Kate Aitken

Kate O’Neal Aitken is a devout yoga practitioner, Certified Yoga Teacher and Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant with over a decade’s experience as a provider in the clinical and wellness fields. The transformative powers of Yoga found Kate in 2009 as she healed physically, mentally and spiritually following a life changing motor vehicle accident. Yoga became a way to return home to the body and to see the body as our vessel to connect with the divine. It is her wish to share these teachings with her students in the Bhakti spirit of love and devotion.

Kate is sought out for her skilled eye with postural assessment and her intelligently aligned asana prescriptions. She has extensive experience with adaptive yoga sequencing and therapeutic touch. In her classes, students are encouraged to access the subtle body through sensory awareness training, breathwork, meditation, and mantra to promote greater equanimity of the mind and body.

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Kate currently manages a thriving Yoga Therapy private practice in New Orleans called NOLA Therapeutics. Her practice offers 1:1 Integrative Yoga Privates to students with limited mobility, injury, illness, chronic pain, trauma, sleep disturbances, neurological conditions, SCI, autoimmune disorders, stress, depression, anxiety, sport specific conditions, and more. Each session is unique and tailored to the students’ specific needs. Please inquire about her private Therapeutic sessions through the Wellness page on our website.

Kate received her Bachelor’s of Kinesiology with a concentration in Human Movement Science from LSU in 2009. She then completed the PTA program at Delgado in 2012. With a unique background in sports medicine physical therapy, she has practiced as a PTA in the New Orleans area for 10+ years in various settings. Kate then completed the 400-hour Swan River Yoga teacher training in 2019, led by Michelle Baker. She has also done intensive studies with her mentor Kelly Haas (C-IAYT) for several years, including the 100-hour Yoga Therapeutics Teacher Training in 2019-2020, along with Adaptive, Conscious Aging, Prenatal and Trauma Informed practices.

Kate is also a certified Reiki practitioner and offers 1:1 Reiki sessions. She has also recently completed study in Chi Nei Tsang, a therapeutic form of abdominal massage rooted in Chinese medicine, which promotes balance of the internal organs and can address emotional blockages.

Kate utilizes sacred sound, singing and mantra with her students to promote healing through therapeutic vibration and frequency. She believes that we all have an innate ability to heal through these practices. Creating safety in the body, mind and spirit are at the core of her teachings.

She believes that yoga is for everybody. In her opinion, the best teachers are forever students. Kate has dedicated her life to the art of Yoga Therapy and is forever grateful to her lineage. She continues to be in awe at the synchronicity that brought her to these teachings in this lifetime.

When Kate is not on the mat or teaching, she enjoys spending time with her children, reading, cooking, creating, loving and being in nature. She believes her children, Anthony and Olivette, are her greatest teachers in this lifetime. Jai Ma, great gratitude to the Divine Mother. May her power be victorious over all obstacles. May we embrace the full potency of the Shakti feminine energy, which drives all manifestation. May we open our hearts to love, joy, compassion and forgiveness. Jai Ma!

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