Yoga Shapes with Kate

My go to memory on a cold rainy day ☀️



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Supported handstand 🤸‍♀️

Water watching 🌊

Princess poppy 🐶

Two of my Favourite things 💕

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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ✔️
🦋 Butterfly pose ✔️
🐦 Pigeon pose ✔️⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀✔️
🦜 Crow pose ✔️⠀
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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ✔️
🦋 Butterfly pose ✔️
🐦 Pigeon pose ✔️
🦅 Eagle pose ✔️
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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Yoga is an ancient, scientific practice evolved over a period because of combinations of various proven theories, ideas that yogis drew from nature and practical experiences. Animal yoga poses are on such category of manifestations that came into being when yogis found that imitating animals posture, the mind and body experienced an alignment, released hormones and relieved tension.

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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ✔️
🦋 Butterfly pose ✔️
🐦 Pigeon pose ✔️⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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Yoga is an ancient, scientific practice evolved over a period because of combinations of various proven theories, ideas that yogis drew from nature and practical experiences. Animal yoga poses are on such category of manifestations that came into being when yogis found that imitating animals posture, the mind and body experienced an alignment, released hormones and relieved tension.

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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ✔️
🦋 Butterfly pose ✔️
🐦 Pigeon pose ⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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🌿 yoga challenge 🌿

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Yoga is an ancient, scientific practice evolved over a period because of combinations of various proven theories, ideas that yogis drew from nature and practical experiences. Animal yoga poses are on such category of manifestations that came into being when yogis found that imitating animals posture, the mind and body experienced an alignment, released hormones and relieved tension.

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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ✔️⠀
🦋 Butterfly pose ⠀
🐦 Pigeon pose ⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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Yoga is an ancient, scientific practice evolved over a period because of combinations of various proven theories, ideas that yogis drew from nature and practical experiences. Animal yoga poses are on such category of manifestations that came into being when yogis found that imitating animals posture, the mind and body experienced an alignment, released hormones and relieved tension.

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Not embarrassed to use my props. Love a good brick 🧱
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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ✔️⠀
🐶 Dog pose ⠀
🦋 Butterfly pose ⠀
🐦 Pigeon pose ⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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🐪 Camel pose for Earth day 🌎 ⠀

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Yoga is an ancient, scientific practice evolved over a period because of combinations of various proven theories, ideas that yogis drew from nature and practical experiences. Animal yoga poses are on such category of manifestations that came into being when yogis found that imitating animals posture, the mind and body experienced an alignment, released hormones and relieved tension.

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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️⠀
🐪 Camel pose ✔️⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ⠀
🐶 Dog pose ⠀
🦋 Butterfly pose ⠀
🐦 Pigeon pose ⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀
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My first yoga challenge since fracturing my spine 🙈



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🐯 Tiger pose ✔️ ⠀
🐪 Camel pose ⠀
🙊 Monkey pose ⠀
🐶 Dog pose ⠀
🦋 Butterfly pose ⠀
🐦 Pigeon pose ⠀
🦅 Eagle pose ⠀
🦜 Crow pose ⠀

Take me back to Amsterdam with these two beauties 💙💚

Mother’s Day 💕

Happy international woman’s day to all the ladies in my life 💕
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I’m extremely lucky to know so many strong powerful kick ass women. Too many too tag. You know who you are! 💃🏽
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My word of the day is WOMANCE! Women supporting women! ⠀
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This little fire cracker doesn’t need to grow a pair of tender, weak ANYTHINGS. She’s got all she needs to ROAR 🦁 … and she does 👊 ⠀
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🎉 2 Years 🎉

Wow what an experience, with the best group I could wish for 💖💜💙🖤

Missing my teacher training gang. As if we qualified 2 years ago 👀

Sunday Gratitude 🌲

Loving nature today, makes me feel so grounded.

What are you thankful for today?

