Katherine King

Certified iRest Teacher I have spent most of my adult life as a consulting environmental engineer, exploring first hand how our environment, especially access to nearby nature, affects our health and wellness. To deepen my understanding, I pursued graduate studies in environmental psychology at the University of Michigan, permaculture design with the Midwest Permaculture Institute, and aromatherapy with the Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy. However, my personal experience with iRest provided a clarity that helped me see how awakening to our always present inner True Nature is key to deeply loving and caring for our natural world. in 2014, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. The trauma associated with the pain, hospitalizations, and sudden transition from healthy to terminally ill has provided me deeper compassion and empathy for others who experience pain, trauma, illness, and cancer. iRest meditation provides an approach to uncloaking our timeless, perfect, complete, and unchanging Being Within, that is always Present to heal, comfort, and reassure during all the "comings and goings" of this embodied life.