Katherine Smith
Yoga teacher. Retreat Leader. Writer. Ayurvedic Chef.
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I am a yoga teacher and writer filled with wanderlust. I host yoga retreats across the globe intended to uplift, nourish and stir the soul. I have a finely tuned appetite for adventure and a healthy thirst for cocktails and coffee. I am part of a new generation of women who are wild, wise, authentic and free. I have chosen to cast off what convention dictated and become a master of my own destiny.

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The Smart Yogi's Guide to Landing Your Ideal Yoga Travel Job

Having a hard time finding and landing your dream yoga travel job? Here's a smart and handy guide from a travelling yoga teacher to help you out.
Katherine Smith
The Smart Yogi's Guide to Landing Your Ideal Yoga Travel Job

Is The Yoga Industry At Risk of Brain Drain?

While social media has pictured the yoga business as booming, it might be that the yoga industry at risk of brain drain. Read more to find out why.
Katherine Smith
Is The Yoga Industry At Risk of Brain Drain?

How to Advance Your Yoga Practice Effortlessly

You don't have to contort and be flexible like a pretzel to advance your yoga practice. Here are some tips to help you progress in your practice easily.
Katherine Smith
How to Advance Your Yoga Practice Effortlessly

8 Ways to Appreciate Life

In the midst of chaos, it can be difficult to appreciate life. One yogini shares her thoughts on how to do so, and appreciate ever moment we are given.
Katherine Smith
8 Ways to Appreciate Life

6 Books to Inspire Your Best Year Yet

Looking to make this year the best one yet? Then check out this list of 6 books to inspire you to do great new things this year. Watch out, world!
Katherine Smith
6 Books to Inspire Your Best Year Yet

Love Your Body, It’s the Only One You’ve Got

It's not always easy to appreciate and love your body but it's something we all must learn if we truly want to be happy. Here are some tips that'll help.
Katherine Smith
Love Your Body, It’s the Only One You’ve Got

How to Overcome Performance Anxiety for Yoga Teachers

Yoga teachers are people too! They can get nervous too before a class or conference. If you're a teacher, here are tips that'll help overcome your anxiety.
Katherine Smith
How to Overcome Performance Anxiety for Yoga Teachers

Why the World Needs Yoga Superheroes

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a yogi! We all know it: the world needs saving. It's a tall order, but someone's got to do it, so trust in yoga superheroes.
Katherine Smith
Why the World Needs Yoga Superheroes

10 Highly Effective Habits To Help Navigate Life’s Big Decisions

Have you ever come to a figurative fork in the road? It can be hard, but these highly effective habits will guide you inward and set you on your journey.
Katherine Smith
10 Highly Effective Habits To Help Navigate Life’s Big Decisions

How to Embrace Expectations

Do you sometimes feel that you expect too much? Katherine Smith gives her tips on how to drop attachment and embrace expectations.
Katherine Smith
How to Embrace Expectations

Why More Women Are Choosing to Go on Journeys of Self-Discovery

Feeling burned out and abandoned by society's expectations, more and more women are taking off on journeys of self-discovery and of space. Here's why.
Katherine Smith
Why More Women Are Choosing to Go on Journeys of Self-Discovery

Gratitude Challenge: How to Count Your Blessings

In a world of plenty where most of us are pre-programmed to strive for and desire more, we forget to practice gratitude and appreciate what we have.
Katherine Smith
Gratitude Challenge: How to Count Your Blessings

An Emergency-Proof Guide for Traveling Yoga Teachers

Travel is stressful, cramped, and basically all things not yoga. Traveling yoga teachers can now read these ways to secure and de-stress their next trips.
Katherine Smith
An Emergency-Proof Guide for Traveling Yoga Teachers

Essential Advice on How to Sleep Better

Sleep is vital to our health and wellbeing, as essential as food and water. Here are some great tips to teach you how to sleep better and get quality zzz's.
Katherine Smith
Essential Advice on How to Sleep Better

Why I Drink Cocktails And Practice Koundinyasana The Next Morning

Many think that there is no place for social drinking in a committed yoga practice. This writer posits that there's room for enjoying alcohol in yoga.
Katherine Smith
Why I Drink Cocktails And Practice Koundinyasana The Next Morning

8 Signs That You're Going Through A Transformation

Katherine Smith
8 Signs That You're Going Through A Transformation

17 Quick Tips To Survive Your Own Awakening

If the seas of change are flowing strong within you, it might be crazy overwhelming. Here are 17 tips to survive your own awakening.
Katherine Smith
17 Quick Tips To Survive Your Own Awakening

