Xuan Lan
Xuan Lan is a French internet celebrity, yoga instructor and writer. She became known in 2011 through social networks and YouTube as a yoga and meditation coach, gaining more than 1.8 million followers from different parts of Ibero-America, mostly in Spain. [1][2]
She is also known for founding the Free Yoga movement and for being one of the yoga teachers on Operación Triunfo,[3] the TVE1 talent show. In 2020, she received the Elle Women Awards in the Wellness category and the following year the Internet Day Award in the personal brand category.[4][5][6]
Biography[edit]
From a Vietnamese family, Xuan Lan was born in Roanne, France, she moved to the city of Paris at the early age of two. There, she lived all her childhood and youth until she completed her academic training at Paris-Dauphine University.[7][8][9]
She studied three years at the Faculty of Economics and Finance, but realized that it was not her thing after a few months of internship in a company dealing with financial markets and the stock market.[10] She decided to switch to marketing in the telecommunications and new technologies sector.
In 1998, she traveled to the United States for work. In New York, she discovered yoga while working in a French company dedicated to fairs and congresses and in Internet start-ups.
In 2001, she moved to Barcelona for personal reasons and worked there in the banking sector until 2011. In 2012, she was one of the founders of the so-called Free yoga in Spain, an outdoor yoga modality.[11][12]
In 2011, she created her YouTube channel which currently exceeds 130 million views. In 2018, she participated in Operación Triunfo, the talent show program on TVE1, as a yoga teacher. In 2020, Xuan Lan and her husband launch a digital academy project called "XLY Studio", to spread the practice of yoga and meditation online.
References[edit]
- ^ S.A.S, Editorial La República. "#Con-Texto | Un cuento de yoga: Xuan Lan, una escritora en búsqueda de la reflexión". Diario La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Posturas de yoga para principiantes recomendadas por Xuan Lan". hola.com (in Spanish). 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ Río, Por Blanca Del (2022-04-26). "Entrevista a Xuan Lan: "antes del yoga mi vida era aburrida"". ELLE (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Xuan Lan. Quién es la vietnamita que conquistó la cuarentena con sus clases de yoga". LA NACION (in Spanish). 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Quién es Xuan Lan y por qué es una de las reinas del yoga". TELVA (in Spanish). 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ Clarín.com (2020-05-20). "Xuan Lan: el detrás de escena de las clases de yoga por YouTube". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "¿Quién es Xuan Lan y por qué todos estamos haciendo yoga con ella (virtualmente, claro) esta cuarentena?". Mujer Hoy (in Spanish). 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Libros y Biografía | Abacus.coop". www.abacus.coop (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Xuan Lan, la profesora de yoga imagen de Born Living Yoga". WeLife (in Spanish). 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "De empleada de banca a gurú del yoga". Diario Sur (in European Spanish). 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "¿Dónde estudió yoga Xuan Lan?". preguntasprincipales.com. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Yoga para mi bienestar Audiolibro by Xuan-Lan". Rakuten Kobo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.