My work is grounded in a feminine, feminist material poetics— a way of sensing, naming, and reshaping the body not as something to be optimized or managed, but as a living, relational terrain through which meaning, insight, and transformation emerge. I hold space for bodies not as objects, but as liminal sites of knowing — containers where breath, structure, sensation, and story converge.

This is a practice of embodied refusal: a slow and attentive decathecting from the capitalist, individualist logics that tell us to fix ourselves, to master our discomfort, to become better. Instead, I invite what Donna Haraway calls staying with the trouble— remaining in complexity, cultivating inner volume, and becoming with the body rather than attempting to dominate or transcend it.

Influenced by the phenomenological depth of Elizabeth Behnke and the pattern-based intelligence of Katonah Yoga, I understand postural practice as a dialogue between psyche and soma, between myth and fascia, between angles and internal space. When form and function meet, the body becomes not only more stable, but more spacious, more relational, more available to life.

Through teaching, coaching, and writing, I guide students toward a reconstitution of their interior architecture— not for performance or aesthetic, but to reorganize the sedimented infrastructures of selfhood, to make more room for breath, awareness, contradiction, and connection.

This work is poetic because it resists certainty and simplicity.
It is feminist because it values embodied intelligence and relational ethics.
It is material because it begins in the tissues and returns there, again and again.

Katie has a PhD in Integrative Medicine and Health Science. She is a nationally board-certified health coach and teaching faculty at Saybrook University. She also serves as a board member and supports curriculum development for Akhila Health, a nonprofit that empowers underserved women.