My book “Hatha Yoga: tracing its Buddhist roots” has been published

🌿 Why I wrote this book

For years, I taught Tibetan yoga practices as completely separate from Indian yogas.
I even sometimes said that “they had nothing to do with each other”…
And then one day, reality caught up with me.

The gap I was creating between these two traditions was based on things that, admittedly, seemed obvious:

• their terminologies were different (nadis = tsa, chakras = trulkhor, etc.)

• their contexts were different: one rooted in the Buddhist tradition, the other in the Hindu tradition

• they didn’t carry the same understanding of awakening

But a gap is sometimes just an illusion.
And as the saying goes, “only fools don’t change their minds”, right?

📚 Until the day… Mallinson entered

Everything changed the day I discovered the work of James Mallinson and other contemporary scholars.
Serious, pointed, passionate research based on:

• the analysis of ancient manuscripts

• Sanskrit textual sources

• the comparative study of Indian and Buddhist traditions

• the history of Tantra and its ramifications

These works open an incredible door: the one to a much more unified, coherent, and profound understanding of the history of yogas.

🕉 This new history matched my new vision

In 2021, I began again from basics in Buddhist studies, including:

• the Four Philosophical Schools,

• the links between sūtras and tantras,

• the philosophical currents of Nalanda,

• and the way India and Tibet dialogued for centuries.

Little by little, everything became clear.
What I was separating… was coming together.

🔥 This book: correct, clarify, transmit

It is this inner movement that pushed me to write this book.
A need to:

• correct my earlier interpretations,

• offer a fairer vision to my students and former students,

• open a clear path for everyone interested in Tibetan or Indian yogas,

• reconstruct Indian and Buddhist practices in a larger, more coherent historical thread.

Because between traditions there was not a rupture, but rather a dialogue.
And that dialogue is fascinating.

🌺 What you’ll find in this book

In this work, you will discover:

• what the ancient texts really say

• how Buddhist traditions influenced (more than we believe) Indian yogas

• the deep roots of Hatha Yoga

• the points of convergence with Tibetan yogas

• why some practices are shared

• how breath, energy and the subtle body are understood in parallel

• and what really differentiates them in their ultimate aim

It’s an accessible, illustrated, clear book — yet firmly grounded in current research.

🌞 Who is this book for?

For anyone who:

• practices Hatha Yoga or Tibetan yogas,

• teaches and wants to go deeper,

• loves the history of yoga,

• wants to enlighten their practice with a fresh perspective,

• wants to link breath, energy and spirituality in a coherent way.

📘 Want to go further?

If you want to discover these historical and energetic bridges,
if you want to understand how Hatha Yoga and Tibetan yogas share a common root,
then I simply invite you to read my book.

👉 Available here :  Je découvre !

And if you wish to support my commitment — to make Buddhist yogas known and accessible to all — your purchase truly matters.

💗 Thank you

Thank you for reading these lines.
This book is an important step for me, a way of unifying what has guided me for decades.
And I’m happy to share it with you today.

P.S. And here’s the story of why this book is being sold on Amazon…

It’s a question I get often.
And yes, I know: Amazon doesn’t please everyone.

But when you publish on a small scale, without the support of a major publishing house, self-publishing platforms charge very high printing costs — especially for a full-color book, rich in illustrations, like this one.

👉 The result:
on other platforms, the exact same book would cost €10 more,
just so I could earn… €1 to €2 per copy.

Amazon, despite its imperfections, allows me to:

• keep the book financially accessible

• ensure consistent print quality

• ship it everywhere, quickly

• and give a small independent author… the chance to make her voice heard

So yes, it may not be the most “pure” option, but right now it’s the fairest way for this book to exist and circulate.

➜ So if my book interests you and you’d like to support my work — sharing Tibetan Buddhist yogas with a wider audience — take the step and get your copy 😊

The book is also available on Amazon India, UK, Australia, Japon, etc...