Marine Chapon on Poetry in Motion - Creating, Practicing & Teaching Yoga Purely for the Passion of the Craft

Leadership and Yoga

I sat down with Marine Chapon to get a BTS look into her yoga practice, teaching origin story, art, business and philosophy. Marine is a French yoga instructor and host of the Off the Mat podcast. She also has an extensive youtube following and set of classes.

As Marine has one of the most shocking and beautiful practices I’ve seen on instagram but generally teaches in French and has her podcast in French, I have been curious about learning more about her background for a while. It’s an honor to share our coffee chat with you! It left me smiling the whole entire interview, and for hours afterwards.

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Find Marine on Instagram:

⁠@marine_chpn⁠

Find Marine on YouTube:

⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/Marine_chpn⁠

Find me on instagram:

⁠@shawnakru⁠

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:50 Agenda for the show

4:00 What Marine wanted to be when she was little.

6:00 Creating and starting to teach, to share on youtube & social media.

8:30 What changed in her life after finding the softness of yoga.

12:00 What are you striving after? Shoulder injury and embracing the duality of striving for more and enjoying the now.

16:20 How can we find the fun in discipline?

18:20 It’s not all or nothing. Finding the artistry.

23:00 Yoga is here to teach us that we are not what we can do, we are not what others perceive of us.

24:30 How can we cultivate self-trust.

26:45 Posting on social media and creation, authenticity and detachment.

30:00 Create the trend, instead of jumping on a trend.

32:30 Content with the community she has and where Marine finds inspo on instagram.

35:00 Creating a masterpiece when recording classes that take students on a journey.

37:00 Starting a podcast.

46:00 What makes an exceptional leader?

48:00 Tips for new yoga teachers.

51:00 Billboard message: You cannot fail.