Yoga Resume

Kate Rice, 500-hour Yoga Instructor

Yoga Teaching Experience

Current: McGaw YMCA, Evanston

Past: Namaskar Yoga, Core Power Yoga, LifeStart Fitness, LA Fitness, Chicago Park District

Trauma Informed Yoga: Gentle vinyasa yoga (Manning & Coleman Libraries)

Trauma Informed Yoga: Cook County Jail

Other trauma informed yoga programs at the Chicago Metropolitan YWCA (sexual violence survivors), Chicago Public Kelly High School (after school yoga club), three residential homeless shelters

Trauma Informed Yoga Training

Center for Trauma & Embodiment, Empowered Spaces, St. Louis, MO:  20-hour Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training, 2019

Metropolitan Chicago YWCA: 40-hour Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Training, 2017

Eat Breathe Thrive, McFetridge Center Chicago, 2017: Yoga, Food & Body Image Intensive

The Breathe Network, Yogaview, Chicago, 2016: Sexual Violence, Yoga, and the Physiology of Resilience

Yoga Activist, Washington, DC, 2010: Yoga for Homeless, In Recovery, and other Trauma Sensitive Communities

Street Yoga/Yoga Activist, Washington, DC, 2010: Trauma-Informed Yoga Training (attended again in Chicago, 2019 as community partner)

Prison Yoga Project/Yoga Activist, Washington, DC, 2010: Prison Yoga Project Training

Yoga Teacher Training

500-hour My Vinyasa Practice (online), 2024

200-hour Core Power Yoga, Chicago, 2014

Education

MA, American University, Washington, DC, August 2010, International Communication

BA, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2002, Sociology