About YHN.
Your connection
with nature.
We help you develop a connection to nature — and yourself.
From here, you can take these experiences home, make them yours and work towards a lifestyle more in tune with the seasons and yourself.
We believe that it is crucial in this day and age to focus on our connection to the natural world and spend less time focusing on the virtual world.
About us.
We are a Yogi couple who met in India in 2013 and have been traveling and working together ever since.
We share a deep passion for yoga, food, travel and healthy living, so we’ve put together the best of our skills to create Yoga Healing Nature and share that passion with you.
Yoga Healing Nature describes the healing potential that nature has both within you — and around you.
In fact, we are part of this extraordinary system of forces that interact with each other, making every cell in our body and everything we see in nature connect.
Our perfect state of health is a balance of these natural forces.
Chloé
Porter-Gentile
Yoga Teacher and Nutritionist
As a young girl, Chloé was drawn to wellbeing, disease prevention and health. Introduced to yoga by her mother, an Iyengar teacher, she started practicing yoga at an early age. Alongside completing her academic studies in London, she took any time she could to travel to different parts of the world, notably India, studying yoga in depth, holistic therapies and helping impoverished areas.
After completing her BSc in Biomedical Sciences and moving into her Master in Nutrition for Global Health, Chloé moved to India to work, teach and study Yoga.
Chloé has taught on 200 hour yoga yeacher trainings as an anatomy teacher and has created and implemented the Wellness Programs at Aqua Wellness Programs, at the Aqua Wellness Resort.
She is now based in Laguna Beach, California and continues to run her yoga retreats with Christian.
Christian
Gentile
Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist & Chef
Born in Italy Christian was exposed to cooking delicious food early on. His passion for food and travel led him to train at a high level in hospitality management. He worked the first 10 years of his professional career in some of the best European establishments both in the kitchen and front house management.
It is no secret that working in hospitality is grueling on the body and mind so Christian went back to school to train in massage. His massage career took off quickly and he found Yoga as a way to cultivate and preserve energy for his clients. Christian has trained in all forms of massage but prefers Therapeutic Thai Massage and has spent many years training massage therapist himself in this art.
With his unique combination of expertise it was simple for Christian to transition into running Yoga Retreats curating the food, Yoga and spa experiences to excellence. Chloe and Christian have run over 40 successful retreats together.