Katie - Rehabilitation-Informed Health Specialist
BSc Sports Rehabilitation | Nutritional Therapy | Strength & Conditioning | Yoga Anatomy Educator
I'm Katie.
I've lived in a body that doesn't cooperate for most of my life. I've had set backs that most people would assume would end an active life.... they didn't.
These set backs caused me to pause, not to quit. Instead, they forced me to understand the body properly.
I had to learn how to train intelligently.
How to adapt.
How to build strength without creating damage.
How to work with my body, not against it.
That lens shapes everything I do.
This isn’t theoretical knowledge.
It’s applied. Tested. Lived.
Gallbladder removal, thyroid removal, multiple broken bones, dislocations, daily subluxations, heart issues, Lyme disease ....
I've dedicated the last 10 years of my life to understanding the human body. From mindset, gut function, functional movement, injury rehabilitation, hormonal health and beyond.
My experience personal and professional allows me to truly offer a one of a kind, bespoke approach to your health and fitness. And it has taught me that sustainable health isn’t built through intensity or restriction.
It’s built through intelligent structure.
I don’t coach through extremes. I coach through understanding.
My clients learn how to train, fuel, and recover in ways that are realistic, adaptable, and long-term.
Because health should support your life - not dominate it.
If you want to know more about me, and my own journey with health and fitness, scroll below.
The Long Road Here
My grandfather used to tell me,
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain”
That stayed with me and the older I get the more I realise sometimes that dance doesn't look flamboyant, sometimes it's a cha cha, neither forward nor backwards just... able to continue.
From a young age, I was curious about the body, how it worked, why it broke down, and why some people seemed to move through life with more ease than others.
In my early twenties, that curiosity became personal.
I was navigating depression, hypothyroidism, endless pain symptoms, anxiety and the heavy structure of medical management. My world became controlled; medication schedules, dietary restrictions, endless research, rigid routines.
After a partial then total thyroidectomy I fought against medication at first. I wanted to fix it naturally. I went deep into yoga, into veganism, into “doing everything right.”
But eventually I realised something uncomfortable: I was managing my health constantly, but I wasn’t actually living. Everything felt monitored. Measured. Micro-managed.
And that wasn’t freedom, not really.
So instead of chasing extremes, and resisting help, I began studying.
Not to optimise everything.
But to find a way to simplify it.
I trained in nutritional therapy first, wanting to understand how to fuel the body properly without obsession.
Then I qualified as a personal trainer so I could integrate strength and structural awareness into my yoga classes. What began as yoga evolved into what I now call functional mobility; movement that respects both structure. strength and nervous system.
From there, my curiosity deepened into strength and conditioning, and eventually into a degree in Sports Rehabilitation.
What started as a ten-year “gap year” became my life’s work.
Along the way:
• I’ve certified over 150 yoga teachers in India, teaching vinyasa flow, anatomy and biomechanics.
• I’ve guided hundreds of clients through injury, chronic pain, and long-term strength development.
• I’ve delivered online workshops to groups of >90 simplifying health and training principles.
• I've taught internationally at yoga festivals.
• And recently, I spoke in person in Canada about building sustainable, intelligent health.
Not because I had all the answers.
But because I keep asking questions, and keep studying forward.
Living this work personally:
Living with a degenerative connective tissue condition, heart surgery, joint instability and structural setbacks has shaped my approach profoundly.
It taught me that strength is not aggression.
Health is not control.
And discipline should not cost you your life.
Now, my work centres on building health that fits into your life, not one that consumes it.
Strength that supports you.
Nutrition that fuels you.
Structure that simplifies, rather than overwhelms.
Because the goal isn’t to micromanage your body forever.
It’s to understand it well enough that you don’t have to.