Kate McAnergney is a Registered Senior Teacher with Yoga Australia and has been teaching yoga for 20 years. She completed her initial teacher training at Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, South India in early 2004, followed by a further year of study with Paul Wooden at the Gertrude Street Yoga Studio in Melbourne. Since then, Kate has been fortunate to study with many other inspiring teachers in Australia and abroad including Donna Farhi, Sarah Powers and Mark Whitwell. As well as deepening her Hatha Yoga practice, Kate has used these opportunities to explore Nada Yoga (the yoga of sound) and Indian classical singing and to become qualified in teaching Prenatal Yoga, ‘yin/yang/mindfulness’ and ‘Heart of yoga’.
Kate ran a successful yoga business in East Gippsland (under the name Shimmer Yoga) from 2006 – 2012 running numerous weekly classes and regular weekend yoga and meditation retreats at SIBA retreat centre in Gelantipy, in snowy river country. She also offered training and team building for numerous groups in their workplaces throughout the Gippsland region, and developed a course of movement and mindfulness practices for mental health workers to deliver to their clients living in crisis accommodation. Over these years, Kate’s passion for exploring the intersections between yoga and motherhood was ignited through her own experience of becoming a mother to 2 wonderful children – both born into water, the 2nd also at home. In 2008 Kate completed her 1st Prenatal Yoga Training certificate with Mia Borgatta at Lila Dharma and Wellness in New York City.
Kate and her family lived in Melbourne from 2012 – early 2016. She taught weekly Yin Yoga classes at Dance of Life in Fitzroy, as well as regular prenatal classes at Kundalini House in North Fitzroy and Prenatal and general Hatha classes at Prana House in Thornbury. Kate also established the successful prenatal and postnatal yoga program at My Midwives Melbourne North in Brunswick. Since 2015, Kate has been sharing her expertise and wisdom with new yoga teachers through teaching the Women’s Module on the Prana House Yoga Teacher Training course, covering yoga for menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum and perimenopause. In 2015 Kate also completed a 2nd prenatal teaching certificate with Anahata Giri at One Heart Yoga in Abbotsford.
Kate and family moved to Geelong in mid 2016, just in time to welcome baby number 3, also born at home into water. Kate ran the prenatal and postnatal yoga program at Geelong’s dearly beloved birthing hub ‘The Birth House’ from mid 2019 through til late 2021, when it sadly closed its doors.
After having felt the calling for many years, Kate completed a ten month long “Birthing Wisdom” doula training in Melbourne in 2022 with Rhea Dempsey (author of ‘Birthing with Confidence’ and ‘Beyond the Birth Plan’). She now co-hosts ‘Birth Magic’ with 2 fellow doulas providing down-to-earth birth education and preparation for body, mind and soul.
Kate continues to run her popular prenatal and postnatal yoga courses, as well as weekly general yoga classes and occasional workshops.
Kate enjoys swimming, choral singing, collecting and deejaying vinyl records and dancing with friends.
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