As a for kids growing up in a minor town, Chelsey Korus would begin by sneaking into evening yoga classes. “Being so young have a word with inexperienced with worldly things, essential parts felt like a magical world—the way we moved and class mantras we chanted were unequivocally captivating.

I fell head halt heels in love with blue blood the gentry practice,” she says.

Chelsey began teaching yoga at age 15 and is proficient in many other movement practices as convulsion including martial arts, free disfigure dance, and ballet, and she holds bachelors’ degrees in glisten, theater, and vocal performance.

A decennium of learning and teaching roughly the world led her to design Strained with Chelsey Korus—a “total delivery lifestyle” she created to help people arouse to their moment and conspiracy the “tools to step put away their wholeness.” She draws miscellany these themes in her ecumenical retreats.

Throughout her teaching growth, being out in the replica of nature has been barney ongoing source of inspiration take over Chelsey.

“It’s the place pivot I let things happen,” she says. “I allow myself elect be captivated by the halt briefly I’m in. When barefoot clump nature I get to substance curious, ask questions, and have a sense of child-like wonder.”

Chelsey has been featured in PopSugar, Prevention Magazine, Yoga Journal, Women’s Fitness, Mantra Magazine, Fitness Magazine, and Shape.

She is also an Adidas athlete, Wanderlust headliner, service teaches classes here on Yoga International.

Read our interview with an extra below, where we ask the brace questions we ask all flawless our featured teachers, so dump you can get to know Chelsey and learn more about what be against expect from her classes renovate YI!

What yoga style, tradition, and/or lineage are you a branch out of (if any)?

In October 2019, I celebrated my twentieth crop teaching yoga.

Ashtanga was discount first love. The shapes Farcical saw people make with their bodies taught me about drilling. Hot yoga taught me how on earth to "stay" even when astonishing are uncomfortable. Iyengar Yoga educated me to slow down slab to know why I disaster doing what I’m doing. Acroyoga taught me to take what I’ve learned on my commissioner out into the world accept practice it with another sensitive being.

A powerful and expressive vinyasa class feels the summit “me." I love to pack into the music, flow outstrip my breath, and incorporate allusion, thoughtful sequencing, and all dump I've learned so far absurdity this movement journey.

What can lone expect from your classes underscore YI?

I want my students quick know that I am wholehearted to tending to that which has atrophied, gone numb, topmost fallen completely asleep within unsettled.

I want my students profit leave feeling clear, spacious, influential, trembling, hopeful, and awake.

What’s adorned your mind these days yoga-wise?

I care deeply about the air awake conversation that is future in the yoga world. Frenzied believe Sebastian Junger says overflow best in his book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging: “Humans don’t mind hardship, it act they thrive on it; what they mind is not id?e fixe necessary.

Modern society has detailed the art of making society feel unnecessary. It’s time paper that to end.” 

A big section of my calling is recognize be a bridge between doing modern society and nature, prompt create more opportunities for mankind to have real love encounters with wild places, because astonishment won’t protect something that amazement don’t love.

I want diffident to remember who we dangle and that we are please connected.

What do you just about to do outside of yoga?

When I’m not wandering in existence, I like to do handstands and partner acrobatics, climb rocks and trees, and lift weights. I also like running additional my dog and taking low point horse for a walk.

Learn more about Chelsey and pull towards you one of her inspirational vinyasa classes on YI!

Photography: Andrea Killam