Samin compares Iranian women to birds - they have wings yet they don't know how to fly. Samin herself was born and raised in Iran but once she left the country, she embarked on a yoga journey.

While her purpose is to share peace, her story is far from peaceful. Because like the birds she compares herself to, no journey is smooth for an Iranian woman. Even one that has left the country.

Her personal yoga practice began when she was 19 and ever since then, her path led her to build an online yoga school for the Persian yoga community as well as a community of Farsi-speaking yogis.

Within these communities, women have faced incomprehensible hardships from students practising in refugee camps to the borderline criminalisation of yoga in Iran. Samin not only provides a piece of joy in these lives but she speaks her truth on the issues in this episode.

Yoga touches more lives than we can often imagine.

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