{"id":6493,"date":"2019-09-03T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:59:48","slug":"farrah-el-dibany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"Farah Nofal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Interview by: Soha Elshafey<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Yoga isn\u2019t just an exercise. It\u2019s a chance! A chance to feel whole and let your body be in sync with your soul. Turing her passion to movement and health, Farah Nofal is now one of the most inspiring yogi in Egypt. We got the chance to chat with the beautiful spirit, Farah Nofal, and she told us how she got started and how yoga changed her life and she also spoke about yoga for beginners and about her healthy lifestyle.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tell us what do you do and how did you get started?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I teach yoga and I\u2019m also a health coach and a nutritionist. I believe in body movement. How it started? Well, I have always been into sports and movement, but my love for yoga specifically started by coincidence actually when I got injured. I started practicing yoga and then it was just love at first sight! It grew on me so much and it was sort of rewarding mentally, physically and emotionally. That\u2019s why I decided to spread more of it all around.<\/p>\n

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What attracted you to yoga?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What attracted me to yoga was how much harmony it brings into someone\u2019s soul and body. You start thinking in movement with the breath and mentally you are also there. So, it\u2019s just like music! And it\u2019s beautiful! The movement of the bodies are like waves! That\u2019s one of the base things that attracted me to yoga and also the fact that it helped me cure an injury that I thought I was going to live with for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

What do you love the most about being a yogi?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I love the most is the ability to serve people and spread awareness everywhere. I see myself as a server for my students and people around me. I\u2019m always trying to shed some light and awareness onto yoga.<\/p>\n

Do you consider yoga more of a type of meditation or exercise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I consider it to be both. It depends on how much or what are you taking from your practice. If you are doing more body movement, then it\u2019s more of an exercise. If you are meditating more, then it\u2019s more of a meditation. But you can also have both at one. That would be a moving meditation when you are so in sync in your physical body as you practice. You become meditated as well.<\/p>\n

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What are some effective poses for beginners to try out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that the most effective poses for beginners are the simple ones. So, they shouldn\u2019t be trying anything too intense. They should be going for something simple, something foundational where they are going to feel a lot without injuring or hurting themselves, such as simple hip openers, simple backbends or simple forward folds.<\/p>\n

How can first-timers deal with muscle fatigue?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They can deal with muscle fatigue by just being gentle. So, their first class shouldn\u2019t be anything that\u2019s too intense. It should be really simple where feel movement, awareness and maybe some soreness the next day, but not too much soreness where they cannot walk or move and also too much intensity where they can injure themselves.<\/p>\n

What is your guilty pleasure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to food, my guilty pleasure is definitely ice cream or sugar in general! Unfortunately, I have a sweet tooth, but I try to stay away from that by going towards fruit. Like in summer, I always eating mangos because they really satisfy the sweet craving and they are also so good for you with moderation.<\/p>\n

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What kind of diet do you follow that complement your healthy lifestyle?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My diet consists of eating everything in moderation, so I\u2019m not fully vegan and I\u2019m not fully meatatarian. I believe I\u2019m more of a pescetarian. I eat more fish than chicken and meat and I eat a lot of vegetables and fruits and some carbs every now and then. I try to get my protein from different sources. And healthy fats, of course, because they complement your diet a lot. So, it\u2019s just a mix of everything. I believe that if you eat a little bit of everything, you\u2019re going to be healthy and you\u2019re not going to be abusing anything.<\/p>\n

What is your second favourite thing to do other than yoga?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance! I love to dance! I\u2019m not a dancer, but I love it. It\u2019s a way of expressing yourself, a way of expression that just feels amazing. And it complements yoga as well!<\/p>\n

What is your favourite healthy snack? <\/strong><\/p>\n

My favourite healthy snack would be a piece of fruit. Sometimes, I go for apples. In summer, I go for mangos and watermelons most of the time. Anything that is just accessible as a fruit. It\u2019s satisfying and especially in summer, it\u2019s very refreshing.<\/p>\n

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What is your favourite place to practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the beach! Anywhere by the beach! It\u2019s just very soft on the soul. It helps you become more in sync when you\u2019re looking at that beautiful water and that colour blue. It\u2019s just very peaceful!<\/p>\n

What is your golden advice for weight loss?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My golden advice is finding a diet or a lifestyle actually not a diet that works for you. Trial and error! Try and if it doesn\u2019t work, try something else. Keep exploring till you find the way or the approach to eating and food that works for you. Try to eat a bit of everything, but eliminate, of course, stuff that doesn\u2019t work for your body. Just love food and see it as a way to fuel your body probably, instead of a treat or a vent when you\u2019re not feeling well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opera singer Farrah El Dibany is the first Egyptian to win the Prix Lyrique de l\u2019AROP, which is the best opera singer award awarded by the Paris Opera house. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, El Dibany joined the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria in 2005.<\/p>\n

Five years later, she attended the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. In 2016, she joined the Paris Opera troupe, becoming the first Egyptian national to ever join the prestigious academy. .The young singer won a number of other awards, including a prize at the 2017 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival and the Wagner Stiftung Prize in 2018. Now, the Egyptian mezzo-soprano is a jury member for the German music competition \u2018Jugend Musiziert,\u2019 for the national round of the Eastern Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}