our Yoga Teacher Training Instructors
Meet our certified Yoga Alliance–experienced instructors guiding our 200-hour, 300-hour YTTs, and YACEP courses online and in-person.
MEET KATIE RINALDI
RYT500, Yoga Therapist, Death Doula/Soul Transition Guide, Ceremonialist and Medicine Guide.
Fueled since childhood with a spirit of passion and exploration, Yoga came into Katie’s life while she was working in corporate advertising in New York City and felt completely disconnected from her body, heart, and life’s purpose. This was her first encounter with having true understanding about how the quality of her life was dependent on her internal state.
She traveled and immersed herself in different cultures to experience alternative ways of living, and developed a strong reverence for nature, one of her biggest teachers and guides. She became fascinated in studying and integrating many practices and techniques from a variety of traditions, including Yoga, Yoga Therapy (Viniyoga), Shamanism, Buddhism, Soul Transition work and Music/Sound which helped her to peel away the veils of suffering that were dimming her light and depleting her life force. A large part of her journey has been about reviving her spirit, a rediscovery and befriending her authentic self.
Katie’s mission is to offer and share with you ancient wisdom that is practical and can be integrated and applied to modern world living. She’s dedicated to igniting change in the world and helping others feel empowered and confident in body, mind and spirit, so they can align with their authentic expression, uncover their life’s purpose and recognize their light to allow their inner radiance to shine forth. And to be a guide in showing the way to this state of reconnection with who we truly are beyond the illusions of the mind.
Katie’s style of teaching is dynamic, breath-focused and comprehensive. She integrates and incorporates her love for sacred ceremony, Yoga philosophy, anatomy and alignment, singing, Kirtan, mantra chanting and freedom of expression into her teachings, practices, private sessions, workshops and retreats.
For Katie, Yoga is her Spiritual Practice that goes way beyond the physical.
In deep love and gratitude…
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
~ Katie is so confident in her teaching, whether it’s an asana class or anatomy, or sutras, or history. Her voice is strong and she is always prepared to overflow with knowledge in the most loving way. I enjoyed her lectures the most! I especially enjoyed her anatomy and prenatal yoga lessons. I got so much out of her teachings. I tried to be a sponge and just soak it all up!
~ Katie made me feel so safe and loved. She really gave great insight into so much spiritual awareness and through our group circles, her playful energy just lightened my mood all the time and brought out my inner child. Her energy 100% connected everyone to each other especially when she would whip out her guitar.
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