#65 - Yoga: Giver of Love - Yoga in Senegal with Ahmet Sagna

Welcome to Episode #65 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Senegal onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Ahmet Sagna. My conversation with Ahmet Sanga, a yoga teacher from Senegal, was so interesting as we discussed why it's important for there to be yoga all around the world. As a school gym teacher, Ahmet brings yoga to young people in class, as well as to his larger community in Senegal.

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

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Tell me more about Ahmet Sagna

Ahmet Sagna is a yoga teacher from Senegal. He has been teaching Hatha yoga since 2012, and he first discovered yoga for the first time in Dakar, Senegal through a friend. In 2016 he traveled to India to attend university at the S-Vyasa in Bangalore for yoga certification. Moreover, he is a massage therapist and a gym and sports teacher at a public school in Dakar. He grew up in Ziguinchor, in the south of Senegal, and now lives in the capital of Dakar. He regularly teaches private yoga classes and hopes one day to open his own yoga studio.

For the skimmers - What’s in the yoga in Senegal episode?

Teaching yoga to students in school as a gym teacher
Receiving sponsorship from the Indian Embassy to go to India to receive his yoga certification
Why is it important that yoga is in every country around the world?
Yoga gives me love
Yoga is calming the mind

Favorite Quote From Ahmet

"I think it's good to teach people yoga, because yoga will help you to have, to get insight, the outside is a manifestation of the inside. And I think many people do yoga. I think we'll have peace in the world and we'll have a better world.

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