My Journey to Movement & Strength-Based Training
Your intentions are powerful, so choose them wisely. If someone told me I would be a mobility & fitness instructor and a deep lover of goblet squats, I would surely have thought you had gone coconuts… but intention is a funny thing. I completed my teacher training in 2016 after I made a (believe it or not) New Year’s resolution to make freedom of movement a lifestyle. Since I started my training, I have never looked back.
I started focusing on strength training a year into being certified as a yoga instructor. Just doing yoga stretches didn’t help my joints, and my knee started hurting badly, which was affecting my teaching as well as my confidence. I felt something was missing, so I enlisted the help of a great personal trainer and physiotherapist to coach me on the biomechanics of movement and muscle strengthening. This connected the dots on how to best feel strong yet supple at the same time. Surely our bodies would benefit from this marriage. This 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 cultivating strength and flexibility not only enhanced my physical capabilities, but also transformed me personally and reshaped my understanding of wellness. I developed greater confidence in myself and my body, which fostered a deeper connection to the people around me, the food I consume, and the lifestyle I embrace.
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;