Photograph — portrait of Yaëlle, founder of YAM·NARA
Who am I?

Yaëlle

I grew up between France, Switzerland, and Germany, and later lived and traveled in very different environments — from the intensity of cities like New York to several months alone in the heart of Scandinavian nature.

I have known noise and silence. Performance and retreat. Places where life constantly draws your attention outward, and others where you inevitably find yourself face to face with who you are.

These experiences shaped the way I see others, but also a question that has stayed with me for a long time: how much distance can exist between the life we build, the image we project to the world, and what we actually feel inside?

For several years, my answer was largely structure.

I built my career in sales and tech, eventually leading sales teams in a demanding, performance-driven environment. I carried something important from that world with me: a rigor of thought that remains deeply part of who I am — the need to understand, analyze, learn, and genuinely commit to what I do.

Then October 7 profoundly changed the direction I wanted to give my life.

I realized that I wanted to devote more of my time to working with people in a different way.

I returned to studying and began exploring energy, chakras, and emotional intelligence, eventually becoming a certified Energy Coach. I then continued this path through the body and movement, training and becoming certified in Hatha Yoga and Yoga Therapy.

Today, my practice draws on all of these areas of learning and continues to evolve.

I do not try to apply the same method to everyone. I listen, observe, analyze, and draw on different tools depending on what arises and what each person wants to explore.

I believe deeply in intuition, but never at the expense of rigor.

That is probably what best defines the way I work.

I can work with energy and intuition while still needing to understand, question, and never treat an interpretation as absolute truth. I become genuinely involved in each person’s journey without ever taking their place in it.

And I continue to learn.

YamNara was born at the meeting point between structure and intuition, movement and energy, understanding and feeling.

— Yaëlle