The Practical Healer

The Practical Healer A integrated approach to healing.

We begin in a couple weeks! I have four spots remaining available.Join me at for a four week class series: Body + Breat...
03/01/2026

We begin in a couple weeks! I have four spots remaining available.

Join me at for a four week class series: Body + Breath.

Each week we will explore through therapeutic movement, guided breath and somatic practice. This is a restorative, intentionally small group offering that requires no previous experience.

All you’ll need is a yoga mat, bolster or pillows, a journal and an open mind.

Classes are Mondays at 5:30, Mar 16 - Apr 6. Drop in to any class for $35+gst, or come to all four do $125+gst.

Your host, Kat Hossack, is an experienced Certified Athletic Therapist, Somatic Practitioner and Breathwork Facilitator who works from a trauma-informed perspective.

Message here or email evoke.bodymind@gmail.com for registration. Pre-registration is required to guarantee your spot and respect the nature of this small group format 🙏

02/26/2026

We spend so much energy on avoiding the nature of presence and yet turning toward the exact moment we’re in is the most some of the profound medicine available.

I think this is one of the reasons I love infusions - tea - as a choice of remedy when working with plant medicines.

Tea making, taking, requires presence. Herbs don’t often work well or long term when used as a quick fix remedy. While some can have beautiful benefits for acute symptoms easing, most often they desire a broader relationship in order to do their best work. That doesn’t mean long term use, necessary.. more so a more holistic intention.

Teas especially ask for our presence. They require a few moments of prep. Time to steep. Taking them in calls our senses online. They merge our outer environment with our inner world.

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02/23/2026

It’s human to try to control intensity with intensity.

It’s nature to offer intensity spaciousness.

We can’t always change the rhythm of our lives. We can, however, usually find small ways to invite more spaciousness into our realities. This makes for a little bit of buffer amidst the various intensities we might face.

Pushing ourselves for more when life is at us from all angles doesn’t always serve our resiliency in the face of intensity.

What is challenging and resiliency building for us must always be placed in perspective to our context. The measure must be our internal perception of capacity, not an external measure of objective progression.

Meet the team here at Evoke!My cousin always jokes that a staff meeting here is just me talking to myself (but really 🤪)...
02/21/2026

Meet the team here at Evoke!

My cousin always jokes that a staff meeting here is just me talking to myself (but really 🤪).

Grateful to be able to work doing things every day that bring younger and current day versions of me to life, and to be able to meet with people everyday and help them do the same in their own ways.

Little me would be so intrigued and so delighted by life now 💛

Call it somatic first aid.These are some of my most used, most suggested somatic and nervous system supportive tools for...
02/15/2026

Call it somatic first aid.

These are some of my most used, most suggested somatic and nervous system supportive tools for helping us regain access to the present moment. They can be used as a series (which will be on my Substack this week) or as individual practices to call in as needed.

Somatic work and nervous system work is much more than just these, but these are entrance points and important tools for building capacity and relationship with our inner landscapes/moving through the world we live in.

Which ones have you tried?

Nearly missed it - Happy International Athletic Therapy Day!This June I will have been a Certified Athletic Therapist fo...
02/13/2026

Nearly missed it - Happy International Athletic Therapy Day!

This June I will have been a Certified Athletic Therapist for a full decade. AT has been such a phenomenal foundation for my practice and has taken me all over the world learning, teaching and treating.

I am grateful every single day for the wide scope of practice and diverse set of skills I have gained as an Athletic Therapist.

Enjoy this series of back in time photos, wild to think nearly fifteen years has passed since I first learned how to tape an ankle or freeze my ass off on the sidelines of a football field.

02/10/2026

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02/10/2026

Unfortunately it is accurate that in order to move through and “release” emotion or past experiences from our body we do need to find a way into relationship with them/and the body first.

A huge part of somatic based therapies is building capacity for interoception: our ability to notice inward facing information like sensation. When we encounter trauma or are experiencing life in reactive/stressed states, we usually have a lowered tolerance for interoception.

It can feel counterintuitive to turn towards the things we usually try to get rid of (anxiety, tension, pain, grief, anger, sensation all together) - especially in a culture that has largely focused on telling us that symptoms are the problem to be solved.

Rebuilding our ability to notice the body and all its stuff, as well as our capacity for being curious about those things is what allows expression of what’s been held and long term resolution or integration of past experiences.

We can’t bypass interception and expect long term integration or changes to unfold in our bodies and minds. And the foundation needed to work sensation at a level that brings up various inner worlds for processing sometimes takes time to build. We can’t rush into it, and digging for catharsis (which is often marketed as “release”) is not the same.

Effective facilitators of this process can attune and nuance through various methods in a way that supports you in not only feeling curious about what’s unfolding from the body’s perspective, but also well within capacity to work with whatever is there.

The breath is a powerful tool and piece of our biology. It asks for nuance and presence when working with it.I’m plannin...
02/03/2026

The breath is a powerful tool and piece of our biology. It asks for nuance and presence when working with it.

I’m planning a weekly Body and Breath class for early spring. 60-75min each week of guided awareness, somatic work, breath and gentle movement designed to support you in feeling inward and feeling good.

If you’ve been curious about experiencing breath and body based practices, this will be a great place to dip your toes. It’ll also serve those seeking ongoing support in connecting to their bodies in restorative practice.

Details TBD, spots will be limited- message me to get on the waitlist!

Just another custom blend basking in the afternoon sun.This infusion came together to support some ongoing digestive con...
01/30/2026

Just another custom blend basking in the afternoon sun.

This infusion came together to support some ongoing digestive concerns, alongside winter nutritional boosts.

Unofficially but kinda officially named “flower power”, the main characters here are peppermint, nettle, chamomile, marshmallow leaf and flower, hibiscus, calendula and some yummy citrus flavour provided by orange peel.

Blending healing herbal teas up for clients is one of my fav activities 💛✨

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