Katya started her yoga path in 2021, at same time beginning to practice contemporary dance and performance art. Combining three different types of movement, as well as working with the theory and philosophy of art, rather quickly managed to understand that yoga is not just about working on the mat. Having met her teacher —Anna Lunegova, the practice became deeper and the desire to share Katya’s discoveries appeared. So in September 2022, she successfully completed 75h TT course in Moscow, Russia, and in February, 2023 she finished 300h TT in India. Since October 2022 she has also been studying Sanskrit.

Katya is also an artist, she has an BA in Design and Contemporary Arts. In her artistic researches Katya studies language and its main attributes — words and gestures — and its engaging and recoding into space of verbal and non-verbal signs that is already exists. She accumulates it through choreographic language and two main art mediums — video art and performance.

Her artistic way of interacting with the world helps to incorporate it into classes: from setting an intention to sequencing the class. Katya percepts Jivamukti as an art. As she is keen on social and political topics as an artist, she seeks to translate this into choreographic language in practice on the mat both as a teacher and yoga student — building communication through gentle and responsible touch in assist and voice.