Katie Gehn RYT

Co-Founder of the Yoga Shala with Shelley Alkier, Katie has been teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga to people of all abilites and in settings including sports teams, health clubs, community centers, and yoga studios for 12 years. Her teaching style is encouraging and direct and reflects her belief that everything we experience in our lives is a bodily experience and through yoga you can unlearn the negative and re-learn a positive integrated way of being. As a teacher, Katie's goal is that anyone who wants to can achieve the benefits of yoga, both thereaputic and physical in a deep and lasting way.

Katie's dedication to the Ashtanga lineage has been especially inspired by her primary teacher and mentor David Garrigues. Katie had the privilege of meeting and paying her respects and gratitude to Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, on several occasions in the US and to R. Sharath and Saraswathi in Mysore, India.

Katie is also a practitioner-in-training of Hanna Somatics Education and offers one on one, and group Hanna Somatics classes, as well as led Ashtanga Prep and Metta Flow style classes.