Who
we are
Time to
Do yourself good.
Time to be amazed.
Time to learn.
Time to excel.
“Rützu was born from the idea of sharing my love of the island with others, but also from the desire to return to the essential: taking time for oneself.
After working for a long time in the world of media and television, fascinated by travel, sport, discoveries and encounters, I fell under the spell of Mallorca and have now made it my home!
Belgian by birth, Majorcan by adoption, I share my time between this island which amazes me every day, Brussels and California where my children live.
I wish to share with you those moments when our field of vision widens by a few degrees and our heart transported with joy and happiness, to allow you to take your life and your happiness in hand or just to do something that moves you.
I created Rützu with the intention of getting you to take the time to do things right, the time to settle into another rhythm, your own.”
Valérie Neira-Lardinois
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I believe in the power of nature and beauty for personal development.
Time to
Do yourself good.
Time to be amazed.
Time to learn.
Time to excel.
“Rützu was born from the idea of sharing my love of the island with others, but also from the desire to return to the essential: taking time for oneself.
After working for a long time in the world of media and television, fascinated by travel, sport, discoveries and encounters, I fell under the spell of Mallorca and have now made it my home!
Belgian by birth, Majorcan by adoption, I share my time between this island which amazes me every day, Brussels and California where my children live.
I wish to share with you those moments when our field of vision widens by a few degrees and our heart transported with joy and happiness, to allow you to take your life and your happiness in hand or just to do something that moves you.
I created Rützu with the intention of getting you to take the time to do things right, the time to settle into another rhythm, your own.”
Valérie Neira-Lardinois
I believe in the power of nature and beauty for personal development.
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Our teachers
Emmanuel Tourpe
Emmanuel Tourpe is a father of 4 children. He has a doctorate in philosophy (Louvain, Belgium).
He is the author of numerous scientific articles and books on philosophy.
In 2020, he published: “Donation et réciprocité” (Hermann, Paris) and “Un temps pour penser & un temps pour parler” (Racines, Brussels). An international lecturer, he has taught in several universities and lectures in Strasbourg.
Formerly Director of Programming for the Belgian public channel RTBF, he is now Director of Programming for the European cultural channel Arte.
Pascale Seys
Pascale Seys has a doctorate in philosophy and teaches at UCLouvain and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts in Brussels.
Involved in cultural life, journalist and columnist, she produces major interviews devoted to the arts and the life of ideas on RTBF-radio (Belgian public radio RTBF) in La couleur des idées on Musiq3.
She is the author of an essay on Hippolyte Taine (L’Harmattan, 1999) and on poetry (Midis de la Poésie, 2019).
Convinced of an intrinsic link between the association of ideas and the rhythm of walking, she has published three collections of wandering philosophy published by Editions Racine ” Et vous, qu’en pensez-vous? ” (2018), ” Si tu vois tout en gris, déplace l’éléphant « (2019), ” Le panache de l’escargot ” (2020) as well as a radio short story Le phosphore blanc (2020).
There is no shortage of superlatives to describe Pascale Seys’ personality: “transporting, inspiring, breathtaking”, “an extraordinary philosopher”, the 3′ philosophical capsules she offers each week on Musiq3, Les Tics de l’actu and Un p’tit Shoot de philo, have been a great success and are shared throughout the world.
Florence Jaupain
Physiotherapist, graduated from the HELB Ilya Prigogine in 2009, Pilates instructor trained by Leaderfit in 2010 and co-manager of the Global Wellness.
Florence has been practicing with passion for over 12 years. As a Pilates instructor, she passes on her knowledge and experience every week through the many classes she offers.
Because her approach is global, Florence never stops training.
In addition to her perfect knowledge of the body, Florence has the hands of a fairy! Her massages will transport you!
Sandra Fersztman
“I am convinced that it is our difference that makes our beauty. I look for it in the shadows to give it all its power in the light. Because it is in the light that we can accomplish the most beautiful things. Sandra Fersztman
An eclectic career at the heart of stories in Events and Film, Consulting and Female Entrepreneurship.
