#35 - Transforming Anxiety Through Yoga - Yoga in Ghana with Rama Saeed

Welcome to Episode #35 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Rama Saeed onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Ghana. Rama Saeed first encountered yoga through a workout app that had a small offering of yoga, and she avoided “clicking that yoga button for as long as possible.” Then she realized it wasn’t anything like she expected. Another thing she came to realize— she couldn’t touch her toes. She want around to her family members, asking if they can touch their toes and she was the only one who couldn’t! So, at first, she didn’t enjoy yoga at all but she kept on coming back again and again to yoga. She was working in horse riding, training, and trick riding and very fortunately, when she wanted to become a yoga teacher, her family was supportive. Rama received a scholarship to travel to Kenya— where she had never been before and knew no one at all— to study yoga with the Africa Yoga Project. --> $15 Coupon For Yoga Classes With Me: https://get.moxie.xyz/wildyogatribe So tell me more about Rama Saeed Rama Saeed is a yoga teacher from Ghana who started practicing yoga at the age of 18. In 2019, she received a scholarship with the Africa Yoga Project to travel to Kenya and to complete a 200hr yoga teacher training program. Shortly after returning home to Ghana, Rama began teaching outreach classes and teaching at Bliss Yoga in Accra. She has also completed a 200hr PYT certification from Yogazama, and she teaches power vinyasa, restorative flow, and psychotherapeutic yoga. What to expect in the Yoga In Ghana episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast My conversation with Rama Saeed, a yoga teacher from Ghana, was so meaningful as she shared her journey of how yoga has allowed her to open up the “curtains” to the world, and to knock on different doors of her own being and body. I hope that this conversation made you feel empowered to start a yoga practice, or to reflect on how yoga has changed and transformed your own life. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about being brave and breaking the mould then this is the conversation for you. Thank you for listening to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast— be well. For the skimmers - What’s in the Yoga in Ghana episode? Coming to yoga through a work-out app, and starting from a place of not being able to touch her toes Journeying to Kenya for her TTC with the Africa Yoga Project and finding her second family there Opening up the “curtains” into the world of confidence, and knocking on the door of different poses and different aspects of being and body Yoga is empowering in every sense of the word Transforming anxiety and finding your super power! Yoga is more popular in Ghana now because of COVID and people’s desire to do something good for their bodies at home Meditation can be scary— gently easing people into awareness of what yoga is and what being with your breath can look like Connect with Rama Saeed https://instagram.com/esipoweryoga [email protected] Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe