Erik Truffaz discovered at the age of 8 years the pleasure of performing alongside his father who played the saxophone. At the age of 14, he electrified his trumpet and bought a wha wha pedal. In 1987, after performing in Montreux with the Group Brazilian...
Marc de Smedt, publisher, wrote a lot of essays about his experience of meditation for fifty years. Éloge du silence ; Une journée, Une vie ; Le Rire du Tigre (Albin Michel). Sagesses et Malices du zen (Livre de Poche) ; Petit cahier d'exercices de méditation au quotidien(Jouvence) and Exercices d'éveil pour petits chatons(Pocket)....
Steve Shehan is a universal and eclectic musician whose percussions were solicited by famous artists of the rock’n’roll, world, Anglo-Saxon and French song scenes. An atypical route for this composer born in the United States, of a native American Cherokee father and a French mother and...
Born on the 25th of January 1985, Pacôme Rupin grew up in the village of Savonnières, Touraine, France. Graduated from ESSEC Business School and the Social Entrepreneurship chair in 2009. He first worked as Chief of staff for Jean-Marc Borello, Executive Director of Groupe SOS, at...
Amandine Roche is a Human Right Specialist with almost 20 years of experience in conflict contexts across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. She has worked with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and European Commission. Her professional experience is focused on human rights, democratization,...
Born in France in 1946, Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism in the Himalayas over 45 years ago. He is an international best-selling author and a prominent speaker on the world stage, at the World...
Guillaume Néry is a French freediving champion, specialized in constant weight, which is the queen of all freediving disciplines (descent and ascent using only fin propulsion). He broke the freediving world record four times and won the world champion title twice. In 2015, he stopped competing...
Before spending 7 years in a traditional Buddhist monastery and 3 years in meditative retreat, Soizic Michelot studied art and literature. Today, she is an instructor for secular mindfulness programs (MBSR and MBCT) both in private practice and in public hospitals. Soizic is now returning...
Journalist specialized in societal issues, spirituality and personal development, Elisabeth Marshall is editor-in-chief of the magazine Sens et santé, executive director of the weekly La Vie (Press Company Le Monde ) and at the initiative of the "Meditation Day" presented at Châtelet and Pleyel theatres....
From San Francisco to Mumbai, from the Amazon forest to the European countryside, Guibert del Marmol works with entrepreneurs who change the world and reconcile the notions of economy, ecology and sense. For over 15 years Guibert directed various service companies operating in Europe and also...