Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode#59 – Yoga Cure – Yoga in Oman with Majid Al Mandhari

Welcome to Episode #58 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Majid Al Mandhari, a yoga teacher from Oman, was so engaging as we took a deeper look into meditation and how to make it yours. 

As Majid says, meditation has the power to cure any diseases. I hope that this conversation made you curious about meditation and the gifts that it can give.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga in Oman then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Majid Al Mandhari

Majid Al Mandhari has obtained the RYT 200 Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher certification and also a 200 hours Yoga Therapy certification. He teaches at a private health club owned by an oil company called Petroleum Development Oman. He also teaches yoga twice a week at the beach early morning at 6:00am. Majid has been practicing yoga on and off for the last 30 years. He teaches meditation, pranayama, and Vinyasa yoga mainly. He has been formally teaching after certification for the last 4 years, however he did begin teaching pre-certification for the last 10 years.

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

Majid used to work for an international airline, located in Pakistan, and at the Sheraton hotel there was a yoga class offered in the hotel itself. Although that was his first yoga asana class, he had already been reading books about yoga and his curiosity was piqued. 

Once Majid came back to Oman, one day his accountant came to the office and asked him if he was interested in yoga and after Majid said yes, there was a yoga teacher who came to his colleagues’ house and asked him to join.

Majid always felt mesmerized by yoga teachers, immensely curious about how yoga teachers crafted sequences, and about the depth of their knowledge. Something was sparked in him and he knew he wanted to teach yoga one day. It took years until the right yoga teacher training in Oman for him.

Religiously yoga has been really challenged recently. In the past, it used to go more under the radar, but now with yoga in the limelight— it has been challenged religiously. There are concerns about the elements of Hinduism and prayer. Gratefully, the political system, the Omani government, supports yoga and is happy to support yoga studios opening.

Majid has a strong daily meditation practice, he sits in meditation before sunrise and chants the 99 names of God in Islam. Majid knows that meditation and yoga detoxifies the body, cleanses the body. Yoga has become a personal life for him— he enjoys the vitality, the challenges, the energy— it’s a part of him.

We also talked about what Oman is like as a country, and what it’s like to live there!

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #59 Yoga in Oman with Majid Al Mandhari Transcript

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Namaste and welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast today. I’m so excited to be joined by Majid Al Mandhari. He’s a yoga teacher from Oman and he also has his 200 hours yoga therapy certification. 

Majid has been practicing yoga on and off for 30 years. He teaches meditation, pranayama, and Vinyasa yoga. He’s been formally teaching yoga after his certification for the last four years. However he was teaching yoga precertification for the last ten. I’m really so delighted to welcome Majid to the show today.

Thank you so much for being here!

[00:00:39] Majid Al Mandhari: Hi. Good evening. Thank you very much, Lil. I’m really glad I’m around.

[00:00:42] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much. So to start, can we hear more about your story and how yoga first came into your life?

How did yoga first come into your life?

[00:00:49] Majid Al Mandhari: Interesting. It’s quite a long story or quite a long journey. I used to work for an airline, an international airline, and I was based in In Pakistan and you won’t believe it. I was staying in this hotel.I still remember it was the Shean hotel and they advertised a yoga class, during one of the evenings.

And I joined, but before I joined the class, I used to read,  I knew about yoga. I had read about it a lot, and sort of  was really interested. I attended the class and I was hooked from the first class.

That’s how my journey started. From then on I started practicing from the first class. We started from the first sessions. They will tell [00:01:30] you that I will be sitting in the office and then at lunch break. I would find a corner, and do some meditation, and things like that.

Then I came back to Oman one day, my accountant came into the office and said, look, are you interested in yoga? I said, yes, I am interested in yoga. He said, all right, there’s a teacher, who will come to his house.

Three times a week he would teach us yoga, so come and join. I said, fantastic. That’s what I would like to do. That’s how I started yoga practices, yoga sessions,  yoga lessons started. Continued through that for quite some time. Again,  I was  hooked, and practiced it every day.

