Caroline Maby Saint-Malo
Artist, meditator, Zen practitioner in the Sōtō lineage — my contemplative practice is the guiding thread of everything I offer at Hanayama. Yin Yoga finds its natural place within it: it is a discipline that asks us to stop, to hold, to receive. A form of presence in the body that mirrors what I explore on canvas, in seated meditation, in silence.
I was certified as a Yin Yoga teacher (50 hours) by Bernie Clark in 2020, one of the foremost teachers of this tradition in the West.
Yin Yoga works in depth — fascia, joints, connective tissue — through long postures held in stillness and gentleness. But beyond its physiological effects, it is a practice of attention: learning to stay, to observe without intervening, to let sensations unfold without forcing or fleeing them.
In each class, I seek to create a space where the body becomes a field of meditative observation. Between postures, moments of silence, sometimes an image, a poem, a breath — what I call in my painting co-emergence: allowing what wants to appear to appear.