Claire Berthon - Vinyasa, Hatha Yoga and Pilates Teacher
MEETING WITH CLAIRE BERTHON
"Having danced a lot as a child, I love fluid and slow movements. I like to combine precision, gentleness, discipline, and fun."
Yoga & non-yoga training:
Bikram Yoga, Bikram Yoga college of India
Vinyasa 200h, Patrick Beach & Carling Harps
Hiit Pilates, Gabriela Walters
60h, Power Yoga, Paul Teodo & Byron de Marsé
60h, Benjamin Sears
30h, 'The method', Talia Sutra
30h, 'Sequencing & adjustments', Aurélie Poles
Pilates Matwork 1, Leaderfit
Bachelor of Marketing, University of South Australia.
Your type of yoga teaching:
Vinyasa, Hatha & Pilates, a mix of classical and contemporary.
The uniqueness of your teaching:
Having done a lot of dancing as a child, I love slow, fluid movements. I like to combine precision, gentleness, discipline and fun.
3 words to tell you what your teaching brings you:
Trust
Surpassing yourself
Evolution
3 words to define what your students bring to you:
Love
Joy
Share
Your Chinese sign
Rooster
Your astrological sign:
Libra, but I don't know my ascendant!
Your Ayurvedic constitution:
Vatta-Pitta
Your roots:
Franco-Brazilian. My mother is Brazilian and my father French.
Mentor Yoga:
Each of my teachers has given me a lot. My dance teacher when I was in high school. My first yoga teacher in Australia. The teachers who trained me. My colleagues. And those with whom I love to practice. What I'm looking for is always evolving, and that's what's so cool about this practice. Right now, I'm practicing with Meghan Currie, Maeva Boldron, my Australian Pilates teacher.
and out of yoga?
My greatest mentor: my son. So many lessons learned in such a short time, and so much happiness! And I hate to admit it, but so has my dad (hello, Dad).
How it works, in a nutshell:
Hatha, Vinyasa and Pilates
Intensity: ★★★★★
Precision: ★★★★☆
Fluidity: ★★★★★
Creativity: ★★★★☆
Teaches yoga in: French 🇫🇷, English 🇬🇧
Your mantra:
That changes often too. Right now: "Action first, confidence second".
Your favorite posture:
Backbends, or all wave-like movements with the spine...
The one you dread:
Handstand... A posture that requires a great deal of discipline and rigor, and which gives me a good dose of humility (when I have the courage to try).
Your reference books:
The 4 Toltec Agreements. Don Miguel Ruiz
Small graces, the quiet gifts of everyday life, Kent Nerburn (a little book that no one knows about, but which made an impression on me, found on my mother's bedside table)
The power of the present moment- Eckhart Tolle
Your reference film:
How to choose...
Les évadés, Man on Fire, Grease, Black Swan, Ferris Bueller's day off, Forrest Gump, 4 mariages et un enterrement, Inglorious bastards... too many.
Your favorite pastime:
Not very original... moving, dancing, practicing. And listen to podcasts while driving.
Morning or evening?
Morning Pilates, evening Yoga. (But the real truth is: when I don't have my baby)
Your guilty pleasure:
Chocolate. And my morning coffee(s).
What if you weren't a yoga teacher?
Dancer. If I were to change careers today, it would be in communications or translation, but with a creative side.
What made you want to join the Yogascope adventure?
A friend who's been working with you for a while, and who often tells me about her dream retreats... the desire to do retreats and share my practices differently.
What's interesting about the concept?
It's great to be able to share suspended moments in dreamy places while practicing yoga (or pilates)... that it's all organized by a company that does this with passion is the icing on the cake.
What values do you want to share through your work?
The joy of movement and surpassing yourself through discipline.