Why It's Important To Stay Creative

Katherine Smith
Why It's Important To Stay Creative

5 Questions That Will Help You Make Better Decisions

Katherine Smith
5 Questions That Will Help You Make Better Decisions

How To Learn The Art Of Doing Nothing

Katherine Smith
How To Learn The Art Of Doing Nothing

How To Go From Tired To Turbo Charged

Katherine Smith
How To Go From Tired To Turbo Charged

Why We Should All Learn To Trust Our Intuition

Katherine Smith
Why We Should All Learn To Trust Our Intuition

6 Things You Can Do To Stay Healthy On Board Your Long Haul Flight

While inflight comfort services are ever increasing, it’s still important to stay healthy as we travel so we can arrive at our destination feeling fresh.
Katherine Smith
6 Things You Can Do To Stay Healthy On Board Your Long Haul Flight

What To Do When You Lose Your Yoga Mojo

A yoga teacher shares her tips on how to shake things up a bit when you lose your yoga mojo, and help you reignite your desire for practicing with patience.
Katherine Smith
What To Do When You Lose Your Yoga Mojo

16 Signs That You’re An Empath and 10 Ways To Help You Cope

Do you think you feel things differently than others and that you empathize with more? Here are 16 signs you're an empath and how to cope with it.
Katherine Smith
16 Signs That You’re An Empath and 10 Ways To Help You Cope

8 Ways To Close The Gap Between What You Do & What You Can Do

Katherine Smith
8 Ways To Close The Gap Between What You Do & What You Can Do

8 Ways To Live La Dolce Vita Wherever You Are

Katherine Smith
8 Ways To Live La Dolce Vita Wherever You Are

The Reality of A Yoga Retreat

Think a yoga retreat will automagically make you feel amazing? Think again. Here's our guide on the reality of a yoga retreat (with a happy end, phew!)
Katherine Smith
The Reality of A Yoga Retreat

How Being A Karma Yogi Turned My Life Around

Katherine Smith
How Being A Karma Yogi Turned My Life Around

8 Simple Tricks & Tools For Self-Empowerment

Katherine Smith
8 Simple Tricks & Tools For Self-Empowerment

Top 5 Yoga Poses to Power Up and Awaken Your Inner Warrior

Our yoga practice helps us ignite our inner fire, uncork our inner wisdom, and awaken our warrior spirit. Here are five empowering yoga poses.
Katherine Smith
Top 5 Yoga Poses to Power Up and Awaken Your Inner Warrior

How To Have Confidence In Your Own Journey—Lessons From Joseph Campbell

Katherine Smith
How To Have Confidence In Your Own Journey—Lessons From Joseph Campbell

Going Deep With Yin Yoga

Katherine Smith
Going Deep With Yin Yoga

6 Tips To Feel Vibrant As We Move Into Vata Season

Fall is the beginning of Vata season according to Ayurveda. Here are 6 great tips to keep you feeling wonderful as the season changes.
Katherine Smith
6 Tips To Feel Vibrant As We Move Into Vata Season

How To Stay Present Even When It Feels Impossible

Katherine Smith
How To Stay Present Even When It Feels Impossible

Make Your Average Meals Amazing With Condiments (With Recipes)

Katherine Smith
Make Your Average Meals Amazing With Condiments (With Recipes)

How To Learn To Dance In The Rain

Katherine Smith
How To Learn To Dance In The Rain

Is It Time To Tame The Travel Bug? – By A Girl Who Travels

Katherine Smith
Is It Time To Tame The Travel Bug? – By A Girl Who Travels

An Essential Yoga Reading List to Fuel Your Svadhyaya Fire

Svadhyaya or self-study will deliver us to all that we need to know in any given moment. This yoga reading list nourishes our fire for self-knowledge.
Katherine Smith
An Essential Yoga Reading List to Fuel Your Svadhyaya Fire

How To Modify Yoga Poses If You Have Big Breasts

Women with larger chests tend to struggle with more than a few postures in yoga. Here's how to modify three common yoga poses if you have big breasts.
Katherine Smith
How To Modify Yoga Poses If You Have Big Breasts

