Yael Brunner

📍 Verbier, Switzerland

🗣 Hebrew, French, English

I moved from Tel Aviv to Verbier eight years ago to be closer to the mountains and I have not regretted it once. I am a certified yoga teacher and a qualified forest therapy guide trained in the Japanese Shinrin-yoku method. The two practices have more in common than most people expect: both are about slowing down perception, removing the noise of routine thinking, and actually arriving in your body. I do sunrise yoga sessions on a mountain platform at 2,200m with the Mont Blanc massif directly in front of you — at that altitude, at that light, the practice is different from anything you will do in a studio. I also run forest bathing walks in the ancient larch forests above Verbier that have nothing to do with hiking fast and everything to do with noticing what is already there.