Kate W. Mak
yoga teacher / lover of food / world citizen / fun enthusiast / plant mommy / lululemon ambassador Catch you guys at the 2017 Banff Yoga Festival May 26 - 28.
Yoga isn’t just about poses.
It’s stories, symbols, and thousands of years of wisdom carried through mythology.
This is Nandi, Shiva’s loyal companion and the bull you’ll might see sitting outside every Shiva temple.
He represents devotion… but there’s also a very funny story about the day he became the world’s most stubborn gatekeeper.
Storytime from Bali 🌿
These are the kinds of stories we explore inside my Mynah School of Yoga Teacher Training at Soulshine this November.
02/28/2026
✨Devotion doesn’t feel loud here.
It’s not performative.
It’s not posted.
It’s not optimized.
It’s woven into each day, throughout the day.
A small square of palm leaf.
Petals placed with care and precision.
Incense lit.
A whisper of gratitude offered before the day begins.
In Bali, devotion lives on sidewalks and doorsteps. It sits outside cafés and family compounds. It’s stepped over, tended to, replaced again tomorrow. Ordinary. Consistent. Sacred because it is daily.
I think that’s what moves me most.
Devotion isn’t grand gestures.
It’s repetition.
It’s intention.
It’s choosing, again and again, what you bow to.
I don’t live here. I won’t carry canang sari back to Canada.
But I can carry the practice.
Devotion in making my morning coffee.
How I teach.
How I speak someone’s name.
How I care for my body.
How I choose integrity when it would be easier not to.
Maybe devotion isn’t about geography.
Maybe it’s about attention.
And maybe the real practice is this:
to make the everyday holy.
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04/12/2018
Need a class on the go?
It's been years in the making and I've finally pushed myself to just do it. :) I'm slowly (but surely) adding mini classes to my new podcast, Yoga with KM.
https://anchor.fm/katewmak/episodes/Wake-up--flow-25-mins-e13ma6
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Wake up & flow (25 mins) by Yoga with KM | Anchor - The easiest way to start a podcast A practice meant to fire up the system whether it's in the morning or during your day. Complete with a mini savasana that I'll lead you out of.
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