Cathy Gamba is a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).
Cathy is a mother of two young girls and a student in Neuroscience. She worked in marketing and communications for 15 years in NZ, Japan, Switzerland and France before opening Pause Yoga in 2014 (www.pauseyoga.co.nz).
She started yoga in 2004 and trained to become a yoga teacher in 2013. There are two main areas of focus in her teaching: these are anatomy and mindfulness. Her teaching style is athletic, therapeutic, secular and modern.
Cathy's classes have a focus on pre-emptive mobility therapy and mindfulness. Cathy is hoping to start a PhD in neuroscience at the end of 2026, she is currently studying at Victoria University in Wellington.
She has deep roots in the practice of mindfulness and is acutely aware of the connection between physical health and mental health. She recently graduated as a certified Mindfulness teacher from the MMTCP two-year long programme offered by Jack Kronfield and Tara Brach at Sounds True and Berkeley University.
Cathy's main yoga teacher is Tiffany Cruikshank, the founder of www.yogamedicine.com. Cathy is a registered Therapeutic Specialist teacher with Yoga Medicine. She has been studying with Tiffany since 2012 and is continuing her education towards 1000hours teacher training. Cathy's areas of interest when teaching are "interoceptive awareness", "optimal spine function" and "mindfulness".