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Welcome to Episode #85 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Fakhria Momtaz, a yoga teacher from Afghanistan, was so incredible as we took a deep dive into what it was like to open the yoga studio in Afghanistan and all the risks and challenges that presented. I hope that this conversation made you realize how yoga is so important, that it is worth the risk because it is a necessity for a community to have access to.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Afghanistan then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz

Fakhria Momtaz is the first yoga studio owner in Afghanistan. She founded Momtaz Yoga Studio in 2017, though she began studying yoga over 15 years ago. She teaches yoga to Afghan women refugees through the Yoga Alliance Foundation. Currently, she herself is a refugee in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, where she teaches to refugees and holds online yoga classes for women in the USA, Canada, and Europe. As the founder of the only Yoga Center in Afghanistan, that provides yoga and welfare services to women, Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz is a pillar in the global yoga community and has been of great service to the women of Afghanistan. 

Fakhria is currently working towards her Bachelor of Science of Yoga Education with SVYASA, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samathana. She is the recipient of many awards including the “Seeds of Change Award” on International Women’s Day 2018 for the “Best Female Business Person.” Although she is now internationally celebrated, she was hunted by fundamentalists in Afghanistan in 2020 because of her yoga work and had to escape Afghanistan and move to Pakistan.

What to expect in the Yoga In Afghanistan episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Fakhria Momtaz shares her journey to open a yoga studio in a country where the practice of yoga was not accepted. She faced challenges and resistance from the government, and even had to put her life at risk to open her studio, but she never gave up. Fakhria explains her definition of yoga, which includes science, health, art, beauty, culture, harmony, and bridge to history. She believes that yoga is something humans are born with, as babies naturally fall into yoga pose shapes.

Fakhria received her education and training in yoga through attending the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India, and enrolling in a Bachelor's program in yoga at SVYASA University. Currently, she herself is a refugee in Islamabad, Pakistan, where she teaches yoga to refugees and conducts online yoga classes for women in the USA, Canada, and Europe. Despite the obstacles, Fakhria persevered in bringing yoga to the women of Afghanistan, making a significant contribution to the global yoga community.

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www.momtaz.yoga

https://www.nike.com/a/a-safe-space-for-women-to-work-out

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Welcome to Episode #84 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Susan McEwen, a yoga teacher from Northern Ireland, was powerful as we took a deep dive into huge issues like peace, injustice, reconciliation, racism, and religion, as they relate to yoga and to Northern Ireland. I hope that this conversation opened your eyes to new perceptions, conceptions, and the need to investigate misconceptions around yoga. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Northern Ireland then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Susan McEwen

Susan McEwen is a yoga studio co-owner in Northern Ireland, in Belfast, of Yoga Quarter. Susan and two of her friends opened the studio just a few months after Susan competed her first 200-hour yoga teacher training. Susan loves learning and has also completed 100-hour Yin Training, as well as training in trauma-informed yoga with Hala Khouri and Yoga for Social Justice with Yoga For Humankind. Susan teaches Vinyasa and Yin regularly at her own studio. Additionally, she teaches in a yoga teacher training and has just developed a course called Radical, which looks at the container of yoga to explore social justice and trauma. Susan developed this course along with two of her yoga teachers.

What to expect in the Yoga In Northern Ireland episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Susan McEwen is a Belfast-based yoga teacher who encourages inclusivity and understanding of differences, particularly in a community like Belfast, Northern Ireland, where sectarianism persists. She stresses the importance of understanding the impact of difference and avoiding spiritual bypassing. Susan McEwen is also involved in social justice through yoga and highlights the ongoing work that needs to be done to address the violence that persists in society.

Susan’s advice to yoga teachers who want to open their own studio is to start small and work with like-minded people. McEwen describes yoga as an unfolding and inhabiting of the present moment, encompassing all aspects of one's being with challenge and acceptance.

In addition to her yoga practice, Susan is involved in promoting social justice through yoga and working to create change in her community. She emphasizes the importance of grassroots communities coming together and acknowledges the growing sense of poverty and scarcity, which is contributing to anxiety and mental health issues. Overall, Susan's message is one of inclusivity, acceptance, and community building through yoga.

