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Just Bee Kind - At The Hive, I create space for grounding, softening, and returning to yourself. Katie will help you feel supported and cared for.

Rooted in the wisdom of massage therapy and the teachings of yoga, Just Bee Kind offers soulful experiences that nurture body, mind, and spirit Katie (RMT and Yoga Instructor) is originally from the North West of England and arrived in Cochrane, AB in 2013. You may have seen her around town as for a while she worked at Save On Foods and also Managed the retail location of MacKay's Ice Cream. Whilst working in town, meeting new people and making new friends, Katie has taken several Yoga Teacher Trainings her Foundational 200 hours were take with Cochrane's own Fireweed Yoga with Jill Novak and Jody DiCastri, she then went on to further complete teacher trainings in Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga. You can currently find her teaching Yin and Restorative classes at Alchemy Yoga Studio in Cochrane. During her Yoga Teacher Training's Katie discovered she had a love of anatomy and fostering a positive mind-body connection. This led her to complete her 2200 Hour Massage Therapy Diploma at Vicars School of Massage in Calgary. Before moving to Canada Katie was a Mental Health Counsellor for the National Health Service and her love of helping others has never dissipated. Her combined knowledge and experience inform the way she practices whether she is teaching a yoga class or providing therapeutic massage.

09/28/2026

Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start.

So… start with five minutes. 🤎

Five minutes to stop.
Five minutes where nothing needs to be achieved.
Five minutes that are just yours.

I was playing around with my bowls after class tonight and figured I’d hit record, just in case someone out there needs five minutes of chillaxing bowls with a little bit of vocals. ✨

Sound has been part of healing and contemplative traditions for a very long time, and the human voice might just be one of the most powerful instruments we have.

So pop your headphones on, get comfy, close your eyes if you’d like…

You don’t need to meditate.
You don’t need to clear your mind.
You don’t need to do anything particularly well.

Just start with five.

Please, enjoy. 🐝🤎

And feel free to share if you know someone who could do with taking five. 😝

Bee Still 🐝 Bee Kind 🐝 Bee You

09/19/2026

I didn’t set out to work with grief. Looking back, though, I think I’ve been walking with it for most of my life, not always through death, but through endings, leaving, relationships, homes, expectations, identities, and all the versions of myself I quietly outgrew. Grief has been there beside the joy too: singing in a band at sixteen, falling madly in love, moving across the world, getting married, starting again, and trying an unreasonable number of hairstyles along the way. 😂🤣😂

While I was living all of those lives, I was also learning different ways to sit beside people. Through care work, grief groups and person-centred counselling; then through yoga, massage, breath, movement, touch, rest, story, ritual and silence. For years, I thought these were separate chapters, that I kept changing direction. Now I realise I was collecting pieces and carrying each one with me.

So, hi 👋. I’m Katie. I walk with grief, not because I have the answer to it, but because I don’t believe grief needs an answer. Sometimes it simply needs somewhere it is allowed to be, and someone willing to sit beside it for a while. If grief is walking with you, there’s room here for you too. ❤️

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

09/12/2026

Grief doesn’t always look like grief.
It can come with death and bereavement, of course. But it can also arrive with changes in health, relationships, identity, family, work, our bodies, or simply a life that looks different from the one we thought we’d have.

Yoga for Grief is a small, six-week series offering space to explore grief through gentle movement, breath, guided reflection, mythology, conversation and deep rest.

Where: Alchemy Bamboo Studio, Cochrane
When: Sundays, September 20 – October 25
Time: 4–6pm
Bonus closing gathering: November 8

$295 | Maximum 9 participants

And even if this isn’t something you need right now, please consider sharing this reel.
You never really know what someone around you may be carrying quietly, or who might need to know that there is somewhere they can bring their grief without having to fix it, explain it, or walk through it alone.

Sometimes sharing is the invitation.

www.justbeekind.ca

08/09/2026

Yoga for Grief | Fall 2026

A gentle six-week journey through movement, mythology, breath and compassion.

Where: Alchemy Yoga Cochrane Alberta
When: Sundays 4-6pm | Sept 20 & 27 • Oct 4, 11, 18 & 25
*** Bonus gathering | Sunday Nov 8 4-5pm

Maximum 9 participants

Grief isn't something to fix. It is something to be held.
Booking is now open, details at the link in my bio, or send me a message.

06/05/2026

"Grief is not only an emotion but a core human faculty." — Francis Weller

What if grief isn't something imposed upon us?

What if grief is one of the many capacities that make us human?

We spend our lives strengthening different parts of ourselves. We learn how to love, how to create, how to adapt, how to begin again. Perhaps grief belongs on that list too.

Grief asks us to stretch into places we never expected to go. It can be heartbreaking and hilarious. It can arrive as tears, laughter, confusion, tenderness, anger, gratitude, or silence. Sometimes all before lunch.

