Question 1: tell us about the work you do and how it has improved not only your mental health but your clients?
I teach yin and restorative yoga, mainly, and these slower, passive practice really provide the time and space to help you integrate all the healing work you may be doing in therapy or whatever other ways you’re trying to overcome whatever you’re trying to overcome. For me, personally, I’ve learned through experience that you can find the best therapist in the whole world but it doesn’t make any difference at all if you’re not actually willing to WORK to apply what you’re learning in therapy to make REAL changes in your life.
Question 2: What are some major stressors that you've noticed in the clients that you work with and women in general?
Many, many women (and people in general) are also trying to exist through all this while also trying manage symptoms that are a direct result (whether they realize it or not) from past traumas whether that’s domestic situations or childhood trauma in all its various forms. 
Question 3: What are some practical applications for us to implement throughout our day?
If I only had 30 minutes to teach someone something and I’d never see them again, it would 100% be meditation. Specifically, I’d teach a gratitude practice.
You can do this by journaling-writing down 3 things you’re grateful for every single day, but you can also practice this in meditation form.
Question 4: How can yoga, meditation and mindfulness increase our wellbeing and emotional health?
Yoga is a holistic approach to heal the entire being rather than just-focusing on fixing your brain with pharmaceuticals (not that I’m against them–in many cases, they’re life-saving, just don’t address the root of the issues), fixing the body by prescribing other pharmaceuticals or surgeries or whathaveyou, and fixing the soul with church or AA or whatever a person has found community in. Yoga addresses each piece so we’re not only addressing all your experiences that have come together to create your current sense of self, but we’re bringing that movement piece too which we know is vital to a healthy body and a happy mind.
Question 5: what are some breath practices that you may give to a client that experiences anxiety?
4, 7, 8 breathing is my absolute fav and it is, to this day, my go-to for managing an anxiety attack and even fending off a full-blown panic attack. I’ll walk us through this too.
Question 6: How does our environment play a factor in how we feel on a day to day basis?
There’s only so much control we have in any given moment over our environments and we most likely can’t change everything all at once. But what we DO have control over is our mindset. And that’s where a daily gratitude practice can come in as we start to make small changes to build a life that supports and environment conducive to our wellbeing.
Question 7: What are your tips for starting a meditation practice?
1. Start small, and make it a “challenge” to build the habit. 2. it doesn’t have to be fancy, you don’t need an app, and you don’t need to sit a certain way. Laying or seated is fine. 3. each time you direct your awareness back to your anchor, you can think of it like a bicep curl for your attention muscles. 
Question 8: What does back to body basics mean to you?
It means addressing the whole human from the ground up–building sustainable habits to live a well-rounded, balanced, FUNCTIONAL life for ourselves, our families, and our communities so that we can get away from all these “fixes” and instead create lives that support our wellbeing right from the get-go.
Question 9: Upcoming events or offerings…?
I teach Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at Society Yoga in Lafayette, IN.
Question 10: How can we find you?
@katie.schopp.yoga or email me at [email protected] – I love to connect and hold space for people if ever they feel drawn to do that

Ver todos los episodios