2023-06-27 04:00:00
A young businesswoman, for whom yoga acted as a “lifeline” during her chemotherapy treatments for ovarian cancer, decided to make it her profession, so much so that she teaches today his passion… on paddle boards.
It was in 2015, following an ectopic pregnancy, that Andréanne Rochette’s life completely changed.
After just a few weeks of pregnancy, she goes to the hospital for bleeding. Risking internal bleeding, she was operated on urgently. When she wakes up, the surgeons inform her that she has masses, possibly cancerous, on both of her ovaries. Another operation will be necessary, he is told, and this, quickly.
“For the first time I hear the word cancer in the bedroom. And there, everything stops,” says the 36-year-old woman.
A few weeks later, when she has confirmation that she has stage 3 cancer, she returns to the operating table.
Mourning of motherhood
As a result, the left ovary and part of the right were removed, so that she had to mourn the loss of motherhood, because of her too low ovarian reserve, ”she recounts with emotion.
“I felt like I was in a nightmare, in a reality that didn’t belong to me,” she adds.
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Chemotherapy
Then she began a “very difficult” six-month preventive chemotherapy treatment.
To get through this ordeal, she takes refuge in yoga, a sport that she “relearns”, she says. “Before, I stretched, I moved on a mat, but inside, there was nothing connected or balanced like it is now,” she says.
“There is a letting go on the water, you have to adjust to an environment that is constantly changing and for me, that reflects life,” says Andréanne Rochette, 36, founder of Yogi Nomade. Photo Elisa Cloutier
180 degree turn
The one who worked for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Quebec in communication then made a “180 degree turn”, thus abandoning the “corporate, skirt and high heels” lifestyle for that of a yogi.
“I realized that I had to do everything in my power to take care of my health. […] I eliminated toxic consumption, so yes, I changed my diet, prioritizing green or unprocessed foods, but that’s also what I read, my surroundings, what I do. A new way of life has taken hold,” she explains.
Also a paddleboarding enthusiast for several years, she decided to combine her two passions and founded her own mobile yoga studio, Yogi Nomade, with the goal of “inspiring people to take care of themselves”. “I want to help people find the yoga that I didn’t find before I got sick,” she says.
For six years now, she has been giving SUP yoga classes on various bodies of water in the region.
“If I hadn’t had my pregnancy, I never would have known. [que j’étais atteinte d’un cancer] and I wouldn’t be here today. My pregnancy saved my life. The only child that I would have had, but that I did not have, is what allowed me to survive,” she concludes.
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