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About the retreat leaders
Catherine Jeffrey, Host
Catherine has a heart for working with others. She is a facilitator, trainer and mentor. Professionally she works as a Realtor in Fredericksburg, TX where she lives. Catherine received a Child and Family Studies degree, and graduated Cum Laude, from Phoenix Community College in 1997. She established a non-profit agency, Living Well College (LWC), in 2004 to serve adults with developmental disabilities in the Fredericksburg community.
In 2007, Catherine graduated from the Gillespie County Leadership program, and has been active in her community serving as a board member on numerous non-profit boards.
Katie Gray
Katie Gray is an author, singer, counselor, and president of The Empowered Heart® Foundation. She is devoted to helping people heal through connecting with feeling, presence and Self-awareness.
Inspired and compelled by her own full self-recovery from a 17-year addiction to food and bulimia, Katie utilizes the gift of her voice and wisdom to help others unravel from shame, insecurity and suffering. Her work of ‘The Empowered Heart®’ is a methodology that helps assist people in the process of identifying and healing emotional wounds and is the basis of understanding that infuses her work as a counselor, author and workshop facilitator. As a musician, she has received various recognition for her music, including time spent on the list of iTunes spotlight artists and appearances on both Jimmy Kimmel & The NBC Today Show.
Shannon Anderson
I🌙 Shannon Anderson is a Master of Herbology and practitioner of Color Therapy who weaves herbal wisdom, body painting, movement, and sound into a path of deep healing. A Certified Reverse Speech Practitioner, she helps uncover the hidden messages of the soul and gently guides others toward wholeness. For over 33 years, Shannon has brought light as Sunshine the Clown, performing magic and face painting, and once joined Dr. Patch Adams on a mission trip to share the medicine of laughter.
At this retreat, Shannon invites women into a sacred space of transformation through sound healing, gong bath, body painting, herbal wisdom, sacred play, and an introduction to belly dance — awakening the body, releasing trauma, and remembering joy.
Melinda Kirchoff
Melinda is a holistic health coach with expertise in diet and nutrition and is a continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2012, Kirchhoff did her first yoga teacher training. She continued and trained almost 400 hours with the Baptiste Institute learning power yoga techniques.
Kirchhoff traveled to Nairobi in 2017 and spent time working with the African Yoga Project, a program that helps train yoga instructors in that community. She hopes to utilize these skills to train other yoga instructors and increase the overall well-being of the people in Fredericksburg.