"I worked with Katie for some time earlier this year, in regards to gut health, yoni health and working through trauma. Katie was a wonderful coach/support as she looked at everything my mind and body were going through from a very holistic point of view and helped support me from every angle; which I had never done before. When I started with Katie, she ensured she had a thorough idea of my story and my body to best understand what had led to different issues and what did or didn't help me in the past. Katie gave me practical advice to implement daily and an immense amount of support during our sessions. I highly recommend Katie to anyone needing nurturing support as well as fantastic plans and evidence based advice surrounding women's health."

~ Taylah Gifford

The Shakti Immersion is queer-friendly and specifically designed for beings with female genitalia. The intention is to create a safe space for beings to gather and connect with our sacred womb wisdom. The intention is not to exclude anyone but to acknowledge the powerful container created when yonis unite in circle.

Tantra is is a spiritual path which worships the Goddess (mother earth and the divine feminine energy within all life forms). Katie will make reference to this throughout the Shakti Immersion. She will use the words of the feminine temple (women, sisters, womb, yoni, female, femininity, witches, tantrikas etc.). The intention is never to misgender anyone but to use the energetic power behind these words to connect with the divine feminine energy within all beings.

Katie received traditional tantric training in India. On her journey to transmute sexual trauma, she has also found great value in hypnotherapy, health coaching, fertility counselling, neo-tantric and shamanic practices. So, she combines what she has experienced to be the most potent techniques to create a transformative ceremony for all attendees.

Katie is a trauma-informed practitioner and has experience holding space for women processing trauma. However, Katie asks that you take radical responsibility for your self-care during the Shakti Immersion. She will regularly remind you to check in with yourself during events and on the group chat. Katie asks that you honour your needs in every moment. All parts are optional!

The Shakti Immersion is a 4 week in-person and online program beginning on Monday 2nd January. You will also have access to the online portal for life!

Each week, we will immerse ourselves in the energy of a different Tantric Goddess. We will connect with Her spirit and learn to feel Her within our own consciousness.

Your yoni can show up as she is: blood pouring, trauma tensing, or in orgasmic bliss. And you can show up as you are: tears falling, nervous laughter, or ecstatic moaning. All is welcome!

“I can’t really put into words how amazing Katie is as a person and how much she has helped me but I can try!!! My top goals when starting the program were healing traumas, healing pmdd, loving myself. Katie was able to help me work toward these goals by offering support both through the course and zoom coaching sessions. I never felt judged and I always felt like I was talking with a friend. The biggest tangible change I have noticed since beginning the program has been being able to control my random bouts of rage due to my pmdd better and a major reduction in cramps. I would describe Katie as supportive, loving, and kind. So down to earth and honest in the most refreshing way.”

~ Jade Carlucci 

Tantric Goddesses of the Shakti Immersion...

Week 1: Kali and Durga with the New Moon

They will help us with shadow work, sacred rage, and trauma release.

Durga and Her form as Kali will give us the strength and power needed to take the (sometimes emotionally challenging) divine feminine path.

We will burn anything which is no longer serving our highest purpose and allow it fuel our fire.

At the end of the week, we will gather for a sauna and fire ceremony at Beach Box, Brighton and give anything to the fire which we are ready to let go of.

Week 2: Lakshmi with the Waxing Moon

After a whole week of shadow work, it will be be time to come to the heart and the medicine of the rose.

Lakshmi will guide us to connect with auspiciousness, the knowing that success is in our future.

As the Goddess of abundance and worldly enjoyment, she will help us connect with the ever-present nurturing force of Mumma Nature.

This week will conclude with a journey into the South Downs by bus from Brighton (or meet us in your car). We will grow our roots into the ground to receive the medicine of the earth and allow the power of the wind to infuse our warrior hearts (bring a rain coat!).

Week 3: Sarasvati with the Full Moon

Once deeply connected to our hearts, we will be ready to journey into the creative potential of our wombs with radiant loving energy.

As the creative Goddess, Sarasvati will help us to channel that which comes through our sacred womb portals.

We will open our throat chakras and hips so we can express our divine gifts!

This week will culminate in a sea swim at Brighton Nudist Beach (quick dip as it’s January and nudity is optional!) so we can immerse ourselves in the power of the ocean and allow Her to wash away any doubt in our feminine magic.

Week 4: Lalita with the Waning Moon

In the final week, we will have done enough self-work to step into our sacred sexuality with the purest intentions.

This isn’t so much about becoming a great lover (although this may be an unexpected bonus)!

Lalita will help us cultivate, channel, and protect our sexual energy so that we can come closer to experiencing life as an ever-unfolding orgasm!

To celebrate the end of our program, this week will finish with a group pleasure practice and sister ceremony at Bristol Gardens Naturist Spa, Brighton (this will be a safe space where self-touch and nudity are optional)!

“I find it hard to express how much impact Katie Nicholson has had on this current chapter of my life.

She helped me understand my emotions and accept who I am wholeheartedly. She blew my mind with her knowledge of the menstrual cycle and healing our deep wounds. She gave me permission to allow myself to love who I truly am and let that beautiful woman shine!!

