Hi, I’m Yogi Kate, and I want to take a moment to explain what the optimal blueprint is for your body. It’s basically the layout of your bones and muscles, and also your chakras, which are your seven emotional centers, and how all of these different layers of your being, your physical body, your emotional body, your spiritual body, and how they all layer together.

When you start breaking down the body, bones, alignment, position, posture, you’re looking at the way you are, and then you’re working towards the way you want it to be. So, as you start going on a journey into your hamstrings, or into your hips, or into your shoulders, you may find some boundaries, some barriers, where you can’t go any further, where you’re thinking, I want to do that, but I can’t.

And then, instead of seeing it as a limitation or a blockage, you use it as an opportunity to change, like a new project. So, as you’re going through these different videos for the different body parts, make an assessment, feel where you can go and where you can’t go, and then start working specifically on the areas where it’s not as easy.

One of my favorite teachers always says, if you only do what you’re good at, nothing ever changes. And it’s one of those things where, in yoga, we usually love the poses that we’re good at. We’re like, oh, look at me in warrior.

But the one that makes us struggle and kind of frustrates us a little bit, makes us feel something that we don’t really want to feel, that’s where the transformation comes from. So be open -minded in this practice, and use it therapeutically, and remember to have a real, gentle, positive attitude of self -love.

So don’t be too hard on yourself when you feel restricted or stiff, or like you’re falling over. Think of it as a positive, as a new project, a new opportunity to change and grow for the better.