KAT WATERS YOGA
Breathe | Move | Thrive
Kat Waters is a highly experienced teacher of movement and yoga, with a special interest in teaching people how to take charge of their physical, mental and emotional health. Empowering each individual with a self-care toolkit and finding freedom in movement and life. Based in Portsmouth, Kat has over 20 years movement knowledge and her classes have an emphasis on:
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breathwork
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movement therapy
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asana
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bandha
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pranayama
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meditation
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self-massage
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Offering a wide and varied timetable throughout
the week, classes are held at convenient locations
in Portsmouth, Hampshire, as well as online.
Kat offers a truly unique experience to her clients, teaching:
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Online
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Group and private classes
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Workshops
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Corporate workshops and seminars
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Classes within schools, ages 6-18
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Kat also teaches Yoga Tune Up® and the Roll Model Method®, which is a fitness and movement therapy format designed to assist in enhancing athletic performance, correcting posture and reducing pain through the utilisation of yoga, corrective movement, breathing strategies and self-massage.
"Your breath is an internal barometer giving you feedback about your state of mind".
Jill Miller
With a passion for fitness, wellbeing, sea swimming, SCUBA diving and freediving, Kat teaches yoga pranayama with more recent breathwork techniques. Sharing the science behind each of them and how these are able to balance the bodies internal eco-system. Every participant can embody their bodies own respiration system in order to tranquillise the nervous system. Learning to apply your own ‘brake’ and ‘off’ switch in order to manage, mental, emotional and physical health.
I am really pleased with the experience I have had practising yoga with Kat.
My balance and flexibility have improved. My back flare-ups have lessened and are easier to deal with.
Kat has helped me understand and adjust to improve and even cured a bout of Vertigo after having her class.
I enjoy all of the classes I attend and strive to do better and this is after coming for two years.
Thank you for the fantastic job you do.
Julie
What will you learn?
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Experience a change in your overall wellbeing, happiness and outlook
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Healthy and safe joint mobility, flexibility and stability
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Build fundamental knowledge and understanding of your own body and its innermost workings.
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Understand your own anatomy
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How to become revitalized, invigorated, energized and replenished
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Improve the quality of your sleep
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Build you own library of self-massage techniques and self-care strategies
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Build a stronger immune system
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Help identify and manage episodes of anxiety and stress
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Become equipped with the tools to manage and even stop anxiety and/or stress before exams, presentations and any other challenging situations before they even happen
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Calm nervousness
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Reduce the potentiality of heart disease
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Learn to flip you ON switch to OFF
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Regulate your wellbeing and mental health
Where?
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Kat Waters teaches group class at privately, at LANO Yoga Southsea and Chichester, The Kings Centre, Fraser Road and The Southsea Deli, Portsmouth Cathedral, Victoria Park and other outdoor spaces around Southsea and Portsmouth.
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Classes can be booked individually or as a block booking.
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Online live stream classes and subscribers library are also available at an affordable monthly price starting from £30.
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ABOUT KAT WATERS
Kat has been involved in dance and sport from an early age, completing a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at the Laban Centre, London in 2000
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Introduced to yoga in a gym to supplement her dance training, formal study began much later with Jana Appleyard in London in 2006. Fortunate to be an apprentice of Jana’s, studying and practicing the Shadow Yoga method (created by Shandor Remete) for five years.
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Learning and studying yoga ran alongside her career in sales, events management and project management. Delivering large scale projects for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games and the inaugural 2015 European Games, Baku, Azerbaijan.
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After taking a career break in 2013 on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, as a PADI
Diving Instructor, yoga teacher and enjoying free-diving, Kat was drawn back to Indonesia where she completed my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bali in 2015 with Zuna Yoga®. In 2016, Kat returned to her home town of Southsea, Portsmouth and started teaching full time.
In addition to her Yoga Teacher Training, Kat is one of three Yoga Tune Up® and the Roll Model Method® practitioners and teachers in the UK, sharing this work to help heal and prevent injury.
Teachers who have inspired her and continue to do so include; Jana Appleyard, Shandor Remete, Everett Newell, Katherine Girling, Dineen Viggiano and Jill Miller.
Kat strives to share these self-care tools and strategies with everyone to become a more empowered being, to thrive and live a happy, healthy and joyful life.
Testimonials
“I have been lucky enough to take two courses with Kat in the past six months. I've found them both hugely beneficial and positive. Kat's energy and teaching is joyful and her class is a highlight of the week. The sessions not only helped in improving movement in my very stiff and problematic back and shoulders. But I learnt about breathing and stillness; techniques I now try to use regularly outside of class to destress and address anxiety. I highly recommend Kat's courses and lessons and am looking forward to the next one. Thank you Kat.”
G C. - Worthing Theatres and Museums
“Can I just say a huge thank you for the yoga so far, I am absolutely loving it and it's doing wonders for my mental health which was pretty poor this time last month. I'm feeling much more energised, have more routine to my day, feel positive and look forward to yoga every day! So thank you so much, you and your classes are fantastic. I am really looking forward to learning more.”
C B - Private Client
“I just wanted to take the time to email you to thank you for the past 5 weeks of Yoga. We have had brilliant feedback and everyone has thoroughly enjoyed your sessions.”
V F - Associated British Ports
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
Live better in your whole body
Join Kat live online 5 days a week and enjoy unlimited access to yoga, movement, breathwork and meditation classes along with a Members library offering instant access 24/7, to classes that suit your needs any moment of the day, varying in style and length.
