Behind The Hype
Hello! I’m Kate. Mum, lifelong wellness fanatic, lover of colour, enthusiasm and a natural nurturer. A 19-year career, a 5-year count of ill health and a light-bulb diagnosis as finally revealed my true vocation. I help people become truer, stronger versions of themselves.
I spent an incredible career as a Communications Strategist in London and Manchester. I jumped into Leadership in my 30s, managed people, teams, characters and confidence. I am so curious about human behaviour.
I self-funded all of my qualifications. All alongside other work and life. Since experiencing Redundancy in 2024, I pivoted, full time, towards my passion and now I encourage others to get to really know themselves!
I found strength through Yoga.
I faced my avoidance-habits through Cold Water.
I became the Coach the world is missing.
My biggest regret? Not getting coaching sooner and realising how great working for myself is for me. My Redundancy Coaching packages mean other peple don’t have to stagnate. Yoga has kept me sane for over 12 years. Cold Water is my morning routine. Coaching allows me to share the work that needs to be done when you find yourself in reactive change, or, wanting to make change proactively.
I run Redundancy Coaching alongside my established Senior Yoga Teaching and hosting trauma-informed, Cold Water Therapy sessions.
I wish I had known 'my way'
While growing my Yoga business, parenting our young son, and working as a managing partner in a global agency, I received a late diagnosis of combined-type ADHD in 2023.
I now understood myself SO much better. Like I’ve been given the right manual, finally.
This re-learning made something clear: I wasn’t taking my best self to work anymore.
Management and leadership took me away from insight and human behaviour.
My corporate life no longer aligned with my appetite, nor did it utilise my strengths.
I wanted to champion and share my strengths. The realisation that I could trust myself and be myself was liberating, and the redundancy, just what I needed to take the leap!
Kate Oates Elevate was born in 2024, from my previous Yoga-business, Kate Oates Yoga.
My business now combines my corporate experience, my natural inclination to cheerlead, expose strengths and encourage people as a manager and leader, with my wealth of experience and expertise in a yoga capacity. In 2025 I added Cold Water Therapy so that I offer a unique Coaching toolkit, combining all of the three.
I help you learn about yourself through mindset, movement and their nervous system.
I have an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, and a strict policy on safety.
I am professional yet friendly, I am encouraging and an expert, and I am curious, approachable and creative.
My only goal is to get you to yours.
Elevate yourself
Coaching
More than finding answers — discovering your own way forward.
Through one-to-one, whole-person coaching, we create space to explore who you are, what you need, and how you want to live, lead, and grow — with clarity, courage, and connection.
Through appreciative coaching, positive psychology and NLP, my signature “walk and talk” format (optional) you’ll identify the real issues holding you back and create a motivating path forward. Ready?
Cold Water Therapy
More than a just a cold dunk — a path to self-understanding.
Through gentle, one-to-one sessions, we use the experience of cold water, breathwork and body awareness to reconnect you with your inner voice, your needs, and your natural resilience.
This is more than immersion. This is trauma-informed, unlearning with the cold. It’s a return to your body’s wisdom, helping you build trust, courage and calm, from the inside out.
Yoga
More than movement — Elevate yoga is a way home to yourself.
Through accessible, intuitive sequences, we use breath, strength, challenge and stillness to reconnect you with your body, your resilience and your capacity for calm and energy in everyday life.
A Senior Teacher with 12 years experience, I work with individuals, groups, corporates, I host events, workshops, retreats and festivals. I’m prenatal trained and specialise in yoga for sports and athletes.
Elevate Qualifications:
• Cold Water Therapy Instructor Certificate, accredited by Cold Water Safety UK and led by market expert, Kevin O’Neill at Breatholuion, March 2025.
• 19 years working in organisations, from Graduate to Managing Partner (2006-2024)
• Specialist in Yoga for Sport and Athletes, professional mentorship from Yoga professionals in the Premier League and main Sporting Bodies, 2024.
• Certificate in Coaching, accredited by the ACC and ICF, with The Coach House, 2023
• 40-hour Yoga Alliance certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher, 2017.
• 60-hr Yoga Alliance certified Rocket Yoga teacher, 2016.
• 200-hr Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher, in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, 2014.
When I reflect back on where I was 4 sessions ago I can’t believe how far I’ve come.
What feel like small changes that I would never have made without Kate’s guidance and support, have helped me to grow in confidence, clarity and positivity.
Kate has a relaxed yet attentive style of coaching which I found put me immediately at ease. She’s a great listener and is unbelievably intuitive.
Coaching sessions with Kate feel so comfortable and relaxed, but also action focussed for optimistic change.
Thank you Kate!
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