About Maryline

Maryline was born in West Africa in the Ivory Coast in the village Vieux-Badien. Born to an African mother and French father, she left her birth country when she was almost one year old and spent the first 25 years of her life near Paris with her adoptive family, which she revisits in her upcoming memoir, Shadows of The Ivory. She moved to the United States in 1993 after meeting and marrying her American husband, Patrick.

Life took her to California, where she gave birth to her first son, Cheyn. Three years later, she studied Interior Design at the University of California, Berkeley, pregnant with her second child, Tevenn. 

One of the classes in her curriculum was perspective drawing. There, she realized her sense of proportion and perception. Her first love was female nude figure drawing. She loved to play with the curves and explore the various facets of femininity, which enhanced the flavors of her own sensuality. Later, she explored portrait drawings, then painting.

Maryline has been a yoga student for two decades. She became a yoga teacher in 2005 and taught Hatha yoga for 15 years. 

In 2018, she discovered the Kaiut yoga practice. She connected right away with Francico Kaiut’s method and embarked on his teacher trainings, first in Telluride, Colorado, and soon after in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

In 2019, she began to teach Kaiut yoga in Colorado. Since COVID-19, she opened her own virtual yoga studio, La Vie Yoga.