WELCOME TO YOGA BE FARSI

My daily yoga practice was the best part of my day and every morning started the same way, drinking hot water and getting on the mat, flowing while the sun rose over New York city. Self love, that is what I call it.

It was February 2016 when I finally gave in to my fathers request to start teaching Yoga in his language, my language, Farsi. I never thought it would be so challenging for me to speak farsi, teach a class, while filming myself. The first video took over 5 full days to translate, film, edit and upload to youtube. I literally had to translate each word from Dutch to Farsi. Dutch the language I learned in the Netherlands while growing up, had become so much easier and more fluent to think in and to speak, leaving no room for my mother tongue Farsi. Fighting my boundaries, getting out of my comfort zone, I kept making new youtube videos and posting them. Eventually I had a series of 6 yoga videos, teaching Pranayama (yoga breathing techniques), Asana (yoga postures) and meditation for Farsi speakers all over the world.

It was march 2020, I now was a mother of a newborn, certified prenatal and postnatal yoga instructor when the pandemic hit and many of my youtube followers, who had found me on instagram started requesting new yoga teachings to help them ease, to be able to calm down and sleep at night. The situation was heartbreaking in Iran and even tough I wasn’t sleeping much a newborn, my heart couldn’t say no. In may 2020 I started a new profile on Instagram where I have been working every day, teaching yoga, meditation, prenatal and postnatal classes to my sisters and brothers and their children in Iran, my country and all other countries of the world they may live.