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Welcome to Episode #83 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! Thank you so much for tuning into the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. My conversation with Hamilton De Sousa, a yoga teacher from Angola, was so enthralling as we wove so many elements of spiritual understanding of yoga, of vipassana, and of the world together. I hope that this conversation made you see what is possible in the realm of yoga — and what is IMPORTANT on the path of yoga.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Angola then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Hamilton De Sousa

Hamilton De Sousa has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. As he says, he fell in love with the first sun salutation and never looked back. He has spent time in India studying Ashtanga yoga in Mysore and Goa. He opened his own studio in Angola called The Studio in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. He teaches Ashtanga, Hatha, Power, and Restorative yoga at his yoga studio. Hamilton is also a long-time Vipassana meditator.

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What to expect in the Yoga In Angola episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Hamilton De Sousa, a yoga teacher from Angola, defines yoga as a self-journey and self-inquiry practice that helps humans evolve and develop to connect their individual consciousness to the universal consciousness. Through the practice of yoga, one can become self-aware of their body, thoughts, and consciousness and ultimately become one with all. Hamilton shared with us his profound experience - an experience of oneness where he left his body, went into the sun, and touched everything. This experience made him realize that he is everything, and he is not afraid to die since that day.

Hamilton shares how he fell in love with yoga and his 20-year journey practicing Ashtanga yoga, as well as vipassana meditation. He emphasizes the importance of discipline and devotion in Ashtanga yoga, while also acknowledging the need to adapt the practice to truly listen to the body. He also highlighted the humbling nature of yoga and its ability to become an integral part of one's daily life.

Incredibly, Hamilton studied with Pattabhi Jois himself in Mysore, India, and while the classes were large and he received few adjustments, the energy and progress he experienced were unparalleled.

When the conversation veered towards why the world needs, yoga Hamilton shared his  belief that people are turning to yoga to answer deep existential questions and cope with the stress and fast pace of life. Yoga provides a way to connect and find purpose in life.

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Welcome to Episode #82 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Serena Burgess, a yoga teacher from Sri Lanka, was so illuminating as we took a deep dive into the intersection of yoga and activism. I hope that this conversation made you curious about how you can use the ancient tools of yoga as relevant sources of liberation in the modern world. After all, it’s all yoga. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Sri Lanka then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Serena Burgess

Serena Burgess has been teaching yoga for 18 years and has led numerous workshops, retreats, and yoga teacher trainings. She is the founder and yoga studio owner of The Om Space. She is certified in Acro Yoga, prenatal/postnatal yoga, and more! She has crafted courses and workshops about the intersection of Yoga and Activism and is passionate about her work as a doula and as an advocate for better birthing experiences for women in Sri Lanka. Some of the courses that Serena has created are the Inner Guru Training (co-founded by Eva Priyanka Wegener at Sri Yoga Shala, Personal Resilience Course, and Conscious Courage. Serena teaches weekly and leads intensive at Prana Lounge in Colombo. 

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What to expect in the Yoga In Sri Lanka episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Serena Burgess came to yoga while living in the UK at the Shivanada ashram there. After receiving her certification, she moved back home to Sri Lanka where she opened her own yoga studio, The Om Space, in Colombo. While the pandemic caused the studio to shut down, Serena expressed nothing but gratitude for the shift of her energy and intention.

Burgess's practice of yoga also intersects with activism. She became involved in the Aragalya struggle, which was a people's uprising in Sri Lanka. Burgess’s involvement in activism started when she began feeling that something was not right in the world, starting with the separation of children at the borders in the US. She feels that a lot of people are living with a slight feeling that things are not quite right due to the economic crisis and other issues affecting the world. Yoga has helped her engage in the generative story and see the good things that are happening in the world.

