Jite is a Yoga teacher, a Reiki healer, an architect and landscape consultant who has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2008. She spends her time deepening her understanding of the environment, different cultures and the science of Yoga through learning, teaching and project work in Africa, Europe and Asia with various organisations. Her whole life is devoted to “improvement”, be it personal, social, inner or environmental.

In 2002 Jite began receiving on-going support and mentorship from Stephane Chollet, developer of Suryashtanga Yoga, and came to a deep understanding of how its traditional roots were so well adapted to our modern challenges.  In 2013 she became a fully certified Surya World teacher.

Jite is a professional Reiki healer of the Angelic and Usui Systems of Natural Healing, trained in France, Japan and UK from 2006 under Reiki masters Nita Mocanu and Amanda Radix.

She is an Architectural Association graduate and studied at the Permaculture Research Institute, Australia with Geoff Lawton.

Suzy is product manager in the child fashion industry and has been teaching yoga since 2007.

She has been interested in the foundations of yoga practice since her very first classes. On discovering the ancient texts, Suzy realised that the postural yoga she encountered in Europe was fundamentally different from the traditional teachings.

Following her teacher training, Suzy participated in numerous courses and workshops, which enabled her to increase her knowledge of biomechanics and postures. However, she gradually oriented her practice towards meditation. Despite her efforts she found the direction of the teachings she encountered fairly limited, with methods that did not seem appropriate for a Westerner.

During the summer of 2010, she met Stéphane and the Surya team and she decided to join them. The particularly relevant approach of the provided teachings and philosophy of the group convinced her to take an active part running the organisation.

She is deeply convinced that the combination of the physical workout and the mental and spiritual practices proposed by Surya offer a coherent and modern method of accessing the richness of the forgotten traditional teachings of Patanjali’s 8 Limbed Yoga.

It is thanks to his father that Matthieu was able to enter into spirituality at a very young age through meditation and readings. Then, after many trips to Asia, he met Surya-World in 2015 in India.

Since this decisive meeting, he fully committed himself to practice and then teaching. Working in the name of Surya allows him today to combine his job as a video maker, his passion for travelling and ecology, and his thirst for spirituality, in an altruistic and committed organization.

Today, Matthieu is a Suryashtanga Yoga teacher and is in charge of Surya-World in Tours. He is fully invested in the team effort with the firm goal to contribute on his own scale to the improvement of the planet.

Bernhard experienced the benefits of yoga for our physical and emotional well-being when his path crossed with Surya-Montreal in 2016. Encouraged by the efficiency of the techniques suggested by Stéphane Chollet, and the altruistic values on which Surya is based, he completed the yoga teacher training.

Since 2017, Bernhard teaches Suryashtanga yoga to share the practice which allowed himself to find more harmony and fulfillment. He gradually learned more about the wider meaning of yoga behind the physical exercises for which it is known in the West. Yearly trips with Surya-World to India since 2017 helped him to dive deeper into traditional yogic teachings, while at the same time learning about their relevance in today’s world and their complementarity with modern science.

Bernhard is dedicated to contribute his part to the Surya community: to introduce it to more people and create an open space for everyone who is interested in taking a step back from everyday’s life, re-charge and open up to new perspectives.

Marine works in the field of renewable energies and has been practicing yoga since 2012 and teaching since 2017. She initially encountered yoga during her studies in India and discovered it as a wonderful tool to balance both body and mind.

Back in Paris, she started practicing ashtanga yoga and had a breakthrough realization about the importance of breath, She thereafter began studying Suryashtanga yoga with Suzy and joined the organisation. This represents the beginning of a training that corresponds with her interests and passion for reading.

Through Surya, Marine finds opportunities to actively contribute on a daily basis to ecological and humanitarian causes and deepen her knowledge in yoga. She now wants to pass on what she experienced in well-being through her yoga practice and the teachings of Surya.

Léa crossed paths with yoga several times from 2013 onwards and found keys to improving her well-being in everyday life. She decided to devote more time to it from 2016 and took the Suryashtanga yoga training in 2018 to gain knowledge and understanding. Beyond the postures, she is interested in the richness of this science, in the relationship between body, breath, and mind. She sees yoga as a real tool for self-development, enabling us to feel better about ourselves, our environment and society.

Yoga at Surya also enables her to put into action values that are important to her: respect for the living, ecology and humanitarianism. Today, she is keen to pass on what she has been taught, to sow seeds around her and share the benefits of these practices.