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Filmed at TEDxParisSalon on November 27, 2012 at the Gaîté Lyrique. More talks on http://tedxparis.com/ Now a travel writer, Corine Sombrun spent her childhood in Africa, in Burkina Faso. In 1999, she moved to London where she worked as a pianist-composer and then as a reporter for BBC World. During a report in Mongolia in 2001, a shaman told her that she was a shaman and her "path", he said, would be to follow their secret teaching. After eight years of apprenticeship, where she spent several months a year on the Siberian border with Enkhetuya, a shaman of the Tsaatans ethnic group responsible for teaching her trance techniques, she collaborated with scientists and was at the origin of the first research protocol on Mongolian shamanic trance studied by neuroscience. His latest book Les esprits de la Steppe published by Albin Michel, retraces through the life of Enkhetuya, this adventure of Mongolian shamanism from the 1950s to research laboratories. Join us on social networks: / tedxparis / tedxparis