Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #30 – How Yoga Changed My Life and My Family’s Life  – Yoga in Kenya with Samuel Muthama 

Welcome to Episode #30 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Samuel Muthama onto the show. He is a yoga teacher from Kenya, who is involved in the Africa Yoga Project. 

My conversation with Samuel Muthama, a yoga teacher from Nairobi, Kenya, was so moving as Samuel took us on a journey, walking us through his journey, of how he transformed a life of crime and toil into a life centered on yoga, with the kind generosity and assistance of the Africa Yoga Project I hope that this conversation made your realize the gift that yoga can really be. I hope you consider joining Samuel for a class on Zoom soon.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is profoundly honest, raw, and real about how yoga can change your life— then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Samuel Muthama

From Nairobi, Kenya, Samuel Muthama was introduced to yoga in 2017 when he completed his 200 hours yoga teacher training and attained a certificate at Africa Yoga Project.

With a background in boxing and fitness, Samuel first approached yoga thinking that it would be easy and relaxing. After his first class, he had a very different experience—it was strenuous and physically demanding. Yet, he loved the sense of peace and harmony he found in yoga—unity between the body, mind, and breath.

Samuel regularly practices and teaches yoga so that he can help others find this internal peace and unity between their body, mind, and soul. He teaches power yoga, cardio  yoga ,YOD (Your Own Determination), and the gentle yoga for recovery.

Samuel Muthama teaches yoga both in person and online. He currently offers global yoga classes on Zoom every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am EST and every Saturday at 9am EST. All are welcomed. To join him, please send an Instagram, Whatsapp, or Facebook message his way. 

What to expect in the Yoga In Kenya episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

It’s hard to explain or to express exactly what you’ll hear in the yoga in Kenya episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast with Samuel Muthama. Coming from the slums outside of Nairobi, Samuel lived a life of toil, living hand-to-mouth, to try to put food on the table for his family. He carried jugs of water to people in his community, to try to earn a little money. He was doing drugs, and was being pressured into turning to crime. However, all that changed, when he delivered water to the home of a yoga teacher.

Samuel’s story shines the brightest light on the power of yoga, to change not just his own life but the life of his entire family. He shares it with raw vulnerability, and with a profound gratitude that emanates from his words, and from his voice.

I sincerely hope you consider tuning into this moving episode of the podcast, and joining Samuel for a yoga class on Zoom to support him and his family. I already have joined a class of his, and I can attest that he is a wonderful teacher.

For the skimmers – What’s in the Kenya episode?

• Pure serendipity— first hearing of yoga when delivering water to a local yoga teacher
• Yoga has the power to change lives
• Transforming a life of drugs and crime, to a life of yoga and wellness
• The Nonprofit Africa Yoga Project and how they serve their community
• What is YOD yoga? Your Own Determination Yoga

Favorite Quote From Samuel Muthama

“Yoga is a horizon that we share that unites us. Yoga is a meeting point of different people, different races, different background. Yoga is unity, through yoga, it brings us together.” 

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #30 – How Yoga Changed My Life and My Family’s Life  – Yoga in Kenya with Samuel Muthama

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. I’m your host, Lily Allen-Duenas. Together we’ll talk about the world of yoga and we’ll talk to people from around the world. I wanted to also let you all know that I will be teaching yoga online. This year, classes will be live streamed on a platform called Moxie and I have $25 off coupons to send you valid in January.

[00:00:32] And I would love it if you could join me for a class to help you feel centered, refreshed, and filled with ease, ready to dive into the show. Let’s get started.

[00:00:47] Namaste family. Welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. I am so excited today to welcome Samuel onto the show. He’s a yoga teacher from Nairobi, Kenya. He was first introduced to yoga in 2017, and he got his certification through the Africa yoga project. He had a background in boxing and fitness. And he really, at first thought that yoga was just going to be easy and relaxing, but was so surprised about how physically demanding and challenging it was as well as that beautiful sense of peace and harmony.

