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.
She is also known for founding the Free Yoga movement and for being one of the yoga teachers on Operación Triunfo, 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.
Biography
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.
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. 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.
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
French YouTubers
Date of birth missing (living people) People from Roanne French people of Vietnamese descent Living people