Suzy Mendes

Suzy Mendes has been teaching yoga since 2007. She was fascinated by yoga from the very beginning. It was in discovering the founding texts that Suzy realized that postural yoga as she had learned it up to that point was fundamentally different from traditional teaching.

After training as a yoga teacher, Suzy took part in numerous trainings and workshops which enabled her to deepen her knowledge of biomechanics and asanas. However, she gradually oriented her practice towards meditation, without finding what she was looking for, and disappointed by teaching methods that didn’t seem adapted to her.

In the summer of 2010, Suzy met Stéphane and the Surya team and decided to join them. The particularly relevant approach to teaching convinced her to take an active part in the running of the organization.

Like all of us, she is convinced that the synthesis of physical, mental and spiritual work proposed by Surya offers a coherent, modern approach to rediscovering the richness of traditional teaching as taught by Patanjali’s Ashtanga yoga (8 limbs of yoga).