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We live in a world of ever-expanding potential. Through science and technology humankind has cultivated an unprecedented amount of understanding and agency. However, when we look at the world around us, much suffering is plain to be seen. Our environments are dying out as they edge closer and closer to collapse. Our communities are more and more divided. And, we find ourselves in a culture which actively seeks to separate us from our own selves.
Together, the state of life on Planet Earth is one of disease:
- physically, as our own bodies suffer from poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and excessive toxins that readily cause metabolic dysfunction and chronic disease
- mentally & emotionally, as anxiety and overwhelm, burnout and depression, unhealed traumas and nervous system dysregulation are not only prevalent but often even ignored or dismissed
- ecologically, as our forests are pillaged as they burn at extreme intensities, our rivers are polluted and flooding in extremes, our mountain landscapes are desertifying, and the whole of the great web of life on Planet Earth is dying out at an extreme rate
- spiritually, as our sense of connection and purpose is severed and reduced to isolated and mechanized utility
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Your destination for an embodied spirituality that grounds you into a deeper, truer connection with reality.
Connection - in felt presence: with self, and with all that expands beyond self.
It is here that you find the joy, healing, and deep fulfillment that you desire. And, it is here that we begin the big work that healing this great mess of things for all of life on Planet Earth.
Hi, I'm Katie Hemphill
Here to help support your healing and joyful transformation as we move together into a brighter, more beautiful way of being on this Planet Earth
If you're looking to:
- get out of your head and heal what pains your body
- clear out anxiety and overwhelm keeping you stuck and feeling lousy
- step into a life fully lived, aligned heart & soul
- step into deeper connection with this world so that you can be part of the solution out of this great mess of things us humans have created
Then you've come to the right place!
Step onto a new path of healing, transformation, and true fulfillment
We have a long list of challenges facing us in this modern world. At the same time, we hold within our grasp potential for immense joy and fulfillment in this wildly abundant world we live in!
Still, there are problems to solve and challenges to overcome as these times demand that we look at that which has been ignored for too long.
If you're like most modern human beings, you probably experience this within your own body, your own mind, and all around in the world outside of you.
I believe in a path of healing as we find space for more of that which truly lights us up, but it can only be done if we are willing to be in this for all that it is. This is why I teach an embodied approach to the human experience, calling upon the full power of our human selves: mind, body, & soul.
My path began rooted firmly in the field of biomedical science & engineering. Now, it spreads out into all fields that bring promise for healing:
Years ago, I believed the answers to our greatest problems existed solely in the realm of engineering & technology - a space where I could call upon the power of my own mind to call in the greatest solutions to solve our human and earthly problems! If only us humans can be smart enough, we can bring forth the solutions to fix our problems and remove the suffering that keeps us stuck and feeling lousy.
But when my path as a scientist & engineer led to burn out and my own life turned into wave after wave of crippling anxiety, I set off on a new path to explore what it truly means to live a life of good health, joy, and fulfillment.
It's a path that changed everything for me as I learned to get out of my own head (out of the realm where we need to calculate and over-analyze every little detail to make sense of anything!); and, instead, to tune into what is present here and now, discerning the best path forward each moment of it all.
It is not a path of disavowing science nor technology. Instead, it is a path of weaving together all the wisdom traditions that bring opportunity to that next wise step forward.
The dark reality is that our current paradigm naturally leads to deep suffering for all aspects of life:
- our own physical bodies - as we struggle through health problems that bring pain and other debilitating symptoms
- our own greater selves - as we struggle through anxiety, depression and other forms of dis-ease that keep us stuck and unhappy
- our communities - as we struggle with further divisiveness and are unwilling to come together to work through common problems
- our dear planet - as our forests burn at unprecedented rates, our lands & communities go through drastic floods, the ground quakes, and we all continue to heat up
The brighter side of things is that we have all the solutions that we need: If only we are willing to reach out and embrace them. The real question is HOW WE DO THIS.
Healing begins deep within our own selves as we learn to connect all aspects of our being, rippling out into all walks of life as we take action based on known solutions.
Each individual healing our own selves as we heal in connection with the greater systems we are part of. This is our path forward.
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I see you there, going places! Striving forward on your journey to that which calls to you, heart & soul. I am here to help you get there! Except, here, it has little to do with the destination. Instead, it has everything to do with how you feel along the way!
My task as your guide is to help you feel good in your body as you live and breathe in connection to this moment, wherever you find yourself.
