Katie has been practicing yoga for 28 years, teaching for 22 years, has over 2,000 training hours in yoga studies alone, and has taught over 16,000 hours since she began teaching in 2003. She has been training yoga teachers since 2011, and has studied with veteran teachers and experts in the fields of Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation since 2003 (Paula Tursi, Bernie Clark, Dr. Paul Dugliss, Dr. Marc Halpern, Sudha Lundeen, Cora Wen, Janet Stone, Judith Lasater, Sadie Nardini, and Gloria Latham.

Katie studied Ayurveda Yoga Therapy with Dr. Marc Halpern, head of the California College of Ayurveda, with whom she also earned a certification in the ancient science of Yoga Nidra. Katie is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, studying under Dr. Paul Dugliss at New World Ayurveda and has over 1,000+ hours of study as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurveda Yoga Specialist, as well as traveling to India each winter for Panchakarma therapy and to study Ayurveda with Dr. Chandra Mouli and Dr. Sundara Raman. She has numerous certifications in Thai Yoga: Peter Kaaberbol (2006), Sunny Klaber (2012), T’ai Jamar Hannah (2013). Katie is a long-time student of Bernie Clark (Yin Yoga). Katie completed Spiritual Mentorship and Heart Based Meditation trainings with Dr. Paul Dugliss in 2020, which she now weaves into her offerings at Dragonfly. Her greatest teachers of all are her students, her adult kids, and her husband and partner in everything, Declan, who helps her run Dragonfly Yoga Barn Studio & Retreat in the White Mountains of NH and lead retreats around the world.