About Katie
I am a multidisciplinary artist, cooking being one of my favorite mediums. The kitchen is my studio space, where I bring living ingredients together-- seasonal, foraged, local, color-rich, flavorful, to invoke heightened states of aliveness and nourishment. I create art and ritual through food, to let my inner child play, to uplift the spirit, to bring deeper connection with our bodies and the earth.
We all need to eat. Yet so many times we find ourselves eating in a rush, eating alone, eating with a screen as our meal companion, eating until we are stuffed, or eating something we don't actually want to consume. I create room to slow down and let the body actually receive a meal, to commune with the senses as a way of enjoying pleasure, satiation and whole body-spirit health.
I chose to work with local, seasonal, organic, ingredients in addition to foraged fare from the forests, oceans and trails of Northern California. Higher quality ingredients can be more expensive, though I know my work is contributing to the wellbeing of my local farms and purveyors, just as they support me and my clients. Partnering with small businesses, I get to know exactly where my food is coming from, increasing transparency and community health.
While I have received formal and informal trainings within and outside of institutions, my most influential learning has come directly from life experience, practicing how to be in relationship with myself, with my human family, and the earth. I have formal certifications and mentorship as a Natural Chef, Herbalist, Early Childhood Educator, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and Western Astrologer. Informally, I've studied or trained in Plant Spirit Medicine, Botanical Dying, Biodynamic Gardening, Ayurvedic Medicine, Voice Coaching, Authentic Relating, Somatic Attachment Therapy, Inner Child Healing Work, Expressive Arts Therapy, Community-centered healing, Contact Improv, Qigong, various styles of dance, Kink Education, and Power Play Dynamics. How I contribute, share, and receive is heavily informed by my embodiment and earth-based ceremony & ritual practices.
We all need to eat. Yet so many times we find ourselves eating in a rush, eating alone, eating with a screen as our meal companion, eating until we are stuffed, or eating something we don't actually want to consume. I create room to slow down and let the body actually receive a meal, to commune with the senses as a way of enjoying pleasure, satiation and whole body-spirit health.
I chose to work with local, seasonal, organic, ingredients in addition to foraged fare from the forests, oceans and trails of Northern California. Higher quality ingredients can be more expensive, though I know my work is contributing to the wellbeing of my local farms and purveyors, just as they support me and my clients. Partnering with small businesses, I get to know exactly where my food is coming from, increasing transparency and community health.
While I have received formal and informal trainings within and outside of institutions, my most influential learning has come directly from life experience, practicing how to be in relationship with myself, with my human family, and the earth. I have formal certifications and mentorship as a Natural Chef, Herbalist, Early Childhood Educator, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and Western Astrologer. Informally, I've studied or trained in Plant Spirit Medicine, Botanical Dying, Biodynamic Gardening, Ayurvedic Medicine, Voice Coaching, Authentic Relating, Somatic Attachment Therapy, Inner Child Healing Work, Expressive Arts Therapy, Community-centered healing, Contact Improv, Qigong, various styles of dance, Kink Education, and Power Play Dynamics. How I contribute, share, and receive is heavily informed by my embodiment and earth-based ceremony & ritual practices.
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