Maria Wada | Reinvention and Connection Through Yoga

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nike yoga teacher Maria Wada used to be all about chasing dreams. That’s why she left her home country of Japan to pursue — and achieve — a career as a professional dancer in the United States. But in the face of success, she realized the sacrifices she made to get there weren’t always worth it. On this episode, she shares how her practice helped her reconnect with herself and strengthen her relationships with others. She also tells us how she’s been shaped by both Japanese and American culture, and how everyone can let go of ego, perfectionism and expectation to find fulfilment in movement.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brendan Collinsworth and you're listening to Trained Body and Mind.
0:04.3	Oh, hello, welcome to Trained Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of
0:10.5	holistic fitness.
0:11.6	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:13.6	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:17.9	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:21.0	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:23.5	Today, I'm talking with a Nike yoga teacher whose remarkable journey of becoming a professional
0:28.5	dancer shaped her unique approach to teaching movement.
0:37.4	Dancer yoga, when I'm doing those things, I feel more home and connected and we are all
0:44.4	one.
0:45.4	That's the purpose of it, I think.
0:49.1	Oneness.
0:50.1	When you feel home in your body and you feel very connected to other being as well that
0:55.3	like, we are just the same force, traveling through physical experience.
1:02.1	That's how I feel.
1:03.3	That's how I would like to achieve.
1:11.1	That's Maria Wada and at a very young age, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with
1:15.2	her life.
1:16.2	Dance on stage with Britney Spears.
1:19.1	But Maria was in Japan, spoke no English and had never taken a dance class.
1:24.8	What happened next is much more than your typical make your dreams come true story.
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