What are your current areas of interest related to your practice?

The classes I teach the most currently are adaptive yoga classes for people needing multiple modifications; I also focus on teaching yoga for grief–I am a certified grief educator and grief yoga teacher–and yoga for people with Parkinson’s disease. My mom was diagnosed with PD after I had begun teaching yoga for people with PD (I co-teach this now with 3 others.) The students are incredibly loyal to their yoga: they have created a support group amongst themselves. We lost many students during covid and they truly relied on each other for support. Yoga means so much to them. Also, my grief yoga teaching has a great impact not only on my healing, but for the healing of others. Many of the care partners came to my grief yoga classes. The continuity was helpful for them.

Besides teaching yoga, how do you spend your time?

I am a recently retired registered nurse. My hobbies include hiking, kayaking, and traveling and spending a lot of time with our 3 daughters and 4 grandkids.

What to expect in class: Cathy’s gentle and adaptive yoga classes emphasize calming breath work as well functional movement so that yoga can be practiced safely and effectively on and off of the mat. 

Cathy has been a registered yoga teacher since 2013. She completed the Yoga for Seniors training at Duke University Integrative Medicine in 2016 and is a certified Lakshmi Volker Chair Yoga teacher. In 2019, Cathy became a certified Grief Yoga teacher and offers regular classes to help journey through grief using sound, breath and movement. She completed training for yoga for people with Parkinson's Disease, and has also offered classes for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.