About Kate
Kate’s sense of belonging to a global community arose at a young age in the form of passion for language and cultural exchange. She spent the summer of her fifteenth year as an exchange student in Mexico, and her sixteenth year in rural Argentina, where she attended high school and lived with a loving host family. Later, while working toward her interdisciplinary degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, she began teaching the skills of language acquisition and reading. For four years she led graduate and undergraduate students in lively, interactive Spanish and Portuguese practice classes in the "Rassias Method," designed to overcome mental and emotional barriers to learning.
Kate delved into the study of Brazilian, Haitian, and contemporary dance and music forms in 2000. Her study of dance quickly led her to yoga, and she practiced intensively for six years with dancer and yoga teacher Patricia Jiron. During that time, she began practicing Vipassana meditation, and completed the 750-hour Iyengar and Anusara based teacher training at the Piedmont Yoga Studio, under the direction of Richard Rosen, Rodney Yee, Clare Finn, and Maritza. She went on to pursue accreditation in massage therapy at the San Francisco School of Massage with Karen Gramberg, Marty Morales, and Eric Rubin.
Kate began teaching yoga in 2004 at Rhythm & Motion Dance Center and Piedmont Yoga Studio, and she launched her private practice with one-on-one clientele at the Four Seasons and St. Regis Residences in San Francisco in 2007. She continues to pursue extensive continuing education, and has had the privilege to learn elements of yoga, meditation, and bodywork from numerous gifted teachers, including Ramanand Patel, JinSung, Janet McLeod, Dr. Ram Karam Sharma, Michele McDonald, and Ajahn Jumnian.
In 2005, Kate lived in the Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement (BASE) house, an intentional community in San Francisco’s Mission district dedicated to the promotion and integration of mindfulness, meditation and social activism. Influenced by the spirit of BASE, she began to offer yoga and massage in public and private medical and educational settings. Kate enjoys sharing the gifts of yoga and massage with those who are new to the modalities. She performs her work in English and Spanish, and specializes in working with people living with chronic conditions and disabilities.
Additional, ongoing explorations that contribute to Kate’s perspective and mission include somatics and expressive arts-based therapy and performance, white anti-racism education, and urban organic gardening and composting.
Kate is committed to practicing and teaching holistic healing arts as tools for integral growth and wellbeing. She has faith in mind-body practices as catalysts for cultural exchange, social change, and human understanding.