Portrait of Katka

Katka Scott

Massage Practitioner. Ayurveda, yoga and botanical care.

I bring together Eastern healing traditions and a Western understanding of anatomy, because I've seen how much more is possible when care looks at the whole person.

I value natural living, organic ingredients and staying well: looking at the things that wear us down over time, as well as the place that aches today.

Katka's jade pendant from New Zealand: a green disc with a round hole and a wave of iridescent pāua shell along its lower edge.
The pendant that started it.

Where the name comes from

Twenty years ago my parents gave me a jade pendant from New Zealand, with a wave of pāua shell set into its lower edge.

Jade runs through my work: jade stones and tools in my treatments, and a warm jade infrared mat on my table. When it came to naming the practice, the pendant was already there, with a lotus waiting to rise from the bottom of it.

Jade represents the strength that endures. Lotus represents the beauty that emerges.

Why this work

Losing my mother to cancer in 2009 changed how I think about health.

It deepened my interest in holistic care and in the many connected things that shape how we feel: what we eat, how we rest, the stress we carry and the rituals that steady us. Jade Lotus is where that interest became a practice.

Training

  • Massage

    2,200-hour massage diploma, Mount Royal University, Calgary (2011 to 2015).

  • Yoga teaching

    200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, Gayatri Yoga, Yoga Alliance (2014). Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training (2015).

  • Ayurveda

    Certificate details to be added

  • Aromatherapy

    Certificate details to be added

  • Botanical wellness

    Founder of From the Earth Botanicals.

How I work

Whole person
Each session starts with how you are, not just where it hurts.
Natural first
Botanical oils and ingredients I know by name, and nothing I wouldn't use myself.
Staying well
Small, steady rituals between visits, so the calm lasts longer than the session.