Lead with your upper body into it. The rest will follow.

[Once Sigrun seems steady, he'll skate on ahead, exaggerating his turn with his shoulders just a bit to demonstrate.]

But if you can only go in straight lines for awhile, I think that's normal. Til you get used to moving.

[He never had a lot of people to skate with back in the day, so he had to mostly figure it out himself.]

When I was learning, there were no barriers to hold on to. I fell quite a bit.