Cat Kabira

Cat Kabira is very much a global yogi, and one whose path lead her naturally towards yoga from an early age. Returning to her native United States at the age of twenty two after spending time teaching English in Thailand, and unsure of what to do next, she was considering doing a PhD or joining the Peace Corps.

Then she realised that actually she didn’t really know what to do, and so called up her yoga teacher to see where she was teaching, because ‘getting on the mat was the only thing that ever made sense (to her)’. Her yoga teacher then told her that she didn’t want to teach anymore, and asked her to take over her class.

Cat’s First Yoga Class

Initially nervous before teaching her first class, when she walked into the room full of students and asked them to inhale their arms up, and they did, she knew she was onto something! Though only planning to teach fro six weeks to help out the studio (while trying to figure out the grad school / Peace Corps options), instead she ended up staying with the school a year and a half, in that time adding a kids yoga program. Once she started as a yoga teacher, she realised there was no other job she wanted to do.

Cat Kabira – A Global Yogi

Cat’s path as a global yogi began with a wish – made after returning from a training – to be teaching yoga abroad and somehow supporting herself financially, and more specifically, to move to Bali. Moving to Boston and grounding herself in the yoga community there, she then started teaching retreats around the US and in Costa Rica. By the time she was twenty six she had itchy feet again and reiterated her wish to move abroad, opened a savings account, and two weeks later she got a random email from a studio in Japan asking her to teach in their teacher training program, all expenses paid and then some.

From Japan she took a vacation to Bali, and on the third day there was offered a job teaching and managing a yoga studio. Not doubting for a second the next step to take, she stepped through the door that the universe was opening for her – going to pack up her life in Japan, then train some more in the US – before finally settling in Bali in 2006.

Since then, Cat has been teaching and travelling in the US, Canada, Bali, Australia, Cambodia, Japan, Java, Thailand, Brunei…to name a few. As a free spirit and a self defined ‘nomad’ Cat enjoys the richness of travel and being able to connect with communities of students across the world as well as being surrounded by friends and yogis in her Balinese home.

Forrest, Vinyasa, Slow Flow & Hatha Yoga

Cat teaches many different styles of yoga, including forrest, vinyasa, slow flow and hatha, and she also integrates shamanic work and craniosacral therapy into her teachings. But she doesn’t like to be confined by one particular style of yoga, noting the wise words of Persian poet Rumi, that ‘there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground’, and that ultimately ‘yoga is like music: we all get on the mat for the same purpose deep-down – to get connected, to connect to love both for ourselves and for one another, to get clarity, to take care of ourselves, to get free.’

Cat offers workshops and trainings worldwide on a continuing basis. For more information, check her website, or Make an Enquiry about her classes or events.