Yoga with Kerstin

Our peak pose for March is:

Ardha Chandrasana - Half Moon Pose 🌛🌓

- Strengthens core, glutes and legs (quads, hamstrings, calves).
- Opens chest & hips.
- It is a difficult pose because it demands a combination of core strength, hip flexibility, balance and coordination, challenging you to keep your pelvis open, hips stacked and standing leg strong while reaching into length.

Spiritual meaning of Ardha Chandrasana:

The posture is a reminder that no matter what happens on the outside, who we are inside is unchanging and powerful. It reminds us that no matter how we feel today, change will come sooner or later and your truest self is always pure.

Have a fabulous week and see you on the mat on Friday 💕🙏

So today our peak pose was crow 🐦‍⬛

A difficult one and a pose that can seem unobtainable to some.

So it’s lovely to see everyone having a go. And we did this by trying out lots of variations, with & without props and generally just getting the feel of the pose.

Next week we will do this again, in fact it will be in our practice for the next 3 weeks.

Why? So that we can keep building and keep practicing and then get to the best version of crow that suits you and your body.

I’m expecting to see a wonderful variety of crows in week 4 😉💕🙏

Benefits of crow:

- Strengthens Core, Shoulders, Wrists
- Improves Balance & Focus
- Builds confidence

In the meantime here is my version of the crow 🐦‍⬛

Have a wonderful weekend and keep practicing 🥰🙏

Absolutely love this 💖

Never thought I’d teach yoga 🧘‍♀️ and here we are. And so lucky to have a fabulous bunch of students every Friday ❤️

"I'm not a math person."
"I'm not creative."
"I'm just not good at sales."
"I'm not a morning person."

These aren't personality traits. They're just stories you told yourself so many times they started feeling like facts.

At some point, you tried something, it didn't work, and you made it part of your identity. Now that identity runs the show. It decides what you attempt and what you don't. What's "realistic" and what isn't.

You're not protecting who you are. You're protecting who you were.

That's expensive. Every "I'm just not that kind of person" closes a door you never actually tested. You're making decisions based on data from years ago, collected by a version of you that doesn't exist anymore.

The cage feels like self-awareness. It's not. It's just old observations you stopped questioning.

You can update this stuff at any time.

"I wasn't a morning person" is available. "I haven't been good at sales" works too. Past tense. Room to change.

The person you could become doesn't need you to be someone else. They just need you to stop insisting you're only who you've already been.

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