Then, when the teacher was not around, he continued to practice. I called my brother and I said, Hey, come and join. He also got into it. So we will practice yoga together.

[00:02:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s amazing. I love that. It was just your accountant walking into the office saying, do you want to do yoga? That’s so fun that a colleague was able to bring that into your life. Also, so amazing that you first went to a yoga class, a yoga asana class in a Sheraton hotel in Pakistan.

That also seems very random.

[00:02:40] Majid Al Mandhari: It is Karachi, yes, it is. It is quite interesting. Yeah.

[00:02:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. So since you got hooked, and it sounds like you were starting to practice with the teacher. Then without the teacher, what led you to really want to become a yoga teacher yourself?

What led you to really want to become a yoga teacher?

[00:02:55] Majid Al Mandhari: I’ve always been mesmerized by the teachers, looking at them and saying, how much do they [00:03:00] know? how can they remember all these? How can they remember the movements? How can they remember  what to say and what to do. How to do a flow for an hour, and you come out feeling really great after doing that session.

That was always in my mind, but at that time there were very few yoga studios in Oman. Hardly any and five years back. I saw an advert in the social media about teacher training.

That was the first time I saw that and I said okay, let me check it out. So I called the people and they said it was about to start. The timings were a little bit challenging for me because it was mainly on the weekend. I don’t like to lose my weekend being busy, especially.

During wintertime, the summers are here very hot. I’m sure you know that around 45 degrees celsius. I’m not, I don’t know how fahrenheit is. But the winters are beautiful. It’s very mild. The temperatures are very low and that’s the time where you do a lot of out outdoor activities, mainly camping.

Tracking into the mountains or tracking into dry riverbeds, or river beds with water and swimming. So it was a bit of a challenge when they told me that it would be around almost four months continuously and it would be the weekends. So I had to think about that, but after two or three days. I  called them up and sid, look, I’ve been waiting for this one for quite some time.

I’m joining in. So this is how I started as a yoga teacher.

[00:04:28] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, amazing. And was that [00:04:30] teacher training in Oman?

[00:04:31] Majid Al Mandhari: Was it in Oman? Yes. Yes. It was locally. Yes.

[00:04:34] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes. So it was four months. In the weekends were all of your fellow yoga students in that training, were they all local as well? Or did you have people join from around the world?

What was your yoga teacher training like? 

[00:04:46] Majid Al Mandhari: There was a Omani lady with me. Yes. With us on that cause. What was interesting was when I was talking to the guys, I said, look, I want to join. I said much to the old ladies, first of all, let me ask them if they’re comfortable for a man to join them.

This is what the yoga masters told me. So he had to go and ask them. There’s a guy, there’s a man who wants to join the class. Are you okay with that? They said, okay, so I joined them. Two of them were from outside Oman, but the rest of them were from Oman and Hong Kong. Then one was from India.

[00:05:17] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. Have the, you kept in touch with those fellow yoga students. Are you guys all teaching in Oman as well? 

Are your fellow yoga teachers teaching in Oman?

[00:05:25] Majid Al Mandhari: Most of us are from the group. Some of them have left Oman. But we still have a WhatsApp group. One of the students actually teaches together on the beach twice a week, every week.

[00:05:38] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s beautiful. I mean, teaching yoga in nature is so gorgeous and such a powerful element to the practice.

[00:05:46] Majid Al Mandhari: Okay. The other thing I just want to add is the beauty of teaching outside. As you mentioned, especially when we have very hot weather during summertime, we still don’t stop. We advertise it as hot yoga. And we tell people, [00:06:00] we don’t wanna sweat it out, come and join us early in the morning.

Eight. Sometimes it is hot, humid, and you really sweat it out. You don’t need a sauna or to do hot yoga, but you can do it in the open and still get the effect on it. 

[00:06:13] Lily Allen-Duenas: So Majid I would love to hear also about the cultural, religious, and social implications of what yoga can mean in Oman. Has the community challenged it or been supported by it? I would love to hear more about how your country has handled yoga throughout the years as well. Not just today. I’m all ears. 

The cultural and religious and social implications of what yoga can mean in Oman?

