KATE GERRITSEN – Stay Curious Yoga

• Registered 500 Hour Yoga Teacher – Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat, Victoria

Current classes

Term 1 2025

7.45 am – 8.45 am, Fridays from 31 January 2025 to 4 April 2025
Eureka Centre
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9.00 am – 10.00 am, Fridays from 31 January 2025 to 4 April 2025
Eureka Centre
REGISTER NOW

MORE CLASSES COMING SOON!

Ongoing – Federations University Performing Arts students (not open to the public). See you on your mats performers 🙂

Contact

Kate Gerritsen is a yoga teacher based on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat, Victoria.

Kate began practicing yoga in 1998, regular practice eventually inspired her to undertake ongoing teacher training from 2020 onwards. Kate is a registered 500hr yoga teacher with Yoga Australia.

She is deeply interested in both the physical and emotional benefits of yoga and somatic movement practices. How might we practice yoga to energise, calm, heal and to open ourselves to new possibilities? How can we stay curious about ourselves in this practice?

She gently guides asana using a trauma-informed approach and encourages practice in a way that is kind, compassionate and appropriate for each student – taking into account energy levels, injuries, emotions and current life circumstances.

Kate was born in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and spent living and working on the traditional lands of the Ohlone people in San Francisco, CA before migrating to Australia.

Yoga Qualifications and Training

• 500 hour YTT (Ambika Chadwick, The Yoga Social)
• 12 month mentorship (Jill Harris, Kyo Yoga)
• Foundations of trauma informed practice (The Blue Knot Foundation)
• Yoga for Menopause (Liz Williams, Yoga Therapy Institute)
• Mastering Simplicity (Donna Farhi, ongoing)

Community and cultural work

Kate also has over 20 years experience working in arts management, public art commissioning and curating and is currently the Director of Communications and Engagement at Regional Arts Victoria. Kate’s curatorial and project management experience have resulted in ambitious projects that reflect community values, strengthen cultural identity and use art to enhance public space.

Kate holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Waikato Institute of Technology, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and a Masters in Cultural Heritage from Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia). Kate is also a registered community engagement practitioner and has completed the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) qualification.

Her writing has appeared in Untitled Magazine, Groundwork Magazine, UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts Journal, ArtsHub and online forums.

Kate ‘s current curatorial and public art projects can be viewed here.