Kat  first began her yoga practice over ten years ago for personal healing. In 2003 she became a certified yoga therapist for children with special needs. Since then she has received advanced training in yoga therapy.  She has worked with children with a wide range of disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Down Syndrome, Cognitively Disabled, AD/HD, Specific Learning Disabilities and Emotional Behavioral Disabilities. Therapy has included private one on one sessions and group classes.

In 2006 she attended Core Power Yoga’s Hot Power Fusion teacher training. Over the years she has attended workshops and studied many yoga styles including Hatha, Ashtanga, Bikram, Iyengar, and Jivamukti.  Kat’s personal approach to yoga is a combination of healing, strengthening, and empowering through practice.

In 2011, Kat travelled to Mysore, India to study under Saraswathi at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute. She continues to practice Ashtanga yoga, and has taken workshops and studied with Ashtanga certified teachers Tim Feldmann and Angelique Sandas.  She plans on returning to Mysore to continue her studies at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute.

Kat is also a special education teacher. She has held yoga clubs for children at the inner city elementary school she taught at in Savannah, GA.  Kat integrated yoga into the classroom, and held daily pranayama for the entire school.  

Kat has a Master’s Degree in Advance Practices in Special Education from Northern Illinois University, and is currently teaching Special Education in the Madison, WI area. She continues to work on projects that include products for yoga in the classroom, children's books, and toddler and baby yoga clothes lines Little Yogi and Little Yogini.
 
Kat currently teaches adult yoga, mommy and me yoga, and yoga therapy for the special child.