About Katrin
Ancient Wisdom • Inspired Innovation • Human ConnectionMy work lives at the intersection of ancient wisdom, inspired innovation, and human connection.
Through Inner Balance Life Works, I create restorative experiences and collaborative partnerships that cultivate resilience, deepen human connection, support physical and energetic recovery, and create pathways for individuals and communities to flourish.
Today, my work encompasses Trauma-Informed Life Transformation Coaching, Yoga, Qigong, meditation, breathwork, Energy Healing, and PEMF/Terahertz Frequency Therapy, along with the development of professional and community wellness partnerships.
The road that brought me here has been anything but linear.
The Artist Before the Healer
Long before I called myself a healing practitioner, I was an artist.
I am a native Syracusan whose first professional life unfolded in the theatre as an actor, costume designer, educator, and collaborative artist. I earned my BFA from St. Lawrence University and my MFA from Syracuse University, and my work took me to many places before a combination of necessity, synchronicity, and what I experienced as divine intervention brought me home again to Central New York.
Theatre became one of my first great teachers.
It taught me about embodiment, imagination, storytelling, transformation, presence, collaboration, and the extraordinary things that can happen when people gather with intention. It showed me that the body carries story, that language shapes experience, and that imagination can open doors into possibilities we have yet to inhabit.
I eventually left theatre as a profession, but the artist came with me.
Creativity remains woven through the way I teach, facilitate, listen, collaborate, and create healing experiences today.
When Grief Opened a Door
My healing journey began much earlier. I became aware of my intuitive and clairvoyant abilities when I was young, although I had little context for understanding them and little guidance for developing them.
Then, when I was thirteen, my best friend was killed while riding her bicycle. Her death became a profound threshold in my life. In the midst of overwhelming grief, I began experiencing what I understood as communication from beyond ordinary perception. At the same time, I struggled with a deep depression that remained unrecognized and unaddressed.
With little context for either my grief or my intuitive experiences, I spent years becoming distanced from parts of myself that I would eventually return to reclaim.
That return became one of the central journeys of my life.
Following the Threads Home
During college, first at St. Lawrence, with a year abroad in Spain, and later at Syracuse University, art and theatre became pathways for self-discovery. I encountered the transformative possibilities of self-inquiry, creativity, imagination, language, Astrology, and Tarot, several of which would eventually find their way into my healing work.
Years later, another period of profound personal challenge led me toward Eastern philosophy and Yoga.
I completed Essential and Advanced Hatha Yoga training with François Raoult at Open Sky Yoga Studio, earning my RYT-500 certification. What began as the study of an ancient mind-body practice became something far more personal.
Yoga brought me home to my body.
During teacher training, a powerful inner alchemy began unfolding. Alongside Yoga, traditional talk therapy helped me begin addressing trauma within my family of origin as well as grief and shame I had carried since adolescence.
Healing became less about fixing something and more about learning how to remain in relationship with myself.
That understanding continues to shape my work today.
Ancient Wisdom and the Healing Arts
My search continued into the Western Mystery Teachings, Hermetics, Astrology, and Tarot through my studies at the School of the New Light with Master Metaphysician David Harry Davis. Years later, David and I co-authored Ten Gates into the Garden: Spiritual Teachings for the Awakening Consciousness, and I served as Contributing Editor for his book The Unread Tarot.
In 2012, another significant chapter began when I was introduced to my beloved guru, Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Mishra. Through years of transformational healing journeys, spiritual intensives, study, and practice, I continued developing my understanding of consciousness, energy, healing, and service.
My exploration of the healing arts subsequently expanded through Qigong, vibrational and energetic healing, trauma-informed coaching, meditation, and dynamic breathwork.
I trained in Qigong through the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester with Master Lisa B. O'Shea, studied Vibrational Healing with Elizabeth Wright of SpiritWorks, completed Trauma-Informed Life Coaching certification through Lou Lebentz's The Voyage®, and continued my Breathwork Facilitator training with Jon Paul Crimi.
Each practice offered another doorway.
Over time, I began to understand that I was less interested in choosing a single doorway than in helping people discover the pathways that resonate with them.
Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Inspired Innovation
More recently, my curiosity about the body's capacity for restoration led me into another field: Frequency Therapy.
The integration of PEMF/Terahertz Frequency Therapy into my practice initially appeared to represent something entirely new. Instead, I began to recognize it as another branch growing from the same tree.
For decades, I had explored ancient practices that work with breath, movement, awareness, consciousness, subtle energy, and the body's inherent wisdom. Frequency Therapy introduced me to a contemporary wellness technology and invited a new question:
What becomes possible when ancient wisdom and inspired innovation are allowed to enter into conversation?
