Our Story
How La maison VEDA came to be, between Charente and southern Sri Lanka.
La maison VEDA was born from a journey of transformation, a return to essence, and a calling to live in harmony with body, mind, and soul.
A few years ago, my body forced me to stop. Burnout, inflammation, pain, a digestion that no longer worked… I couldn't make sense of anything anymore.
So I left.
In India, I learned to listen to my body through Ayurveda training.
Then yoga brought me back to life… But it was Kundalini Yoga that reshaped my mind, my vision, and my awareness. It realigned my nervous system, cleansed my subconscious… and awakened a joy in me I no longer knew.
I was fortunate to be trained by Gurmukh, one of Yogi Bhajan's first students, now over 80 years old. Her teaching shook my heart and gave my life meaning again.
Since then, I have followed it with passion. Training after training, still today, I keep learning more of this yoga.
And then there was chanting. A revelation. It is part of Kundalini, just like meditation and pranayama. Chanting is, quite simply, healing. It is truly powerful.
What I also love about Kundalini is the effort, the discomfort. The group is there, all around, supporting us. But during the practice, eyes closed on the third eye, we look within. We are alone with ourselves. We have no choice but to meet ourselves, to face ourselves.
That is the magic of Kundalini. By staying calm and focused in discomfort, we learn to master it. And in everyday life, when discomfort comes, we no longer react… or far less. The practice creates that.
I never intended to become a teacher. But now I know I can't keep this powerful, effective, transformative science to myself.
So I created La maison VEDA in France, in an old Charente farmhouse restored with the help of hands dear to my heart — today, Laure brings it to life. And now here, in Habaraduwa, Sri Lanka, a country that never left me.
A shala open onto the waters of Koggala Lake, the jungle all around, alive and breathing. A space to release, to breathe, to reconnect. A space to be reborn.
The team
We are a very small team in Sri Lanka, and we work like a family.
Lukshman watches over the house. His work is faultless, and I have long thought of him as family.
Anna and I are the studio's resident teachers. We share the same passion and the same standards: she is a soul sister.
Bryan and Mei come in from time to time to run the kitchen during retreats. They are friends, and a little more than that — an uncle and an aunt.
Our values
- Welcoming
- We receive each person in the same way, without looking at where they come from or what they carry. Rank is left at the door: here, nobody needs to introduce themselves as anything other than present. A house only truly welcomes when you can set down what you are holding, and be entirely yourself.
- Helping one another, and kindness
- Nothing grows alone. What we go through is better gone through surrounded, and kindness is not a courtesy: it is attention to what the other person does not say. We watch over one another, simply, the way it is done in a family.
- Transmission
- Kundalini is not mine: I received it, and I pass it on. As truly, as transparently and as precisely as I can, in keeping with traditional teaching — adding nothing of my own. An inheritance is not kept, it is handed on.
- Simplicity and humility
- We do not manufacture experiences: we open the possibility of one. What changes here changes for real, and owes nothing to staging. The house is beautiful, but its luxury is not its own — it lies in the lake, in the jungle, in the day as it rises. All we add is the silence.
Ayubowan, welcome
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