La Dame de Onze Heures'blog

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About us

Farmers, Harvestors, Wild Craftors, Creators

Gurprasad

Has climbed the Kowledge Tree of medicinal plants since 2009. She discovers its ramifications in the ELPM, school of medicinal plants of Lyon, France: the various uses of plants, botany and aromatherapy.

She continued to explore different branches of that tree through shorter and longer internships with producers, harvestors, plant based products creators. Along one of these branches, she finds herself charmed by the bud and chooses to specialise in gemmotherapy.

The professional activity started in 2013, focusing on wild harvests, gemmotherapy, natural cosmetics and dried herbs. She is passionate and loves to harvest, to keep on learning evermore about plants, to develop recipes and try her latest creations. The range of her products has grown rapidly.

Both her parents teach yoga, her father created a line of ayurvedic herbal teas and her mother teaches yoga doula. Her educational itinerary is quite uncommon. She grows up in a yogi community, goes to a Steiner School in the Hautes-Alpes region of France, then to an internation school in the Netherlands and in an Amristar Yoga school in Indian Penjab. Quite à fertile and cosmopolitan bringing up !

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Matthieu

Breton, from Brittany, France, dgeographer and map-maker (Masters of Geomatics) has worked as such during two years, for engineering consultants in environment for renewable energies after having beeing into interational cooperation development.

Inspired by wilderness, itinerant traveling and budhist pilgrimages, he is following Alexandra David-Néel’s footsteps.
For 7 years he hits Yunnan dust paths (chinese region) from historical Tibet to burmese and laosian borders. He is comanaging a budding hiking agency. He teaches Kundalini yoga and is a hiking guide. He has come back in France to live with his partner

In his family, a lineage of herbalists has lived on since the french revolution of 1789. To jump in the tub of the farming and business world, after having been in the great big oriental tub, has been done naturally, in a flowing and joyful process.

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La Dame de Onze Heures

Cliché pris dans le Trièves

In life and in work, they have been joining forces for over three years. Matthieu takes care of the farming plots and of the commercialisation while Gurprasad watches over the harvests, processings and sales.
The diversity of our paths and cultures is an integral part of the identity of our activity. The name of our brand send multiple echos, here is its short story.

La dame de onze heures is a small flower found for example in Trièves (french Alps). It is used in Bach flowers for emotionnal choc, grief. Itis other name is Star of Bethleem, the light in the darkness. It is the story of an inspiration, a passage, of “guru”, which means from dark to light, inspiration as it can manifest in each of us in everyday life.

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