ABOUT YOUR LEAD TRAINER 

Nathalie is an author, the host of LIFE ON EARTH PODCAST and the founder and creative director of the Shanti Yoga Training School offering 200 hour and 300 Hour yoga teacher certifications and is an E-RYT 500-hour certified yoga teacher and trainer with YACEP. She has a bachelor’s degree in dance and kinesiology and is a long time yoga practitioner, having spent significant time in India. While there, she trained at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute where she studied under the guidance of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Jois. She later lived and taught for many years in Los Angeles, where she learned and apprenticed from yoga masters such as Annie Carpenter, Seane Corn, Lisa Walford, Maty Ezraty, Shiva Rea, Jasmine Lieb and Ganga White. She trained at Yogaworks where she received her 500 Hour level certification and is one of the first to be certified in SmartFLOW Yoga. She leads yoga retreats worldwide and has led a successful Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher Training School with over one hundred graduate students. She been a presenter for Wanderlust Festival and Rasa Lila Yoga Festival.

Nathalie’s passion flows to other projects as well, such as designing jewelry for Aghora Crystals and hosting Life On Earth Podcast.  She is an avid animal lover, a member of PETA and has contributed and worked together with many rescue animal organizations on various projects. In 2018 she received an Appreciation Award from PETA for exemplary commitment to and support for animals.  

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken” 

- Oscar Wilde