Katharina Hren
“I believe that kindness starts with how we treat the smallest of human beings and creatures. If we treat children as equals, with respect for their wisdom, they will grow up to treat others as equals they can learn from. If we talk down to children, they will grow up to talk down to others. If we don’t teach them that it’s okay to be different, they will hide the ways in which they are different while persecuting those whom they perceive to be different. If we treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, our children will learn how it is possible to extend kindness and compassion to others without reserve. When we give kindness in order to receive something in return, we will always be left wanting; whereas when we give to truly give, love is able to transform and feed us all, without lack.”
Katharina Hren is the flying-by-the-seat-of-her-yoga-pants Mom of young peaceful warrior Gustav. She currently works as a multitasking non-profit administrator, educator and yoga teacher in Milwaukee, WI. She attended the Freie Universitaet in Berlin and UW-Milwaukee, eventually earning a Master’s Degree in Foreign Language and Literature, and remains enrolled in the School of Life, majoring in Happiness. She has also studied at Kanyakumari Ayurveda and Yoga Wellness Center to become a registered yoga teacher with an emphasis on the study of Ayurveda, as well as earned certificates in K12 Yoga, Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Street Yoga, and Permaculture Design. It is her personal mission to share the tools of yoga and meditation with at risk populations in jails, recovery programs, schools, ecology groups and more. She is also deeply passionate about living healthfully, sustainably and creatively, participating in the Good Food revolution, cultivating inner and outer landscapes, as well as traveling the world. Katharina was born in Berlin, Germany and lived in Iran before moving to Milwaukee, in addition to traveling to over 20 countries so far…