Join me here, and you may even find yourself blasting right through through those grand goals with more ease, greater flow, and a deep sense of fulfillment for all that you've accomplished.
Yoga Therapy and Embodied Meditations
We live in deeply challenging times. This can be confusing - because our world has never had more access to the abundance of information and resources at our fingertips.
Why is it that our modern world seems so incapable of taking action to heal our deepest wounds and solve our greatest problems?
It's a question that has tugged at my mind, heart, and soul for many years now, leading me along my own quest for answers that lead to practical solutions to the following point:
How is it that we take action that truly leads to better outcomes? How is it that we heal our own wounds and show up in the world in a way that solves important problems that alleviate suffering and bring greater joy & fulfilment to our world?
When we find ourselves in deep struggle - unable to take steps forward in the directions we truly want to go - it's normal to feel anxious and defeated
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Get out of your head, drop all the stories, and feel into what is actually alive right here, right now. It's a lesson I first learned while doing stem cell research, and one I quit science to deepen into in yoga & meditation. Here, I speak to it as what has to happen no matter where you find yourself in life.
There are so many beautiful paths that we can follow in life that can take us to deeper truths, healed wounds, and great innovations! But the way that we follow these paths is everything!
When I ran into a brick wall made of anxiety, overwhelm, panic, and depression, I listened everywhere for what could help me get out of my high-intensity lifestyle and move into a world of greater healing & balance.
What I found wasn't able to help me right away (and often made things worse!). Still, as I moved through this challenging space, I learned much about how we need to take charge of our own healing so that we can can cultivate practices that align with our needs (and not those of others).
Listen in to hear more about how you can match your embodiment practice (be in yoga, meditation, etc.) with what your body really needs
Our path forward - as individuals AND as a collective - exists only as we turn inward
It's normal these days to look outward on a world full of individuals hollering countless ideas for what we could be doing to make this world a brighter place. But it is rare to find individuals who are fully tapped into solutions that move into aligned action that supports their own selves, their communities, and the planet as a whole.
I once participated in a world that defined progress by forever breaking it apart into individual components - and was trained to put it back together again in ways our egoic minds determined to count as progress.
I now recognize that we exist as a whole - as an infinitely complex web of life! - made up of infinite connections within and between our whole human selves, our whole ecosystems, and our whole planet.
We find solutions to our most significant ailments by no longer seeing them in isolation - but by stepping into deeper knowing and connection of what it truly means to be a human being in this spectacular world of ours.
What does it mean to step onto a path of Embodied Living & Collective Healing?
It begins by returning to the truest of facts that you, as a human being, are biological.
As a Biological Being, we all exist within the laws of rich complexity that span inward and outward through vast webs of life.
From the individual molecules that make up your cells, tissues, organs - all the way out through your exhale and into the vast forests that are thinning around us: we are all connected in more ways than our mere human minds can begin to comprehend.
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My yoga is centered on a practice of slowing down, tuning in fully with our breath, and getting to know ourselves ever-more fully for what we truly are beneath all the programmed layers of our existence.
This style of yoga showed up as a remedy for my own self when my world came crashing down after years of chasing intensely after the things I had been told mattered most.
And, while I still LOVE ultra running, rock climbing, and other ways of pushing myself fully as I express my unique self, I also recognize the importance of slowing down and connecting into my self with my full, focused awareness.
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Biomedical Engineer (B.S.E., M.S.)
As a BME, I take a strong physiological approach to understanding metabolic health, including how your decisions directly impact pathways of health and disease in the human body. Check out my systems approach to addressing poor health and disease, as well as my models of disease progression, on my sister site: Your Health, Reprogrammed
Health and Embodiment Coach
Each of our own journeys to better health is highly individualized. You won't find the answers that best serve you from continuously seeking answers from others. Instead, you are best guided as you learn to find answers from within yourself, using science and your body's own intelligence to guide your decisions along the way.
Yoga Therapy
As we chase after the life that best serves us, it's inevitable that we run into challenges that arise from within our selves - body and mind. Let's work through those challenges using practices embedded in the ancient yoga philosophy.
Yoga
Experience the world fully as you embrace a path of embodied practices, uniting body, mind, and spirit as you meet yourself in each moment.
Adventurer
The world is my playground and nothing lights me up like getting outside and taking on physical challenges, whether that's trail running for miles by the dozens, climbing up sides of cliffs, flying down a snowy slope, or climbing to the top of a peak!