About Kate
Kate Hamilton’s yoga and somatic awareness practice is grounded in Vinyasa and dynamic restorative yoga, along with the Feldenkrais Method. She aims to create an inspired setting for students to deepen their connection to their own body, explore movement, and exercise muscles of awareness.
Kate’s first steps into a somatic awareness practice were led by a running injury in 2004. She dove deeper into yoga while searching for an activity to help her balance the intensity and desk work of graduate school and her environmental policy work in Washington, DC. After a neck, shoulder, and wrist injury, thoracic outlet syndrome, put a pause on her vinyasa practice, Kate began to pursue a variety of yoga traditions, from Forrest to restorative yoga as well as movement practices such as the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais.
In 2015, she earned her RYT-200 from Nosara Yoga Institute and returned the next year to earn her RYT-500 focusing on “Self Awakening Yoga Therapeutics.” She’s also studied yoga with Tias Little in Santa Fe, New Mexico earning a certificate in “Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement.”
While training as a yoga instructor, Kate discovered the Feldenkrais Method. She found the principles and gentle practice so healing and fascinating that she embarked on a four-year Feldenkrais practitioner training in San Diego which she completed in 2020.
Providing access to mindful movement to underserved populations and social/environmental change-makers is a key interest in Kate’s teaching practice. In 2019, she began collaborating with the non-profits, Blooming Room and Downtown Streets Team, to bring yoga and mindfulness lessons to San Franciscans currently experiencing homelessness.
When not teaching somatic awareness, Kate works as a facilitator, educator, and consultant on tropical forestry conservation and climate change. She can be found exploring Los Angeles’ open spaces and beyond.