[00:06:35] Majid Al Mandhari: I think, I think throughout the years it has been more simple  in yoga. In the sense that not many people knew about it. When you practice it, even in, in the open on the beach, it was like what is he doing? But with the advance of social media…

It’s in lime light and culturally it’s fine, it’s acceptable. But when you have a mixed class in an open area. Then you have a little bit of practice especially if local women want to practice it. So they wouldn’t do it. So much in the public religion, also it’s like really being challenged at the moment. Except as of recent in the sense that yoga is a religious procession or procedure if you want to call it, like it’s mainly Hinduism. It’s about praying in Hindu.

So it’s been taken a little bit off in that kind of a sense, but at the same time. My colleague whose father is [00:07:30] devout Christian also interesting. They have got the same kind of feeling. So you have that. 

And every time I have to stand up and explain and say, look, take the best example of me. This is what I do. I practice my religion. And at the same time I do yoga.  What I try to do is not repeat the chantings if those are prayer chantings. I don’t repeat those chantings. I do my own chantings when I practice yoga.

Yoga has been challenged as it’s now in the limelight

[00:07:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: So it sounds like there right now in this year, it’s been challenged more so because yoga has been in the limelight, yoga has become more and more popular and because of the popularity. Is it also politically being challenged by the..

[00:08:11] Majid Al Mandhari: no. The political, the government is good. Anybody wants to open a yoga studio, people get all the approvals to do that.

Yoga is accepted politically

[00:08:19] Lily Allen-Duenas: Okay. It would be more with the religious leaders having concern that it would be infringing or affecting their followers, religious?

[00:08:28] Majid Al Mandhari: Yeah.

[00:08:28] Lily Allen-Duenas: So for you to kind of help people feel more comfortable. It’s eliminating the mantras, the chanting, the OM by eliminating that there’s more comfort. Would you say?

Changing the chanting

[00:08:39] Majid Al Mandhari: Yes, I do that myself. When I practice, I do that myself. So for example I go. Sometimes I attend some early morning sessions when they are chanting. So when I’m attending myself, instead of for example saying the OM chanting, I will say Allah.. I change the terminology. That’s all.

Mixed Classes

[00:08:57] Lily Allen-Duenas: Okay. Then when you mentioned about a [00:09:00] mixed class practicing out in public, maybe on the beach or in a garden space. A park, whenever there’s females and males together in the same class, that kind of draws negative attention from anyone walking by? 

[00:09:13] Majid Al Mandhari: No, 

it doesn’t, it actually, it is it doesn’t. For the people walking by, it doesn’t feel like anything. but there is for the local women, there’s a little bit of conservatism in them. In the sense of joining open classes on the outside. But we’ve been doing my colleague’s English.

She lives here. We’ve been teaching mixed classes for the last two years and there’s no issue like that at all. 

[00:09:37] Lily Allen-Duenas: Great. Okay, good. I’m happy to hear that there’s no issue normally. But I’m glad that you brought that up as something that, just to be mindful of or aware of that there is this potential discomfort of women wanting to join publicly in a mixed class. Because of  the physical shapes of yoga I know. It can feel very vulnerable. Some of them can feel very like you could be exposing a shape of your body in a certain way. So I understand that. I think I do.

[00:10:04] Majid Al Mandhari: Let me explain it more clearly for example. Now, if we’ve got people joining in, but for the Oman women. As I said, culturally, they’re a little bit reluctant to join as you said, you’ve got to dress up for that kind of thing. But what I advise to people is.

You could see the costumes in yoga. Some of them are two pieces, but I tell people. Please dress conservatively, come and join us.[00:10:30] 

[00:10:30] Lily Allen-Duenas: Got it. So whenever you’re practicing yoga or most of your clients or students. Do you feel like they fall into a certain age range or age bracket or is it all very diverse.

[00:10:44] Majid Al Mandhari: It’s diverse at the moment. It’s diverse. I think around the world it is bit more practiced by women than men, correct me if I’m wrong on that.

[00:10:53] Lily Allen-Duenas: I think you’re right. You got it.

