Catherine Shaddix

Catherine Shaddix, PsyD, began her training in Buddhist meditation and hatha yoga in 1991. She has studied with Tsoknyi Rinpoche for the past 14 years, and has received teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Trulshik Rinpoche, and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche.  She has also trained in the Rinzai Zen tradition under Sasaki Roshi.  Her primary yoga teachers are Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, with whom she has studied the Ashtanga Vinyasa system since 1998. Catherine is a graduate of the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, with an emphasis on the integration of contemplative practices into clinical treatments.  In 2013 Catherine was invited to design and co-facilitate a mindfulness meditation and Ashtanga yoga program for the Baywell Psychiatry Group.  She is also an intervention designer and instructor for the TARA study at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, examining the impact of body-based contemplative practices on adolescent depression and anxiety.