Welcome to Episode #47 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Nadezhda Kadenova onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Kazakhstan. My conversation with Nadezhda Kadenova, a yoga teacher from Kazakhstan, was so lovely as we discussed how yoga is an intimate inner experience, and how it’s not a fantasy— it’s a discipline. Yoga is where you learn about yourself and have to actually “overcome yourself” to show up for your practice every day. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga how yoga is not a magic pill, it is a constant self-development practice, then this is the conversation for you. Tell me more about Nadezhda Kadenova Nadezhda has been teaching Hatha yoga, pilates, and prenatal yoga in a local yoga studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan since 2019. She has been practicing yoga on regular basis since she her completed my first yoga teacher training in 2013, in Rishikesh, India. She has also studied yoga at Yoga Vidya Gurukul in Nasik, India in 2018 and is currently just traveled to India in April 2022 to do a Prabodh yoga training at Yoga Vidya Gurukul. She has completed fly-yoga training and helps manage a yoga studio in Kazakhstan. What to expect in the Yoga In Kazakhstan episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Here mother was practicing yoga at home, and first learned yoga at University although they didn’t call it by the name yoga. It was referred to more as gymnastics or exercise, so when Nadia started to become interested in yoga books at a young age it wasn’t a surprise. Starting when she was nine years old, Nadia found books about yoga at the library. First came to know yoga from books in the library, and as she grew older she got more and more interested in yoga and continued to read copious amounts of books on the path of yoga. She went to Rishikesh to receive her first yoga teacher training. She has returned to India many times ever since. She manages a yoga studio in Kazakhstan and loves how the yoga studio community is like a true family, which is something she feels is part of yoga itself. Nadia defines yoga as a lifestyle, and as unity and peace inside yourself. It's an intimate an inner experience. I loved how Nadia says that yoga is not a fantasy, it’s a discipline. It’s something you don’t always want to do. You need to “overcome yourself” to show up on the mat— yoga is developing strong willpower. You work on your habits and on your perception of the world, and on your negative perception of the world. You become more aware of your own reactions, and you realize that you are responsible for everything that happens within you. What you do now is your choice. Yoga is a constant self development practice. For the skimmers - What’s in the yoga in Kazakhstan episode? Avidly reading yoga books ever since she was 9 years old What it’s like to manage a yoga studio in Kazakhstan? Yoga is constant self-development practice A yoga teacher is not a doctor, and yoga is not a magic pill “Overcome yourself” to show up on the mat Connect with Nadezhda Kadenova https://instagram.com/yoga_na_zhubanova https://instagram.com/nadi_kadenova Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Questions? Comments? Let's get social! https://www.instagram.com/wildyogatribe/ Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe