My Journey to Yoga & Strength Based Mobility
Your intentions are powerful, so choose them wisely. If someone told me I would be a mobility & yoga instructor and a deep lover of goblet squats, I would surely have thought you have gone coconuts… but intention is a funny thing. I completed my yoga teacher training in 2016 after I made a (believe it or not) New Year’s resolution to make yoga a lifestyle. Since I started my training, I have never looked back.
I started focusing on strength training a year into teaching yoga full-time. I needed a solution to rehabilitate a bad knee which was affecting my teaching. Knowing that something was missing from my practice, I enlisted the help of a great personal trainer and physiotherapist to coach me on the biomechanics of movement and muscle training. This connected the dots on how to best feel strong yet supple at the same time. Surely our bodies would benefit from this marriage. Hence led me to become a certified personal trainer to educate myself and others as the journey continues to understand functional mobility and strength.
“Now a strong woman need not necessary be lifting weights or proving anything to anyone but a strong woman to me is someone who challenges herself and does things she never believed was possible.”
This journey of building strength and flexibility not only made me stronger physically; it also altered me personally and changed my perception of wellness. I became more self-loving and drawn toward connecting with people and with nature.
I look forward to this journey of strength and awareness through self-seeking and through learning from the biggest asset we have been blessed with – Our Body.
Why I Created Urban Kandy
Urban Kandy is really about the lifestyle that we manifest for ourselves – with the practice of love and gratitude; see it all come together. My best achievements are definitely my family and community cultivated and nurtured. They make me strive to keep ‘becoming’ the best version of myself – and it brings me joy to know that with every new day, we can choose to evolve to be better than who we were the day before. As someone once said to me;