Hi there my name is Katrina. I’m a certified yoga teacher, bodyworker and Compassionate Inquiry Private Mentor. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong and have lived all over the world, and am now based in Puglia, Italy.

I have 25+ years’ experience working with others, particularly with those in recovery from the veil of addiction. When seeing ‘addiction’ as an adaptive, survival response to pain and trauma, we can begin to practice compassion and thereby experience a gradual return to wholeness. Adaptive behaviour and distorted perception or thinking, can manifest in all our relationships: i.e. to self and others, and shows up in relationship to food, substances, to sex and love, in work, and in relationship to money and power. So trauma - and our adaptive attempt to resolve it - can shape every aspect of our inner and outer experience.

In CI sessions I am constantly amazed to observe the unfolding of Grace giving rise to deep connection, to possibility, and to a natural recalibration of the entire nervous system. CI often taking us right back not only to childhood but to non-verbal experiences in-utero, and beyond. Simply by abiding in presence, curiosity and willingness we therefore become open to what is.

Thus, the result can be a deep release and relief, together with a new found intimacy with self and others, a shedding of the old skin as it were, a re-shaping of how we see ourselves and a dis-identification from any false/inauthentic belief system.

In addition to CI sessions, I also offer bodywork sessions, and am an ongoing student: learning Sanskrit and reading books; having a daily practice of meditation and devotional ritual; of asana; and of walking in Nature. I currently follow the path and practice of Trika Shaivism and pay deep homage to all my ancestors, to all my teachers, and in particular, to my current teacher the late scholar and practitioner, Dr. Mark Dyzckowski.

Some of my past training and experience include (though are not limited to) the following:
2004 - Hoffman Process, UK
2005 - Arvon Prose & Poetry Writers’ Retreat, UK
2009 - Juice Fasting & Yoga Retreat, Portugal
2011 - Yoga Workshop with Doug Swenson
2011 - Ashtanga Yoga Workshop with Danny Paradise
2012 - Confer ‘The Mindful Practitioner’ Seminar by Franklyn Sills
2013 - Five Rhythms Dance Workshop
2014 - Breathwork & Yoga Retreat with Rebecca Denis, UK
2015 - Yoga Workshop: Uncover, Discover & Resolve with Zephyr Wildman
2015 - Tula® Massage Workshop with Louka Leppard
2015 - Yoga Retreat with Elisa Williams, Turkey
2015 - Womens’ Retreat with Fiona Arrigo, Normandy, France
2016 - HHY Yoga Retreat with Yogi Ashokananda, Italy
2016 - Strengthening Yoga Retreat with Yogi Ashokananda, India
2019 - Kundalini Workshop in Lecce, Italy
2019 - Shadow Yoga Workshop in Lecce, Italy
2019 - Abundance, Astrology & the Inner Economy Workshop, Rick Jarow, Italy
2019 - Neurophysiology of Awakening immersion with Igor Kufayev, Germany
2021 - Samadhi Course with Igor Kufayev
2021 - Kundalini Course with Igor Kufayev
2022 - 5-day immersion with Igor Kufayev, Germany
2023 - 10-day immersion with Igor Kufayev, Germany
2024 - 7-day immersion with Igor Kufayev, Poland
2024 - Sanskrit - Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 - with Zoe Slatoff-Ponte at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK

I am accredited by the International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) and by Yoga Alliance International/Italia. It would be an honour to connect with you in sessions.