The creator of Dhaka Flow and teacher of ashtanga yoga and pilates shares insights about the yoga life.
How has practising yoga impacted your life?
Yoga has helped me develop a deeper understanding of myself and my role in my community. It has helped me establish a healthy lifestyle that has kept me afloat in times that I’ve dipped, and helped me flourish in times that I’m thriving. Yoga has helped me understand the cyclical nature of time, the beauty of the moment, and the hidden strength within me.
How can yoga benefit people with stressful careers? Any tips on how to incorporate yoga into their hectic daily schedules?
Yoga requires commitment, passion and discipline. One has to choose to make time for it. For me, that’s easy, because I see how much everything else improves afterwards. If you have a presentation or task to complete, you will do it more efficiently and creatively, after yoga! So it’s worth taking the time, no matter how busy you are, to do your yoga first.
I wanted to organise Dhaka Flow: Festival of Yoga and Wellness to showcase that there are many different types of yoga, and different ways to be healthy. It’s important to find the right path for oneself, otherwise, there will be no resonance, no traction. I also believe a healthy mind and body, lead to a healthy family, community and city. In order to heal the planet and make the best version of Bangladesh, we have to do the inner work first.