In 2017, Sandra created La fabrique des id, to support entrepreneurs and people in professional transition in the development of their new identity.
Consultant, mentor, trainer, Sandra intervenes on Storytelling, digital communication and personal branding, in companies, incubators and Business schools.
In 2020, Sandra designed the Take the Power workshop to discover your talents, and the My(s)You! coaching program to help you take hold of your uniqueness and make your voice heard.
Stéphanie Mensah
Since her childhood, Stéphanie has been immersed in the world of antique dealers and the beautiful colors of Provence which have nourished her creative soul. She confides that she has always had an incessant need to create and experiment. It was her Italian grandmother, with whom she spent hours in the sewing room, who passed on to her her love for textiles, natural fibers and old linen so full of history.
Her studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts gave her the opportunity to learn artistic techniques by studying the essential bases of art.
It is from all these passions that STEPHIE.M was born, a brand of natural textile creations for the home.
In 2015, she moved with her family to the Balearic Islands, whose landscape was a revelation and constant source of inspiration. The island of Majorca, its colors, its gentle way of life have a special place in her collections.
Since 2019 Stéphanie offers creative workshops in order to transmit her artistic knowledge around textiles and much more… ” It is also a way for me to bring well-being, to share. To create, to let your inspiration work, to be in contact with others, to enrich each other ” Stéphanie Mensah
Sophie Sztabholz
Formerly a classical dancer and Russian folk dancer, Sophie has a passion for the human body and movement.
With an insatiable thirst for learning, she has been refining her knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics and physiology for more than 25 years through multiple training courses as well as her practice of fitness (F.I.S.A.F, Reebok International, N.A.S.M, Balanced Body, Spinal Training, De Gasquet® abdominal and back pain…).
Founder and manager of the SOQI fitness & wellness club, Sophie specializes in back pain. She works with several doctors and physiotherapists to help their patients regain mobility, correct posture, deep muscle strengthening and flexibility.
Sophie is a Pilates teacher but also gives courses in interval training, hypopressive abdominals, Swiss ball…
It is through contact with Paule Salomon that she has developed her skills by following various personal development courses which allow her to approach the body with more awareness and to be attentive to the needs of each individual.
Fiona Cappuyns
Passionate about wellness, nutrition and personal development, Fiona has been teaching yoga for over 5 years and continues to train in the field of holistic health.
During the yoga retreat, she will gently and intensely guide you in your practice and help you reconnect to your body and sensations through her classes and self-exploration workshops.
Joanna Haouzi
Joanna started her professional life as a business lawyer. After a few years of practice, she realized that she could no longer find meaning in the service she provided.
She then travelled to Indonesia and trained as a yoga teacher. Overwhelmed by the physical and mental effects of the practice, she decided to continue her learning through a therapeutic yoga training.
As yoga practice requires a personal history, she has been involved in cognitive and behavioral therapy and psychology in order to gather the stories of each person who comes to her.
Joanna is now a yoga teacher (she teaches in different studios in Paris and Brussels), coach and therapist in cognitive and behavioral therapy.
Tom Philippe
Coming from a family where spirituality and personal development were omnipresent. Philippe developed a particular interest and sensitivity for everything related to well-being at a very early age.
In 2009, at the age of 18, he began his journey with 3 years of training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, holistic and energy therapy, supervised by Thierry Janssen.
He then spent the next three years training intensively in martial arts in China. He describes this experience as extraordinary.
Yoga did not arrive until 2015… A practice that he perfected during a 9-month immersive journey in India.
Today he devotes most of his time to sharing yoga, in studios, workshops and retreats.
While continuing to train and enrich himself with new experiences.
Marine Liensehoof
Founder of impactful-growth.com, Marine is a certified life coach. She supports individuals as well as startups and organizations, such as Luminus and ING, in their internal innovation process.
For more than six years, Marine has had a clear objective: “to enable individuals and teams to develop new skills and tools so that they can build the future they want for themselves, both personally and professionally.