Did you know that you are able to take charge of your mental, emotional and physical health through simple techniques, some are ancient, others more recent but all are backed by science based research.
What will you experience?
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You will be empowered to manage and maintain your mental, emotional and physical health
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Experience a change in your overall wellbeing, happiness and outlook
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Simple and effective techniques that immediately soothe and tranquillise the nervous system
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How to become revitalized, invigorated, energized and replenished
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Relieve yourself from whole body tension and pain
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Cultivate nervous system resiliency in order to tolerate the intensity of the highs and lows of life without falling apart
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Breathe, move, thrive and live better in your whole body
Kat has really changed my relationship with my body (for the better!) - I'm hypermobile and I have always been able to dump my body into postures, but working with Kat has taught me how to use yoga as more than just a stretch. Through my practice with Kat, I have built core strength and stability and more importantly an understanding of my anatomy and the ability to identify when I am stretching into a "dangerzone".
I cannot recommend Kat's classes and workshops highly enough.
NY - Client
What will you learn?
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Healthy and safe joint mobility, flexibility and stability
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Build fundamental knowledge and understanding of your own body and its innermost workings
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Understand your own anatomy
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Improve the quality of your sleep
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Build you own library of self-massage techniques and self-care strategies
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Build a stronger immune system
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Help identify and manage episodes of anxiety and stress
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Become equipped with the tools to manage and even stop anxiety and/or stress before exams, presentations and any other challenging situations before they even happen
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Calm nervousness
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Reduce the potentiality of heart disease
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Learn to flip you ON switch to OFF
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Regulate your wellbeing and mental health
Be your own guru through the management and maintenance of whole body and mind through a variety of techniques that are accessible to all, the key to this being; consistancy.
Breath, Move, Thrive
“Kat is a great facilitator of learning. She provides a container/framework of the subject and, at the same time, allows space for questions, self-enquiry & embodiment of the work. Kat's language of anatomy is always accessible. She has great skill in isolating ‘parts’ and then looking at the body as an integrated ‘whole’. I have come away with a more comprehensive knowledge of the nervous system, fascia, the diaphragm and vagus nerve, and how I can utilise the ‘Roll Method’ in my own yoga and self-care practice. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Kat’s teaching. She is very open, caring, knowledgable, passionate, inclusive and always on the right side of playful, her classes are always fun!”
S G - Client
Live Class Schedule
Monday
09:30 Gentle on Joints
18:30 Flow & Restore
Tuesday
17:30 Flow & Restore
Wednesday
07:30 Rise and Flow
Thursday
07:30 Rise and Flow
Friday
17:30 FRIYAY
Online Class Descriptions
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Breathwork & Meditation - 20 minutes
Guided breathwork and meditation to start your day off on the right path. Every participant can embody their body's own respiratory system in order to tranquillise the nervous system. Guided meditations and deep rest practices for the body and mind to reset and restore itself.
Gentle on Joints - 60 minutes
Not a classic yoga class but definitely one for all bodies looking to work a little slower, reset bad habits and work on those body blind spots. Helping to improve posture, strengthen from head to toe and eliminate pain.
Rise & Flow / Flow & Restore - 45/60 minutes
Hatha Vinyasa Flow class, the emphasis is on moving with your breath and building a safe and strong practice.
FRIYAY - 60 minutes
Some fun for your Friday, a Yoga Tune Up® class format. Yoga Tune Up® is a fitness format built to eradicate pain, improve posture and enhance performance. Designed to stretch, strengthen and heal from head-to-toe, it will highlight areas that have become weakened due to overuse, underuse and misuse. These specialised routines balance out your entire physiology.
Yoga Nidra - 20 minutes
It literally meaning "yogic sleep" ,is a systematically guided series of mental exercises that can deliver you into a non-REM deep sleep state, while maintaining conscious awareness of the event. This deep state of relaxation is deeply restorative on many levels, improving anxiety, depression and PTSD.
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Join the Membership today and Breathe, Move, Thrive
Only £35 a month cancel anytime.
Members library offering instant access 24/7 to classes that suits your needs any time of the day, varying in style and length.
Each of these lessons are available to attend separately at an individual drop-in rate of £10 for 60 minute classes and £8 for Breathwork, Meditation and Yoga Nidra.
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IN PERSON CLASSES
MONDAYS
No in person classes
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TUESDAYS
07:00 Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Class
Private outdoor location in Southsea
Classic Hatha Vinyasa class, exploring asana, bandha, pranayama and meditation.
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12:30 Align Yoga and Movement Class
LANO Southsea
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WEDNESDAYS
10:00 Victoria Park
Contributions welcome on the day - Pay it forward - Booking not required.
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18:30 Stretch & Strengthen Yoga
The Kings Centre, Somers Road, Southsea
Something fun for your hump day, a Yoga Tune Up® and Roll Model® Method class format that is built to eradicate pain, improve posture and enhance performance. Designed to stretch, strengthen and heal from head-to-toe. These specialised routines balance out your entire physiology.
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THURSDAYS
18:00 Classic Yoga
LANO Southsea
Classic Hatha Vinyasa class exploring asana, bandha, pranayama and meditation.
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FRIDAYS
09:30 Gentle Yoga
LANO Southsea
Not a classic yoga class but definitely one for all bodies looking to work a little slower and reset bad habits. Giving you time to identify those body blind spots and areas that are overused, underused, misused and abused. Helping to improve posture, eliminate pain and strengthen from head to toe.
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