Check Out Kane Sun’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kane Sun

Hi Kane, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My first audition to teach yoga at a local studio was in the Fall of 2021. Previous to this moment, I always had a fear of public speaking and speaking in front of large groups so you could imagine the emotions surging through my body preparing for my next hour. I stepped to the front of, what I remember to be, an intensely large room filled with a thousand curious eyes looking right into mine (let’s be honest there were maybe 10 people in the room).

I gave myself a moment and took the steps we, as yoga teachers, always ask of our students. Pause, Notice, Reflect, and Step back into your body Somewhere between all the downward facing dogs and reminding people to breathe, I felt the fear, the anxiety, the worry, the doubt melt away from my physical body and this deeply settling sensation that I was exactly where I needed to be. Call it intuition or a sign from the universe, somehow in that moment I knew that this was my purpose in my lifetime…to share this practice, to support people in bringing themselves back to a baseline of joy, and to guide people back into their own bodies. Since then, I’ve been teaching full time all day everyday. I’ve been breathing, sleeping, eating yoga and to this day I’m still fully obsessed.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
These past years have been the hardest, but most rewarding time of my life. I grew up in a predominantly asian american community and in yoga you don’t see a lot of women who look like me. When starting this path, I felt alone and singularly responsible of how this chapter would play out and, to some extent, I still feel that now. My lightbulb moment was when I realized fear never goes away, we just have to keep moving with it, through it, and despite it.

In this journey, I’ve had to learn how to pave my own way. It’s such a different journey, when you go to school chasing a certain career. There’s a path.. you go to school for x amount of years, then you go work at x company, etc. In the yoga world, there’s no path. Brick by brick, I’ve had to pave every step of my journey. I’ve had to make my own mistakes, learn from them, or make them again in a much bigger way. The hardest part for me was to step into a role of leadership and own that role and only by owning that power, students could feel safe with me and, in turn, safe in their own bodies to explore deeper layers of themselves.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
The way I teach has been an ever-evolving practice just as my own yoga practice is. I started in a “let’s f****** do some yoga, let’s do it in the heat, let’s sweat, let’s move faster, bigger, stronger”. Now, my practice is all about finding the softness in yourself and using that as a gateway to find your strength because those are my own life lessons. I teach what I know and what I’m learning myself. The yoga I take us through is all about using your breath, connecting to yourself, your nervous system, and has recently shifted into a deeply somatic experience to gain the tools to guide ourselves back home into our own bodies.

I teach vinyasa flow, hatha, restorative yoga , yin yoga , aerial yoga, hot yoga, and I facilitate sound baths as well. I’m proud of the way I offer my whole heart and soul in every class I teach. Without a doubt, every class you will feel my presence right there in the room with you and its a presence of support and unconditional love (even if we’re meeting for the first time) and how often do we as humans in a harsh, fast world give ourselves a moment to receive the safety of those feelings. That may sound intense but I believe in living life with a certain intensity and excitement, after all we only experience this time and place once.

Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Growing up, I was scattered. I grew up in the shadow of two really powerful women; my mom and my big sister. So that left me not knowing, how to take up space in the world. I spent a lot of my life trying to keep up with them or trying to prove myself to them. Not knowing that maybe I was just different and that being different was okay and they would love me despite all the differences. I owe a lot of the grit and strength that I’ve had to find in recent years to those two and will forever admire their resilience and the way they move through life.

I grew up dancing, singing, and always playing! I started ballet at a young age and eventually joined my high school dance team where we would travel around southern California competing with different high schools and we measured up pretty well to the other teams. I loved the way dance made me feel and how I could use it as a medium for creative expression. That being said, I was not the best dancer, my movements were always somewhat clunky, and incomplete and it wasn’t until I found yoga in 2014 that helped me really connect to my body where now movement feels so natural, full, and necessary.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/kanejsun
• Instagram: @kanejsun
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@yogawithkane162