Serena Burgess believes that these ancient tools can be utilized in our modern world to face the challenges we come across. Serena has also formulated a workshop called Conscious Courage, which is aimed at allowing people some space and time to figure out how they would like to show up in the world. Serena believes that yoga is not just about practicing asanas but can be integrated into daily life. After all, it’s all yoga!

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Welcome to Episode #81 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Nathalie Bittar, a yoga teacher and the first yoga studio owner from Sudan, was enthralling as we took a deep dive into yoga as a complementary practice, not a competitive practice to religion. I hope that this conversation expanded your perception of how yoga can be a space for community, trust, and safety and how yoga can help you individually, and a community as a whole, shed defenses, shed armor, and help trauma to move through. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Sudan then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Nathalie Bittar 

Nathalie Bittar opened the first yoga studio in the capital city of Khartoum in Sudan in 2008, named Blue Nile Lotus. She is trained in Vinyasa Yoga, Tibetan Heart Yoga, Anusara yoga and Jivamurkti yoga and more. With over 1,000 hours of training, she can’t get enough yoga. Nathalie also leads yoga teacher trainings in Sudan, and leads yoga retreats worldwide. She is also a psychotherapist in Core Process Psychotherapy.

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What to expect in the Yoga In Sudan episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Nathalie was working and living in New York City when 9/11 happened. In fact, she worked in the towers. Not the ones that fell— the one across the street. She had just begun practicing yoga that same year, and kept going to practice throughout that time of enormous trauma and turmoil. Yet, as the practice healed her, it still felt like a mystery.

That led Nathalie to do her first yoga teacher training, and she decided to move back to Sudan to open the first yoga studio in her country in 2008. We talked about what it was like for her to open the first yoga studio in Sudan, and if there was any pushback. She expressed fears about the police shutting it down or disturbing the classes, but fortunately, that never happened. We also talked about what a difficult time it has been in the last few years for Sudan, with overthrowing the government in April 2019 and just over 2 years later a military coup taking place in October 2021. Nathalie shared with us how has yoga helped her community during this time of turmoil.

As Nathalie leads yoga retreats not just in Sudan, but worldwide, we also delved into what advice she has to offer to yoga teachers who are one day hoping of leading yoga retreats themselves. As Nathalie conveyed, always have a plan and always have an eraser! 

This was a beautiful conversation about trauma, safety, trust, shedding defenses, and how healing can happen on and off the mat, in and outside of the studio, all with, through, and by… yoga!

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Connect with Nathalie Bittar

bluenilelotus.com

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Welcome to Episode #80 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Sten Kadji, a yoga teacher from Cameroon, was so bright and beautiful as we looked at yoga as a union of spheres, a fusion of many practices. I hope that this conversation made you curious about how yoga is a journey, and what yoga is for you can change, grow, and transform at any moment and it likely will throughout your life. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about being open to change, and being flexible with yourself and with life, then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Sten Kadji

Sten Kadji opened the first yoga studio in Cameroon, Studio Ark Yoga, at the end of 2019. While he began practicing yoga in 2015, he received his yoga teacher training certification with the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya, and was actually in the same graduating class as Rama Saeed from Ghana, a previous guest on the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Sten teaches various types of meditations and Power Vinyasa Yoga at his studio in Douala, Cameroon.

What to expect in the Yoga In Cameroon episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

While Sten Kadji is from Cameroon, he first came to yoga while attending university in Florida. Upon returning to Cameroon, he knew he wanted to bring all that he had learned to his community. He sought out a yoga teacher training with the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya, and opened the first studio in Cameroon shortly after in his mother’s art gallery. As Sten says, “It was a no-brainer how art and yoga associate.”

Our conversation veered off into many beautiful directions, including how Sten defines yoga, the gifts that yoga has given him, and all that yoga has brought into his life. His mother lost her battle with cancer a few years ago, and Sten credits yoga for helping him to heal. 

It was fascinating to hear how being the first yoga studio in Cameroon has given required him to shoulder more responsibilities surrounding yoga. As Sten says, “In Cameroon, we do have a lot of preconceived ideas that people who associate yoga to religious affiliation or sometimes it's very mystified and we take a lot of pride in dismantling these ideas or these myths around yoga. Through practices like meditation and breath work and even different workshops like around the yamas and niyamas and different philosophy around the practice, we try to share with our community around us.”