Maybe that's because grief isn't separate from being human. It moves through all the parts of us that are already there.

The sad parts.
The funny parts.
The unusual and messy parts.
The beautiful and wholesome parts.

And perhaps every time we allow ourselves to feel, remember, mourn, celebrate, ache, laugh, or love what has been lost, we're gently strengthening our capacity to grieve.

A strange kind of workout, perhaps.

A few reps in the sadness gym.

But a human one all the same. 💜

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

06/03/2026

• Travel Day Reflection •

I've been here a few days now and found myself reflecting on the travel day.

I am incapable of travelling light.

Two or three books. A selection of snacks. Multiple playlists for every conceivable mood. Hand cream. Essential oils. Lip balm. A journal. Usually more than one pen. Honestly, if it fits in my bag, there's a fair chance I've brought it.

My curiosity has been asking why?
Why do I always prepare for every possible version of the journey?
This particular flight had less room than other flights I've been on, which made accessing my carefully curated collection of comforts somewhat challenging. But I persevered. 🤣

The truth is, I don't think I like the idea of being bored in that situation, I can be picky with boredom.

And so, for the return journey, I have set myself a challenge. No books. No playlists. No distractions.
Just me, a window seat, and whatever happens to arise.

I believe this is what the kids are calling "raw do***ng a flight." 🤣😂
I would probably call it mindful presence, observation, or perhaps a meditative practice.
But then us millennials do have a tendency to use twenty words where one will do.
Wish me luck. 🐝

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

05/20/2026

Happy World Bee Day 🐝

Back home, the worker bee is the symbol of Manchester, a city built on industry, resilience, community, and hardworking people. Growing up near Manchester, you see those little bees were everywhere… mosaics, bins, street art, murals. A quiet reminder that we belong to something bigger than ourselves.

Now here I am, 13 years into life in Cochrane, apparently bringing my pollen to Canadian soil 😂🇨🇦🍁

And honestly… the worker bee feels strangely fitting for me:
🐝 female
🐝 infertile
🐝 hardworking
🐝 community focused
🐝 caring for the hive
🐝 communicates through dancing 🤣

Bees pollinate, connect, nourish, and quietly keep ecosystems alive without asking for much recognition. There’s something deeply beautiful about that.

So today feels like a good day to honour the workers, the nurturers, the builders of community, the quiet connectors… and maybe to rest your wings for a moment too.

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

04/15/2026

These photos popped up from 2023 when brought in a photographer... and honestly? I went full goblin mode with the props 🤣😂🤣

Blankets, bolsters, blocks… if it could make you feel held, it was in the room.

And yet here I am 3 years later…
my brain (as always) is like:
“yes but… what if we made it EVEN MORE cosy?”
Enter: hot stones!!

There’s something about warmth that lands differently in the body.
It softens faster.
It settles deeper.
It feels… ancient.
So naturally, I had to create something a little bit special with it.
"Stone & Stillness" is coming up and it will be cosy, grounding, and just a little bit indulgent.

Come melt with me 🫠
(DM for more details or book through my website link in bio)

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

04/13/2026

Three weeks ago, I taught a Yin class to a group of Yoga Teachers in Training…

Now, that might not sound out of the ordinary, I teach classes all the time right? 🤪
This one felt different.

This one felt… holy.

I was invited back by my teachers, .sisterscience and , into the very container where my own journey deepened. To step back into that space, familiar, warm, full of possibility, was a full circle moment I didn’t even realise I needed.

Looking back, it’s been a wild ride.
Not just as a teacher or massage therapist, but as a human, learning, unlearning, softening, growing.

I carry so much gratitude for all the teachers who have shaped me along the way.

Here’s the part that’s stayed with me…

During the Q&A, I was sharing about my Yoga for Grief work when Jill mentioned to the group that I had created this series.

It made me pause. I did create this, I've built my own container.

Not from a training.
Not from a template.
But from lived experience, curiosity, and a willingness to follow something that didn’t yet have a clear shape.

Lately, I’ve felt a bit of a fire under me. A pull toward trusting that creative current a little more…
letting things be a little messy, a little magical.

I’m not sure when the next Yoga for Grief series will be… but I can feel something growing here.

This work is evolving, I’m creating, I’m listening… so if this speaks to you, stay close.

Watch this space.

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

04/07/2026

It may not feel like spring out there right now…
snow, ice, that sharp little bite in the air…
and yet here it is, a whole season unfolding in the palm of my hand.

Just look at those colours, those colours don’t whisper… they sing!

A reminder that warmth, growth, and softness
are already on their way back to us.
Maybe we don’t have to wait for spring to arrive…
maybe sometimes we get to hold it, even just for a moment.

Bee Still. Bee Kind. Bee You.

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