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- Bachelor of Arts, Art, University of California, Berkeley
Kitty Costello began her mind-body studies in the late 1970's with a Buddhist martial arts practice, Shaolin Ssu, a direct lineage from the Shaolin temples in China. She has a 5th degree blackbelt and has been granted the title of Si Po (the feminine of Master) by her teacher, Grandmaster George Ming Esteban of the Shaolin Temple Institute.
Kitty has taught beginner and intermediate levels in the Chi Gung training of breath and internal energy. With a Master's degree in Social Clinical Psychology, she has been working as a psychotherapist since 1994, and was licensed as a Marriage Family therapist in 2001. She has incorporated a Western science-oriented approach into her work through the study of biofeedback and psychophysiology, as well as the learning and teaching of various Western relaxation, visualization and self-regulation techniques.
Kitty has studied and taught Kwan Ping Tai Chi and various other chi gung practices, and she integrates these into her own unique blend in her classes. Over the past decade, her practice and teaching have been grounded in Insight Meditation, bringing deep mindfulness to meditative movement practices and to psychological inquiry. Moment-to-moment awareness of mind and body are an essential aspect of what she offers to her students and clients.
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