Meet Cat
About
For over 30 years I have explored yoga as a path to healing and wholeness.
My career as a yoga teacher began with my first training, under Judith Lasater at Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. During that time, I made my first journey to India to practice with B.K.S. Iyengar and his family. When I moved to Bellingham, I earned two levels of Certification under Senior Teacher Ingela Abbott of Yoga Northwest, each of which requires a year of preparation.
I was inspired to become a Yoga Therapist because of my own experience in psychotherapy and physical therapy, I could see there were connections not being addressed by either separately, and that I could achieve in a one-on-one setting.
To that end, I became a Certified Yoga Therapist with over 800 hours of training through the International Association of Yoga Therapy, and I continue to enrich my practice with ongoing trainings.
As a Yoga Therapist, I really listen and reflect back to my clients. My intention is to teach my clients to view themselves authentically, with compassion, patience, more open-heartedness and less judgment.
My calling is to guide clients to hear their own inner wisdom and feel true confidence, empowerment, and ultimately find “their place in the family of things.”
Location
My home studio is in Bellingham, Washington.
I can also see clients via zoom, who live anywhere in the world.
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“Cat has been a yoga therapist, teacher and friend to me over the years. As a yoga teacher, I have never had such a skilled and seasoned co-worker. I adore the depth of her classes and workshops. As a practitioner of Soma Structural Integration, her yoga therapy work compliments mine in a seamless and beautiful way.
She moves people into their bodies and through pain, trauma and suffering with grace and ease. I know personally because I have been on the mat with her, weeping buckets of tears and naming my suffering. I have sent my clients to her with outstanding and continuous results. Cat supports hearts to sing with more love!”
– Elizabeth Ruff, LMT, SOMA Practitioner, and RYT500
“Cat is someone who genuinely wants to support you and find what you are looking for. Yoga therapy is an amazing balance between the two. You are able to learn more about your body and how it is all connected. The sessions I love the most come when Cat is able to push me with my yoga practice that in-turn supports another aspect of my life.”
-Anonymous
What is Yoga therapy?
Still unsure of what a makes Yoga therapy different? Read more about this healing practice below.