Recovery and Yoga for Women with Katherine Arati MaasRecovery and Yoga for Women with Katherine Arati Maas
Katherine Arati Maas
Katherine Arati Maas shares her experience of addiction and sobriety, focusing on women’s specific struggles and the weight of shame and guilt. She talks about how yoga, self-compassion and honest connection with other women support ongoing recovery and reconnection with the body.
0:00•5 May 2016
Recovery, Truth and Yoga: Katherine Arati Maas on Women’s Sobriety
Episode Overview
- Women in addiction recovery often face layered stigma, including fear of losing children or partners, which can keep them silent and ashamed.
- Simply not drinking isn’t enough; doing emotional and spiritual work is crucial to avoid staying stuck as a “dry drunk.”
- Yoga and meditation can help reconnect with the body, offering a safe space to process grief, trauma and long-suppressed emotions.
- Self-compassion and changing harsh inner dialogue are essential parts of self-care, especially for women used to putting others first.
- Sisterhood and honest sharing of personal stories help women realise they aren’t alone and reduce the sense of isolation in recovery.
“We have to be okay with not being okay for a while. Before we ascend, we have to descend.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation follows Katherine Arati Maas as she talks honestly about recovery from alcohol, food and emotional instability, and how yoga has become a lifeline for women trying to stay sober. Katherine shares how drinking and using food as comfort started early, describing herself as a “recovering shy person” who found escape in substances rather than connection.
She talks about blackouts, chaos and the heavy “enormous amount of guilt” that came the morning after, especially when she knew she wasn’t living her truth. Sobriety, which began around 2010, didn’t magically fix everything; she admits there were years of “just sitting around not drinking” without doing the inner work. The conversation focuses strongly on women’s experiences. Katherine highlights how stigma, fear of losing children or partners, and a deep sense of shame can keep women silent.
She notes that many women carry a “trifecta” of depression, eating issues and alcoholism, layered with isolation and self‑blame. Yet she also talks about the power of sisterhood, saying that other women’s stories and support can make you feel less alone. Yoga and meditation show up as practical tools rather than airy concepts.
Katherine explains that many addicts “become so disconnected from living in our physical bodies,” and that yoga helps her come home to herself, feel safe and process buried emotions. She talks about grief surfacing on the mat, and how practices like these help change the harsh inner dialogue into something more compassionate. Throughout, there’s a gentle reminder that recovery is a whole‑person process: body, mind and spirit.
As Katherine puts it, “We have to be okay with not being okay for a while. Before we ascend, we have to descend.” If you’re a woman wondering whether anyone else feels like you do, this conversation might be the nudge you need to reach out and start your own self‑care journey.
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