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Be The Light
Our Vision is to be a guiding light for all on the journey to a balanced, creative and mindful lifestyle. Reflecting the source of energy and nature, to unlock the metamorphosis of creativity within us all and inspire our communities through the thread of yoga, unity and peace.
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Our story begins with mats designed to inspire and move your senses to reflect the creative joy from painting and the pure expression of energy, from my soul to yours!
KATI KAIA brings original abstract expressionist artworks with crafted and considered design to yoga products and accessories with it’s roots firmly in sustainability and eco-consciousness. All our artworks are hand-painted in our studio, just outside of London in the green belt of the Surrey Hills.
A little hello...
We don't believe in chasing trends, we believe in embracing individuality, encouraging creativity by creating crafted boutique accessories that compliment your active lifestyle.
Our Founder, Kati, travelled the world, sourcing the most sustainable materials, techniques and inspirations. Working in the fashion design industry for over 15 years before leaving to set up a brand inspired by the deep passion and love she has for slower living, yoga, nature and our planet. By using design and business as a force for good to make a real change and offering product with love, thought, detail and difference.
Painted with love,
'My work is hand-painting stories into large scale colour fields, to really envelope the beholder in colour. By using movement as a key energy to channel into artwork with almost tribal mark-making and textures. I dance accross the canvas, building up texture stories and colour combinations.
Creating an artist experience ‘off the wall’ - right at the most immersive point in your yoga practice, when you come face-to-face with colour, it's the purist form of expression and has the ability to heighten the senses, to delve deeper into your connection beyond the self.'
As seen in Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Elle, Glamour, SheerLuxe, Hip & Healthy, The Observer, Womens Health, Stylist & The Independent ...
A little note from our founder...
“Creativity, Movement and Artistry have been key throughout my life. My creative journey began at an early age, dancing from age 4 into professional, it was my first love, Yoga was a natural progression, with a home practice that has guided me through so many difficult times, it became my sanctuary and saviour. A moment of calm in the stormy waters of life.
I always wanted to make a positive impact using my skills in design. Starting my career in global fashion brands such as Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood and Maria Grachvogel, learning my craft. Specialising in draping around the female form and working with brands that have female empowerment at their core, I found my real purpose through my creativity. This career took me around the world, absorbing cultures, capturing colours, human expression and energies. I painted these musings, marks and expressions throughout my journey, cultivating in creating large scale abstracts with spiritual energy, pure abstract expressionism, moving and dancing with across the canvas, which I began to show.
Kati Kaia for me, brings together all my vices for art, movement and creativity with beautiful design and eco sustainability. I want to challenge how we make things, how we create things, bring innovative and exciting design to yoga product alongside my love of details and those old crafted methods, that take time to create, develop and inspire others… it all starts with the base.”
Creativity on and off the mat!
Beyond the debut mat collection, we are striving to cultivate our community of yoga and wellbeing teachers, soul seekers and peaceful spiritual seekers who share our love of yoga, creativity and art, the deep healing that journey to the self can bring. Our studio is where our story really starts and where our creative expression is explored each day
Winner of Start Up with Seven Dials, London
Kati Kaia was a proud winner of Start Up with Seven Dials run by Shaftesbury PLC Capital to find the brands of the future.
As a female owned and founded business, this was such an immense opportunity to feel supported and welcomed to Covent Garden, London, the retail capital of the world, surrounded by brands we admire and love as well as a thriving community, with the opportunity to share our story to the world.
We met so many people during our tenure and felt super blessed and inspired, supported by so many of you.
Thank you for having us.
"Let nothing dim the light that shines within"
Dr. Maya Angelou
