Katherine Freeland (b. 1993) practices and teaches yoga with an emphasis on becoming fit, as her beloved teacher Sharon Gannon puts it, to be an instrument of the divine.

She started to practice yoga at the gym in summer 2013 seeking peace and alignment in her life. She quickly found and fell in love with Jivamukti Yoga when she moved to New York City that fall. The spiritual magic and athletic asana practices of the lineage completely captured her heart and in the past decade she has studied with her teachers in New York, Europe, and India. She feels blessed to teach the transformative Jivamukti method, which gives the practitioner a sense of integrated yoga lifestyle through vigorous vinyasa flows, plus five tenets of ahimsa (compassion), bhakti (devotion), nada (yoga of sound/mantra), dhyana (meditation),  and sastra (scripture study).

In her classes, Katherine offers authentic and playful insight on how to take the practices we learn on our mats into the real world. She weaves together supportive experiences of precise alignment and breath to eclectic, high vibe playlists, weaving in classical yoga philosophy, personal stories and examples, plus if you’re lucky, bad jokes :) She plays harmonium and is a joyful kirtan singer. She is kind, humble, humorous, and relatable as a teacher. Her spiritual life is established in Bhakti Yoga, and she is interested in interfaith dialogue, because she believes that ultimately, God speaks to us in many ways so that all hearts have the possibility to understand divinity, regardless of cultural background. 

Katherine earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in Fine Art Photography in 2015. She was first certified in Vinyasa Yoga with the loving guidance of Christina Rufin in 2017, then in 2019 completed the very first 75HR Jivamutki Yoga Teacher Training in New York City with Rima Rabbath and Claudia Debs. She completed the 300HR JYTT in 2021 at Menla with her dear teachers Lady Ruth Lauer-Manenti and HaChi Yu, mentored by Monica Jaggi. She participated as an alumni in 2022 in Italy with Yogeswari and Moritz Ulrich. She completed the first Teacher’s Refinement Course emphasizing Art of Sequencing and teaching Bhagavad Gita in 2022 with Yogeswari and Lady Ruth. She completed the 2023 Teacher’s Refinement Course in Mysore, India, emphasizing the Yoga Sutra, Transcendental Meditation, and Hands on Assists with Yogeswari, Dr. MA Jayashree, and Professor Narasimhan. She regularly practices with her teachers Rima Rabbath and Monica Jaggi via livestream and at their Souk Studio in NYC whenever possible. She held an organizational position for international Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Trainings from 2019-2024.