#38 - Yoga as a Healing Tool - Yoga in Sierra Leone with Osman Teezo Kargbo

Welcome to Episode #38 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Osman Teezo Kargbo onto the show, a yoga teacher from Sierra Leone who was trained by the Africa Yoga Project. My conversation with Osman Teezo Kargbo, a yoga teacher from Sierra Leone, was so humbling as we looked at Osman’s history and story about how yoga came into his life, and gave him the ability to heal from a lifetime of hardships, trauma, and war. I hope that this conversation made you re-think about what yoga can do for not just an individual person, but for an entire community. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about war and peace, and how yoga can be a light in a community, then this is the conversation for you. --> Join The Women's History Month Challenge on Moxie Tell me more about Osman Teezo Kargbo Osman Teezo Kargbo is a yoga teacher from Sierra Leone, in West Africa. He started his yoga training with Africa Yoga Project in 2018. Since then, he has given yoga outreach to different communities in Sierra Leone. He also hosts yoga workshops with nurses at the biggest nursing School in Sierra Leone, and he aims to become a yoga therapist. He teaches Baptist Vinyasa yoga, yoga for children, meditation, and pranayama. What to expect in the Yoga In Sierra Leone episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Osman grew up in the midst of wars, and family and societal hardships. He met a yoga teacher with the Africa Yoga Project, Edward Kekura Kamara, who then introduced him to the practice of yoga and then eventually got him involved in the Africa Yoga Project teacher training program. Osman found great healing in through yoga, and is proud to have impacted his community through offering free outreach yoga classes. Osman has also taught yoga at hospitals, and hopes to continue offering healing yoga classes to those who are hospitalized in the future. --> $25 credit to join me for live-streamed yoga classes For the skimmers - What’s in the yoga in Sierra Leone episode? Re-think about what yoga can do for not just an individual person, but for an entire community. How a supportive yoga community can be as one family Yoga teaches self-love and self-acceptance, just as it helps heal trauma and to garner acceptance Yoga helped him cross into other tribes, and different ethnic groups, who speak different dialects. He never had interacted with other groups and tribes before teaching yoga. He now reaches out to these communities, teaches yoga to them, and shares yoga with them. He said it’s difficult to communicate, but now they There are many open doors and many locked doors, you never know when a door will open Connect with Osman Teezo Kargbo https://youtube.com/channel/UCbFnevMDdFcKtIzUdxu8EcQ https://www.facebook.com/This-Is-Yoga-Sierra-Leone-West-Africa-102168361279713 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