The challenges of attracting Omani Omen to yoga classes

[00:10:55] Majid Al Mandhari: It’s the same year. So it’s always been a challenge to attract Oman men to join in. Even when I go  to attend some of the studios, the majority will be women. There will be only one or two men attending.

This is what I’m trying to do is to get more men to come into yoga. 

[00:11:12] Lily Allen-Duenas: In Oman itself, are there a lot of yoga studios now? Is it also just in densely populated areas or big cities, or are there kinds of yoga retreat centers maybe in smaller villages or what’s the yoga scene like?

What is yoga like in Oman? 

[00:11:29] Majid Al Mandhari: Of course, this is all over the world COVID affected a lot of progress in studios. Some studios closed. Some studios could not manage.

But it’s coming back. I see there’s a lot of studios coming back to being opened up again in Oman. Or the expansion of some studios, having more branches. Of course it’s mainly in the capital Muscat you’ll have that movement.

So yoga is progressing in Muscat. Outside [00:12:00] Muscat you’ll find it is happening in the hotels. So the hotels will have teachers doing some sessions. You will not find studios there. Interestingly, we have very huge Indian population in the Gulf. The whole of the Gulf and also in Oman among them where there will be. Some of them are yoga teachers who don’t live in the capital. But they will be practicing or teaching yoga in their houses. As of recently, after the COVID. I’m happy,  yoga is growing up. Additionally to that, yoga teacher training is being advertised in the beginning.

More yoga teacher training courses offered in Oman

[00:12:37] Majid Al Mandhari: It probably was, it was one studio, three years ago. It was only one studio. Now I think there are almost three studios advertising yoga teacher training courses.

[00:12:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: Okay. So there’s more people you think are trained in yoga as well.

[00:12:52] Majid Al Mandhari: Yes. Yes. Yes.

[00:12:53] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wonderful. That is wonderful. At this point, too, I would love to ask just a little bit more about your country. I know some of our listeners may not know much about Oman, and would love to hear from you what you love about your country. Or maybe even where it is on a map.

I think it would be helpful for our listeners to hear more from you.

What is Oman like? 

[00:13:17] Majid Al Mandhari: All right. I’ve been traveling a lot throughout my life and it’s always been a challenge, you know, whenever I travel to explain to people. When they ask me, where are you from? And I said, I’m from Oman. Where is Oman? I have to always explain we are in the [00:13:30] Gulf, but you’ll be in the Southern Gulf.

So in the North, We are bordering the UAE. If people don’t know where you are in the East United Arab Emirates or somebody doesn’t know where the United Emirates is, it’s Dubai. So we are not, we are bordering Dubai from the Northern side on the Southern side. We border Yemen. On the west side, we border Saudi Arabia and then the east side of the complete open sea is the Arab Arabian sea. 

Oman is a beautiful, diversified country. If I can explain to Americans, probably in this way , I used to work in an oil company, with international employees from every country. Shell International owns thirty to thirty-two percent, of this company.

You’ll have people coming in from abroad to work with us. I had my American colleague, he’s never been to the Gulf before. When he applied for a job to join the company. I think his father told him not to go there. That’s a dangerous place to go. He said he made up his mind to come and join.

Expats love Oman

[00:14:30] Majid Al Mandhari: He came and he’s been here now more than four years. He doesn’t want to go back. So most of the expats who come to Oman don’t want to go back because of the way of life. It’s pretty laid back.

You’ve got the south, which is completely green sometimes during the fall or some part of the year. And you’ve got the north, which during summertime it’s very hot. It goes up to 45 degrees. As I said, diversified. Very diversified.

People are nice. I’m not saying that people are nice because I’m Omani, but this is what the [00:15:00] feedback you always get. Why do you want to stay in Oman? I was talking to a friend the other day and he set up his company over here, but he’s got more business in Saudi Arabia and UAE than in Oman.

I said, why did you choose Oman? Why didn’t you settle there? Because you got more business on that side. But he said for the family, he feels much better. Does that explain? Is that good? Good enough.

