Yoga and Pilates
About Opale
Opale offers you private lessons, group lessons and retreats in Yoga and Pilates. In Ibiza and France.
About Opale
Experience
Opale has been practising yoga steadily since 1995.
She discovered Yoga during one of her numerous trips to India. She became aware of her body seriously lacking flexibility and muscles. She had been suffering from chronic lower back pain, sciatica, as well as excessive stress for several years. The daily practice of Yoga became the only way to maintain the new painless body.
For 15 years, she traveled the world. She lived in India for a few months each year and studied different types of yoga: Iyengar Yoga (focused on alignment), Astanga Vinyasa Yoga (focus on Udjaih Breath and Bandhas), Vinyasa Flow or Power Yoga alternating with the study of Vishranta, Restorative Yoga. More recently she integrates Mindfulness into the Yoga practice, according to the teachings of Hugh Poulton.
In 2005, she settled and since then is mainly teaching in Ibiza.
Inspiration
In all Yoga practice, there is an element of grace (prasâda), which is unpredictable. It is the grace of the Divine Being.
Georg Feuerstein
Creativity
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbin
Sincerity
Always try your best, without trying to be THE best, and let time do the rest!
Opale
About Opale
Education and diplomas
In India, in 2004, she was certified to teach Astanga Yoga after an intense teacher’s training course at the International Purple Valley Yoga Center in Goa, directed by Julie Martin.
In France, in 2005, she was certified to teach Vinyasa and Vishranta Yoga by Gerard Arnaud after a 2-year teacher’s training course at the “Federation Francaise de Yoga”, in Paris.
In 2011, She achieved a Pilates Master in Ibiza internationally recognized by PMA. On request, she now integrates Pilates exercises to the Yoga lesson to strengthen the abdominal belt, protect the spine and avoid backaches.
In 2015, she was certified to teach Integrated Yoga & Mindfulness after a teacher’s training course with Hugh Plouton and Sarah Haden.
In India, for many years she studied Astanga Yoga with Rolf Naujokat and then was a student of David Swenson. She also studied Indian philosophy, did a Vipassana Meditation retreat in India, and practiced Pranayama with Emil Wendels. In Paris, she studied Vinyasa flow with renown Gerard Arnaud. More recently she was inspired by Rebecca Parker‘s flowing Yoga style and Christine May, from the Shiva Rea Prana Yoga. Mindfulness has become a focal element in Opale’s classes, following the perspective of her mentor Hugh Poulton.
Opale teaches since 2005 in Ibiza. She really appreciates the quiet of Ibiza, the peaceful beauty of its nature and its mystical remote places, so propitious for Yoga practice. Which is why she chose to live and teach there. She is also a dedicated mother. Since 2008, she has taught and led more than a hundred retreats in Ibiza.
Opale is a partner of Smart IB cooperative. She is a certified member of Yoga Alliance Professionals.
A brief explanation
The practices of Opale
Ashtanga Yoga
An intense form of Yoga, guided by a dynamic Udjai breath linked with the constant use of the Bandhas.
Hatha Yoga
A soft form of Yoga composed of simple postures, practiced at a slow rhythm.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
A dynamic and flowing yoga using free body sequencing, in movement or in stasis, following the rhythm of each breath, active and conscious.
Meditation
When the Mind smiles, it becomes lighter, brighter and more spacious. And as a response, the body becomes freer and more flexible.
Pilates
Specially created to reinforce the deep abdominal, lower back, and gluteal muscles; to strengthen the back and protect the spine.
Restorative Yin Yoga
A gentle form of therapeutic Yoga, composed of simple restorative postures reinvigorating and refreshing body and mind.
Sukhita Yoga
Sukhita Yoga is a new methode of Yoga that is highly inspiring.
Yogalates
A modern form of fitness training that combines exercises from pilates with yoga postures and movements. It combines the benefits of both practices.
