About Kathryn

Kathryn McCusker discovered Kundalini Yoga and Meditation in Mexico in 2000 and has been teaching worldwide ever since.

After living in London for eleven years, where she taught private clients including Bjork and Rachel McAdams, and classes at Triyoga and Alchemy, Kathryn returned to Sydney in 2011 to open KMYOGA, Sydney’s first dedicated Kundalini Yoga Studio, which she ran for three years. She has now returned to London where she is again teaching private clients and group classes, as well as leading retreats worldwide including Australia, UK, Spain, Italy, Canary Islands, France, Sri Lanka, India, Greece and Egypt. Kathryn is a Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) certified Level One and Level Two teacher, having trained with SKY and Amrit Nam Sarovar. She is also a certified Conscious Pregnancy and Radiant Child Yoga teacher.

Kathryn organises and assists on Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainings across the globe, and continues to support new teachers with the challenges of being a yoga teacher through her mentoring sessions. She has also studied Reiki, and is interested in offering complementary therapies that promote profound energetic, emotional and physical healing alongside Kundalini.

A professional opera singer for over twenty years, Kathryn’s background in music and voice gives her a deep connection to the transformative power of mantra and pranayama.

She infuses this knowledge into her classes, along with deeply relaxing Gong Meditations. She has a keen interest in teaching Kundalini Yoga to creatives and has seen how it has supported and transformed their creative life. Kathryn is passionate about sharing these inspiring and uplifting teachings with as many people as possible. To find out more about Kathryn’s opera career, visit kathrynmccuskersoprano.com.

More recently in 2022, Kathryn was featured on BBC Sound’s Music & Meditation Podcast with NAO. Her episode, Power of Connection, featured an original singing mantra meditation composed by Ben Ponniah and was recorded by the BBC Singers with guest instrumentalists exclusively for this podcast.

Watkins commissioned and published Kathryn’s first book, Kundalini Meditation – The path to personal transformation and creativity, which was released in the US in November 2012 and in the UK and Australia in March 2013.

It has now been translated into Dutch, Italian and French and is available to buy in English, along with her mantra meditation CD’s. Kathryn’s book was re-issued by Watkins in Spring 2018, under the title ‘Everyday Kundalini’ and is available to purchase here and on Amazon.

More recently in 2022, Kathryn was featured on BBC Sound’s Music & Meditation Podcast with NAO. Her episode, Power of Connection, featured an original singing mantra meditation composed by Ben Ponniah and was recorded by the BBC Singers with guest instrumentalists exclusively for this podcast. 

Kathryn continues to receive a high level of interest from a range of media outlets, has been featured in many articles including The Times, Women’s Health, The Guardian and Yoga Magazine amongst others (see Press page for more).

“Kathryn is an immensely powerful and inspirational teacher, whom I cannot recommend highly enough. Through her classes I have had the benefit to learn more about, and to soothe and nourish, my mind, my body, my soul and my spirit.”

— Claire, London