In our YA Lessons Trainer Highlights, we characteristic one in every of our wonderful instructors and interview them so our members and readers can get to know them. This trainer 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 educating 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 gathered hundreds of thousands of views and followers on social media and past.
While you take a category with Katie, her excessive vitality and enjoyable spirit is infectious. She is so extremely enthusiastic about motion, and a really gifted teacher.
Katie is thought for her distinctive method 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 apply with!
Be taught extra about Katie’s background, what led her to yoga, and a lot extra in our YA Lessons trainer 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 be taught extra about this acclaimed yoga and health trainer? Learn on.
Get to Know Your YA Lessons Trainer: Katie Kasten
We sat down with this powerhouse yoga and health trainer 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 possibly can’t dwell with out?
Katie: My final self-care apply includes getting outdoors with my three lovable canines: Captain, Peaches, and Honey. We make it a ritual to take in the solar’s rays throughout morning and night and all the time 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 track or music style if you train (or apply)?
Katie: After I train 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 after all 😉
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 every part. 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 ground (which I typically wrestle to calm down) and fills me with a way of flexibility and energy. Again extensions, then again, 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 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 a horny, enjoyable Latin paradise the place happiness and rest reign.
Faucet Into Your Internal Sensuality with Katie
Yoga Class
With Katie Kasten
Awaken your heart of creativity, sexuality, and confidence by means of a sensual vitality yoga circulation on this Sensual Chakra Stream on YA Lessons with Katie. This class includes a sequence of poses and hip actions to stimulate the Sacral Chakra and make you are feeling highly effective, alive, and related 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 an alternative, I ended up face-first on the bottom.
Evidently, my romantic film second changed into 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 unfavorable judgments, we create area for our true selves to flourish.
Genuine empowerment comes from connecting with our interior essence, permitting our real strengths and passions to information us. Once we silence the ego, we faucet into confidence, resilience, and objective.
Prompt learn: 5 Methods to Drop Your Ego in Yoga
Picture: @yogi.ish
What’s one thing individuals could 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 function of Chief Advertising and marketing Officer for 2 corporations, MoveU and BOSU.
Moreover, a lesser-known truth is that I used to play co-ed ice hockey!
YA: Except for your personal, what’s your favourite class or trainer 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 courses have persistently left me feeling empowered, motivated, and able to embrace challenges.
Need to Join Extra With Katie Kasten?
At present Katie works full-time because the Chief Advertising and marketing Officer of MoveU and BOSU; nevertheless, you’ll discover her joyfully main dynamic courses 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 courses, 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.