Honor Your Hormones With These Weekly Lifestyle Tweaks

Katherine Smith
Honor Your Hormones With These Weekly Lifestyle Tweaks

10 Things I've Learned From Living On Yoga Retreat

I pursued my passion for travel and yoga, and spent the past two years living in remote places, working on yoga retreat.This is what I’ve learned.
Katherine Smith
10 Things I've Learned From Living On Yoga Retreat

How I Went From Fine To Free: 6 Tools For Personal Transformation

When you start feeling stuck or if your life seems meaningless, these six tools help you along your journey of personal transformation to a life of freedom.
Katherine Smith
How I Went From Fine To Free: 6 Tools For Personal Transformation

10 Things No One Ever Tells You About Yoga Teacher Training

Training to become a yoga teacher is a grueling, life-changing process. Here are ten things that will happen yoga teacher training no one ever talks about.
Katherine Smith
10 Things No One Ever Tells You About Yoga Teacher Training

How to Be the Ultimate Escape Artist

We often dream of leaving our everyday routines to travel far and wide. Here's how to escape and explore, find yourself, and regain your passion for life.
Katherine Smith
How to Be the Ultimate Escape Artist

Why We Should All Aspire to Be Just a Little Bit Bad-Ass

A lot of chastising occurs in the yoga community, especially when it comes to yogic philosophy. Here's why being a bad yogi is completely okay.
Katherine Smith
Why We Should All Aspire to Be Just a Little Bit Bad-Ass

How to Craft New Year's Resolutions That Guarantee Success

We often find ourselves dropping our New Year's resolutions after a few weeks. Here's how to develop New Year's resolutions that guarantee success.
Katherine Smith
How to Craft New Year's Resolutions That Guarantee Success

11 Tips to Survive Winter Without a Struggle

The harshness of winter can dampen our mood and impede our productivity. Here are eleven tips to survive winter without struggling too much.
Katherine Smith
11 Tips to Survive Winter Without a Struggle

The Psychology of Overeating: 3 Tips to Recondition Your Appetite

Portion control is key to a healthy diet. Here's how to tune into and recondition your appetite to practice mindfulness and moderation when eating
Katherine Smith
The Psychology of Overeating: 3 Tips to Recondition Your Appetite

Life Lessons From the Mysore Mat: How Ashtanga Yoga Taught Me to Be in the Now

Ashtanga is a traditional, physically challenging system of yoga with deep spiritual roots. Here are some of the lessons one can learn from Ashtanga yoga.
Katherine Smith
Life Lessons From the Mysore Mat: How Ashtanga Yoga Taught Me to Be in the Now

8 Tips for Empowering Your Own Yoga Practice

To make the most of your yoga practice, sometimes you need to override a yoga teacher's instructions and listen to your own body's cues instead. Here's how.
Katherine Smith
8 Tips for Empowering Your Own Yoga Practice

How to Reintegrate Into Real Life After Travelling

Spent many months or years travelling and relocating in order to find yourself? Here's how to reintegrate once you decide to settle back down.
Katherine Smith
How to Reintegrate Into Real Life After Travelling

How Not to Let Productivity Get in the Way of Your Life

In these modern times, we often confuse productivity with purpose. Here's how to regain the balance between doing and being.
Katherine Smith
How Not to Let Productivity Get in the Way of Your Life

Science Proves Ashtanga Yoga Is Good for You

Ashtanga yoga focuses on breath, movement, and drishti. These three magic ingredients combined brings mental focus and a strong connection with the body.
Katherine Smith
Science Proves Ashtanga Yoga Is Good for You

How to Embrace Your Bliss When You Feel Less Than 100 Percent

It’s perfectly natural and normal to have days when we feel less than 100 percent. Here are some tips on how to find your bliss when you're feeling off.
Katherine Smith
How to Embrace Your Bliss When You Feel Less Than 100 Percent

Ayurvedic Advice for Adult Acne

From an Ayurvedic perspective, adult acne is an imbalance of all three vata, pitta, and kapha doshas. Here are Ayurvedic tips for dealing with adult acne.
Katherine Smith
Ayurvedic Advice for Adult Acne

8 Ways to Make the Most of Spring Season

In Ayurveda, Spring is recognised as the time of growth and transformation. Here are some suggestions to make the most of spring.
Katherine Smith
8 Ways to Make the Most of Spring Season

Should We Practice Yoga Asana Through Pain and Injury?

Some teachers and yogis follow what they're taught: to continue their yoga asana practice even when there's pain and injury. What's YOUR take on it?
Katherine Smith
Should We Practice Yoga Asana Through Pain and Injury?
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