Peeling Back The Layers Of Your Life®

ALL THE WAY FROM MADAGASCAR!!! Alison Rakotonirina is a Colorado Girl transplanted to France in 2013 and then to Madagascar in 2018. With my childhood spent frolicking in the Rocky Mountains, my first love is nature, physical geography, and sleeping under the stars, but I need people. I’ll try just about anything once. I enjoy most things I try. My grandmothers and all the strong women in my family have been my inspiration for years; they also taught me my great loves of baking, cooking, traveling, and doing yoga. All this given that one of them never made it off the ground in an airplane, and the other didn’t bake. I am grateful that as a young woman, my mom imparted in me the gift of unabashed joyful confidence and kindness. To me, life is about making love, practicing compassion, making connections, pursuing excellence, leaving the world better than when I arrived. I adore architecture and botanical gardens, beautiful food, tasty food, anything handmade with love. I love to move my body, to laugh, to slee