Kathleen Charles is a yoga instructor at Namaste Studios. She was born in Colorado and discovered yoga in Boulder in the year 2000. Her interest in the practice grew as the years passed and she continued to practice through each of her pregnancies and then with each of her three young sons. Kathleen began teaching after her family relocated to Brisbane, Australia, because she noticed yoga wasn’t as common in that area and felt she could help share it with others. She first trained to teach children with Angel Yoga in 2014 and went on to complete a 500-hour training with Being Yoga. Additionally, she trained to teach seniors specifically through the Australian College of Classical Yoga and Pine Rivers Yoga, all in Australia. Her training has included prenatal yoga, restorative, teaching meditation and mindfulness, and yoga with trauma awareness.

Kathleen’s family returned to Colorado to make their home here in July 2019, and she then also received the SilverSneakers certification. She began teaching with Parkinson Association of the Rockies in November of 2021. She currently teaches about 14 classes/week in various styles, many of those to seniors or people with mobility limitations. Kathleen is humbled by the opportunity to be able to share the ancient, transforming practices of yoga and meditation with others and plans to continue training and learning throughout her life.

When not teaching yoga, Kathleen enjoys any type of fitness and meditation, particularly being outside hiking, skiing, walking and cycling. She also enjoys volunteering in various ways, cooking yummy, nutritious food, reading, traveling and spending time with her cute, crazy family. Plus, she admits she needs a mindless hour of trashy TV in the evenings to decompress from her day. 😊