Kripalu Yoga with Jimena, The Body-Love Coach

What is my approach?

As part of my own process of healing, acceptance and loving/respecting my body, I found different disciplines that allowed me to connect with myself, such as theater, ontological coaching, corporal coaching, meditation, dance and yoga.

Definitely the discipline that marked a before and after was Yoga, as it allowed me and still does, to go at another pace, but also to learn to listen to my body, and discover what is THE PRACTICE, that is the daily space that I create to accept, love myself, and practice being compassionate with me.

I have combined the different styles of Yoga that I have learned on my path such as Ashtanga, Restorative, Hatha and Kripalu Yoga. However; the one that I’ve resonated the most to create that loving relationship with my body is Kripalu Yoga, and it’s definitely the one that has the most influence on my Yoga.

Kripalu Yoga integrates the body, mind, emotions and spirit through yoga postures, meditation and pranayama. The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health School where I became certified as a Yoga Teacher is based on compassion, self-care, self-acceptance as well as recognizing and honoring the uniqueness of each person. Kripalu Yoga is based on Hatha Yoga.

That is why in my classes we adapt the postures to the body of each person, and not the other way around. It isn’t about reaching a single posture, demanding our body; it’s about accepting where we are today, recognizing that we are different and therefore we have different physical structures as well. It’s also about using the different variations of the postures or creating new ones, and guiding ourselves with love and self-care.

So, in my Kripalu Yoga, we have a 70 minutes class via Zoom, which will have pranayama exercises, postures and meditation. It’s a class for all levels because I can always give you a variation of the posture according to what you need, as well as use the different props that accompany us in the practice.

The focus is on creating and sustaining your own practice of acceptance, self-respect, self-love, which can be a posture, a breath, a pranayama exercise, a dance, including the philosophy of Yoga and linking them to your life on and off the mat.

Remember that Yoga is the way I use as coaching to listen to yourself deeply, and from there unlearn, let go of what doesn’t serve you, and be able to look at yourself as the wonderful person you are. It’s the way to let go of that anxiety, stress, self-criticism, over-thinking and everything you were taught to keep waking up, and to be able to live in freedom with yourself.

Most of my classes are via Zoom, so you can take your class from wherever you are, or I can also send you the recording. Happy to join you on your own journey.