Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Health Counsellor, Marriage Family Therapist in Santa Cruz, California
Topics: Ayurveda, Yin Yoga, Psychology in Yoga

Katie is a Yoga Teacher, Psychotherapist, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and forever student based in her hometown, Santa Cruz, California.

Katie’s Yoga journey started twenty years ago when she was a competitive high school athlete. It was her love for movement that initially sparked her interest in the practice, and it was during challenging college years when she experienced the deeper transformative and healing benefits on and off the mat.

Katie completed her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2013 with Yogi Vishvketu at the Anand Prakash Ashram in India. She continues to study with and assist San Francisco based teacher Janet Stone, and draws inspiration from Yin Yoga Teachers Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. Katie’s classes are deeply nourishing, as she offers students a compassionate space to look inward, cultivate steadiness and ease, and strengthen and stretch both body and mind. With an Ayurvedic lens, classes are typically seasonally inspired to support alignment and well-being. Katie invites students to reconnect with their inner wisdom and remember their innate wholeness.

Nature is Katie’s greatest teacher — she loves exploring new trails, swimming in the sea, wandering farmers markets, cooking and sharing meals, dancing to live music and gathering with community.