The founder, Lili
Lili is a freediving and yoga teacher, with fourteen years of teaching experience and eighteen years of practice. But as she likes to say, she is and will remain an eternal student.
Water and oceans are her first great inspirations. Born from an Andalusian maternal family living in the south of France since the 20s, Lili spends every summer holiday by the Mediterranean Sea in Sainte-Maxime.
This sea particularly dear to her, offers her earliest memories of blue, bubbles, apnea and her first encounters with marine animals. Rocked by the Commandant Cousteau documentaries, the beautiful story of Jacques Mayol or Umberto Pelizzari, also daughter of “the Big Blue” (movie from 1988) and this generation shaken by this film, Lili wants to become a “doctor of nature.” She obtained her Master in 1999/2000 in marine biology and ecotoxicology by specializing in marine mammals at the University of La Rochelle and Metz. From there she joined a photography school where she perfected her other passions for image and writing, and in 2001 became a freelance photographer author. She works for public and private institutions, publishers, agencies, magazines and local, national and international newspapers by publishing photos and stories. Globe-trotter, traveling lead her around the world, she adds to her shots, already underwater since 1997, those taken from the sky under her paraglider : 3elements photography was born. 3elementsphoto.com
In 2005/2006 a tragic event led her to withdraw to Nepal for photo reports, mainly for paragliding magazines (Lili is a solo pilot since 2002) but especially in order to overcome this deep sorrow, the tragic loss of his mother at the age of 50.
Nepal completely changes her life. The Universe throws in her path the right people and this trip is a resurrection. So Yoga and Reiki are the mediators of the 180 ° turn. A big slap for a scientific rather cartesian that leads her to a new awareness of what may be the universal energy and consciousness. She falls in love with Yoga Pranayama and the power of this practice yoga based on breath awareness.
A year later in 2007, a paragliding accident left her seriously injured, fractured lumbar spine, L3, L4, hip and left ankle. Miraculously close to paralysis, she healed and rehabilitated herself for several months thanks to water, yoga, conscious breathing and Reiki.
In 2010, in the same vein, she forms in freediving and did her instructor training with an AIDA school in Dahab/Egypt with Freedive Dahab and then, to go deeper in her experience and knowledge, did an other instructor training with Apnea Academy with her mentor Umberto Pelizzari in 2015 in Sharm El Sheik.
She discovers in the same time Kundalini Yoga in 2010 in Dahab/Egypt. Lili followed a one-year program with her teacher, Sara Campbell, a meditation daily program. After several years of dedicated practice, living or working in Thailand, Egypt and Indonesia, she went to India to draw from the historical source of Yoga and feed both her practice and teaching. Ready to assemble her various skills in a new school, she got officially in 2014 her yoga teacher degree at Chandra Yoga International School with the masters Sushilji and Ninoji on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh, India.
From a passionate temperament, she continues her childhood dream and gathers all she likes to do, making people aware of the wonder, love and respect for nature through water, air and earth, photography and writing, apnea and yoga in its whole dimension, spiritual, energetic and therapeutic.
The Kumbaka school, apnea and yoga, created in 2015 and settled in the island of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, was born out of an intense desire to share with as many people as possible. Her enthusiasm for the Oriental culture and life experience led her to develop effective methods in the practice of Apnea and Yoga to help people to engage in a physical way of mindfulness. Convinced that the overall balance is achieved through an authentic and active lifestyle featuring a healthy food, today she guides her students into their practice to achieve profound healing in which everyone has the right through the presence in self and awareness of breath.
2001-2011 – Freelance photographer and writer, 3elementsphotography.com
Lili teaches apnea since 2011, master instructor AIDA & Apnea Academy. (teaching in Thailand, Egypt, Indonesia, France). Scubadiving since 1992 and began teaching in 2001 (BEES1, CMAS & PADI Instructor). Teaches Pranayama Yoga since 2011 in her current apnea courses and is officially Yoga teacher since 2014 RYS 200 Yoga Alliance (Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Pranayama, Meditation), India, Rishikesh, Chandra Yoga International School.
2018-2019 – 200 hours – Teacher training / Integral Rebirthing Breathwork/the art and science of breathing consciously and correctly in the Brahmananda yoga Ashram of San Francisco/ / Mahendra Aka Briksha
2021 – Breathwork Instructor – Life Awareness – YogaLap – Michaël Bijker
2023, Certified in teaching yoga fascia, Move Garden, Sébastien Janvier, France, 80H.
2025, coming a two years courses to become Sophrologue, France.