#80 - Yoga Fusion - Yoga in Cameroon with Sten Kadji

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!

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

Yoga is a fusion of many practices, a union of spheres
Opening Cameroon’s first yoga studio in an art gallery
Dismantling the myths around yoga
The powerful training experience with the Africa Yoga Project
Yoga is a journey that is ongoing, a flow that doesn’t stop
Yoga is a practice meant to be shared 

Connect with Sten Kadji 

https://www.instagram.com/ark_yoga/

https://www.facebook.com/studioarkyoga

Art Gallery: https://www.instagram.com/anniekadji.art/

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