Katrien began practicing yoga in March 2018. Growing up with ballet and tap dance, she chose an arts education at the age of 16 and later launched her own prêt-à-porter label. For years, she worked at the highest level of the Belgian fashion scene, presenting collections in Paris, London, Milan, and Berlin—until 2017, when her body suddenly said stop and she had to set aside her career and ambitions.

Drawn by the AUM symbol that once hung at the entrance of Antwerp Yoga, she stepped inside the studio. After a warm first encounter, she found herself the very next day sweating through her first Vinyasa Basic class. When her teacher told her afterwards, “Happy I could put a smile on your face,” she was sold. To this day, that simple smile captures what yoga continues to bring her.

Fascinated by the abstract, expressive language of movement within the asana practice, Katrien completed the Antwerp Yoga Teacher Training in 2020. For her, preparing and teaching a class is much like designing a collection: she starts from an emotion and translates it into form, with the human body as the centerpiece.

For Katrien, yoga is meditation in motion. The moment you step onto your mat, you let go of everything else and simply are. That is the experience she wishes to share with her students.

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