To achieve this, it advocates an entrepreneurial mindset where each individual is responsible for leading the life he or she wants. And she kindly accompanies each person through their journey of rediscovering their full potential.
Anne Françoise Meulemans
A touch of humor, a zest of rigor and a cloud of benevolence. These are three of the many qualities of this psychotherapist.
As a result of her dual practice as a doctor and therapist, Anne-Françoise has been made aware of various issues, including those relating to education, HP, atypical personalities and the suffering at work of careers and teachers. It is this dual background that has led her to offer conferences and workshops on well-being.
A trainer in continuing education for general practitioners, she also founded CentrEmergences in 2010 (nine centers specializing in therapeutic care spread across Wallonia and Brussels and bringing together around a hundred therapists), as well as E-mergence in 2020, an online therapeutic consultation platform
Kalyan Jot
Kalyan is a Yoga teacher, Yogic Therapist and founder of Jottijot. Her greatest wish is that yoga can accompany you on your life path and help you feel happy in your daily life. She considers yoga as a fantastic tool to move your body, your energies and your emotions, a tool that allows you to feel good with yourself, and then to feel good with the World.
Her approach: to release blockages, whether physical, energetic or emotional, while respecting the physiology of your body. Her objective: to make you radiate with love and kindness thanks to meditation and Kundalini Yoga, all with simplicity, because according to her, you don’t need to do much to feel good.
Florence Piers
Kinesiologist and certified yoga teacher, Florence was introduced to the practice and philosophy of yoga at the age of 16 before training in India, in Rishikesh.
It is the different energetic approaches of yoga and kinesiology that she integrates into her sessions. Fascinated by the healing power of yoga, she likes to pass on her knowledge, to push people beyond their usual limits, to discover that they are much more than what they think they are. It is not about doing beautiful postures but about living the sacred in each posture.
Through her gentleness, Florence takes you to discover the power of the present moment. Discover patience and acceptance of what happens. We can change the way we see things and Florence will guide you through yoga to the awareness of your infinite capacities.
Clarisse Ernoux
Clarisse is a Yoga Alliance certified hatha and vinyasa yoga teacher and has been practicing this discipline since the age of 17. Passionate and an eternal student, she trains all over the world in order to offer you the best and most varied yoga classes. She combines flexibility, stretching and muscular strengthening by combining Yoga and Pilates exercises; to help you release and relieve tension through movement, breathing and sound.
More than a physical practice, yoga is a philosophy, a spiritual science and a lifestyle. It is a complete discipline that includes all areas of life. What is she looking for? To give you the keys to understand the principles of this physical and spiritual practice in order to integrate them into your daily life.
Floriane Despis
Numerologist and Holistic therapist, Floriane helps people to know themselves better thanks to different tools, including Numerology. Numerology is a science of numbers based on calculations made from the date of birth, the first names and the family name. We can perceive it as a compass that reinforces our direction. Its holistic approach considers all the dimensions of the being (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) to enter the dimension of the soul. To be in touch with oneself to better understand our reactions, our emotions, our conscious or unconscious behaviors while being in listening, respecting, trusting and loving oneself thanks to Numerology which allows us to discover our full potential of accomplishment.
Our soul has come for a precise reason and will do everything to achieve it. We have always embodied our life mission without really being aware of it. Floriane at the flower of the soul, at the flower of the souls she meets…
Alice Pilate
Alice was born in Paris and grew up in the north of France. At the age of twenty, she moved to the other side of the world, to Australia, and settled in Sydney for over 3 years. It was there that she first explored the practice of Pilates at a deeper level. Immersed in the rich Pilates culture, she has devoted herself to it body and soul.
In January 2020, she continued her training by enrolling in the Pilates reformer teacher training course at the Body Mind Life studio. It is surrounded by experienced teachers that she acquires a deep understanding of the human body and its movements. where experienced teachers shared their knowledge to teach Pilates reformer, with a deep understanding of human movement and Pilates reformer techniques.
