Kundalini Yoga, Kirtan

Mahadev OK is a Bhakti artist and Hatha and Kundalini Yoga teacher, born and based in France.

After studying architecture, coming from a family of religious figures, artists, and mystics, and a youth devoted to a career as a singer-songwriter, Mahadev traveled to Europe, India, the USA, and Australia. He discovered yoga during a retreat at Plum Village alongside Buddhist monk Thich Nhatt Han. Since then, forging his path in ashrams, particularly with the Sivananda organization, he has devoted himself to bhakti and chanting, and studied mantras and tantric practices related to Shree Chakra, Pratyanguira, and esoteric numerology. In India, he learned rituals and pujas, then discovered the devotion of Sikhism through Kundalini Yoga. Today, Mahadev devotes himself to teaching mantras and yoga philosophy, publishes mantra albums, and gives concerts and kirtans in France and abroad.

Since 2022, he has organized the Spirit Pop Festival, an annual event centered around yoga and music

Hatha Yoga, Reiki, Sound Healing

Kanta, a Hatha and Yin yoga teacher and yoga therapist, has been practicing yoga for 17 years. Trained in India, she received the traditional teachings of Hatha Yoga in the tantric lineage of the Nath Yogis. Music and Bhakti yoga are also part of her practice and the teachings she shares during workshops and retreats in France and India, and at the Spirit Pop Festival, an annual event she organizes with her husband, Mahadev. Since 2023, she has been offering Forgiveness Yoga workshops in France and abroad.

Rebirthing

French, born in Paris in 1952, he has lived in Mexico since 1974. He has been teaching Kundalini Yoga and meditation since 1979 and training students who aspire to become yoga teachers. A university philosophy professor (in the 1970s), a young entrepreneur in the healthy food sector (in the 1980s), and a senior executive in the IT and telecommunications sector (in the 1990s), he has dedicated his life to healing, coaching, yoga, and meditation since 2002. He also organizes concerts featuring mantra-singing artists such as Deva Premal & Miten, Snatam Kaut, and Mirabai Ceiba. A healer and life coach, he now shares his knowledge and experience around the world, primarily to support people in their lifestyle, manage their emotions, and enable them to live happy and prosperous lives.

Sound Healing

Osteopath, sound medicine researcher, and international teacher of sound yoga and vibrational therapies. Joseph will be offering a sound healing and kirtan session during the retreat. Joseph Schmidlin (D.O.mtp, LMT) is a classical osteopath and clinical sound researcher. He has over 30 years of teaching and practice in the field of energy medicine, particularly in cranial osteopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. He uses sonic vibrational medicine and Nada yoga in his teaching and clinical practice. He is the founder of Onetone Sonic Alchemy, involved in research and awareness of sound consciousness. He regularly leads trainings, retreats, sound immersions, and meditations worldwide. He is involved in several creative art projects, including "Sonic Universe Now (S.U.N.)" and "Primordium."