If you’re curious about yoga in Cameroon or what Cameroon is like— then tune in! This is the Wild Yoga Tribe episode for you!

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Connect with Sten Kadji 

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Welcome to Episode #79 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Chacal Lobos onto the show. My conversation with Chacal Lobos, a yoga teacher from Guatemala, was gorgeous. We took a swan dive into the ancestral and spiritual understanding of yoga as a discipline. Not as an art. Not as a science. As a discipline. I hope this conversation made you consider things differently, with Carlos’ sharing of stories, parables, and myths.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga as a rebellious act, a revolution, a way to follow your own path INWARDS, then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Chacal Lobos

Chacal Lobos, who goes by Carlos, is the co-founder of Tribu Ashtanga in Guatemala with his partner Elena. Gratitude is at the heart of all that Carlos does. Tribu Ashtanga holds yoga teacher trainings and yoga intensives. He teaches in San Marcos La Laguna.

What to expect in the Yoga In Guatemala episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Chacal Lobos is a storyteller. Specifically, he shared two beautiful parables with us, one of the first female monk and another of children rowing a boat during the nighttime. Carlos is a storyteller— and someone who got me to tell a story of my own on the show.

Carlos is passionate about the ancestral practices of yoga, and of Guatemala. He shared with us how immensely beautiful his culture’s ancient practices are — and how the day that we recorded, was actually a special day for such a conversation to take place. Every day has a different energy, according to the Mayan calendars, so he told us about how he lives his life connected with that path and with daily rituals of Mayan Cosmology, connecting with the ancestral and the divine. 

Carlos conveyed that, ancestral practices never die. By practicing yourself, you help it to never die. As Carlos says, “Yoga has an essence and we are just translators.”

Carlos views yoga not as a science, not as an art, but as a discipline. While this word may carry certain connotations, Chacal shared with us the root is discs, which means the openness to learn.” Tribu Ashtanga is a community that is both “open and empty” to follow the path of ashtanga yoga.

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Favorite Quote From Chacal Lobos

“I feel that every person that is in the yoga practice has a rebel heart. Because mostly society is like teaching us to look outside. For the people who are in this, like you, they made the decision to look inside instead of looking outside as a rebel act. I think we're in the same line."

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Welcome to Episode #78 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Heran Tadesse, a yoga teacher from Ethiopia, was so fascinating as we took a deep dive into African yoga and Kemetic yoga. I hope that this conversation made you curious about how yoga can help transform you into a vessel for peace, acceptance, and love.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Ethiopia, then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Heran Tadesse

Heran Tadesse is a yoga teacher from Ethiopia who has been teaching yoga for 9 years in several studios in the capital city of Addis Ababa. She teaches prenatal/postnatal yoga, and is a mother herself. As a student, she started off with Hatha Yoga. She was trained in Kemetic Yoga in Egypt and Afrikan Yoga in Kenya. 

What to expect in the Yoga In Ethiopia episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Heran was adopted from Ethiopia as a baby, and was raised in the Netherlands. She studied tropical forestry in University, and first came to yoga at that time in her life. She practiced and attended classes for 10 years before attending a yoga teacher training in Belgium. After receiving a job offer in Addis Ababa, she returned to Ethiopia. She works in the educational sector and teaches yoga in multiple studios. 

Heran then took us on a deep dive of what Kemetic Yoga, which has it’s roots in ancient Egypt which pre-dates yoga in India, though it is no longer a living part of Egyptian culture. It’s about reconnecting with the ancestors, and is modeled after the hieroglyphics. It’s akin to Iyengar yoga, with strict, static poses.

Afrikan yoga was founded by a man from Jamaica who is based out of Kenya. This style draws upon movements that people make, in the whole Nile Valley. This could be movements that fishermen make, or women who are grinding wheat. There are series of movements, with a lot more flow and, in fact, dance. There is a huge focus on relating to the elements.