[00:15:21] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, it’s wonderful. I’m also curious how, what it’s like to live in Oman. Anything from the inside to the look to it?

What is it like to live in Oman?

[00:15:28] Majid Al Mandhari: It’s generally conservative, but it’s okay. Everybody drives, women have been driving in a month for the last 50 years, so it’s nothing unusual. We don’t have street bars but you could go into a hotel and have alcohol, if you want to.

There’s plenty of restaurants, plenty of international restaurants. In that sense on the entertainment side, the nightlife is not as fantastic as Europe or Asia or Americans, but still it is there.

 If that’s what you look for, that’s there. We’ve got an opera house I’m going to to see Domingo on this Thursday, to see an opera. They’re bringing international opera singers to this place. Those are good interesting entertainment.

We’ve called plenty of malls for shopping, but the outdoors is the biggest, most attractive thing. Mudra is outdoors during the, after the settlements.

[00:16:20] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. It sounds very modern and full of life and things to do. It sounds like there’s a lot of nature based things to do as well. When you have so much [00:16:30] gorgeous ocean in front of you too.

The sea around Oman 

[00:16:33] Majid Al Mandhari: We’ve got around 320 miles of sea costs, cost of line. So you could imagine about, the fishing ground is fantastic and fishing. Sea activities are quite good.

[00:16:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: And so at this point too, Majid, I would love to talk to you more about your yoga practice and what your sadhana looks like. Or what type of meditation you practice? What can you share with us?

Meditation and yoga practice 

[00:16:56] Majid Al Mandhari: Okay, I’ll start with the with the meditation. I start my morning very early. I wake up around about four o’clock in the morning whereas in our part of the world as Muslims, we’ve got these very early morning prayers. It changes with the seasons the prayer times.

After that, I would mostly go to the beach and sit. I’ll try and send you a picture of that. Sit on the coconut tree and you’ll be surprised we have coconut trees in this part of the world, and just meditate. I start when it is dark, until the sun comes out, listening to the sound of the waves when meditating.

Again, I would like to touch on that in my meditation. My Yogi Yogi Guru, who taught me yoga told me many years back that look Majid with meditation, you can cure any disease, you can cure yourself of any disease through meditation. And I thought that was very interesting very powerful statement.

And I said, okay. So how can I put that into my own perspective, using my own [00:18:00] religion to improve that or to use. And in Islam we’ve got 99 names of God. So what I do is I sit down before sunrise and I recite, while meditating, in my heart, each name 99 times, whatever the names I can remember.

And I do that for 40 minutes and that really grounds you down and you come out feeling fantastic. This is what I’m trying to teach some of the people who join me in meditation.  I take what I’ve been taught about meditation and I just improvise it into my own secular way.

[00:18:37] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, amazing. That does sound very powerful, and personal practice to sit down before sunrise and chant the ninety-nine names of God. Do you do it internally or do you say it out loud?

[00:18:48] Majid Al Mandhari: No, internally

[00:18:50] Lily Allen-Duenas: Internally?

Meditation takes you to your own world

[00:18:52] Majid Al Mandhari: And, 

I remember a couple of times friends will pass by and film me. I’ll take a video of me or take a picture of me. I will not be aware of its existence.  I’m in my own world.

[00:19:06] Lily Allen-Duenas: Meditation does have that amazing ability to just draw us into our own world, our own inner world, the inner landscape. It means we tune out everything else and  are able to listen to our own heartbeat or our own rhythm of breath, what we’re chanting. So I love that you’ve made it yours.

You said too, Majid, that your guru, your teacher says that with meditation, you can [00:19:30] cure yourself of any disease. Do you feel like since you’ve been doing this for a long time, it’s brought a new level of health and vitality to you?

The vitality that meditation brings

[00:19:38] Majid Al Mandhari: Really unbelievable. I don’t scientifically I cannot prove it, but I tell you, it definitely has vouch. I vouch for it.

[00:19:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: me

[00:19:48] Majid Al Mandhari: It’s when I remember very well when I started, it was like I will get a slight, not a pain, but a slight feeling in my heart, really happiness in the heart.