[00:01:20] He found in yoga, Samuel regularly practices and teaches yoga so that he can help others find internal peace and unity between their body, mind, and soul. He teaches power, yoga, cardiova, gentle yoga, and he also teaches you. Online. So thank you so much, Samuel, for being on the show today. 

[00:01:41] Samuel Muthama: Thank you so much, Lily.

[00:01:44] I’m so proud. I’m so grateful to be here, to share my story and my Johnny as a yoga teacher. 

[00:01:54] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you. So how did you first find yoga? How did it first come into your life, Samuel? 

How yoga came into Samuel’s life

[00:02:00] Samuel Muthama: Born and raised from a slum called Matare in Nairobi. And there we used to, like, after school, I started hustling lean like doing casual work with my brother.

[00:02:16] And it was during this time of hustling we were selling water. So we could load a cart with a jerry can, 20 jerrycan of water and then go to our neighborhood, which is. Like three kilometers away, take water from there and then bring to our neighbors and sell the water so that we can earn a living. So during this process of selling water, we up in to sell water to a yoga teacher, I was not aware of what yoga was, but I loved the pictures she put on the wall.

[00:02:58] And I loved the lifestyle. She lived, she seemed so peaceful and so welcoming. And I loved her lifestyle and liked our decoration for the house. And I asked, I asked the girl, what were the photos about? You told me it was yoga. And she asked me if I would be interested to join yoga and be part of the community.

[00:03:26] I happily said yes. So we had a chat with a lady. Then she quickly introduced me to yoga in AYP, and we were going for classes there and she asked me, because in AYP they actually do, they text/call us every heat. Every year they take scholars for the academy. She told me that when these colors have been chosen, she will tell me and she will help me to apply for this scholarship.

[00:04:03] So she helped me apply and I was lucky I was chosen. So I was chosen fast before my brother. And then before the chair training, there was a sign they wanted another applied applicant. So. As knowing charity begins at home, my brother was there. We asked to lean hard. So I said, yeah, I have somebody.

[00:04:32] I introduced my brother and we were, luckily we got lucky to have chosen both of us. And then we did our teacher training, 200 teacher training 2017 and we enrolled in the academy. So we’ve been since 2017. In the academy Africa project academy for three years. And then we graduated from the academy.

[00:05:00] So we’ve learned many things in the academy and till now yoga is my passion. Yoga is my one. So that’s how I knew yoga and I loved it very much. I tried the first class and I loved it. So I said, I’ll go on with yoga. I chose the path of. 

[00:05:22] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, I love that story. It seems like just serendipity or magic. How yoga kind of came into your life through just selling water to a yoga teacher and it all just kind of unraveling and unfolding after that.

[00:05:39] That’s so amazing. Can you tell our listeners Samuel more about the Africa yoga project? 

About Africa Yoga Project

[00:05:45] Samuel Muthama: Africa yoga project is a nonprofit organization. The mission is to elevate, educate and empower youth from a marginalized community through the practice of yoga. So Africa project, what it simply does, it takes youth from all backgrounds and then it trains the youth to be yoga teachers.

[00:06:17] And then. You can help yourself by teaching yoga. So you, life is transformed through yoga. You get a job and they help you find clients. Then you will be enrolled in the academy for three years. So in the academy you get a mentor, a local mentor, and then another mentor that will have. Donate your monthly stipend to AYP, then you’ll get paid so that you can put bread on your table.

[00:06:53] And in the three years you are being taught how to find clients to do corporate yoga, how to do different styles of yoga, or to write your bio, how to like to write is, is essential for yoga and many other things. So they just notch you as a teacher. So they are the best Africa yoga project. I love the African approach.

[00:07:22] Lily Allen-Duenas: I was so impressed and amazed and dazzled with everything that the Africa yoga project is doing. I love seeing their social media accounts and to know that they have, it seems like they have the yoga teachers from over 20 countries in Africa. Is that true? Yeah. 

[00:07:40] Samuel Muthama: So we all have our 200 yoga teachers taught to become yoga teachers in plenty of countries in Africa. 

[00:07:50] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. And so to get back to your story, Samuel, how has your life changed before yoga or after yoga came into your life? 

