LEARN TO READ YOUR BODY
Understand your practice, from the ground up.
A short welcome to Breath, a four-week course to return to your own rhythm.
Meet Maray
Maray Sutti Picq has practiced and taught yoga since 2001. She helps people learn to read their bodies, weaving anatomy, breath, meditation and philosophy into their practice, so that it grows from understanding rather than from force.
She trained with Dona Holleman and Maty Ezraty, studied philosophy for five years at the Sorbonne, and holds a meditation teaching certificate from Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Founder of Mauna, she teaches online from Chamonix, in the French Alps.
BREATH: Return to Your Own Rhythm
A 4 week breath course for the overstimulated body.
Notice. Slow down. Choose. Build a rhythm. A few minutes a day to feel at home in your body again.
Now open. 29 EUR. Lifetime access.
What is Mauna
Mauna, silence in Sanskrit, is a school of yoga and movement that begins with listening. We invite you to meet your body with curiosity and care, to understand it before asking more of it.
We love to practice, and we also love to think, question and write about what we practice, in Mauna Notes and on our YouTube channel. For those who wish to go further, there are courses, memberships and one to one studies.
We teach by learning to see before we correct, by honoring each body’s own edge, and by valuing depth over display.
Our teaching draws on the classical texts of yoga and Vedanta, studied for five years at the Sorbonne and read ever since, and on ten years of studying anatomy and physiology, brought into practice in simple, felt ways.
Our way of teaching rests on three movements.
Move
the body in motion
From restorative and slow to dynamic practices. Opening soon in Move, Mauna’s online membership.
Understand
the mind that comprehends
The philosophy and history of yoga and the anatomy behind each movement. Not only to practice, but to understand why. Explored in our deepening courses and in the Teacher Training.
Breathe
the breath that settles
Breathwork, pranayama, meditation and deep relaxation. Where the body quiets, the mind clears, and you start to listen. Begin with our course Breath.
From Mauna Notes
Slow reading for the curious body and mind.
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The Eight Limbs of Yoga: One Practice, Growing Together
Think of a rope braided from eight strands. Each strand alone is thin, and together they hold. The eight limbs of yoga can be understood in this way: not as…
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The Yoga I Practice, the Yoga I Teach
My journey with Dona Holleman and Centered Yoga: where my teaching comes from, and why the yoga I practice is not always the yoga I teach.
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Why Your Hips Don’t Open in Pigeon Pose (And What Actually Does)
Pigeon Pose has a reputation. It’s the posture most often described as “emotional,” the one students approach with a mixture of anticipation and dread, the one teachers reach for when…
And on YouTube, classes and reflections.
Move: Mauna’s online membership
Movement that listens, so you can move with freedom. Access to a growing library of online classes for yoga, stretching and mobility. Opening soon.
THE LIVING PRACTICE: 200-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Training with Maray
Rooted in the Ashtanga tradition, enriched by Vinyasa and Hatha.
For those who want to teach, those who already do, and those who want to go deeper into their practice. Learn to teach with confidence, adapt to every body, and build a practice that is truly yours.
May we both be protected. May we both be nourished.
May we work together with strength and energy.
May our study be illuminating.
May we never harbor hostility toward one another.
Om. Peace, peace, peace.