Who am I?

Before presenting my professional background and training — which you can find further down this page — I mainly want to introduce myself as a person.

Because while my training has built the foundations of my practice, it is also my experiences, my travels, my encounters, my personal and artistic research, and the sometimes less conventional paths I have taken that have shaped the therapist and teacher I am today.

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My journey began with training as a physiotherapist, then as a sports physiotherapist.

I acquired a solid foundation in anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, and I quickly had the opportunity to work with high-level athletes.

I then continued my training in orthopedic manual therapy, with an approach closer to osteopathy.

However, quite quickly, I felt that this essentially mechanical reading of the body did not entirely correspond to what I perceived and what I was looking for.

I felt something was missing.

Alongside my professional activity, I have always been driven by a personal quest: a curiosity for human beings, for living things, wide open spaces, wild territories...

It was this research that gradually led me to step out of the framework in which I had been trained and to explore other paths.

Research that goes beyond the scope of therapy

My professional journey has always been closely linked to a personal quest.

Travel was an essential part of it.

My solo journeys on foot, by bike or on horseback were more than just a way to discover the world; these journeys were for me true spaces of inner exploration: getting out of my comfort zone, returning to the essentials and experiencing another way of being in relation with myself, with my body and with my environment.

This research also led me to encounter different traditions and visions of health.

In particular, I explored Amazonian medicines, working with plants , and certain shamanic traditions.

They have profoundly nourished my understanding of life and opened my approach to the spiritual dimension of human beings and our connection with nature.

And the body and art in all this?

In parallel, dance and artistic creation have taken on an increasingly important role in my journey.

I have explored different forms of dance and movement: Sufi dance, tango, Contact Improvisation, Fusion Dance, but also, as I travelled, practices closer to wrestling, as well as capoeira, boxing and different worlds from martial arts.

Painting and writing also accompanied this research, as other ways of giving form and expression to what is experienced inside.

But at the heart of all these explorations, improvisation has become central.

Improvising has become a privileged space to develop listening, presence and expression, but also to allow a more accurate expression of one's truth and inner coherence to emerge.

Gradually, my therapeutic research, my artistic practice, and my personal experience ceased to be separate paths.

They met around the same quest: to listen to the movement rather than provoke it, and to allow an expression to emerge that is as close as possible to what is alive.

A pivotal encounter

My meeting with Berni Garcia was one of those life-changing encounters.

I was going through a dark night of the soul, accompanied by a strong expansion of my extrasensory perceptions, but also by a profound disconnection from my body and a painful dissociation.

The practice of Coherent Movement has allowed me to gradually regain a state of unity between the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of my being.

This is what led me, four and a half years ago, to begin my training with the International Institute of Coherent Movement.

Beyond the family constellations it incorporates, this approach has taught me to recognize the unconscious patterns that influence our way of thinking, moving, relating, and perceiving the world.

It now deeply informs my practice and also allows me to offer systemic constellation sessions.

Today, accompanying the body's natural movement

All these experiences have gradually transformed my approach to providing support.

Today, my job is no longer to try to correct the body or impose a direction on it, but to create the conditions so that it can regain its own capacity for organization.

I help people reconnect with their sensations, recognize the unconscious patterns that run through them, and rediscover a more direct relationship with what is alive within them.

Today, my work lies at the intersection of manual therapy, fascia work, somatic approach, body expression and family constellations.

Over time, passing on knowledge became a natural part of my journey.

I am not only interested in helping a person through pain or difficulty.

I am also keen to give her tools so that she can better feel, understand and inhabit her body, and gradually become more autonomous.

Today, my work therefore takes different forms: individual sessions, constellations, workshops, courses, training and retreats, with the same guiding principle: to allow everyone to find more connection to themselves, coherence, freedom and inner peace.

I also support healthcare, bodywork and support professionals in developing their own therapeutic art, by refining their quality of perception, listening and presence, rather than accumulating new techniques.

From therapy to teaching

Career path & training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

17 years of therapeutic practice
More than 2,000 people supported in individual sessions
Support for high-level athletes: Rugby Club of Aix-en-Provence – 2nd division, dancers of the Ballet Preljocaj, French downhill mountain biking champion
Therapeutic support for paraplegic and quadriplegic individuals, as well as autistic and disabled individuals, in collaboration with various associations
Creation and facilitation of body exploration and yoga workshops at the Aix-en-Provence Penitentiary Centre
Creator of the Fascia Dance approach
Creation and facilitation of workshops, courses, training sessions and retreats (artistic, shamanic, dance...)

TRAINING

State Diploma in Physiotherapy
Training in Sports Physiotherapy
Facilitator in Ancestral Multidimensional Systemic Movements – Level 1, International Institute of Coherent Movement – Berni Garcia & Alicia Gonzalez
Initiated into ancestral Amazonian shamanic practices with master plants
Hatha Yoga Training
Training in Orthopedic Manual Therapy
Training in Wùo tai (osteo dance)
Nonviolent Communication – Level 1, Marshall Rosenberg's approach

Nathalie Varlet
Transcendance