Heran also walked us through all the diversity and beauty of her country, and about the history of yoga in Ethiopia and where she sees yoga going into the future. As there are only 20 yoga teachers, approximately, in her country— and as she is the most experienced practitioner in her country, she is often stopped on the street and people shout “yoga!” At her. The whole city knows her as the yoga teacher.

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Welcome to Episode #77 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Hayet Hamlaoui, a yoga teacher from Algeria, was so beautiful as we took a deep dive into the path of yoga as a way of revealing the meaning of life, and connecting you with the clarity of self-awareness. I hope that this conversation made you curious about how self-knowledge is a way to self-love. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Algeria then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Hayet Hamlaoui

Hayet Hamlaoui is a yoga teacher from Algeria. She is also the founder and owner of the first holistic center in Algeria, named the Alger Holistic Center. She completed her yoga teacher trainings in India and Indonesia in Hatha yoga, yoga therapy, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. Hayet is a marketing professional by education. She decided to change her life as she always felt a deep connection with the world of spirituality, and her work at that time was not satisfying. After more a decade in the marketing and advertising field, she changed her professional life in 2016 and opened the Alger Holistic Center.

What to expect in the Yoga In Algeria episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

Hayet Hamlaoui went from the Marketing world into the world of yoga. She felt like she was missing her life, her exact words missing her life - not having enough time for herself. She connected with the Indian community in Algeria, and was swept up in all that yoga has to offer. Yoga has taught her the meaning of life, and has revealed her purpose to teach people about yoga, self-care, self-awareness, and self-knowledge.

Hayet is trying to open people's perspectives and minds, to have communion with the self. As a Muslim country, as Hayet says, “Religion is a sensitive point.” And she opening

In the beginning, it was more explaining than practicing. Now after 8 years, Hayet has been able to introduce her community to it in such a way that they are pursuing their own paths and are connecting with yoga in their own ways. For her students, meditation gives the best results.

Hayet has been amazed at the success of her holistic healing center. As Hayet says, “people are very ready for the changes that come with well-being.” There is a new level of understanding that Western medicine has limits. Naturally, people are seeking her center out when suffering arises or intensifies. Everything from stress to burnout to cancer— they have found their way in the practice of yoga.

We also discussed yoga in Algeria and what Algeria is like as a whole. Hayet did such a beautiful joy

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Welcome to Episode #76 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Victor Chng, a yoga teacher from Singapore, was so fascinating as we took a deep dive into the spiritual understanding of yoga and QiGong. I hope that this conversation made you curious about the energetic imprints of the body itself, and how the chakras, the meridians, and the nadis are all different layers of a map that overlays the body, to utilize for the purpose of healing.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about the aim of yoga is to achieve an indestructible body, then this is the conversation for you.

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Tell me more about Victor Chng

Victor Chng began his yoga journey in the late 1990s and took his first teacher training in Singapore under SVYASA in 2002. Victor began full-time teaching in 2004. And today, he has developed his own system of yin yoga training and practice by integrating Daoist philosophies, Buddhism, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Yellow Emperor Inner Classics to help his students understand a deeper dimension of the yin practice. He also incorporated Qigong, an ancient energy movement developed in China, into Yin Yoga. He teaches all over Asia. He has studied directly under the elder students of the legendary Krishnamarchaya of Mysore, including TKV Desikachar, A.G. Mohan & Srivasta Ramaswami. He has also studied under Paul Grilley as well.

What to expect in the Yoga In Singapore episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

This podcast episode with Victor Chng is not quite like any other episode on the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Victor truly takes us through a deep dive into the history of yoga. Not just stopping at Patanjali’s yoga sutras, but going beyond into China, Japan, and through thousands of years of history. We touched on Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine System, and Yellow Emperor Inner Classics, a lineage of information that was completely new to me. Victor is a true wealth of knowledge, and he generously shares it with us on this episode.

If you're looking to learn, and I mean really learn, then this is the episode for you!

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Connect with Victor

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