"Katrina's classes use every muscle. They are a complete body workout. My yoga practice has improved dramatically due to Katrina's thoughtful direction. My connection to each pose has deepened."
-Erin Johnson, Inverloch.
Katrina Archibald
Now a mother and part-time yoga teacher, since as far back as the age of 7, Katrina can remember spending most of her life pondering about, exploring and being lead along a path of self-knowledge, transformation, and learning about the mind-body healing connection.
Whilst travelling, living, studying and working her way around Australia and sections of the planet, she has maintained conscious awareness of ever-transforming and evolving herself and her knowledge and understanding of life - the purpose of, and her place in it - through multiple and varied work, relationship and life experiences and studies.
Katrina's Background
Commencing with Hatha yoga in her early 20's, through an on-again, off-again dedication to yoga, Katrina moved on to study and practice Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga before exploring Bikram and hot yoga, and Vinyasa-style practices.
Katrina undertook her first formal yoga teacher training with Nicky Knoff in Cairns, in the late 1990's, and later went on to train in pre and post natal yoga with both the Bliss Baby and Samadhi Yoga schools, whilst pregnant with her own daughter, and postnatally.
As part of her ongoing professional development requirements, but equally for her own personal interest as a mother and yoga teacher, Katrina undertook kids yoga teaching training with Edna Reinhardt, from Over The Moon Studio in Castlemaine, Victoria, early in 2014.
In latter 2014, Katrina completed the Australian Yoga Academy's Vinyasa Certificate Training, with Jenni Morrison-Jack from Ihana Yoga, Melbourne, Victoria, followed by the Yoga Synergy, online Advanced Yoga Fundamentals Course, in 2017/18.
It is since teaching regularly in Inverloch and surrounds that Katrina's own practise, and her discipline and commitment to yoga as a regular part of her lifestyle, have grown. A deep immersion into a yoga practise cannot but have for consequence an influence on the entire lifestyle, and become, thus, a 'way of life'. The responsibilities which go along with teaching yoga have been Katrina's greatest motivators, inspiring her own personal practise, in order to facilitate her being able to teach from a place of knowing and understanding the breath and asana (pose) practise from the inside out, as well as fostering and inspiring an ever-refining, organic evolution and expansion of awareness, and an ever-deepening attunement to the needs of the body, mind and heart.
This awareness and sensitivity increasingly permeates all levels of existence and related choices for those who practice yoga regularly, as it has for Katrina: from foods taken, environments and relationships desired- sensitivity develops to what is appropriate on every level. The yogi endeavours to create and maintain a state of ever-evolving balance and wellbeing: an outer life which reflects the inner, a state of being which reflects an optimal attunement to self, the bigger picture and the inner Truth in each moment, thus constantly refining and enhancing the yogis individual expression, performance or 'contribution' along a chosen path.
Complementary studies, work and life experiences include:
Katrina is registered with Yoga Australia as a Level 1 Yoga Teacher (Member No. 2177) and is fully insured for public liability and professional indemnity.
Despite (and thanks to) many detours, and the many different paths that she found herself exploring, the primary constant in her life, to which she regularly returned, has been yoga, which she is honoured to share with you today.
Katrina is mum to a 9-year old daughter, living in beautiful, seaside Inverloch, in South West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
-Erin Johnson, Inverloch.
Katrina Archibald
Now a mother and part-time yoga teacher, since as far back as the age of 7, Katrina can remember spending most of her life pondering about, exploring and being lead along a path of self-knowledge, transformation, and learning about the mind-body healing connection.
Whilst travelling, living, studying and working her way around Australia and sections of the planet, she has maintained conscious awareness of ever-transforming and evolving herself and her knowledge and understanding of life - the purpose of, and her place in it - through multiple and varied work, relationship and life experiences and studies.
Katrina's Background
Commencing with Hatha yoga in her early 20's, through an on-again, off-again dedication to yoga, Katrina moved on to study and practice Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga before exploring Bikram and hot yoga, and Vinyasa-style practices.
Katrina undertook her first formal yoga teacher training with Nicky Knoff in Cairns, in the late 1990's, and later went on to train in pre and post natal yoga with both the Bliss Baby and Samadhi Yoga schools, whilst pregnant with her own daughter, and postnatally.
As part of her ongoing professional development requirements, but equally for her own personal interest as a mother and yoga teacher, Katrina undertook kids yoga teaching training with Edna Reinhardt, from Over The Moon Studio in Castlemaine, Victoria, early in 2014.
In latter 2014, Katrina completed the Australian Yoga Academy's Vinyasa Certificate Training, with Jenni Morrison-Jack from Ihana Yoga, Melbourne, Victoria, followed by the Yoga Synergy, online Advanced Yoga Fundamentals Course, in 2017/18.
It is since teaching regularly in Inverloch and surrounds that Katrina's own practise, and her discipline and commitment to yoga as a regular part of her lifestyle, have grown. A deep immersion into a yoga practise cannot but have for consequence an influence on the entire lifestyle, and become, thus, a 'way of life'. The responsibilities which go along with teaching yoga have been Katrina's greatest motivators, inspiring her own personal practise, in order to facilitate her being able to teach from a place of knowing and understanding the breath and asana (pose) practise from the inside out, as well as fostering and inspiring an ever-refining, organic evolution and expansion of awareness, and an ever-deepening attunement to the needs of the body, mind and heart.
This awareness and sensitivity increasingly permeates all levels of existence and related choices for those who practice yoga regularly, as it has for Katrina: from foods taken, environments and relationships desired- sensitivity develops to what is appropriate on every level. The yogi endeavours to create and maintain a state of ever-evolving balance and wellbeing: an outer life which reflects the inner, a state of being which reflects an optimal attunement to self, the bigger picture and the inner Truth in each moment, thus constantly refining and enhancing the yogis individual expression, performance or 'contribution' along a chosen path.
Complementary studies, work and life experiences include:
- Certificate of Infant Massage Instruction with the Infant Massage Information Service(IMIS)
- 2 x 10-day Vipassana Meditation retreats;
- Buddhist summer retreat in Bordeaux, France, with Buddhist monk and author, Thich Nhat Hanh;
- Living and working in health and wholistic retreats in Australia and overseas, namely, Camp Eden in Queensland, Australia, and The Practice Place (now, Yoga Plus) in Crete, Greece;
- Certificate IV in Life Coaching;
- Lifeline telephone counselling;
- Teaching English to children and adults for a number of years whilst living in France;
- Certificate IV in Intellectual Disability Services, with many years spent working with intellectually disabled children and adults;
- Natural Fertility Management with Francesca Naisch.
Katrina is registered with Yoga Australia as a Level 1 Yoga Teacher (Member No. 2177) and is fully insured for public liability and professional indemnity.
Despite (and thanks to) many detours, and the many different paths that she found herself exploring, the primary constant in her life, to which she regularly returned, has been yoga, which she is honoured to share with you today.
Katrina is mum to a 9-year old daughter, living in beautiful, seaside Inverloch, in South West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
