In every YA Lessons Trainer Highlights, we function certainly one of our wonderful instructors and interview them so our members and readers can get to know them. This instructor spotlight is with John Cottrell.

YA Lessons, the web yoga and health membership by YouAligned, is host to dozens of unbelievable yoga instructors (and meditation, breathwork, and health academics too!). Our academics are all devoted, passionate, extremely skilled leaders inside their group and supply a novel type and method for our college students.

Hailing from Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, John Cottrell is one such instructor. We admire his depth, we love his unbelievable instructing type, and we additionally surprise how he finds the time to perform all that he has!

Along with instructing yoga for the previous 20+ years, he’s a wellness professional, self-proclaimed holistic dwelling maestro, has authored over a dozen books (all accessible on Amazon), is the founding father of Mbody Yoga, hosts yoga instructor trainings and teaches on-line and weekly in-person lessons.

His background in medical psychology, with a Ph.D. from Pacific Graduate Faculty of Psychology, elevates his distinctive mix of Western psychology and Japanese knowledge. Licensed as a Yoga Therapist, John bridges psychology and yoga to foster self-improvement and development.

John shares a bit about his clothes line, books and blogs, and baking:

“MBODY isn’t simply my enterprise; it’s a charming model reflecting my core values. Mbody Clothes breaks the gender barrier, providing reasonably priced, trendy males’s yoga apparel. My guide, Yoga With Intention, infuses yoga into each day life, providing insights on obstacles, freedom, and stability. Enjoyment of my culinary creations at OneCakeWonder.com and discover my conscious weblog posts.”

Need to study extra about this unbelievable instructor? Learn on.
 
 

Get to Know Your YA Lessons Trainer: John Cottrell

We sat down with this beloved yoga instructor for a Q+A session so YA Lessons members and YouAligned readers can study extra about him.
 

YA: What’s your favourite self-care apply you possibly can’t reside with out?

John: My favourite self-care apply goes to the fitness center and lifting. I’m going nearly on a regular basis. I begin with a little bit of cardio then select a physique half to deal with for my lifting session.

Not solely does this really feel good for my physique, however I thought of my fitness center exercises an extension of my yoga apply. It helps me to focus and be extra in tuned with my physique. It additionally helps me construct power to apply and educate dynamic yoga poses in my Energy Yoga Lessons.
 

YA: What’s your go-to tune or music style once you educate (or apply)?

John: Once I educate yoga, I typically have some mild ambient music enjoying within the background. The quantity is down fairly low. I don’t need the music to be a distraction to my college students. It’s there as a part of the general surroundings for the yoga session.
 

YA: What’s your favourite motivational quote?

John: “In the event you keep prepared, then you definately don’t must prepare.” I don’t know who initially stated this, however I heard it from RuPaul! I reside by that motto.
 

YA: What’s your favourite yoga pose? Least favourite?

John: My favourite yoga pose is Facet Angle Pose. I identical to how the pose feels because it opens the hips and higher physique. Unsure if I’ve a least favourite pose. I simply know there are some poses I want I may do higher.
 

Press play on Let’s Stability, a sluggish yoga movement with John Cottrell

YA: When had been you first launched to yoga? Was it love at first asana?

I used to be instructing a health class in an area fitness center that later launched yoga to their schedule. I took a couple of lessons, and sure, it was love at first asana. This was in 1999.
 

YA: The place’s your favourite place on the planet you’ve ever been to, and why?

John: I’ve had the chance to journey to Peru a number of occasions in my life. This stunning a part of the world helped open my eyes to my objective in life. Peru is the place I had the inspiration to begin my very own yoga enterprise. By working with a shaman, touring the land, and indulging in among the cultural practices, I used to be enlightened and impressed.

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YA: What’s your most embarrassing second, both instructing or in life?

John: I don’t suppose I can share my most embarrassing second right here. LOL! However I’ll simply say that the expertise taught me to be extra conscious of my environment.

YA: What’s your #1 piece of recommendation for sustaining an empowered mindset?

John: My primary recommendation for individuals is to handle your self. Do issues that make you are feeling good and make you cheerful. Be sure this stuff are additionally optimistic and empowering. They are going to carry your spirits and open your coronary heart.

Once you deal with your self with love and kindness, it then turns into an outward expression of your actions. I not too long ago printed a guide known as Embrace the Constructive: Letting Go of Detrimental Pondering. It highlights self-care and making a optimistic mindset.

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What’s one thing individuals can be stunned to find out about you?

John: Individuals could also be stunned that I get pleasure from cooking and baking . . . loads. I actually get pleasure from baking and sharing the candy treats with pals.
 

YA: Apart from your personal, what’s your favourite class or instructor on YA Lessons?

John: My favourite YA Lessons class is Sluggish Burn with Ty Daye. He brings a taste of enjoyable when you apply with him. Makes you smile and really feel like a child once more!
 

Need to Join Extra With John Cottrell?

Join with John on social media and apply with him right this moment on YA Lessons!

John’s lessons are accessible, welcoming, and interesting. Whereas he masterfully breaks down poses and breathwork in a method that the latest newbie can perceive and embody, his instructing leaves room for each stage practitioner to study, discover, deepen, and revel in. We actually can’t get sufficient of John’s heat, ardour, and experience that he brings to the mat!

In the event you get pleasure from his lessons, join with him! In the event you haven’t but had the chance to expertise John’s instructing type, discover him domestically in Salt Lake Metropolis or take a category with him right this moment on YA Lessons.
 
 

Take an On-line Yoga Class With John Cottrell

We extremely suggest that you simply take a look at his on-line yoga lessons on YA Lessons! Not but a YA Lessons member? You possibly can attempt it free for 14 days.

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