She was a big part of my healing from chronic RED-s to now being half-way through my pregnancy with my first baby boy and I could not be more happy.” 

~ Shannon Malseed

“I just wanted to share my testimony from my time receiving coaching with Katie last year. I was re-reading it as I am getting excited to work with her again this year and go even further in my health and wellness journey.

I received 12 sessions+1 complimentary session from Katie at Kalisatra and it was a massively transformative experience. I would like to share a little bit about my coaching journey with Katie and what it has done for me now that I have completed services.

I would like to preface this testimony with the advice that if you are not willing to commit to making changes, then coaching isn't going to help you. I didn't realize how on board I would be until I had my complimentary session with Katie. Right away she laid out a very reasonable method of addressing my menstrual issues from PMDD and irregularities. A lot of the tactics she taught me were not about adhering to a strict plan rather than it was about making simple lifestyle changes that make the biggest difference in my symptoms.

She has extensive knowledge in nutrition and how it affects menstruality and helped me root out some core issues in my diet. I never felt like she was pushing any sort of fad on me, but instead helped me to curate a personalized plan of action in my daily eating habits. Over the course of roughly 3 months I was able to drastically reduce not only pmdd symptoms but chronic migraines that have been so bad in the past that they have hospitalized me. I have medication for migraines that I take as needed, and I haven't needed it in at least 3 months. I have had issues with eating disorders most my life and never did I feel like I was going on a diet or anything restrictive. Katie taught me to make changes organically as I felt possible. One of my biggest compliments is that through everything we worked on together, it never generated any sort of stress for me as far as worrying what I needed to be doing better. Her methods for making change are incredibly practical and I am so grateful for it because I have gone down many rabbit holes in the past that didn't work for me, usually diet based. Not only did she help me make healthier choices but she shared some recipes with me that I have used repeatedly since working with her. Ask about her cacao recipes, trust me, they are simple and perfect.

My work with Katie was not just in the area of nutrition. Another thing I loved was her way of approaching problems from all aspects including physical and spiritual (should you express interest in that route, I promise nothing is forced I just kept going back to this topic as it was important for me.) On the topic of physical and mental I have benefitted greatly from mindfulness therapy in the past and Katie naturally had many activities that aligned with the practice of mindfulness so perfectly. I have several meditations and breathing exercises that I do daily that she has taught me and it has drastically reduced my anxiety and dependency issues. I love her authenticity in sharing these exercises that sometimes require vulnerable positions. Throughout our sessions she has taught me many exercises and I use some of the same ones daily. As I said nothing is pushed on you and I love that. She is an amazing soul whose only intention in our journey was clearly to help as best as possible, and she has helped me more than I ever expected.

I will spare details on spiritual aspects but I feel it is vital that I mention that Katie helped me process trauma that I have been in therapy for over a decade for. I wasn't making any progress in conventional psychotherapy but after one yoga nidra exercise with Katie I really have made more progress than ever. It was one of the most transformative and healing experiences of my life and that is saying something because I have experienced A LOT.

I feel like no matter what I write I cannot put into words how deeply grateful I am for making the decision to work with Katie and invest in some true healing for myself. I started this testimonial before we were finished with our sessions but then decided to wait and redo it after I had some time after to see how much stuck and how much of a difference was maintained. Obviously it is natural to fall out of new habits easily but I have kept reviewing our goal set and session notes and have easily jumped right back into this new lifestyle I have curated with her help. I am still maintaining a much less tortuous cycle and am honestly in awe how she has taken me from being roughly 50-60% out of commission during periods to what I would say is about 5% down. My periods do not affect my life nearly as much as they used to and the effects I feel now she has helped me to address in a way that keeps them from derailing my life.

The knowledge and work Katie has put into my situation has been so well curated by her through our sessions. I really felt heard by Katie and honestly consider her a friend now. I am so very happy I invested in this. If anyone is considering it and feels a deep motivation to change for the better I 150% recommend getting coaching from Katie. I WILL be back for her yoga lessons as well. A simple yoga for cramps video of hers has already alleviated my cramps from something utterly debilitating to a scant inconvenience. I love how if I do feel any discomfort it is so slight that I can hardly complain. I have even experienced totally cramp free periods thanks to my work with her. I used to lay on the floor shaking, panting, and crying from how bad my period cramps were. Now I can feel so comfortable during menstruation that I can go out or workout and not feel impeded by any pain.

I feel like I owe Katie so much, because she was so receptive and intuitive her help was the most effective. As I said before, this experience won't work for someone who isn't going to put forth the effort, but I promise that nothing we spoke of was so taxing that I gave up on the journey. It is all attainable. It feels so good to have someone treat your symptoms individually and not just say what doctors have always told me "you just have bad periods." Like that is a life sentence. It is not. Katie has helped me reclaim power over my life and it has spilled over into so many aspects of my life from love to career. Talk to Katie about coaching asap, take my word for it. You won't regret it.”

~ Emily Graham