In our YA Courses Instructor Highlights, we characteristic one in all 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 skilled from San Diego, California. She has devoted practically a decade to educating yoga and health and her hope is to ignite a world motion in 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.

If 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 thought 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 apply with!

Be taught extra about Katie’s background, what led her to yoga, and a lot extra in our YA Courses 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 damage, 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 trainer? Learn on.
 
 

Get to Know Your YA Courses Instructor: Katie Kasten

We sat down with this powerhouse yoga and health trainer for a Q+A session so YA Courses members and YouAligned readers can study extra about her.
 

YA: What’s your favourite self-care apply you possibly can’t reside with out?

Katie: My final self-care apply entails 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 whenever 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 wish 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 really alone. I don’t want greed, as I already possess all the things. I don’t want doubt, as a result of I already know.” – Ram Dass

These phrases from Ram Dass encourage 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 usually wrestle to loosen up) 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 decent 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 Interior Sensuality with Katie

Awaken your heart of creativity, sexuality, and confidence via a sensual vitality yoga circulation on this Sensual Chakra Circulate on YA Courses with Katie. This class encompasses 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 once 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 a substitute, I ended up face-first on the bottom.

For sure, my romantic film second become 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 inside essence, permitting our real strengths and passions to information us. Once we silence the ego, we faucet into confidence, resilience, and objective.

Advised learn: 5 Methods to Drop Your Ego in Yoga
 

Picture: @yogi.ish

What’s one thing folks can be shocked to find out about you?

Katie: Persons are usually shocked 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 firms, MoveU and BOSU.

Moreover, a lesser-known reality is that I used to play co-ed ice hockey!
 

YA: Except for your personal, what’s your favourite class or trainer on YA Courses?

Katie: I’ve a lot admiration for a few of the OG’s: Ashton August and Crystal Palermo. These beautiful girls simply exude an inspiring vitality and unwavering confidence – it’s tangible AF. Their lessons have constantly 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 lessons for YouAligned’s YA Courses 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 anticipate high-energy, dynamic, and aware actions designed to uplift and problem you, and all set to enjoyable playlists. Not but a YA Courses member? You may strive it free for 14 days.

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