Victoria Bardiau
Victoria, 32 years old, is a yoga teacher and entrepreneur. She discovered yoga in 2015 and has been teaching it since 2017, after a first yoga teacher training of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, among others at Yoga Room and Animo in Brussels. She specializes in vinyasa and hot yoga. In 2020 she will launch her own brand of planet friendly yoga accessories and in 2021 her online yoga studio.
Lisa Donnadieu
In 2012, after ten years of classical dance, Lisa started yoga in New York. She discovered for the first time a dynamic practice where she pushed herself with kindness.
For four years, she lived and practiced in New York, Portland and Melbourne, exploring the multiple facets of yoga and building her own method.
Convinced of the benefits of the practice on the subtle and energetic body, she trained in Vinyasa in 2016 in New York and then in Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore. An eternal student, she continues to train every year in India, the cradle of yoga.
Lisa is a certified E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance teacher. 200h Vinyasa Yoga in New-York, 300h Ashtanga Vinyasa in Mysore (India), more than 2000h of teaching for 6 years.
Aurélie Glorieux
Aurélie Glorieux is a trained kinesiologist and founder of Greatful Kitchen. She is passionate about energy, yoga and nutrition. Specializing in Vibrant Food and Detox, she approaches wellness in a holistic way. For her, it is important to treat the physical, mental, emotional and energetic body while maximizing the pleasures.
Aurélie shares her philosophy of life and her passion for rejuvenating recipes in cooking classes, online coaching and yoga retreats that she organizes around the world.
Bruno Wattenbergh
Bruno Wattenbergh combines the functions of an expert in strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship with those of a professor and economic columnist. With 25 years of experience working with startups, large companies and public institutions, he is currently Senior Advisor and Innovation Ambassador at EY, Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management and economic expert on the 24-hour news channel LN24, where he hosts the weekly program “Les Acteurs de l’Eco”.
Many Belgian startups have benefited from Bruno Wattenbergh’s assistance, coaching or business model and pitch courses, such as Real Impact Analysis, Title Films, Domobyos, Matin Blanc, CV Trust, Deauty, Simone a soif, Tale Me, etc.)
Bruno Wattenbergh studied in Belgium (EU, ULB & ICHEC), in the Netherlands (MBA in innovation and entrepreneurship at TiasNimbas, a partnership between Tilburg University and Tu Eindhoven) as well as in the United States at MIT Sloan (Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy and Globalization) and at Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program) where he received the HBS Rectors’ Scholarship.
HEGE HORNVEDT
Hege has been practicing yoga since 2008 and has been teaching more than 3000 hours over the last 7 years.
She did her yoga certification and teacher training in south of India.
Since her certification, she has participated in many different courses and retreats in Norway and abroad.
Teaching is a passion. That’s the reason why she has studied different yoga styles and always adapt her practice to where she’s physically and emotionally in life.
For her, yoga is all about learning to listen to our body and feel everything from the inside. It permits a deeper understanding of who we are and how our body reflects it.
LAUREN LOVATT
Lauren Lovatt is a plant-based chef and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Plant Academy in London and the woman behind MIND FOOD, a project dedicated to delicious food specifically designed to feed your mind.
Early on in her career, Lauren was invited to join the team as Chef Creative for the aspirational vegan restaurant, Asparagasm, which led her to host her own plant-based pop-up nights for some years; from these experiences, she has a wealth of experience developing recipes, writing menus and creating events.
Now teaching worldwide from Bali to Barcelona, her passion lies in sharing and inspiring knowledge for plant-based food.
PAULINE LAUMOND
Pauline is an Ashtanga and Vinyasa teacher in Paris. She is certified Level 2 by the Sharath Yoga Center of Mysore (SYC) (South India, Karnataka).
Fascinated by the discipline and language of bodies in movement, Pauline discovered yoga in 2010, and Ashtanga quickly became her daily practice.
In December 2022, Pauline received permission from Sharath Jois to teach Ashtanga Yoga in the traditional way as taught at the Mysore SYC. In September 2023, she opened her own Mysore program in Paris, at Yoga village Batignolles in the 17th arrondissement.
Since then, Pauline has continued to immerse herself with her Indian master, perfecting her teaching and practice.
