Mission

To help students realize that they have the ability to create a practice of asana that is special to them. To aid in the initiation or development of a personal practice of yoga.

Who am I?

I am a student of yoga with the intention to share my experiences in my discovery and incorporation of the lifestyle of yoga.

I am here now to help you achieve what I have over the past few years and more! I want you all to be pain free, love your body, and feel calm and stress free! This is the way we should all be living life!

The practice and path will be different for everyone, but I want to share with you things that I have found helpful in developing my practice of yoga. I hope you find it helpful as well! Please blog questions and tips, and feel free to answer fellow students questions. To leave questions just click on a blog and leave a comment or send me an email! kate@smartyogini.com

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Everyone has the time to do some yoga. The hard part is disciplining yourself and finding the motivation. It is hard when we all work day jobs and come home tired after work. Before I started yoga I would fall asleep on the couch in front of the tv, wake up to cook dinner, and then be too full to do anything for the rest of the night. The next day I would go to work again and do the whole thing over. The only way I would get out and do something would be if I had plans with friends or had signed up for a class or something like that.

Once I started a home yoga practice I found it hard to work into my weekday schedule. Honestly I still do. The weekend seemed easy to get a practice in at least. That’s good enough, right?

I started getting stricter with myself. I would come home from work, have a light snack, roll out my mat and put on the breath beats cd. The cd was really key for me (I’ll explain the cd in a blog soon). I would still find little things to do around the house like the dishes, or make the bed, or put on a load of laundry first, or maybe I’ll call that person I should call. I should do this, I should do that…etc. (Note: please don’t should yourself!) And then finally I would calm down and come to my mat.

You just have to do it. Set out your mat, whatever props you want, put on comfy yoga clothes and get to it! The cd was a constant reminder to me that my intention was to do yoga. And I would start to breath deeply along with it. Oh, and remember after practicing you will feel AMAZING! There is nothing else like it. The time spent in meditative movement is so incredible for your mind and body and you will feel it after! It may be hard to get going, but there is huge reward!