In this interview, I talk to my dear friend Cate Peterson, one of the most respected leaders in the Yoga community in Australia. She has been a Japanese Yoga Teacher since 1994, teaching workshops and conferences in various yoga teaching disciplines. For more than three decades, she has been a yoga teacher, meditator, mentor and activist. She uses yoga as a tool to help people to become more mindful and managing their mental and physical well-being.

From providing classes to organizations and individuals, she then developed the YogaPass which was very successful in spreading yoga in Australia, and eventually, it has evolved to YogaHive. It fuels GetOffYourAsana; an organization that builds a bridge between yogis and activists to bring about a better world and focuses on greening the scene through another platform called LoveEarth.

Cate also ran the inaugural World Day of Yoga in 2015 at Bondi Beach and in 2016 at both Bondi and Sydney Opera House.

I see that in a way, she is using Yoga as a tool to connect people, perhaps first more individually, for instance, to become more mindful with their body and emotional wellbeing, but then it becomes a way to connect with like-minded people collectively. This also ultimately unite people to look after our environment more holistically.

She is such an inspiration and her journey as an activist advocating positive change is really worth learning from. In our conversation, we spoke about what has been changed since she started her heroine journey nearly 30 years ago and what continues to drive her and lead her to keep moving forward. 

You connect with Cate via her various organizations with the links above, or you can also connect with Cate via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CatePetersonYoga

You can listen to our interview via my podcast player above or iTunes or any major podcast catchers. You can also watch the video below:

https://youtu.be/GSRLrtWhQIQ

Transcript:

Sze Wing:              Hi.

Welcome to this week's interview, and today I've got Cate Peterson with me. And

as I was just chatting with Cate a minute ago that it's impossible to do a

short introduction, but I will try because Cate has been doing so much amazing

work in the last three decades. And also, your work is evolving so much, so I

will try my best to do a very short run down, then we're going to talk through

what you're doing and the message and the things that you're advocating and

really care about. Sounds good?

Cate:                        That

sounds great. I think it's just that I'm so old, that's why I've done so much.

Sze Wing:              No.

Not at all. I'm sure people could have spent three decades not having all this