Setting up a yoga studio has been a
calling for me!
My career and life have been focused
around service. For the last decade, I have been working as a
Police Officer in the Australian police force. As a first
responder, I have personally known the feelings of anxiety,
depression and stress.
Yoga saved me and that is why I have
been called to create my studio - Yoga Energy – a healing,
transformation and restorative space where you can just be you. But
wait, I learned that Connect the Dots was for sale and I knew I
needed to nurture another space with the same vision. So here I
am!
My real-life battle with witnessing
daily trauma in the society I was serving and within myself, gave a
me first-hand experience as to how to provide therapeutic support
to my community. I value formal and higher education, however I do
believe that I have experienced a different education as a former
police woman on the streets in Sydney. This experience now
translates to the yoga mat and how I run my class.
I have run volunteer yoga classes to
emergency service personnel to assist them to deal with stress, to
build resilience for their day to day domestic combat and teach
them how to restore themselves to factory settings. These are not
just skills for first responders. These are skills that every
single one of us needs in our daily life to lead the best life
possible.
I have studied at The Yoga Institute
and I have been awarded a diploma of Yoga Studies and I am a
registered Level 1 trainer with Yoga Australia.
I proudly am a Yoga ambassador and
trainer for Yoga For First Responders, which I studied in Chicago,
USA under the Founder and CEO Olivia Mead. I was the first
Australian graduate of this school, and I committed to pioneering
this transformative yoga style in Australia.
I also have a certificate in trauma
aware Yoga Education, including Post Traumatic Stress presentations
and Neurobiology of Trauma through Frontline Yoga. I have also
received a Modern Hypnosis Certification from the esteemed Tad
James Co. I have studied Restorative Yoga with the respected Mitch
Gibson, YIN Yoga with the valued Marianne Edwards and Antigravity
Yoga with the knowledgeable Renee Lee Stevens.
I am a multi-faceted modern woman. I
am a proud mother to four amazing children and I have been married
20 years. The journey has been interesting, challenging and
rewarding. I have learnt to be kind to myself and to others on this
journey and yoga has been a big part of helping me to manage the
guilt of trying to be a super woman mother and wife. Yoga isn’t
just for the mat. I have also learnt to incorporate practices with
my family and to keep my life in balance externally and
internally.
This is just a short snippet of my
journey. I look forward to meeting you and holding space for you in
my class.
Love, light and respect,
Kate