BIOgraphy
Cat La Fey is a Holistic Designer and consultant of sustainable, restorative spaces that are deeply committed to wellness, education, nature, art, and the cultivation of sacred space and intentionality.
Coming from an advertising background, she spent the beginning of her career creating business strategies and experiences for corporations.
Her spiritual path was shaped by her family - she began her energetic medicine studies in 2009, training for 13 years in London and Romania at the Spirit of the Inca School, and in Peru learning directly from the Q’ero Wisdom Keepers. Her mother was considered an elder in the shamanic community.
Throughout the years she received degrees in a wide spectrum of complementary healing modalities:
Cat is a Certified Clinical and Metaphysical Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner & Transition Coach, Detox Specialist and Health Educator.
Believing in realigning economic mechanisms towards goals of purpose, in 2015, Cat decided to leave the advertising world and founded an International Educational Platform called Do Good Academy that featured international speakers sharing innovative and groundbreaking information in the field of physical and emotional wellbeing.
Shortly after, she started her role as Trauma Release Therapist, Featured Lecturer and Strategic Advisor at one of the most established holistic health centers in the US, Hippocrates Health Institute. In this container, she deepened her trauma release work with terminally ill patients.
After well over a decade of work in the health and wellness sector, Cat has recognized the ever-growing need, to enhance not only the practices and modalities but the spaces in which these take place.
Her exploration in the growing fields of environmental and eco-psychology and her aesthetic sensitivity have led her to understand the impact that space and environment have on our individual and collective wellbeing.
She is now curating and consulting restorative spaces, having an integrative approach, assessing businesses from the inner space, “bone structure” to the design of the outer space and functionality”
Cat is a graduate of Media Pro Journalism and Greenwich University in London with an MA with Merit in Business and Events Management, and she is currently a Student at the Holistic Design Institute in London.
Personal Journey
“I deeply admire indigenous cultures for their ability to willingly open the door to metaphorical death and transformation.
They are comfortable in diving deep in the waters of the unknown. They are connected to the sacred.
The Qero’s practice dying yearly, contemplating what this experience brings, what they are still attached to and what requires healing, adjusting.
They live fully, honoring all there is, integrating sacred space, ritual and ceremony as consensual norms of living. Each gesture has meaning, each moment is honored. This intentionality and presence changes the quality of space and time.
These anchors have served me greatly, in my own lessons in loss, when my mother passed away and in my work with cancer patients.
Presently in the western world there is a revolution in the understanding of Sacred Space.
The quest for regenerative liminal space usually occurs during some form of life transition – major life cycle changes or trauma. When people go through these initiation moments, that can be seen as mini-deaths, they are often searching for some kind of extraordinary space that would allow them to leave an old phase behind and experience initiation in a complete new phase.”
“I dedicated a large part of my career to bridging the importance of releasing trauma through befriending death, honoring transition moments and cultivating inner sacred spaces.
Over the last few years, post pandemic holistic trends found their way into hospitality and design. The creation of space became a conscious act, honoring a newfound set of values – holistic design, sustainability, the consumption of wellness and spirituality in togetherness.
I am inspired by this movement as it brings revival in ritual leadership and the cultivation of sacred space - an extension of application of what we consider a ‘holy place’ to be, a more inviting, empowering, and permissive way to participate in the creation of our modern temples.”