Bio
Katherine has been a student of yoga for 20 years, and teaching for over 15 years. At the age of 17 she began with yoga as a way of relieving pain from scoliosis; starting with hatha yoga, and moving onto the ashtanga method, vinyasa, yin and meditation. She has traveled extensively in India, Nepal, France and Venezuela studying yoga, meditation, dance and shamanism.
She came to Belgium at the age of 26 to complete her masters in Human Nutrition, and to work as a Health Researcher at UGent. She fell in love with Ghent – and stayed, married and recently became a mother to Aiden.
As time went on yoga/meditation became not only a way of dealing with back pain but also a way to combat the anxiety and stress that comes along with modern life, healing tools that didn’t require expensive medical visits and prescription drugs. In yoga she also found a community of people interested in spirituality, happiness and health. Yoga has since become more of a way of living life and less and less of a “practice”.
Teachings:
The teachings of movement and breathwork are used in spiritual practice across time, cultures and continents, all with with the aim of restoring balance and health. As a young person struggling with chronic back pain Katherine's interest in yoga and meditation emerged from a personal quest to heal herself when doctors and physiotherapists couldn't.
Years of traveling and teaching while working in health research- including neuroscience, neuropsychology, biochemistry and public health nutrition have informed her background for teaching yoga. Passionate about science and health, the meeting of East and West, and how the mental and physical interact, Kat has found teaching yoga is a means of helping people in finding their own version of yoga as a therapy, a means to self-healing that is both empowering and intuitive.
Katherine's current interest is in chronic persistent pain, her upcoming project : www.thebodymind.org
is an effort to merge the teachings of yoga and mindfulness with knowledge from modern medicine, psychology, neuroscience and immunology.
Studies:
Yoga: vinyasa yoga with Gillian St. Clair, ashtanga with Kamal Singh, Iyengar with Eva Kamala,
Meditation: Mindfulness with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield (currently), Triratna Buddhist Order, Kopan Monestary Nepal, Martin Aylward France
Yoga Therapy: Institute of Yoga Therapy, Amsterdam
Chronic Pain: SIRPA Chronic Pain Practitioner Program (current)
Bio
Katherine is an experienced yoga teacher (300 E-RYT), Nutritionist (MSc), wife and mom. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, USA, she came to Belgium at the age of 26 to complete her masters in Public Health Nutrition, and to work as a Health Researcher at UGent. She fell in love with Ghent – and stayed!
Teaching yoga slowly became more than a part-time hobby job, she now teaches workshops and leads yearly yoga retreats in Europe and abroad.
As a young person dealing with pain from scoliosis, she found yoga helped to keep her body strong in ways that sports and fitness couldn’t.
As time went on yoga became not only a way of dealing with back pain but also a way to combat the anxiety and stress that goes along with growing and living, tools that didn’t require expensive medical visits and prescriptions. In yoga she also found a community of people interested in spirituality, happiness and health. Yoga has since become more of a way of living life and less and less of a “practice”.
Experience
Years of traveling and teaching while working in health research- including neuroscience, neuropsychology, biochemistry and public health nutrition have informed her background for teaching yoga. Passionate about science and health, the meeting of East and West, and how the mental and physical interact, Kat has found teaching yoga is a means of helping people in finding their own version of yoga as a therapy, a means to self-healing that is both empowering and intuitive.
Local Classes:
Yoga-On-Call, Gent, Belgium
Mondays 12:15 - 13:15 Dok Noord
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