That question now sits at the heart of the evolving work of Inner Balance Life Works.
I remain deeply rooted in the practices that brought me here while becoming increasingly interested in complementary approaches that support restoration, resilience, physical and energetic recovery, and whole-person well-being.
From Individual Healing to Community Wellness
Another evolution has been unfolding alongside this one.
For many years, much of my work centered on individuals and groups through coaching, Energy Healing, Yoga, Qigong, meditation, Tarot, and breathwork.
I now feel called to widen the circle.
Increasingly, I am cultivating professional and community wellness partnerships that bring restorative experiences into the places where people live, work, practice, serve, perform, heal, and gather.
This may mean collaborating with a Yoga studio to complement an established mind-body practice. It may mean exploring recovery resources within athletic and sports medicine communities. It may mean supporting veterans, caregivers, wellness professionals, educators, or organizations whose people continually pour their energy into serving others.
The setting changes, yet the underlying intention remains remarkably consistent.
How can we create environments that help people reconnect with themselves, restore their resources, strengthen resilience, experience meaningful human connection, and flourish?
I believe wellness becomes more powerful when we move beyond isolated silos and begin building bridges - between the ancient and contemporary; the individual and community; science and lived experience; between giving and receiving; between the wisdom we inherit and the possibilities we have yet to discover.
The Work I Am Here to Do
I have come to understand healing less as a destination and more as a relationship. A relationship with the body - With ourselves, one another, our communities, with the mystery of being alive.
My role is less about providing someone with an answer and more about creating conditions in which listening, discovery, restoration, and transformation can occur.
Whether I am working one-to-one, guiding a Yoga or Qigong practice, facilitating breathwork, offering Energy Healing or Frequency Therapy, or sitting at a table with an organization imagining a new community wellness partnership, I recognize the same thread running through the work.
I am a bridge builder.
I bridge ancient wisdom and inspired innovation through restorative experiences and collaborative partnerships that cultivate resilience, deepen human connection, support physical and energetic recovery, and create pathways for people and communities to flourish.
The modalities may continue to evolve. The landscape may continue to expand. The intention remains rooted: to create fertile ground in which greater resilience, restoration, connection, and human flourishing can take root.
Ancient Wisdom • Inspired Innovation • Human ConnectionMy work lives at the intersection of ancient wisdom, inspired innovation, and human connection.
Through Inner Balance Life Works, I create restorative experiences and collaborative partnerships that cultivate resilience, deepen human connection, support physical and energetic recovery, and create pathways for individuals and communities to flourish.
Today, my work encompasses Trauma-Informed Life Transformation Coaching, Yoga, Qigong, meditation, breathwork, Energy Healing, and PEMF/Terahertz Frequency Therapy, along with the development of professional and community wellness partnerships.
The road that brought me here has been anything but linear.
The Artist Before the Healer
Long before I called myself a healing practitioner, I was an artist.
I am a native Syracusan whose first professional life unfolded in the theatre as an actor, costume designer, educator, and collaborative artist. I earned my BFA from St. Lawrence University and my MFA from Syracuse University, and my work took me to many places before a combination of necessity, synchronicity, and what I experienced as divine intervention brought me home again to Central New York.
Theatre became one of my first great teachers.
It taught me about embodiment, imagination, storytelling, transformation, presence, collaboration, and the extraordinary things that can happen when people gather with intention. It showed me that the body carries story, that language shapes experience, and that imagination can open doors into possibilities we have yet to inhabit.
I eventually left theatre as a profession, but the artist came with me.
Creativity remains woven through the way I teach, facilitate, listen, collaborate, and create healing experiences today.
When Grief Opened a Door
My healing journey began much earlier. I became aware of my intuitive and clairvoyant abilities when I was young, although I had little context for understanding them and little guidance for developing them.
Then, when I was thirteen, my best friend was killed while riding her bicycle. Her death became a profound threshold in my life. In the midst of overwhelming grief, I began experiencing what I understood as communication from beyond ordinary perception. At the same time, I struggled with a deep depression that remained unrecognized and unaddressed.
With little context for either my grief or my intuitive experiences, I spent years becoming distanced from parts of myself that I would eventually return to reclaim.
That return became one of the central journeys of my life.
Following the Threads Home
During college, first at St. Lawrence, with a year abroad in Spain, and later at Syracuse University, art and theatre became pathways for self-discovery. I encountered the transformative possibilities of self-inquiry, creativity, imagination, language, Astrology, and Tarot, several of which would eventually find their way into my healing work.
