Hi, I’m Katelyn.
I’m a writer, Yoga Nidra facilitator, Reiki Master Teacher, and the woman behind In the Way of Beauty—a body of work devoted to beauty, depth, sacred rest, and the work of returning to yourself—your soulskin.
I create spaces for women to soften beneath the noise of their lives and listen for what is true. Sometimes that looks like writing. Sometimes it looks like Yoga Nidra, Reiki, ritual, or gathering in intimate retreat spaces. At the core of all of it is the same whole-hearted devotion: helping women come back into relationship with their soul, their creativity, their inner knowing, and the parts of themselves that have been silenced, numbed, or left behind.
I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with my family, where I spend my days writing, hiking, sipping coffee, facilitating Yoga Nidra and Reiki, teaching Reiki, and creating spaces for women to rest, remember, and feel alive again.
My Work
The women drawn to my work are often at a threshold—tired of performing, disconnected from their bodies, grieving old versions of themselves, or aching for a life that feels more honest, more beautiful, more fully their own.
My work lives there.
It is rooted in the scorpionic terrain I know well: death and rebirth, transformation, longing, truth-telling, beauty, grief, desire, and the stories we carry in our bodies. I’m not interested in skimming the surface. I’m interested in what lives underneath—in the parts of you that may not have language yet, but are asking to be witnessed, felt, and brought back into relationship.
Through writing, we give language to what has been held inside.
Through Yoga Nidra and sacred rest, we soften enough to feel what has gone numb.
Through Reiki and ritual, we make space for healing, reconnection, and inner listening.
Through gatherings and retreats, we step outside the noise of daily life and return to what is most true.
Above all, I take great care in creating spaces that are intentional, structured, and deeply held—spaces where women can inhale/exhale, tell the truth, and remember themselves in the company of beauty, stillness, and one another.
Come Alive
I primarily serve women who want to feel alive again in their bodies, their creativity, and their lives.
Women who are craving depth.
Women who are tired of holding it all together.
Women who long for beauty, honesty, rest, ritual, and spaces that let them hear themselves again.
Whether you find your way to me through a piece of writing, a Yoga Nidra, a Reiki training, or a gathering of women, my hope is the same: that you leave feeling more deeply in touch with your own body, your own truth, and the life that is waiting for you beneath the surface.
My story
I’ve spent most of my life surviving —over a decade of childhood abuse, postpartum depression, panic, grief, my husband and I leaving everything familiar to build something of our own in the mountains of Western North Carolina, learning how to mother a child who mirrors me back to myself, learning how to listen, and learning how to stay.And the threads that quite literally kept me alive through all of this were love, community, Reiki, Yoga Nidra, and beauty.
And when I say beauty, I mean those moments where light shines through the dark. A strawberry bush I would indulge in while the sun kissed my 5 year old cheeks in the backyard of the home I was abused in. Mountains against a blue sky where I decided to make my home after breaking the hearts of family members for leaving. A piece of art that stopped me mid-step, stirring something deep within me. The way grief and awe can exist in the same breath here —aliveness.
And so I create spaces of love —opportunities for community to gather and immerse in beauty while receiving the medicine that saved and continues to save me.
I am so honored to have you here!
Warmly,
Katelyn
