ABOUT SWEET FIRE YOGA ARTS & HEALING

Sweet Fire Yoga Arts & Healing is an online yoga community that helps individuals connect to a greater range of creativity, vitality and feeling through yoga & meditation classes, individualized one-on-one yoga sessions and small therapeutic group yoga classes.

Sweet Fire isn’t “hot yoga”; it refers to the heat we intentionally cultivate in yoga practice. The discomfort that comes from brushing up against our edges. From meeting our perceived limitations and leaning in.

Fire, unfettered, is destructive.

Fire, closely watched, tended and contained, is both clarifying and regenerative.

Sweet Fire is the heat we cultivate through focused, mindful, appropriate effort in order to clear away all that inhibits growth and momentum. It is the heat that allows us to feel more fully ourselves and more fully alive.

As powerful as the ancient teachings and practices of yoga can be, we don’t heal in isolation. Nothing is so healing or life-affirming than being held in safe relationship and finding true belonging in supportive community.

Thank you for being the spark and the light of Sweet Fire Yoga Arts & Healing, an evolving yoga community.

ABOUT KATE HOWELL

Kate Howell is a Philadelphia area yoga therapist and founder of Sweet Fire Yoga Arts & Healing, LLC.

Since 2010, Kate has offered group yoga classes, customized private yoga therapy sessions and wellness offerings adaptable to any corporate or community setting throughout the Philadelphia area. Kate is a Level 1 Yoga Therapist (Optimal State 2022), a certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher through the Bodywise Institute (2019), and is recognized by the Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT).

She has co-taught the Wake Up Yoga Foundational Teacher Training Program, launched a Community Yoga Program at the East Passyunk Community Center in South Philadelphia, and works as a Yoga Therapist for the Headache Program at Jefferson Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia.

A mother of two and a trained birth doula, Kate finds deep fulfillment in supporting expectant parents through the life-changing journey of pregnancy. Kate’s prenatal classes and sessions empower individuals to listen to their breath, trust their intuition, lean into their physical strength, and move towards and beyond perceived limitations. Her work with postpartum students is designed to help new parents get moving, build stability, and come home to their bodies.

Kate is currently working on programs to support self-identifying mothers manage the overwhelm of new motherhood

She lives in Glassboro, New Jersey with her husband, kids, and dog.

Teaching Philosophy

With a background in movement theatre, Kate’s teaching is inspired by the integration of ritual, breath, and movement. Her approach is Trauma-Informed and focused on nervous system regulation, with an emphasis on conscious breathing and the mind-body connection.

Kate believes yoga practices invite us outside of our range of habitual movement into a new and unfamiliar range. By changing the orientation of the body in subtle and dramatic ways and by moving breath deeply, we move sensation into areas that feel closed, stuck or stagnant. Through the practice of yoga, we arrive at an experience of ourselves that is integrated, complete, and more fully alive.