A Young Yoga Teacher Tells His Story
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week, I'm joined by Tabay Atkins and his mom Sahel Anvarinejad. Tabay contacted us awhile back to inquire if we’d be OK with a 14-year-old attending one of Jason’s advanced teacher training modules. It turns out that when Tabay was 11, he became one of the youngest certified yoga teachers in the U.S, and he has been teaching donation-based yoga at his mother’s studio in San Clemente, CA ever since.
As a mom myself, I’m always interested in what it takes to help young kids get into yoga and mindfulness, so I thought it would be fun to talk to Tabay about his journey and why he’s decided to deepen his understanding of yoga through advanced trainings. The stories that both he and his mom share warmed my heart, and I know it will warm yours too.
A few things we talk about:
* Why Sahel got her start in yoga and how it made Tabay want to practice even though he was only six years old.
* How Sahel's experience of healing through yoga led Tabay to want to become a teacher.
* How they discovered vegan cooking and eating together.
* What we can expect to see from Tabay in the coming years.
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode177
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 177 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:05.0 | Today I have two guests, they are a mother and son team. |
| 0:12.7 | The mom is Sahil Amvernajad, and the son is Tibay Atkins. |
| 0:17.0 | Tibay is 14 years old, and I learned about him when he sent an email to our support email, which I get first, asking if he could |
| 0:27.2 | do the advanced teacher training with Jason. So he has his 200 hour certification and he has several other specific certifications for teaching teens and young kids, young kids with autism. |
| 0:40.0 | But he wanted to get the advanced certificate |
| 0:42.9 | and wanted to make sure we could work out |
| 0:45.2 | a payment option for him and that it was okay |
| 0:47.6 | that he was so young. |
| 0:49.2 | He got his first certification |
| 0:51.0 | when he was 10 years old. He discovered yoga when he was about six years old at the same time that his mom discovered it. |
| 0:57.7 | She'll tell that story at the top of the episode she was recovering from |
| 1:02.2 | non-Hodgens lymphoma cancer treatment and the |
| 1:06.8 | rest as they say is history. |
| 1:09.0 | For the past few years that Tibay has been teaching he He's been donating all of the proceeds to |
| 1:14.4 | saving Sophie.org a charity that helps caregivers find resources when their |
| 1:18.9 | loved ones are diagnosed with cancer. So Jason and I engaged with Tibay a little bit and I |
| 1:25.0 | started to follow him on Instagram and jeez this kid has a good vibe |
| 1:29.1 | he's just a unique little human and I thought it would be fun and a feel good story to feature him and to talk about why he's passionate about yoga and teaching. |
| 1:41.0 | He's also passionate about vegan cooking and he started a little online |
| 1:45.1 | subscription program where you can subscribe and take his classes and learn how to |
| 1:50.6 | cook and prepare vegan meals. So here we are you guys this is one of the |
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