About Catherine

Catherine Taye Slattery

Certified Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Catherine is a gifted bodyworker, and lifelong student of movement and healing. She has strong, sensitive, intelligent hands, and a compassionate presence. Catherine has 25+ years of experience helping her clients heal and transform with touch, attunement and movement. 

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I came to Rolfing 30 years ago for the same reason many of my clients do: I didn’t feel good. I had headaches. TMJ tension. Knee pain. Back pain. Yoga had heightened my awareness of my body, but it seemed all I encountered was more tension. I longed for ease, flexibility, and relief. A series of Rolfing sessions helped all of my pains and unexpectedly made me a much better dancer. And I experienced a fundamental, wonderful shift in my relationship to my body. Before Rolfing, I would (unknowing, but consistently) ignore and override my body's needs  and experiences. Rolfing brought  me into interested, available, responsive contact with my body--the beginning of a true relationship with my body. 

Fast forward 15 years, and an overlapping series of traumatic events, including a near-death experience from childbirth complications, left my nervous system absolutely overwhelmed and stuck in traumatic distress. To some degree, my existing healing resources and tools helped me cope with living in dysregulation, but nothing truly resolved my traumatic experiences until I began to get regular SE sessions. 

Living in pain is hard. Living in traumatic distress is hard. But there is help to be had. Rolfing and Somatic Experiencing have been tremendously helpful for me, and I'm grateful to be able to offer both to people who need them.  

Over the years, I have studied many movement, contemplative and healing traditions that continue to influence me: Vipassana meditation, Iyengar yoga, Ashtanga yoga, 5Rhythms, yoga with Sofia Diaz, Azul Conscious Movement, attachment and horsemanship with Duey Freeman, and developmental movement (DNS).  I love dance most of all, and modern dance is my favorite! (I take class locally at LDA, and you can too!) I have also spent some time with ballet, hula, and classical Indian dance. I am newly interested in (and loving!) Gaga Movement Language. 

I have a bachelor's degree in fine arts and life sciences from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. I trained at the Rolf Institute (in Colorado and Brazil), graduating as a Certified Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner in 2001, and I completed Somatic Experiencing training in 2024.