Samuel’s life changed before and after yoga

[00:08:00] Samuel Muthama: So before yoga, I pass personally old as a person of, or tempered. I was a person who would get angry easily and do things or, or respond to my anger without thinking.

[00:08:17] And after yoga, I now realize ways in the phone to calm myself whenever I’m stressed, I meditate. Whenever I feel angry, I take my anger to yoga. Like I like instead of taking my anger to other people or doing something, but I take my anger and put it into yoga and transforming. To be good and not angry.

[00:08:46] And before your yoga in bad company because you know, peer pressure is real having come from a poor background, I had to work so that I can eat, I can find money to get that for myself. And also my parents too, because they don’t have work. I was to toil, like we used to toil so hard and, you know, easy ways of crime.

[00:09:16] So. People like my peers or starting to loop me into crime, my path was going wrong. So before I entered into crime, because I had even started. Drugs to just calm my stress and like, bring me out of this world. After finding yoga, I stopped slowly, I stopped doing drugs. And then I found it.

[00:09:46] What by teaching yoga so that I was able to get up for my daily needs and my family daily needs. So there was no need to go to crime. So yoga transformed me from the path of crime of going to crime into the path of oiliness, the part of unity with the divine being, it really transformed my life and my family.

[00:10:12] So. My brother and I teach yoga and help with the money we get. We help our parents and our siblings. So I currently teach yoga classes of online global yoga classes clients from the U S I have clients from Like abroad. If you want to join my yoga class, I have a zoom link that teaches online classes for everybody.

[00:10:41] So to help get that from myself and my family. 

[00:10:47] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much for sharing your story, Samuel, and for telling us all that you’ve gone through. And I’m sure my listeners are very touched by your story, and I am very excited to join you for one of your yoga classes on zoom. I feel grateful for that. We’ve all just kind of been able to come online together and no matter where we’re located to yoga together.

[00:11:10] And I know also that your classes you offer are at a great time of day for people in the US. I think 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM on Eastern time zones. Is that correct about, is that very late in the evening for you? 

Samuel’s class times in the US

[00:11:26] Samuel Muthama: So for me, The classes changed because of daylight saving. So your time remains the same, but my time for now it’s 3:00 PM.

[00:11:38] So it’s in the afternoon for weekdays, Tuesday and Thursday. And then during Saturday, my time is 5:00 PM Eastern time, like Eastern East Africa. But they are, it’s like four central time. It’s 7:00 AM during the weekdays. And then on the weekend, Saturday it’s 9:00 AM EST. 

[00:12:10] Lily Allen-Duenas: Got it. Perfect. And I’ll make sure to include a link in my show notes as well as on my website to your zoom class or to your Instagram so that people can reach out and get that link from you.

[00:12:21] Maybe I think they hopefully will be able to get you some more students in your classes. 

[00:12:26] Samuel Muthama: So I’m really hoping. So I’m looking to find more clients because it’s a global class so that I can be able to help myself and my family. Mostly during this hard time. So during this part of life, this new life we’ve got, it’s so hard for people from a humble background to survive.

[00:12:57] So we toil and to mouth, what we get is what we eat and. By doing the classes. If I find more students, I’ll be so happy and I’ll be able to help my family because now my mom, like for now, is battling with Nausea epilepsy. So she can’t walk and she can’t be alone. She needs somebody to look after and you have to pay somebody to look after when you go to look for money.

[00:13:30] And my dad is just a casual worker. So whatever you find is just for the food and sometimes is not sure, like when you were. He’s not sure if he’ll find money or you will not find money. So I use what I have to have them survive and help me survive. 

[00:13:55] Lily Allen-Duenas: I think we’ll all feel even, yeah. I’m very excited to join your class Samuel, and to get to meet you because digitally, virtually get to meet you and maybe one day in person as well, because you definitely have a beautiful story and so much light in you.

[00:14:13] That I’m excited to see what kind of energy you bring to your yoga classes. Actually, how about I ask that to you? What kind of energy do you feel like you bring to your yoga classes, Samuel? Cause I know you teach a few different types of yoga as well. Maybe we should talk about the types of yoga you teach and the energy you bring to your classes.

