Freedom only comes from LOVE
Maray Sutti Picq
E-RYT 500+ · Pilates and Fitness Instructor
Yoga, Pilates, mindful movement, outdoor practices, philosophy and meditation
A Living Practice
Maray Sutti Picq is a yoga teacher, Pilates and fitness instructor, and movement educator with over two decades of personal practice and a long-standing commitment to teaching. Her work brings together yoga, movement education, philosophy, and outdoor practices, offering a grounded and thoughtful approach to conscious movement and embodied living.
She currently teaches online and in person in Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France, where she develops educational programs, teacher trainings, workshops, and collaborative projects with yoga schools, sports initiatives, and retreat organizations.
Background and Early Teaching
Maray has been a dedicated student and practitioner of yoga since 2001. From the very beginning, her relationship with yoga was guided by fundamental questions that continue to shape her path: Who am I? What is truth? What is love?
She began her first Hatha Yoga Teacher Training in 2002 and started teaching in 2008 at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, while completing postgraduate studies in Cinema.
At that moment in her life, she felt a strong desire to contribute something meaningful to the community where she was living. She also felt that yoga was the most honest and valuable thing she had to offer. She began teaching with simplicity, care, and genuine affection, sharing the practice with attention, respect, and love. This formative experience deeply shaped her way of teaching and continues to inform her work today.
Her foundational training began with Iyengar Yoga and later expanded to include Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Zen meditation, always held within an ongoing philosophical inquiry.
Studies and Influences
Maray’s teaching is informed by a balance of depth, curiosity, and long term study. She is a long term student of Dona Holleman, whose approach has strongly influenced her understanding of yoga as an intelligent, honest, and deeply embodied practice.
She is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, having trained under the guidance of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Her academic background includes studies in aesthetics of art at the Catholic University of Chile and philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris. With the mentorship of philosopher François Chenet, she deepened her study of Indian and Buddhist philosophy while remaining open to modern Western thought, science, and art.
Movement Education and Applied Anatomy
Conscious Movement
Through years of personal practice, teaching, and study, particularly following her training with Dona Holleman, Maray felt drawn to understand the physical body with greater clarity. She became especially interested in how the body functions, adapts, and organizes itself through movement.
This curiosity led her to deepen her studies in anatomy, biomechanics, and movement education, and to specialize in complementary disciplines such as Pilates, strengthening, mobility, functional training, and cardio-based work. These practices are integrated as supportive tools for yoga, as well as practical resources for athletic and outdoor activities.
Her approach emphasizes movement quality, structural integrity, and body awareness, supporting physical resilience and long-term well-being.
Lineage and Teaching Ethics
Maty Ezraty encouraged Maray to create a space of her own for study and teaching, which later became Mauna Studio. Dona Holleman, her most influential teacher, offered a vision of yoga rooted in clarity, sincerity, and care. From this lineage, Maray received not only technical knowledge, but also the encouragement to teach with responsibility, humility, and love.
Mauna Studio
Mauna Studio is the heart of Maray’s work and an evolving educational space dedicated to movement, presence, and conscious living. While rooted in yoga practice, the studio has gradually expanded to include complementary disciplines such as Pilates, strengthening, mobility, and functional training, all approached as ways to cultivate refined body awareness and movement intelligence.
Beyond the studio, Mauna Studio naturally extends into the outdoor environment. Time spent in nature through hiking, trail running, climbing, surfing, or simple meditation outdoors is an essential part of the program. These experiences reflect Maray’s belief that movement, when practiced with attention and care, can become a bridge between inner awareness and everyday life.
Through this integrated approach, Mauna Studio creates meaningful and complete learning experiences that support both personal and collective well-being.
Teaching Approach
Freedom only comes from love
Maray’s teaching is not defined by a fixed style but by a way of listening, observing, and responding. She values clarity, simplicity, and depth and encourages students to develop autonomy, sensitivity, and trust in their own experience.
Key elements of her teaching include:
- Attention to breath as the foundation of practice
- Respect for the body as a source of intelligence
- Precision without rigidity
- Effort without aggression
- Simplicity as a pathway to depth
- The ability to pause, observe, and adapt
An Ongoing Path
What began with a simple phrase heard during a Zen sesshin at the age of nineteen “We are all one”, continues to unfold. Maray once believed her research would come to an end. Today, she understands it as an ongoing path: a daily return to love, presence, and compassion.
This path moves both inward and outward. It is a journey of going ever more deeply toward the center, while at the same time meeting life through relationship, shared values, and a shared field of learning. Along the way, each encounter and experience becomes part of our path.
Step by step.
Breath by breath.
Walking with an open heart,
like the ocean.
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