And I would think, wow, Majid something is wrong with you. Something is wrong with your heart. But I did not stop. I would continue and continue. That happiness will, little pain or happiness will go lower. With time it’ll be lowered and it’ll lower and it would end up to some time.

It just went away and went away when it went away. I can’t imagine energy, such an adrenaline, which just comes out later during the after the meditation, which comes to the body. So I must have been having something and that has taken me away.

It has gone away. I feel my limbs, I feel my limbs are much better. In so many ways, I’ve really benefited. That’s one of the things which I’m trying to promote to my fellow man is to say, look, this is yoga, but we are going to do it, our yoga or our meditation in this.

I’m able to attract people to join me. Some of them have benefited from it.

[00:20:57] Lily Allen-Duenas: What do you attribute it to? Do you attribute it to the [00:21:00] silence, to the mindfulness of breath? Do you contribute to the energy? Or the connection? With God, when you’re chanting the ninety-nine  names. Do you have something that deep in your heart, you feel like, ah, that can be it.

What do you attribute your health, vitality, and connection to?

[00:21:13] Majid Al Mandhari: First of all, going back to the basics, the basic principle I was told. I was taught how to do meditation. I think that played a big role. The environment played a big role. The open area we have one of the biggest positives of balance is security.

You don’t have to worry about security sitting in the dark. In the middle of night outside and you don’t have to worry about security at all. You can wear a gold watch and nothing happens. That’s one of the biggest positive things about Oman. You could sit down and do that.

So it’s these environments, the basics, which I was taught about meditation. The environment and slowly you built up that connection, spiritual connection to God. Then the after effects are fantastic.

[00:21:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. Is there anything about yoga or meditation or anything that I didn’t ask? That’s something that you’d like to share.

Anything else about yoga or meditation?

[00:22:05] Majid Al Mandhari: When I sit with my students again discussing questions about culture and religion. This is what I explain. I say this is what I gain from practicing my yoga by, it’s I come out as a different person again, up after practicing my yoga.

It helps in removing your toxins in the body. It gives you [00:22:30] energy. Your breathing becomes better for the whole day. People with asthma, by the way. I’ve got a little bit. I’ve a little bit asthmatic and this is what has helped me in practicing, my Asana, my breathing,  And my meditation.

[00:22:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: Okay. I ask every guest on the show what is your personal definition of yoga?

What is your definition of yoga?

[00:22:54] Majid Al Mandhari: Ooh, that’s a big question. How do you explain that? As I said, I’ve been doing yoga for many years and I can’t live without it. I’ve been challenged several times, but I cannot live it to the extent that I’m teaching and I’m enjoying teaching it. It has become a personal life for me yoga. So I just enjoy the vitality. I enjoy the challenges. I enjoy the stretches. I enjoy the energy, which I get from yoga after performing the asana. It’s part of me. It’s part of my life. Yoga for me is life. I breathe yoga and gives me vitality. It gives me energy. Make my day every.

Get in touch with Majid

[00:23:32] Lily Allen-Duenas: So Majid if anybody wants to get in touch with you,  has questions or wants to learn more about you. I’ll put your Instagram here in the show notes, wherever anyone’s listening to the podcast, or you can also find it on wild yoga, tribe.com/yoga in Oman. Majid I have had such a delightful time with you today.

I’m so grateful that you took the time to be with me.  I want to say just a big, thank you [00:24:00] once again.

[00:24:01] Majid Al Mandhari: Thank you Lil. Thank you for having me. It’s a pleasure. I’m delighted. I’m glad that you got me into your program. Thank you very much.

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

[00:24:07] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much for tuning into this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. My conversation with Majid Al Mandhari, a yoga teacher from Oman was so engaging as we took a deeper look into meditation and how you can make it yours. As Majid says, yoga has the power to cure any disease. This is something that he lives and he breathes. I hope that this conversation made you curious about meditation and the gifts that it can give. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode, that’s all about yoga in Oman then this is the conversation for you. Thank you for listening to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Be well. 

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