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Katie is a spiritual yoga teacher and educator, focused on the more subtle restful practices of yoga.

03/10/2026

Whatever Divine means for you…I tend to say that a lot when I teach. Because we each have our own experience with the mystery of Divinity.

For me, the doorway is Mā, most deeply through Durgā and Kālī. 🌺 She is the form through which I have always naturally understood and experienced the Divine. She gives my heart somewhere to rest and helps me enter into relationship with something far greater than my human mind could ever fully grasp. But we don’t all need the same doorway.

For you, the Divine may have another name or form. It may be a beloved teacher or another sacred presence. Perhaps Kṛṣṇa, Śiva, Christ, the Buddha. Or perhaps you meet the Divine in nature, in prayer, in meditation, in your children, in the animals you love, in music, in service, in stillness, or simply in the act of loving another.

Perhaps you don’t give it a name at all. You simply know there are moments when you feel something greater than yourself. We each find the doorway that feels like home. And walking through our own doorway doesn’t mean we cannot pause at someone else’s and appreciate the view. Their doorway doesn’t diminish ours, and ours doesn’t need to be theirs. Because ultimately, the doorway is not the destination. It is simply the way we enter into relationship with something so vast that no single name, form or tradition could ever contain it.

Whatever is Divine for you, may you recognise the doorway that leads you home. 💗
Living in devotion. Always.
जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

17/09/2026

Do you feel called to spend Navarātri a little closer to Mā?

Come and join me from 11 to 19 October for Nine Encounters with Mā, A Navarātri Journey of Sacred Places, Stories and Practice.

For me, the Goddess has never been something to simply learn about. She is something we live.

I have walked towards Mā, sat at her feet, cried with her, laughed with her, rested with her and returned to her again and again. I have experienced her in moments of extraordinary grace and in times when life has asked everything of me. I have seen her in temples and mountains, beside Mā Gaṅgā, in the devotion of thousands of people, and within my own heart, in those quiet moments when there was simply Mā and me.

Through it all, she has taught me about persistence, joy, devotion, rest, courage, transformation, love and power.

Over nine days, I will share nine sacred places, nine stories and nine encounters with Mā, each with a teaching and a simple devotional practice. This is something personal for me.

Nine places. Nine stories. Nine practices. Nine faces of Mā.

And ultimately, one Mother.

30 minutes each day at noon AEDT
Live online and recorded
$81 AUD
Come as you are. ❤️ Jai Mā 🌺

Booking link:
https://nine-encounters-with-ma.teachery.co/main-payment-page

09/09/2026

Sometimes life gives you a little reminder that you are doing exactly what you are meant to be doing. 🌺
Like receiving this beautiful photo from Switzerland - one of my beautiful students, together with her dear friend, holding my book Soul Radiance.
When I wrote this book, I hoped that sharing my own path through breast cancer might somehow reach beyond my own experience and offer something to other women walking their own path. And for people supporting them too. To see it travel across the world, passed from woman to woman, is something I will never take for granted. 💗
A little reminder to keep doing the work I came here to do. 🌺
Living in devotion. Always. जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

03/09/2026

Happy Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī! ❤️
This is one of my favourite memories of Vṛndāvan - sitting by the sacred Yamunā River. There is something about this photo that captures the magic of this place for me. The colour, the pilgrims, the devotion, the joy. Kṛṣṇa’s place. ❤️
May today bring a little more light, a little more joy, a little more playfulness and a whole lot of love. ✨
Rādhe Rādhe. Jai Śrī Kṛṣṇa. 🌸🌸🌸
Living in devotion. Always.
जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

28/08/2026

A beautiful lunch with this beautiful human. Everyone needs a Sue in their life. Someone who quietly turns up, steps in, carries things you didn’t even realise needed carrying, and somehow makes everything a little easier simply by being there.
From supporting me through teacher trainings to travelling across India beside me as I follow the threads of my research, Sue has given so much of her time, energy and heart to the work that means so much to me.
She is one of the most generous, steady and quietly strong humans I know. 🌸
Today was simply about saying thank you. For all of it. And for her. ❤️
Living in devotion. Always.
जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

21/08/2026

There is something about flowers that reminds me of the simplicity of spiritual practice.
Flowers don’t hold back their colour, their fragrance, their beauty. They simply offer what they have.
Perhaps there is wisdom in that…not always striving to become something more, or making ourselves smaller because someone says we are too much. Instead, we recognise the beauty that is already within us - and allow ourselves to be fully that.
A little wisdom for your weekend from the flower markets of Kolkata. 🌼
Living in devotion. Always. जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

17/08/2026

In my experience, there comes a time in your devotion to the Goddess when the prayer quietly begins to change.
There is less of ‘show me how to make life unfold the way I hope it will’. And more of - show me how to serve. Reveal what I need to teach. Help me recognise what is mine to do. Give me the courage to follow where You lead.
There has been something truly beautiful in noticing this shift in my own life.
We can spend so much time imagining we know where we are going, looking for signs and hoping certain doors will open. And then, slowly, our devotion becomes less about directing the path and more about listening for it. Less about asking the Goddess to shape the life we have imagined. And more about allowing Her to shape us for whatever comes next.
To listen. To trust. To serve. And perhaps most of all, to leave a little more room for Her. 🤍🪷🤍
Living in devotion. Always. जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

10/08/2026

So often people in the depths of householder life say to me that they have no time for spiritual practice. So busy raising children, caring for the family, running a home, working to support all of that.
When we speak of the four āśramas, the stages of life described in the yoga tradition, we can sometimes imagine that renunciation is the highest expression of spiritual life. But perhaps the wisdom is not to rush through the seasons of life, hoping for deeper spiritual experiences in the next one.
Each stage carries its own beauty. Each stage offers its own path of devotion.
Gṛhastha āśrama, the householder stage, reminds us that home itself can become a place of sādhana.
The sacred is not only found in temples, āśrams and places of pilgrimage. We carry the sacred home with us.
The food we prepare can become an offering. The welcome we extend can become an expression of love. The garden we tend can become a meditation. The beings who share our lives can become teachers of devotion.
A home is more than walls and objects. It is the space where our daily practices unfold. Where kindness is cultivated. Where gratitude is remembered. And where love is lived.
Perhaps the invitation of gṛhastha dharma - walking the householder path - is not to escape ordinary life, but to see the extraordinary within it.
Your kitchen can be your temple. Your garden can be your meditation seat. Your home can be your offering.
How are you creating a home that welcomes the Divine into the everyday? 🪷
Living in devotion. Always.
जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

02/08/2026

This week I welcome a new group into The Art of Rest by Katie Welsh - five days dedicated to the practice, philosophy and wisdom of Restorative Yoga. Both teachers and practitioners join me for this, travelling from across Australia.
As I prepare for the week ahead, my heart is full of gratitude. Every time I teach this immersion, I am reminded what a gift it is to spend time exploring a practice that has so much to offer in a world that rarely stops.
The next five days will bring endless cups of tea, plenty of smiles, the occasional snore, and countless reminders of the profound wisdom that can be found when we slow down, truly rest and allow an inner pilgrimage to unfold.
I cannot wait to meet everyone! 🪷
Living in devotion. Always.
जय माँ 🌸🌺🌸

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