity of each one. So yes, it requires listening, questioning, follow-up, and a certain discipline so that the person truly becomes an actor in their health.

So I practice Ayurveda on myself, my son, and it keeps us healthy with less fluctuating energy, a zest for life, and some big clouds that call us to order from time to time, but which we welcome and eventually accept.

Then, after several years of teaching yoga, I trained as an Ayurveda practitioner at the Ayurveda Center of Aquitaine, with which I collaborate and continue to learn healing techniques.

Thus, my introspection and my training in yoga over the years, coupled with my practice of Ayurveda, happily bring me to meet you today, with the desire and the need to share these sacred sciences.

I am also passionate about living things, particularly our relationship with the plant world.

Working the land also gives me a sense of connection to our natural environment, a sense of being fully alive, and the joys of observing our ecosystem. I have thus had the opportunity to work for the past two years, at a fortunate time in my life, on an organic market gardening farm developing agroforestry and protecting biodiversity. There, too, I have fulfilled a need for strength, balance, courage, and grounding.