Cat Matlock, owner/director of West Asheville Yoga Cat Matlock, owner/director of West Asheville Yoga

Cat took her first yoga class in college in 1989 and loved it right away! A dancer and athlete, Cat had been looking for a way to integrate flexibility and strength training and yoga filled that need. She practiced asana for many years learning through books, videos, and teachers in New York, Hawaii, Florida, and North Carolina. While in her first teacher training program in 2000, she began to explore meditation, kirtan (singing and chanting), and the other aspects of yoga with more attention and enthusiasm. Asana opened her body and kirtan opened her heart! Cat believes that her yoga practice, including chanting, singing, and meditation, is the key to her physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Cat became a licensed massage therapist in 1993 and has spent years helping her clients use massage and yoga to heal themselves from injury. She is now an instructor of Kinesiology, the study of human movement, at the Asheville School of Massage and Yoga, as well as the anatomy instructor for the yoga teacher-training program at the Asheville Yoga Center. She teaches several classes a week at West Asheville Yoga. When not teaching, practicing yoga, or working with massage clients, Cat is busy enjoying time and hiking with her daughter and husband, riding her bike, or dancing and singing.

Cat’s yoga classes are grounded in her understanding of anatomy and alignment. She teaches various levels of classes with her higher level classes incorporating Vinyasa flow, yoga with movement. Cat continues her lifelong study of the body and of yoga science, prana life force energy, philosophy, and esoteric teachings. She is excited to share this path of yoga with you

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