About Kat

I first experienced yoga by learning poses from a book as a young teenager. I began my practise seriously while studying Illustration at University of the Arts London. I attended three yoga classes a week, finding that yoga was a saviour, helping me immensly with the pressures of studying and living in busy London! (see my work, which I continue in my spare time at http://www.katfrostart.blogspot.com/)

During a year spent on a working visa in Australia, I discovered that I could train as a yoga teacher, and I undertook an intensive training course in Byron Bay, the "yoga capital of Australia".
I was taught by Rachel Zinman in the Ishta System, a new thinking style of yoga with its roots in the traditional practrices of Iyengar, Astanga, Sivananda and Tantra. Ishta yoga focused on practising yoga safely, making it accessible to beginners and allowing them to develop their practice. Ishta is also suitable for those with an already developed practice, and I was taught ways to explain each pose so that each student could gain maximum benefit. Ishta yoga celebrates adjusting yoga to the needs of the individual. Ishta is a very sensitive style of yoga, which suited me, a sensitive person! 

I soon began to teach fellow travelers in hostels in Byron Bay, and then upon my return to England, I taught yoga at a special school for boys with behavioural difficulties, where I had a job as a Learning Support Assistant. Working with the children prompted me to deepen my yoga teacher training by studying Teaching Yoga to Children with Jo Manuel at Yoga Campus, London.

One year after completing my original training I set up classes in local village halls, and they flourished. I was often approached by mums-to-be looking for a yoga class, and although I had studed the basics of pre-natal yoga in my original teacher training, I decided to study teaching Yoga for Pregnancy with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli at Yoga Campus, in order to ensure that I could give the pregnant students the best care and quality of teaching.

I was then able to set up specific pre-natal yoga classes to run alongside the Ishta yoga and the children's yoga classes (Yoga Shapes) that I was already running.

To further broaden my skills base, I studied Pilates with Future Fit Training in 2010, and have very much enjoyed connecting with this body conditioning system that is in some ways very similar to yoga, and in others different.

I have found that in combining the techniques of yoga and Pilates in 'Yogalates' classes, I can be creative and present new, fresh classes to people that have all the benefits of each system.

I hope that you will share the journey of yoga (and Pilates!) with me and that I will see you in one of my classes soon!

Kat