Cat is a yoga teacher, trainer, author, and certified coach with over two decades of teaching experience and a deep belief that yoga is most powerful when it’s lived—not just practiced.
She began teaching yoga in 2002, building on a lifelong interest in fitness, movement, and holistic health. Her teaching draws from multiple lineages and styles, including Vinyasa, Heated, Restorative, Kundalini, and Meditation.
Cat holds a 500-hour E-RYT certification, along with 200-hour certifications in Kundalini and Restorative yoga. She is the founder of It’s Beyond the Pose and Beyond the Pose Yoga School, platforms created to support yogis and teachers in moving past surface-level practice into meaningful, sustainable embodiment.
In 2018, she launched her own 200-hour teacher training program, certifying yoga teachers who value both technical skill and soulful integrity.
Cat is also the bestselling author of Yoga, Midlife Pain Relief Secrets and the creator of YACEP-approved programs offered through private mentorships and online courses.
Known for her relevant, honest, and down-to-earth teaching style, she brings clarity and humanity to coaching clients and yoga students.Her classes are energetic, intelligent, and thoughtfully challenging, designed to help students feel strong in their bodies, clear in their minds, and genuinely connected to themselves and each other.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible, inclusive, and practical, and about helping students trust their bodies, question dogma, and discover what’s possible when yoga truly goes beyond the pose.