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend 🙏

If you do anything this today. Remember to breathe 💙

Big belly breaths using the diaphragm can help you with;

💙 Reducing anxiety ⠀
💚 Lowering stress⠀
❤️ Keep you calm⠀
💚 Help you focus ⠀
💙 Lower blood pressure ⠀
💚 Calms nervous system⠀
❤️ Slows the heart rate ⠀
💚 Check in with emotions ⠀
💚 Promotes happiness ⠀
💙 Help heal trauma ⠀
💚 Mental clarity ⠀
❤️ Improve sleep ⠀
💚 Improve immune ⠀
💙 Oxygenate your blood

Happy Birthday Stu 🥳

We’d just found out I was pregnant here with Lewis 🤰

When life revolved around poppy 🐶

Cannot believe it’s nearly 2 years since I quit my corporate job and started my yoga teacher training!⠀
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Here’s my moments of 2021⠀
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1. I would break my back again for this little potato 🥔 ⠀
2. Kids Christmas 🎄 ⠀
3. Holidays ☀️ ⠀
4. Soul circus 🎪 ⠀
5. Daddy’s number 1 💙⠀
6. First night away 💃🏽⠀
7. First family selfie 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦⠀
8. Home birth 👶⠀
9. Best brother 💕⠀
10. Head wetting 🍾

#2021

Y for YOGA

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What is yoga for you?⠀
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Yoga teaches me to be present ⠀
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Connect with my true self behind the physical body ⠀
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Union of mind body and spirit ⠀
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Health management system ⠀

O for Om or Oum

The sacred sound of the universe ☀️ 🌎

I remember my wonderful yoga teacher trainer .f.thompson telling me that NASA recorded the sun and found it sounded like humming sound OM.

Humming and chanting creates vibrations that help reduce stress, create calmness, promote sleep and lower heart rate and blood pressure.

G for GAMA

Happy chemicals released during yoga 🙌

💋 Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GAMA)
🌟 Dopamine
💚 Oxytocin
🌈 Serotonin
💃🏽 Endorphins

This cocktail of chems helps lower stress and anxiety levels 👊

A for Aparigraha (the last of Patanjali’s yamas)⠀
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🌟 Translates Non-greed and non-attachment⠀
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🎄 Seems appropriate counting up Christmas presents ⠀
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💋 Letting go of happiness based on what others think of you⠀
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🎁 Today is a gift that’s why it’s called the present 🙌

Big love to all the boys in my life 💚

Strength is checking in with emotions
Strength is looking after your mental health
Strength is asking for help
Strength is telling someone how you feel
Strength is calling out misogyny
Strength is working together

B R E A T H

How is your breath today? ⠀
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If it’s shallow and fast, you could be in fight or flight mode. Producing excess cortisol which can lead to chronic disease.⠀
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Breathing deeply and slowly…. Really filling the belly can…⠀
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💚 Reduce anxiety ⠀
💚 Lower stress⠀
💚 Keep you calm⠀
💚 Help you focus ⠀
💚 Lower blood pressure ⠀
💚 Calms nervous system⠀
💚 Slows the heart rate ⠀
💚 Check in with emotions ⠀
💚 Promotes happiness ⠀
💚 Help heal trauma ⠀
💚 Mental clarity ⠀
💚 Improve sleep ⠀
💚 Improve immune response ⠀
💚 Oxygenates your blood⠀
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9 months with this chunk 💕

Yourself..⠀
Your younger self..⠀
That person you find annoying…⠀
People you don’t know…⠀
People you disagree with…⠀
Unkind people…⠀
Angry people…⠀
Flaky people…⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)✔️
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)✔️
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)✔️
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)✔️
7. Resting pose (undead)✔️
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)✔️
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)✔️
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)✔️
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)✔️
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)✔️
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)✔️
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)✔️
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)⠀
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)✔️
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)✔️
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)⠀
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)⠀
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)✔️
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)⠀
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)⠀
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)⠀
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ✔️ ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)✔️
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)⠀
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)⠀
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)⠀
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)⠀
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Halloween Yoga Challenge 🎃⠀
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Pose lineup ⠀
1. Cat 🐈 (Thackeray Binx) ⠀
2. Lotus or nostril breathing (I smell children)⠀
3. Swoon (Sarah Sanderson)⠀
4. Balance (Winifred Sanderson)⠀
5. Warrior (Max Dennison)⠀
6. Child’s pose (Dani Dennison)⠀
7. Resting pose (undead)⠀
8. Reading Pose (spell book)⠀
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Dates 24/10 - 31/10⠀
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🧹 Hosts⠀



.yogini


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🪄 Sponsors ⠀

Little bit late but this boy makes me smile so much.

Cheekiness is off the scale! Wouldn’t want him any other way 💙