Katie Sheldon

MPH, CYT
Yoga Therapist

Katie has studied various aspects of health and wellness for over 10 years. She received her Masters Degree in Public Health from Tulane University with a specialization in Maternal and Child Health. Throughout college and graduate school, her yoga practice helped her remain balanced mentally and physically, as well as provided her with a healthy mechanism to cope with stress. She wrote her thesis on yoga’s ability prevent chronic illness and sustain long-term positive behavior change. She most recently finished a two-year Yoga Therapy program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She currently teaches group classes at Soul at Home, a center for wellness and healing located in Tustin, CA, as well as directs the yoga program. She also works with clients therapeutically to address specific health issues that are not addressed in group classes.

Katie views yoga as a practice to look inward and enrich our lives. Yoga encourages us to self-reflect, examine our behaviors and patterns and then provides us with a mechanism to improve upon ourselves. Thus yoga is a process of self-refinement; we begin to improve the physical body on the yoga mat, increasing strength, flexibility and balance; as well as the way we breathe, purposely deepening and elongating the breath to calm the sympathetic nervous system and relieve stress. By changing our neuromuscular patterns on the mat , we learn to bring that same awareness off the mat and into our lives and relationships. Yoga is a holistic approach that can be applied to a myriad of physical, emotional or psychological health issues. The aim of yoga is to create a balanced life filled with sustained joy and happiness.