KATHERINE Z.
I felt 'at home' in the wilderness. For 10 years, I worked as an international wilderness guide. I was in my joy as I invited others to rediscover how to reconnect with their inner essence through the natural world by living simply and sustainably. The effect of this was healing addictions and traumas. I watched many of them claimed a deep confidence through recognizing their soul identity in relationship to the environment.
As I navigated by the stars and led many 'vision quests,’ I was granted the privilege to guide on some of the earth’s tallest peaks, run some of her wildest rivers, and get lost in some of her most remote wilderness.This time grounded me deeply in my intuitive and instinctual nature and my capacity to guide others on internal and external quests.
My formal training granted me an English degree from University. I became certified as a Rolfer, Cranial Sacral therapist, and Anusara Yoga Instructor. I then leveraged these skills to develop a successful private practice for 15 years. I loved working with professional athletes and those invested in their own awakening process of deeper body and spirit presence.
Overtime, I gained a depth of understanding and mastery with using the body as a karmic map of the soul.
However, I knew I needed to delve deeper into the realm of consciousness to address remaining conditioning patterns that were still presenting in myself and in my clients.
I moved to a remote Zen monastery located in Southern California. For the next few years I cultivated a mindfulness practice and the beginnings of koan study. The intensity of monastic life was both deeply familiar and powerfully activating. I developed essential qualities of focus and presence. A decade later I lived and studied with a Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Lama. This intensive ‘retreat’ time enabled a further integration of consciousness and access to the spectrum of enlightenment through the intelligence of Elemental Harmony.
Eventually I would need to ‘come off the mountain’ and engage again with the world.
In 2009, I was guided to give birth to my daughter in a tide pool off the coast of Big Island, Hawai’i. This event inspired many women to come to Hawaii to pursue ocean birthing as it had been done for thousands of years. Personally, it was an unexpected initiation into the remembrance ‘Womb Wisdom.’
By this point I had a deeply embodied connection to the earth, to my body, and to consciousness. Something was missing, and it was through pilgrimage during the conception and pregnancy of my son that I reconnected with the power and presence of Divine Love. His father and I worked extensively to define the path of conscious birthing into a book and teachable materials. This along with a doula certification led me to support many families through the journey of conscious conception. More recently this work has extended to midwifing others to birth projects, platforms of work, and even paradigms of living.
It was through the portal of my most intimate anatomy that I found what I had been externally seeking for most of my life. This was the ignition of my deepest passion and dharma, to articulate and make accessible the ‘Feminine Path of Realization.’
For almost two decades I have been an international guide for others on their own internal quest to ‘know themselves.’
Axioms of Grace is the next octave of this work, a direct and refined method to situate women women in the fuller spectrum of their soul's hologram as lived through their human experience.
Axioms of Grace is a distinct pathway of eastern tantric practices, earth/energy science, and western trauma and shadow, and soul work. It is beyond the paradigm of healing, it engages people in their innate design for purpose.
As a guide, I am an embodied example for others who wish to know the eternal through their temporal roles (mother, lover, sister, daughter). I am an inspiration for those who have the courage to embrace the layers of personal, ancestral, and collective conditioning as fuel for deepening in Love. I am a tangible touchstone of humility inviting others into the recognition of their world as a reflection of their consciousness and the profound empowerment that we gain through doing our inner work.
karli Brackenweed C.c.c.
-clinical counsellor
founder of grit and growth
amanda PUA Walsh
-founder of astrology hub
"Katherine has given me priceless tools and guidance, enabling me to hold space for thousands of people, channel the power of my emotions into creativity and insight, and even connect with my two young daughters in new and profound ways. I am forever grateful for her sharp perception and fearless dedication to helping me uncover the truth of who I am".
"With her compassionate guidance, I have been able to shed what felt like multiple lifetimes of old paradigm through my energetic and somatic body in mere months. Katherine ignited within me a remembrance of my capacity to alchemize suffering into gold. On the other side of major life catastrophe, I am finally embodying the life of my dreams with more presence, delight and gratitude than I thought possible. I have been able to accept the divine call toward a higher octave of my service as a psychoanalyst, tantric guide and relational coach. I am infinitely grateful for Katherine’s devotion to her calling."
"Katherine has that rare ability: to see deeply into your being—not just where you are, but who you are becoming. And then she speaks it. Each word she offers is deliberately chosen, strung with a kind of vibrational intelligence that doesn’t just describe reality—it reshapes it. In her presence, I have felt both precisely dismantled and lovingly rebuilt. Her guidance, like the hands of a well-trained surgeon, has moved me from density to flow with precision and care."