Gemma was born in Beirut and teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in Beirut and Brussels. She is currently carrying out research in philosophy on the method and practice of meditation.
After a dancing training with Rafic Garzouzi at Garzouzi Academy, Gemma discovered yoga with some friends in Lebanon in 2000. She followed her first classes at Nabil Najjar’s Sivananda Yoga Center Beirut, where she met yogini teacher Danielle Abi Saab from the New-York Jivamukti school. Danielle introduced her to Vinyasa practice.

During a stay in the South of France for her philosophy studies, Gemma was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga by Barbara Thiry. At the Hanumani center  founded by Philippe Mons in Lille she practiced intensively under the guidance of Sri Sheshadri. In 2008, she took an interest to Iyengar yoga and attended a training at the Yoga Raum in Leipzig with Elvira Schurig. On the following year, she was organised an Ashtanga Yoga workshop at Clemenceau Yoga Center in Beirut, bringing Ashtanga to Lebanon for the first time. In 2012, the annual series of workshop was brought to a close with an exceptional workshop given by Sheshadri and his son Harish in Lebanon.