#125 Gerald Disse & Linda Munro - Bringing Mysore to Paris

Gerald Disse & Linda Munro Bringing Mysore to Paris
(www.ashtangayogaparis.fr | @ashtangayogaparis


Bringing Mysore to Paris | Teaching as a married couple | Finding
Ashtanga in the early 90s | Changes from yoga | Looking for
meaning | Being in class with Madonna | Giving up a career in
fashion | Becoming a teacher | Teacher-student relationship |
Yoga Lifestyle | Building a community in Paris | Pattahbi Jois
1991 | Sharing with other teachers | Eating more chapatis | Start
of the Paris shala | Mysore v Led class | Changes in practice |
Importance of the series | Importance of leaving the Ashtanga
rules | Impact of “Me Too” with teaching


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GÉRALD DISSE


Gérald has been practicing yoga since 1989 and teaching since
1996. He discovered Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1991 with Sri K
Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India. He spent 8 years traveling to
Mysore spending 4 – 6 months per visit to learn more of the
system, then going off to some other exotic location to practice
daily what Guruji had taught him. Gérald was taught up to the
third series and was one of the first French students to have
been personally authorized to teach by Sri K Pattabhi Jois. 


In addition to his Ashtanga practice, Gérald continues to
cultivate a meditation practice in the tradition of Kriya Yoga.
He has a daily pranayama practice and has been certified to teach
kriya and pranayama by his teacher, Sri O.P. Tiwari.


LINDA MUNRO


Linda took her first yoga class in 1995 in Toronto, Canada with
Ron Reid. But a couple of months later she was in a fairly
serious car accident and had to have physical therapy. This is
when she decided to use the yoga as a way to compliment the
therapy. Soon after she realized that the yoga would be a life
time practice. A practice of asana, pranayama and meditation but
also a practice of being truthful, a practice of being kind, a
practice of being fearless, peaceful and happy. She believes that
the practice of “yoga” is continuous; the practice does not stop
when you roll up the yoga mat. The practice of yoga includes the
way you live your life, the way you relate to your family,
friends, co-workers and to the strangers on the street. This is
the life long practice of developing yogic awareness.


In 1997 she moved to New York City with her work in the fashion
business while continuing a daily ashtanga practice studying
under Eddie Stern. The year 2000 brought her to Paris, France.
After thirteen years in the world of fashion she decided it was
the time to move fully into the direction she had been moving
since her first yoga class.


She studied yogic scriptures and philosophy, having completed a
250 hour study program of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, and a 120 hour
course on the Bhagavad Gita under the supervision of Georg
Feuerstein. She was one of his 10 mentoring students until he
passed away in 2012. Linda is also a student of Sri O.P. Tiwari
and is certified by him to teach pranayama. As well she has
completed the anatomy for yoga training with Leslie Kaminoff and
is a junior yoga anatomy trainer. Not to mention she has studied
with the late guru of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in
Mysore, India and NYC.


In 2019, Linda and Gerald opened Ashtanga Yoga Golfe Juan, a
new location to share their precise teaching of yoga on the Côte
d’Azur, in the south of France, their new home.