The energy Samuel brings to his yoga classes

[00:14:36] Samuel Muthama: Mostly like. Combine the knowledge I have for yoga for different types of yoga to come up with a unique class. So uniqueness is my style and my way of teaching. So every time I try to be different so that, you know, sometimes normal is boring. So if. I believe if your student gets to know your class from air to that, every time he or she will be eventually bought.

[00:15:13] But I believe when, whenever I’m teaching classes or I’m teaching classes and they bring a new style each time and I try to be different it keeps my students coming because they don’t know what to expect in my class. So they have to drop what they know and just listen and flow with me. So they really love my energy and they really love the way I teach and the way I am every time I am different.

[00:15:49] So they love that most. 

[00:15:52] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wonderful. And I saw that you teach something called Baptiste power yoga, as well as Y O D yoga, your own determination. Can you tell us more about those two types of yoga? 

About Baptiste power yoga and YOD yoga

[00:16:05] Samuel Muthama: So Baptiste power yoga is the style I started with in Africa. The projects were mostly in Baptiste power yoga. So.

[00:16:19] The Baptiste power yoga. The name is Jevon from the co-founder of the style of yoga Baran Baptist. So it developed this style in, and it’s more of Vinyasa flow. So there is a sequence where you start to warm up. Then you go for a, some poses twisting balancing series, and then you go for. But then backbends and then co-ax and then opens us.

[00:16:52] So it’s designed to cater for your entire body, like each sequence caters for different parts of the body. So it’s more of Vinyasa, it’s more powerful, it’s more flowing. And now for the yard that you own determination. Is a more intense workout. So it’s like a simple, simple way I can put it. It’s yoga incorporated with a cardio workout, the exercises that raise your heart beat.

[00:17:29] So you start with warmup then after warming up, you get into the yard part. So you go intense workout, you sweat more in New York. And then after the yard part, you cooled down. So in the yard, there are exercises, different exercises, intense exercises you have to do in different classes. So, and then you go for a cool-down stretch after the intense workouts, then there is another type of yoga.

[00:18:04] I also teach. Yoga is more of holding poses and it’s more of a cooling down and stretching. So if you need to stretch a patch of, or like a part of your muscles, part of your body in yoga is more restorative. So it’s more devised for you because for a muscle to stretch, it needs to fully stretch. It takes about two and a half minutes.

[00:18:37] Minimum to stretch. So at any end, you got to stay in a pose for three minutes to five minutes. So you can start with three minutes and then advance and stay longer and stretch your muscles out. So if you, you’re very tense or your muscles are tense, you’re compressed. You need it. For restoring your muscles in stretching out your muscles.

[00:19:05] So also do that. So what I do in my class, having gained part of my classes, my yoga practice, and then a young, so the power yoga, I combine all of them and come up with a class. Stretches your body and at the same time strengthens your body. So I like to be unique by combining all the classes, because with the tools I play with the tools and come up with that unique class of my own.

[00:19:43] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. I love that you draw from different traditions as well as even cardio and fitness. And you create these unique classes that I think, as you said, every time you try to make a difference. That’s a really very cool Samuel. And so how do you feel after you teach a yoga class? What do you feel? 

How Samuel feels after he teaches a yoga class

[00:20:06] Samuel Muthama: So after I teach my yoga classes, I feel.

[00:20:11] It’s like, I’ve practiced myself. Like my teaching connects me more with my students and it makes me happy. Like I’ll always look forward to teaching my classes because it’s a therapy for me when I teach is like the same time I’m teaching my students. I’m teaching myself also. So by like, I. I like starting my class with a meditation, a little meditation, just to calm and settle my students.

[00:20:49] And during the meditation, it helps me connect more to my students and be more awake and our laps. And then before I went to my class, I finished my class. We do breathing techniques. So it was. In me the same way it works for my students. So I feel more connected and I feel more empowered by doing that class.

[00:21:18] By seeing how I transform the lives of my students. It makes me feel more empowered and less. 

