My name is Laure Bawejski, I was born in Reims — not a coincidence, as I’m a big fan of champagne.
I’ve lived all over France because my dad was a fighter pilot. We moved a lot, but we’ve always had a little family home near the Ocean, on the West Coast.
After four years in Paris, for my first job, living a fast-paced life, I left my marketing position in a big French company because I wasn’t happy with this “metro–work–sleep” lifestyle, far from nature.
I felt disconnected from what I loved, and I had the feeling that life was slipping by way too fast.
I felt like I was slowly burning out and suffocating.
I needed to get closer to the Ocean and to nature to find myself again.
So I left Paris and my full-time job to start the adventure of entrepreneurship.
I trained in vinyasa yoga, women’s yoga, yin yoga, and prenatal yoga to become a professional in the wellness field.
I then created my business around ocean-inspired wellness: Santa Mila.
For the past three years now, I’ve been sharing this vision of well-being through digital content: blog articles, social media, online workshops and classes, and two “off-screen” formats — my book Ocean Therapy and a new audio format with my podcast channel Ocean & Happiness Therapy.
I also wanted to bring this experience and this vision of well-being to life.
So, two years ago, in partnership with a travel agency, I launched my “Ocean Therapy” retreats — a salty break to recharge and learn to take care of yourself by the Ocean.
These retreats are held once a month between the Basque Country, the Landes and Morocco!
Another question I often get is: “Why Santa Mila?”
Santa Mila is the name of my grandmother, Mila Santacruz, a beautiful Andalusian woman who grew up and lived in Morocco by the Ocean.
I chose this name to pay tribute to the women in my family — my mother and grandmothers — who passed on this vision of well-being to me.
For them, “taking care of yourself” didn’t mean being in constant control of your fitness, body, or nutrition.
Well-being meant finding the keys within ourselves to be happy, more fulfilled, and at peace: eating good, simple food that comes from nature, enjoying life, exercising through activities you actually like, and most of all, finding what makes you feel good — to enjoy life and the present moment.
My grandmother Mila loved life. She loved gathering her grandchildren around tapas, drinking good champagne, dancing, going to the beach to enjoy the Ocean.
She used to tell us that we had to live life to the fullest, take care of ourselves, and treat ourselves without guilt. That was her recipe for happiness!
I’ve always had this vision of well-being.
So I wanted to share this lifestyle.
See you very soon,
Laure
