Kate Binnie

Kate has been working as a clinical Music Therapist for over 10 years and works in a hospice in Oxfordshire, where she integrates yoga and mindfulness techniques into her therapeutic work with patients and their families.

Kate Binnie

Kate teaches on the Yogacampus yoga therapy training course. She has spent over 16 years working as a music therapist and 11 years as a mindfulness and yoga teacher, specialising in therapeutic applications of music, yoga and mindfulness for people living with chronic and life-limiting illness in the NHS and the community. She runs CPD training days for healthcare professionals at www.sobelleducation.org supporting the integration of yoga & mindfulness into clinical practice, the delivery of compassionate care and to reduce suffering and burnout in staff.

Kate completed an MSc in Palliative Care at King’s College London (researching yoga and pain) in 2016 and is now a guest lecturer on the course. She is also a lecturer on the Oxford Brookes PG training in psycho-spiritual care. From 2016-20 Kate worked at University of Bristol on the Wellcome funded Life of Breath project (www.lifeofbreath.com) and is currently doing her PhD at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Institute, Hull York Medical School researching breathlessness and emotion.