[00:21:28] Lily Allen-Duenas: I feel the same way. I feel very connected to the students that I teach with. And I love seeing their change in energy and emotional energy from the beginning of class to the end, kind of seeing that journey.

[00:21:45] Towards more, you know, you can see that big exhale of all of the burden, the tension, the stress, you can just feel it kind of slip, slip, slip away over the half-hour hour. We spend time together. It’s beautiful to witness. So Samuel, what is your personal definition of yoga? This is something I ask every guest.

[00:22:11] What do you define yoga as for yourself? 

Samuel’s definition of yoga

[00:22:16] Samuel Muthama: For me, yoga fast is unity. Yoga is like an Arisun that we share in common that unites us. Yoga is the meeting point. Of different people, different races, different backgrounds. So, I say this because before I knew about the yoga act, none of my friends were from abroad. Like, I didn’t have any more friends.

[00:22:53] I was not as enlightened as I am now. And as I am continuing to get connected to yoga. So yoga is unity because even yoga through yoga, the same or on yoga is what has brought us together. Lily and me. So we got together because of YOKA. So your day’s the same horizon we share yoga is unity.

[00:23:23] Like I define yoga as love and unity to bring us together, to bring like I’m wishing for a time where most of the people or most people will come to realize about you. And that will be beautiful or like the most beautiful time of the world. Because when we all share the same horizon yoga, it will bring more unity to the world.

[00:23:56] We will become a family, irrespective of race, irrespective of skin color, irrespective of language, irrespective of background, we’ll be together as well. Because of yoga. So for me, your guys’ unity and love when you show love and service, it’s yours. 

[00:24:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. Oh, Samuel. I am very touched by your words, and I love how you said it’s because of yoga that Lily and Samuel are together today.

[00:24:32] It’s, it’s so true. It is what brought us together and it’s what hopefully will bring listeners to the show and their interest in yoga and yoga and Kenya and yoga with Samuel. so it’s, it is a beautiful connection, a piece, a connective piece that brings us together. So could you tell our listeners Samuel more about what yoga and Kenya is like?

Yoga in Kenya

[00:24:59] And maybe the evolution of yoga in Kenya, if it’s been very, very popular for only two years, five years, or if it has been, you know, still not popular, I would love to hear more about what yoga in Kenya is like. 

[00:25:13] Samuel Muthama: So in Kenya, yoga is not that popular, but because of the Africa project yoga is becoming popular in Kenya.

[00:25:26] So before the Africa yoga project, before meeting the teacher in, like by selling water to have, I didn’t know about yoga, I knew yoga as a religion from industry. I knew YOKA was a religion. It was not a practice. And so many people, they know the same thing in Kenya, especially people from humble background people from this lamps, they ghetto, the yoga is not popular there, but by Africa project, Taking you it’s from the ghetto, from the humble background and teaching them yoga with spreading yoga every, each and every day.

[00:26:18] Because when you’re in the academy, you teach free yoga to the poor community. So there are outreach classes every week that we use to teach people. So before Corona Kim and the government bond on social gatherings. And now we are slowly resuming and we are hoping life will get back to normal so that we can keep on spreading the word of yoga in all of Nairobi in Kenya.

[00:26:55] So we are hoping some years to come, yoga will be so popular in Kenya that like where I live, I want to describe, like the popularity of yoga. I imagine in some years to come like one, like I’m hoping for. He has two com yoga studios in Nairobi or in Kenya will be like restaurants in Kenya, like everywhere.

[00:27:28] So that’s my hope in the years to come yoga, to be such a big thing in Kenya and popup. 

[00:27:37] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. I hope so too. I loved hearing about the free community classes that Africa yoga project you know, recommends or requires you to teach so that there’s more outreach. There’s more. Just awareness.

[00:27:52] And I think that’s key is providing people different places and spaces to try yoga, whether that’s at a park or at a school. I’ve taught yoga in schools before with children. And I love it. I think it’s amazing to see kind of the personalities come out or the curiosity or there’s a lot of things.

