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 is a yoga teacher who has practiced and taught since 2001. She teaches the anatomy and the philosophy of yoga, with the breath and meditation that connect them, bringing a philosopher’s way of looking to the body, so that students understand what they are doing and why.
She studied for eight years with Dona Holleman, through the Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels, and she also trained with Maty Ezraty, who supported her in her teaching. A philosopher accredited by Sorbonne Université, she holds a meditation teaching certificate from Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Founder of Mauna, she teaches online and in person 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. For those who wish to go further, there are courses 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. Coming soon in Move, an online course.
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. When the mind quiets, the body softens, opens and expands, and the beauty of the posture, already present within us, comes into view. Begin with our course Breath.
Together, these practices can help us meet daily life with wisdom, discernment and compassion, rather than reacting automatically.
THE LIVING PRACTICE: 200-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Training with Maray
Rooted in Ashtanga, with Hatha to refine alignment and Vinyasa to open movement, mobility and creativity.
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.
6 months · online · one to one
From Mauna Notes
Slow reading for the curious body and mind.
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Ujjayi Breath: The Physiology Behind the Sound
Hold a shell to your ear and you will hear something like the sea. Ujjayi is often called the ocean breath, and many of us first learn it through its…
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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.
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.
A peace invocation from the Taittiriya Upanishad, an ancient text of India. Teacher and student chant it together before they begin to study.