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and leads workshops in France, Belgium, Canada and India. She is also an artist and writes essays on Vedanta.
The open-air setting outside the store was apt for the story, which was all about trees, the stories they have to tell us and the lessons one could learn from them.

Telling tales
Martine told her story in English with a delightful French accent. It was of an old woman starved for attention and company. One day, she managed to garner an audience by narrating the story of a tree. So she decided to journey and discover wonderful things about other trees that she could come back and tell the children of her village. The old woman encountered many talking trees on the way. The banyan tree narrated to her the delightful story of how the Buddha had attained enlightenment, discovering that the middle path was the key to satisfaction and contentment.

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It was the perfect setting for a perfect event! Ahumcaara, the store that prides itself on 'the wisdom of wellbeing', hosted a storytelling session in association with the Prakriti Foundation. Celebrity storyteller Martine Quentric-Seguy was brought down from Pondicherry for the event.
The subjects of the French storyteller's tales appeal more to adults, though children too, hugely enjoy her gifted skill! She has been performing on stage since 1997 and has published four books of Indian spiritual tales in France and Canada.
She gives talks, writes articles on the history and art of storytelling,

An unique storytelling session by Martine Quentric-Seguy had art and Nature lovers in
Chennai spellbound, Neeti Jaychander reports

She encountered a group of people below the Tree of Life and Death, who were cutting down the branch of Death, so that they could eat only fruit from the branch of Life. However, no sooner had they done this, than the branch of Life withered and fell away as well. "Life without death?" she pondered, shaking her head in answer to her own question.
The hour-and-a-half-long session was part of the Prakriti Foundation's Tree of Life Festival, and held the audience silent and spellbound. The festival also included spinning and puppetry, and is the first in a series of events that Ahumcaara hopes to host.[F] [F]