Kate Godwin
Spiritual healer and yoga therapist with over 30 years’ experience. Helping you reconnect with your wellbeing, ease and joy. For over 30 years, I have supported people in finding relief from stress, emotional overwhelm, and disconnection through body work, healing, yoga therapy and deep restorative practices.
My approach is gentle, intuitive and grounded in the understanding that true wellbeing comes when we feel connected to our deepest inner nature/spiritual nature. I work intuitively with my clients to help them access the relaxation and ease required to reconnect back into a sense of flow and clarity.
I offer one-to-one sessions in London, Leamington Spa, Oxford – as well as on zoom. I also work with groups. My sessions offer a supportive space to slow down, listen inwardly and reconnect with your own capacity to heal. Together, we explore ways to soften stress, release tension and cultivate a deeper sense of ease within body, breath and mind. At different times we need different types of support.
The blend of body work, energy work and yogic practices I offer give a wide mix of therapeutic tools that we can experience together in our sessions and that you can also practice at home to provide self-help and healing on a day-to-day basis. Over time we may use different body energy balancing techniques, restorative yoga asana, breath work/pranayama, meditation/centring prayer to soothe and help us to allow new perspectives and solutions to emerge as the body and psyche find trust and let go. From here it becomes possible to remember the bigger picture of who we are and reclaim our wellness and balance. We then have the potential to heal parts of ourselves and our lives that have previously felt out of reach and out of our control.
My training My journey in the healing arts began in the early 1990s while training in dance at the Laban Centre in London, alongside my massage therapy studies. At the same time, I began practising classical hatha yoga, and over the years my work evolved into a blend of hands-on healing, energy work, yoga therapy, breathwork and meditation. I have always been drawn to how we soothe and restore ourselves towards balance. Over time, I have come to see that it is our own inner narrative and relationship with our spiritual nature which allows us to be at ease and feel empowered in our lives. I recognise that without stress relieving practices we often struggle to unlock the old patterns that keep us in places of dis-ease and disharmony – and prevent us from relating with our higher consciousness.
In 2015, I began formal training in Yoga Therapy with The Minded Institute, deepening my understanding of the connection between movement, breath, mental wellbeing, the brain and the nervous system. In 2016, I met my teacher and mentor Father Joe Pereira, founder of Kripa Foundation Iyengar Yoga, whose work supports emotional healing, recovery and inner transformation through yoga and spiritual practice.
