Catherine Shaddix
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Catherine Shaddix began her intertwined studies of hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation and philosophy in 1990, and has devoted her life to the exploration of each of these since. She began studying traditional Ashtanga yoga in 1993, and has since studied intensively with Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty, and her main teacher in America, Richard Freeman. She travels annually to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswati, and his grandson Sharath in Mysore, South India. Her appreciation of the life-transforming practice of Ashtanga led her to create a yoga program for people with chronic and terminal illness for the BodyMind Restoration Retreats in Ithaca, NY, which she directed for 8 years.
She began teaching in 1996, and her teaching style is infused with the co-arising spaciousness and intensity of her Buddhist training. She has practiced with many of the great Dzogchen masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, beginning with Trulshik Rinpoche in 1991, as well as H.H. the Dalai Lama. She has also trained extensively in the Zen tradition, living for two years at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center, a traditional Rinzai Zen training monastery, with Joshu Sasaki Roshi. She regards the traditional style of Mysore practice, with its attention to breath, internal alignment, and the ritual container of each series, as a perfect vehicle for the cultivation of deep states of concentration, meditative absorption, aliveness, and freedom.
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