Ahmed
Soliman
Ahmed is an ERYT-200, RYS-200 specializing in anatomy, meditation, and yoga nidra. He began his professional life as a wildlife biologist and environmental scientist. Serving the natural environment and helping to recover endangered species was his way of giving to a greater good.
Location: OYH Studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Classes: The Restored ONE, The Therapeutic ONE

Ahmed
Soliman
Ahmed is an ERYT-200, RYS-200 specializing in anatomy, meditation, and yoga nidra. He began his professional life as a wildlife biologist and environmental scientist. Serving the natural environment and helping to recover endangered species was his way of giving to a greater good.

This is a concept that he carries into his yogic lifestyle, both in teaching and in practice, seeking to serve his communities in a way that supports strength, healing, and sustainability. Ahmed brings his science background to his students through yoga retreats in locations that provide the incomparable forces of nature as a backdrop to the yoga journey.
Ahmed is equally influenced by a key life event that brought him most directly to the practice of yoga. After a serious car accident requiring multiple knee surgeries demanded that he transition away from a lifetime passion of participating in contact sports like soccer, he found himself drawn to the safer, deeper, and more sustainable practice of yoga. From this experience, he developed a keen interest in human anatomy as a guide to offer a safe and grounded space for his students, endeavoring to help them explore their physical boundaries with a focus on intelligent alignment, awareness of breath, and a steadying relaxation of the mind. He seeks for every student to emerge with a deeper understanding of his or her own body. In class, he often says, “As you are,” meaning whatever physical or emotional energy a student brings to practice, with a gentle self-acceptance, an awareness of breath, an understanding of the body, and some mental focus, we can find harmony both on and off the mat.
As a student of Iyengar yoga, vinyasa, and meditation, he continues his studies with Nikki Costello, Nikki Vilella, Magi Pierce.
Questions. Answers.
Favorite Brooklyn Hang Out Spot?
Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park
What are you most passionate about outside of yoga?
Wildlife biology. Prior to teaching yoga, I was a wildlife biologist.
Best advice you’ve ever been given?
Listen more than you speak. From my Dad.
Go-To Grounding Yoga Pose?
Downward Facing Dog.