In our YA Lessons Trainer Highlights, we function certainly one of our superb instructors and interview them so our members and readers can get to know them. This instructor spotlight is with Katie Kasten.
Katie is a health and advertising and marketing skilled from San Diego, California. She has devoted practically a decade to instructing yoga and health and her hope is to ignite a worldwide motion in the direction of aligning physique and soul.
Her experience transcends numerous platforms and companies and her instruction and modeling have amassed thousands and thousands of views and followers on social media and past.
Once you take a category with Katie, her excessive vitality and enjoyable spirit is infectious. She is so extremely obsessed with motion, and a really gifted teacher.
Katie is thought for her distinctive strategy to instructing on the beat of the music. Her love and expertise for creating the right playlist for the vitality she seeks to domesticate is inspiring to see and a complete blast to apply with!
Be taught extra about Katie’s background, what led her to yoga, and a lot extra in our YA Lessons instructor spotlight!
Katie Kasten shares her yoga journey:
“My introduction to yoga occurred at 18, however love didn’t strike instantly. Insecurity and comparability held me again. It was years later, throughout my restoration from a spinal harm, that I fell head over heels for yoga’s therapeutic energy. Pair that with shaking your ass and yoga and I’ve been in a long-term dedication ever since.”
The important thing to sustaining an empowered mindset is to let go of ego. – Katie Kasten
Wish to be taught extra about this acclaimed yoga and health instructor? Learn on.
Get to Know Your YA Lessons Trainer: Katie Kasten
We sat down with this powerhouse yoga and health instructor for a Q+A session so YA Lessons members and YouAligned readers can be taught extra about her.
YA: What’s your favourite self-care apply you may’t dwell with out?
Katie: My final self-care apply entails getting exterior with my three lovely canines: Captain, Peaches, and Honey. We make it a ritual to take in the solar’s rays throughout morning and night and at all times play fetch! It’s a mix of a few of my favourite issues: nature, animals, and sunshine.
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YA: What’s your go-to music or music style whenever you educate (or apply)?
Katie: After I educate or apply, nothing will get me within the temper fairly like EDM and Hip Hop. The beats make me need to shake what my mama gave me, and it’s infectious! Specific solely in fact 😉
YA: What’s your favourite motivational quote?
Katie: “I don’t want loneliness, for I’m by no means actually alone. I don’t want greed, as I already possess all the pieces. I don’t want doubt, as a result of I already know.” – Ram Dass
These phrases from Ram Dass inspire me to be a greater particular person, reminding me that the ability to thrive lies inside.
YA: What’s your favourite yoga pose? Least favourite?
Katie: Frog pose is my all-time favourite yoga pose. It connects me to my pelvic ground (which I typically battle to chill out) and fills me with a way of flexibility and power. Again extensions, alternatively, aren’t my cup of tea as I have already got a good low again. All of us have our nemesis poses, proper?
YA: The place’s your favourite place on the earth you’ve ever been to, and why?
Katie: Costa Rica holds a particular place in my coronary heart. The colourful music, scrumptious meals, and laid-back tradition make me really feel like a goddess. It’s like a horny, enjoyable Latin paradise the place happiness and rest reign.
Faucet Into Your Inside Sensuality with Katie
Yoga Class
With Katie Kasten
Awaken your middle of creativity, sexuality, and confidence by a sensual vitality yoga movement on this Sensual Chakra Move on YA Lessons with Katie. This class includes a sequence of poses and hip actions to stimulate the Sacral Chakra and make you’re feeling highly effective, alive, and related to your senses.
YA: What’s your most embarrassing second, both instructing or in life?
Katie: Who is aware of why that is coming to thoughts lol . . . however maybe after I slipped and fell in entrance of my center faculty crush? I had a grand plan to impress him with a dramatic hair-flowing-in-the-wind entrance, however as an alternative, I ended up face-first on the bottom.
Evidently, my romantic film second became a humbling expertise. Regardless of the mishap, it’s a reminder to embrace vulnerability and discover humor in life’s awkward moments.
YA: What’s your #1 piece of recommendation for sustaining an empowered mindset?
Katie: The important thing to sustaining an empowered mindset is to let go of ego. By releasing the necessity for fixed comparability or damaging judgments, we create area for our true selves to flourish.
Genuine empowerment comes from connecting with our internal essence, permitting our real strengths and passions to information us. After we silence the ego, we faucet into confidence, resilience, and goal.
Recommended learn: 5 Methods to Drop Your Ego in Yoga
Picture: @yogi.ish
What’s one thing folks could be shocked to study you?
Katie: Persons are typically shocked to find that my endeavors lengthen past health/yoga. Along with my ardour for yoga, I maintain the function of Chief Advertising Officer for 2 firms, MoveU and BOSU.
Moreover, a lesser-known reality is that I used to play co-ed ice hockey!
YA: Other than your individual, what’s your favourite class or instructor on YA Lessons?
Katie: I’ve a lot admiration for a few of the OG’s: Ashton August and Crystal Palermo. These pretty girls simply exude an inspiring vitality and unwavering confidence – it’s tangible AF. Their lessons have persistently left me feeling empowered, motivated, and able to embrace challenges.
Wish to Join Extra With Katie Kasten?
Presently Katie works full-time because the Chief Advertising Officer of MoveU and BOSU; nonetheless, you’ll discover her joyfully main dynamic lessons for YouAligned’s YA Lessons and past in her free time – spreading the contagious enthusiasm for conscious motion!
Take an On-line Health Class With Katie Kasten
In Katie Kasten’ health lessons, you may count on high-energy, dynamic, and conscious actions designed to uplift and problem you, and all set to enjoyable playlists. Not but a YA Lessons member? You’ll be able to attempt it free for 14 days.
