background and training

Katie completed her yoga teacher training in 2017 with Love Hive in Portland Oregon USA where she continued to teach until the pandemic.  She moved to Helsinki with her family in 2021 and spent four amazing years teaching yoga in a local Helsinki yoga studio, as part of a  corporate Helsinki wellness program, and at several overnight retreats in Finland, when not working at her day job counseling teenagers at an international school.

Katie holds an MSW from Smith College and is a licensed mental health therapist who has been offering mental health therapy for over twenty years.  She has been honored to learn from many teachings including Deb Dana and Melanie Burns at the Kripalu Institute's Polyvagal Theory and Yoga Embodied Path to Well-being.  Her foundational 200 hour yoga teacher training was facilitated under the guidance of Audra Carmine (now at Peoples Yoga) with supplemental wisdom from Kyra Anastasia Sudofsky (now at Providence Basecamp).

Katie believes in social justice, racial equity, self-care for teachers and change makers, support for mothers and caretakers, and the power of community to heal the spirit and the mind.