Your Leader

The retreat will be lead by senior yoga teacher and experienced retreat facilitator Catherine Potter from Radiant Sun Yoga.

About Catherine Potter

Catherine is a yoga teacher, retreat leader, marriage celebrant and ecologist. She is also a mother and grandmother. As a yoga teacher she guides and support others in their yoga journey. As a retreat leader she creates and facilitates spirited earthy experiences.

Catherine owned and ran the Broulee Yoga Shed on the NSW South Coast from 2011 – 2019 where she taught regular classes and nature-based yoga earth retreats. She now lives at Nambucca Heads on the Mid North Coast where she runs yoga and retreats from her home studio.

Catherine’s yoga draws on many influences and incorporates conscious breath, energy, inner focus, fluidity, fleibility, balance, strength, softness, active postures, flowing movement, restorative and yin practices, guided relaxations, silent meditations, chakras, chanting, nature and earthing, silence, stillness, spirit, wholeness, oneness, connection and wellbeing.

Catherine first started yoga some 40 years ago and has been teaching yoga for 18 years. She loves to share the holistic physical, mental, emotional, philosophical and spiritual wonders and benefits of yoga with others.

Catherine gained her initial qualification as a Hatha Yoga instructor in 2007 then completed Advanced Vinyasa Flow Yoga training in 2009.  She has also undertaken studies in Restorative and Yin Yoga.

Catherine holds a Degree in Ecology and a Masters in Leadership. She spent many years working professionally in nature conservation, environmental management, communications and Indigenous affairs. She is also a civil marriage celebrant, rites of passage guide and deep ecology facilitator.

For more about Catherine, her yoga, retreats and testimonials please visit her website - Radiant Sun Yoga


Catherine says

"The sun, the sea, the beach, sea eagles. The bush, trees, flowers and gardens. Songs, music, dancing and books. Dogs, kids, grandkids and friends. Spirituality, nature-spirit connection, ritual and community. These are some of the things I love in life. These things inspire me as a celebrant, yoga teacher and retreat leader."


During her 25 year professional career Catherine worked in conservation, environment, horticulture, national parks, botanic gardens, Indigenous affairs and communications. She brings this deep experience in leadership, facilitation, communications, public speaking and event management to her roles as a leader and teacher.

Combined with her insights, knowledge and skills as a yogini, ecologist, deep ecologist and writer, she has much to offer as a celebrant and retreat facilitator.


"My yoga journey began when I was a teenager some 48 years ago when my sister took me to a yoga class. I trained as a yoga teacher in 2007 as I wanted to share the joys and benefits of yoga with others. My personal yoga practice is a vital part of my life – bringing me focus, energy, inner and outer strength, balance, stillness, calm, inner connection and spiritual sense."