In our YA Lessons Instructor Highlights, we function one in all 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 skilled from San Diego, California. She has devoted almost a decade to educating yoga and health and her hope is to ignite a world motion in the direction of aligning physique and soul.
Her experience transcends varied platforms and companies and her instruction and modeling have gathered hundreds of 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 keen about motion, and a really gifted teacher.
Katie is understood for her distinctive strategy to educating on the beat of the music. Her love and expertise for creating the proper playlist for the vitality she seeks to domesticate is inspiring to see and a complete blast to observe 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
Need to study extra about this acclaimed yoga and health instructor? Learn on.
Get to Know Your YA Lessons Instructor: 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 study extra about her.
YA: What’s your favourite self-care observe you possibly can’t dwell with out?
Katie: My final self-care observe entails getting outdoors with my three lovely canines: Captain, Peaches, and Honey. We make it a ritual to absorb 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 while you train (or observe)?
Katie: After I train or observe, nothing will get me within the temper fairly like EDM and Hip Hop. The beats make me wish to shake what my mama gave me, and it’s infectious! Express solely in fact 😉
YA: What’s your favourite motivational quote?
Katie: “I don’t want loneliness, for I’m by no means really alone. I don’t want greed, as I already possess every little thing. 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 individual, reminding me that the facility 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 flooring (which I typically battle to calm down) and fills me with a way of flexibility and energy. Again extensions, alternatively, aren’t my cup of tea as I have already got a decent low again. All of us have our nemesis poses, proper?
YA: The place’s your favourite place on this planet 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 an attractive, enjoyable Latin paradise the place happiness and leisure reign.
Faucet Into Your Inside Sensuality with Katie
Yoga Class
With Katie Kasten
Awaken your middle of creativity, sexuality, and confidence by way of a sensual vitality yoga circulation on this Sensual Chakra Circulation on YA Lessons with Katie. This class contains a sequence of poses and hip actions to stimulate the Sacral Chakra and make you’re feeling highly effective, alive, and linked to your senses.
YA: What’s your most embarrassing second, both educating 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 college crush? I had a grand plan to impress him with a dramatic hair-flowing-in-the-wind entrance, however as a substitute, I ended up face-first on the bottom.
For sure, my romantic film second was 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 detrimental 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.
Steered learn: 5 Methods to Drop Your Ego in Yoga
Picture: @yogi.ish
What’s one thing folks can be stunned to study you?
Katie: Individuals are typically stunned to find that my endeavors lengthen past health/yoga. Along with my ardour for yoga, I maintain the position of Chief Advertising and marketing Officer for 2 firms, MoveU and BOSU.
Moreover, a lesser-known truth is that I used to play co-ed ice hockey!
YA: Except for 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 women 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.
Need to Join Extra With Katie Kasten?
At the moment Katie works full-time because the Chief Advertising and marketing 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 aware motion!
Take an On-line Health Class With Katie Kasten
In Katie Kasten’ health lessons, you possibly can count on high-energy, dynamic, and aware actions designed to uplift and problem you, and all set to enjoyable playlists. Not but a YA Lessons member? You possibly can attempt it free for 14 days.
