Meet Kat

Kat, the founder of Nafas Yoga has been teaching for 8 years and practicing yoga for over 20 years. Kat has found the practice of yoga to be a fundamental tool to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and in more recent years, the stresses of being a mum. 

In the beginning Kat saw yoga as just another form of exercise and integrated it with running, spinning and other high impact activities.

As a regular practice developed, she became aware that the benefits went far beyond the physical. Yoga  provided an outlet to escape from the world. Yes, whilst building strength and increasing flexibility, but yoga gave Kat the opportunity to quieten her busy mind.  

Deepening her practice was a natural progression and so, Kat decided to train as a teacher, to broaden her knowledge and understanding of this powerful ancient discipline, so that she could share it with you. 

Yoga wasn’t always in Kat’s life, but now that it is, it holds a special place in her heart and she’s beginning to integrate this into her children’s lives too.  

Once we have a regular practice in our lives we're able to call on it whenever and wherever we are, both on and off the mat. 

What are you waiting for? Come and taste Nafas for yourself and bring a regular practice into your life. 

My Philosophy

I believe that yoga is for everyone and that we can try it at any time in our lives. Although many of us  associate yoga with the physical movement, known as the asana, it's not only about making beautiful shapes. It’s about connecting movement with breath - a union, which is the meaning of yoga in Sanskrit. 

In my teaching I fuse the dynamic and slower movements together, incorporating moments of complete stillness - but with a continual focus on breath and individualism, knowing that not every skeletal body is the same. It’s through this simultaneous connection of movement and breath that our yoga practice can become a moving meditation. 

Yoga offers us an opportunity to gaze inwards, to find out more about ourselves - to turn negatives into positives, from disturbed to peaceful, to find clarity and calmness. Through yoga we can create an awareness of who we are and what it feels like to be alive - to get out of our minds and feel into our bodies.
 

Why I teach

I teach because I want to share my revelation of yoga and how it has quite literally at times rescued both my physical and mental wellbeing.

It’s a tool that I can tap into whenever I need to. It provides a safe space where we all get to be ourselves and can unite, where experiences and knowledge can be shared and where maybe friendships can form.

Training

200 Hours Vinyasa Flow, Yoga London

50 Hours Yin applied to Vinyasa Flow, The Yoga People

40 Hours Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga Campus