About Kata van Doesselaar
Kata van Doesselaar ERYT500 is an experienced Yoga Teacher, breath & massage therapist, healer and coach. She is practicing yoga for 20 years, and teaching yoga for 15 years.
Kata, born in Geneva Switzerland to Hungarian parents, started her self discovery journey as early as 16.
With meditation & yoga philosophy. She always met the right people in her life who became her teachers for short or long time.
She studied massage therapy (Ayurvedic, swedish, yumeiho), Reiki, Astrology (2 years), the chakra system, and conscious breathwork from her 20ies.
Originally an actress and radio presenter, after an intense and powerful spontaneous Kundalini awakening experience, she eventually left the media world at 25 to fully dedicate herself to what felt like her deepest call. Awakening, spirituality, energy and healing work.
She started practicing the physical form of yoga (asanas) only around this time, to help her to ground into the body.
She has been trained in various styles (Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa) until she found her Maha Teacher Shiva Rea, that she felt the most inspired by for many years.
So Kata's primary style became the Prana Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Krishnamacharya lineage) that Los Angeles based Shiva Rea founded.
Between 2014-2020 Kata became an assistant teacher of Shiva's teacher trainings, that filled her heart with passion and joy. She has been one of the very few teachers in the world, who was allowed to offer Shiva Rea's unique full Prana Vinyasa 200hrs teacher training- as affiliate teacher trainer- being approved and supported by Shiva. After 2020, Kata had a deep inner call to follow her own inner flow with her trainings, and developed her own Goddess Vinyasa Flow, and Soulful Vinyasa Flow trainings, that she offers globally.
Besides her dynamic practice Kata has been a dedicated practitioner of meditation, for the last 30 years, so she was in Heaven when she discovered Yin Yoga.
Being a very energetic Soul, Kata embraced the Yin yoga with open heart, and allowed the practice of letting go, stillness and surrendering to bring balance into her busy life.
Having seen the huge impact that yin yoga did on her she went to study with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley's senior teachers to learn all of it, so she can transmit the gifts of yin yoga in an authentic and pure way. Kata has been training with her Teachers more than 1000hrs. Recently she added more studies on fascia, functional anatomy, trauma sensitive somatic yoga, tantric buddhism, Daniel Odier's Shavaism teachings, studies with Lama Surya Das, for advanced Dzogchen practices.
And she is currently enrolled in a 3 year long Chinese Medicine and Acupuncturist Training.
These last few years, Kata followed the call of her Soul to go deep within and that impacts of course her daily practice and teachings. She is very inspired to work with the Goddess Energy, in meditation, asana practice, chanting.
She developped her own Soulful Teacher Trainings, meant to empower others to live an embodied Sacred life.
She moved to the magical island of Ibiza in 2017 with her sweet family and loves the high vibration that this inspiring island offers each day.
She offers unique soulfilled Yoga Teacher Trainings & immersions, retreats mainly on Ibiza, but also in other locations such as Hungary, Switzerland, and Bali.
As a mother of two children, and her rich experience of healing, self-healing, her biggest passion is to inspire people to grow into their full potential, and find their true Self and manifest their Dreams.
Education - Yoga Related
2010-2020
Prana Vinyasa Flow with Shiva Rea (USA)
Kata studied, participated , assisted more then 600hrs with Shiva Rea
Along the many years, in all different countries, Trainings, immersions.
2010-2010
Kids Yoga teacher training
Her first ever yoga training has been to be able to help to ground her son- who was 3 years old at the time and a bit hyper:)
2013-2018
Yin Yoga teacher trainings
Kata participated in about 250Hrs of Yin yoga teacher trainings with various teachers, mostly Sarah Powers,where mindfulness and tcm approach was embraced, but also assistant teacher from Paul Grilley, for anatomy and yin.
2016-2022
Functional & holistic anatomy trainings
2008-2022
Specific trainings for Yoga & awareness
2022-
Further trainings
Kata fascinated by fascia, participated in about 150Hrs in total of various anatomy courses, by Tom Myers, Robert Schleip, Karin Gurtner, Sadie Nardini.
Yoga Nidra trainings (3), Prenatal, Postnatal Yoga TT, Restorative Yoga TT, Tandava Meditation (Tantric), several meditation trainings and retreats, Lama Surya Das silent retreat, Tushita Buddhist center, Sally Kempton, Hridaya Silent retreat, Compassionate Breath studies and trainings with Master Norma Delaney, several awareness courses.
Trauma sensitive yoga with Radhika fundation, TCM & acupuncture studies with LiPing Academy Barcelona.
Acupressure studies with Konnektiv trainings in Hungary. Akashic records Trainings and Aura Soma Practitioner Training.
Accomplishments
Radio, Tv, Theater, Media: Between 1991-2010 Kata has been playing in the biggest theater of Budapest, shooting tv episodes in Hungary Austria and Germany. Hosted a radio show daily for 2 years in the biggest commercial radio of Budapest, and did voiceover for more than 700 episodes, films, commercials.
She left the media world at her own will when she was the most successful with it.
Awareness trainings: She developed her awareness teachings, and started offering awareness courses and sessions in 2008. She had monthly channelings at her own podcast in 2010 for 1000 monthly listeners in Hungary.
In 2012 She moved to the Netherlands.
Teaching in the best yoga studios in NL: She started teaching Yoga in the biggest Yoga studios of Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Successfully running her own studio: Eventually opened her own studio in 2015 in Hilversum. Rise&Shine Yoga Hilversum.
2017 she moved to Ibiza, as her Yin Yoga teacher trainings got so popular she needed to teach it monthly.
Retreat Center in Ibiza: She opened her retreat center which she was successfully running with her partner for 3 years until COVID hit.
She has been teaching more than 130 teacher trainings so far in Ibiza, Netherlands, Hungary, Bali, France and Switzerland and online.
Kata speeks 6 languages, and teaches in 3.
Have been teaching 1-250 people at events. Small or big like Festivals. London Om Yoga Show, Hungarian Yoga Festival, Awareness festivals.
Goddess Spirit, her Brand: She is also a creator, developed her own sustainable yoga goddess wear, and her oracle cards set. And just finishing her first 2 books.
Always passionate to inspire. Mostly women to rise to their full potentials.
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