[00:28:14] I think that children can be. To classes or people who’ve never tried it, there’s a lot that can unfold for the first time a student takes a class. So Samuel two, what is just in case our listeners really don’t know much about Kenya at all. They’re, they’re really not familiar with it.

[00:28:32] They just know it’s a country in Africa. Could you tell our listeners just a little bit more about your country? 

About Kenya

[00:28:39] Samuel Muthama: Okay. Now it is my country. It’s in east Africa. And Kenya is the best place to be. The climate is good. The weather is good and tourist sites they’re like everywhere. So if you’re looking for tourists, that structure and site Kenya is the fast place you should land in.

[00:29:06] And the people here, most of the people here, are welcoming. So when you’re in Kenya, feel free to feel at home. And if you’re in Kenya and you’re wondering who would be the first person to be friends with just such someone windy on Facebook or yoga with Madama in IgG, Instagram, I’m ready to be friends. Anyone.

[00:29:40] Because we share the same horizon of yoga.

[00:29:49] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you, Samuel, for that invitation, that generous invitation. And if someone is interested in practicing yoga with you, how can they make that happen is the best way to reach out on Instagram? 

Contacting Samuel

[00:30:01] Samuel Muthama: Yeah. So the best way is to reach out on Instagram, which is yoga with the Madame. Or rich Facebook . So, if you are on WhatsApp plus 2 5, 4 7 0 1, triple 0 1 5 2.

[00:30:25] So if you are tapped, I’ll give you more details. Or if you read out on Instagram, you’ll get more details from me or Facebook. So that’s the best way to reach out. 

[00:30:39] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wonderful. I’ll make sure to put links to your Instagram and Facebook here in the show notes. So wherever listeners are listening, and if it’s on Spotify or apple podcast, Google podcast, Stitcher, anywhere, they’ll be able to just easily click a link and find you.

[00:30:54] And it will also be on my website while the wildyogatribe.com. So Samuel, it’s been such a joy to be with you today. Is there anything else you’d like to tell our listeners? 

Samuel shares his last thoughts

[00:31:05] Samuel Muthama: So first I’ll say thank you to whoever is listening and yeah. Let’s share and make yoga Avastin. Let’s be of service. Let’s think of all the people around the world as our brothers and sisters.

[00:31:31] And my saying that I use my mantra that I do use your limitation is your imagination. Whenever you imagine you can do it or something is impossible. Never say impossible because the word itself says it is possible. So nothing is impossible and you’ll never know. Of what you’re capable of until you try.

[00:32:04] So like for yoga, most of the people, even I used to say yoga is possible for me because I’m not flexible. Yoga there it’s for specific people and down, look at me, I practice yoga and I’m a yoga teacher. So that gave me, or made me understand nothing. Impossible until you try it. So the sky’s the limit, people.

[00:32:35] So do whatever you need to do and always keep on trying until you make it. 

[00:32:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you, Samuel. It’s been a joy to be with you. 

[00:32:47] Samuel Muthama: Thank you so much, it was a joy to be here. I love the talk and we hope to see each other soon. Thank you so much, Lily. 

[00:33:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you.

Wild Yoga Tribe outro

[00:33:06] Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. My conversation with Samuel, a yoga teacher from Nairobi, Kenya was so moving as Samuel took us on a journey, walking us through his journey. Of how he transformed a life of crime and of toil into a life centered on yoga with the kind of generosity and assistance of the Africa yoga project.

[00:33:33] I hope that this conversation made you realize the gift that yoga can really be. And I hope you consider joining Samuel for a class on zoom soon. Thank you for tuning in to the wild yoga tribe podcast.

[00:33:56] Thank you for the gift of your attention today. If you feel called, please share this episode with someone who you think could benefit from it. Leaving a review would also be so appreciated. Also, I hope you can join me for a yoga class on Moxy and take advantage of that $25 off coupon here in January.

[00:34:14] I’m doing morning yoga classes. Five times a week, including rise and shine, yoga classes, and even classes for people who say they can’t do yoga links are in the show notes or on my website, wildyogatribe.com. See you there. And as always be well, dear one. Be well.

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