Years later, another period of profound personal challenge led me toward Eastern philosophy and Yoga.
I completed Essential and Advanced Hatha Yoga training with François Raoult at Open Sky Yoga Studio, earning my RYT-500 certification. What began as the study of an ancient mind-body practice became something far more personal.
Yoga brought me home to my body.
During teacher training, a powerful inner alchemy began unfolding. Alongside Yoga, traditional talk therapy helped me begin addressing trauma within my family of origin as well as grief and shame I had carried since adolescence.
Healing became less about fixing something and more about learning how to remain in relationship with myself.
That understanding continues to shape my work today.
Ancient Wisdom and the Healing Arts
My search continued into the Western Mystery Teachings, Hermetics, Astrology, and Tarot through my studies at the School of the New Light with Master Metaphysician David Harry Davis. Years later, David and I co-authored Ten Gates into the Garden: Spiritual Teachings for the Awakening Consciousness, and I served as Contributing Editor for his book The Unread Tarot.
In 2012, another significant chapter began when I was introduced to my beloved guru, Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Mishra. Through years of transformational healing journeys, spiritual intensives, study, and practice, I continued developing my understanding of consciousness, energy, healing, and service.
My exploration of the healing arts subsequently expanded through Qigong, vibrational and energetic healing, trauma-informed coaching, meditation, and dynamic breathwork.
I trained in Qigong through the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester with Master Lisa B. O'Shea, studied Vibrational Healing with Elizabeth Wright of SpiritWorks, completed Trauma-Informed Life Coaching certification through Lou Lebentz's The Voyage®, and continued my Breathwork Facilitator training with Jon Paul Crimi.
Each practice offered another doorway.
Over time, I began to understand that I was less interested in choosing a single doorway than in helping people discover the pathways that resonate with them.
Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Inspired Innovation
More recently, my curiosity about the body's capacity for restoration led me into another field: Frequency Therapy.
The integration of PEMF/Terahertz Frequency Therapy into my practice initially appeared to represent something entirely new. Instead, I began to recognize it as another branch growing from the same tree.
For decades, I had explored ancient practices that work with breath, movement, awareness, consciousness, subtle energy, and the body's inherent wisdom. Frequency Therapy introduced me to a contemporary wellness technology and invited a new question:
What becomes possible when ancient wisdom and inspired innovation are allowed to enter into conversation?
That question now sits at the heart of the evolving work of Inner Balance Life Works.
I remain deeply rooted in the practices that brought me here while becoming increasingly interested in complementary approaches that support restoration, resilience, physical and energetic recovery, and whole-person well-being.
From Individual Healing to Community Wellness
Another evolution has been unfolding alongside this one.
For many years, much of my work centered on individuals and groups through coaching, Energy Healing, Yoga, Qigong, meditation, Tarot, and breathwork.
I now feel called to widen the circle.
Increasingly, I am cultivating professional and community wellness partnerships that bring restorative experiences into the places where people live, work, practice, serve, perform, heal, and gather.
This may mean collaborating with a Yoga studio to complement an established mind-body practice. It may mean exploring recovery resources within athletic and sports medicine communities. It may mean supporting veterans, caregivers, wellness professionals, educators, or organizations whose people continually pour their energy into serving others.
The setting changes, yet the underlying intention remains remarkably consistent.
How can we create environments that help people reconnect with themselves, restore their resources, strengthen resilience, experience meaningful human connection, and flourish?
I believe wellness becomes more powerful when we move beyond isolated silos and begin building bridges - between the ancient and contemporary; the individual and community; science and lived experience; between giving and receiving; between the wisdom we inherit and the possibilities we have yet to discover.
The Work I Am Here to Do
I have come to understand healing less as a destination and more as a relationship. A relationship with the body - With ourselves, one another, our communities, with the mystery of being alive.
My role is less about providing someone with an answer and more about creating conditions in which listening, discovery, restoration, and transformation can occur.
Whether I am working one-to-one, guiding a Yoga or Qigong practice, facilitating breathwork, offering Energy Healing or Frequency Therapy, or sitting at a table with an organization imagining a new community wellness partnership, I recognize the same thread running through the work.
I am a bridge builder.
I bridge ancient wisdom and inspired innovation through restorative experiences and collaborative partnerships that cultivate resilience, deepen human connection, support physical and energetic recovery, and create pathways for people and communities to flourish.
The modalities may continue to evolve. The landscape may continue to expand. The intention remains rooted: to create fertile ground in which greater resilience, restoration, connection, and human flourishing can take root.
