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Family Constellations Facilitator & Yoga teacher Katie Despres is a Systemic Constellations Facilitator and Yoga Teacher based in Bristol, UK.

She is known for her down-to-earth yet intuitive approach, combining over 10 years of experience in yoga and personal transformation. Through constellation therapy and yoga, she helps people release limiting patterns, reconnect with their bodies and intuition, and step into clarity and empowerment. Katie offers monthly constellation workshops, 1:1 sessions, and couples work in Bristol. She trained to an advanced level, including Couples & Intimate Systems, with the Centre for Systemic Constellations under Gaye Donaldson and Chris Williams. Coming from a complex blended family, an inter-racial marriage, and a step-parenting dynamic, Katie brings deep personal insight into her work. She is known for saying the things others wouldn’t, and for never changing herself to suit people. Her approach is steady, clear, and human — rooted in the belief that transformation doesn’t have to be lofty or abstract, but grounded in the everyday realities of how we live, relate, and carry what came before us.

08/01/2026

Next week marks the start of the 2026 Bristol Monthly Family & Systemic Constellations Circle, at our new home, Faithspace Redcliffe.

🗓 Third Thursday of each month
⏰ 6.15–9.15pm

Faithspace is a quiet, held venue with its own car park, a short walk from Temple Meads, bus stops nearby, and easy access from Redcliffe, Bedminster, Totterdown, Southville and the city centre.

What is Family & Systemic Constellations?
This work explores patterns — ways of relating, responding or feeling that repeat over time. Patterns often don’t begin with us. They can be shaped by family, relationships, culture or collective history, and show up as stuckness, conflict, exhaustion, anxiety, loyalty, or a sense of carrying something that doesn’t quite feel like ours.

What happens in a circle?
Each evening includes two personal constellations. Everyone attending can put their name forward to work on something personal as an issue holder.
Everyone else has the opportunity to be present as a representative.

Representatives are asked to stand in as a family member or an essence within the system being explored, helping to map the system in the space. They report back only what they experience in their body — sensations, impulses, direction, movement. You can’t get this wrong, and we practise together first.

Something quite powerful happens when we offer ourselves in this way — interdependence, shared experience, and often personal insight and quiet shifts of our own.

The visual, embodied representation of a system allows us to see, to acknowledge, and to gain greater understanding and clarity. From there, movement becomes possible.

What people often say after coming as a representative:
“I didn’t come with an issue, but something really shifted for me. I felt included in a way I didn’t expect, and I left with more clarity and lightness than I arrived with.”

Everything is optional.
If you’re new to this approach, I usually suggest coming as a representative first to experience the work from the inside.

All dates and booking details are on my website
https://www.katiedespres.com/whats-on

I hope you will join the community
Katie

04/01/2026

January can feel cold, dark, and a bit disorientating.

In yoga, this time of year isn’t about forcing change.
It’s about recalibrating, gathering yourself, and gently resetting your relationship with your body, breath, and nervous system.

Yoga Foundations is a 6-week beginners course taught in cycles throughout the year.

You start, you practise, you pause, and you return.

Each cycle helps the practice move from something you’re learning, to something you’re integrating, remembering, and living.

This is not about getting it right first time. It’s about repetition, reflection, and letting understanding embed, physically and mentally.

Expect gentle movement, simple breathwork, meditation, and time to slow down and reconnect.
Taught by an experienced teacher, within a supportive community of people who are also finding their way back to themselves after winter and Christmas.

🗓 Starts Monday 12 January
⏰ 6.30–7.30pm
📍 St Anne’s House, Bristol

There’s plenty of parking, and if it appeals, St Anne’s House also has a sauna and cold plunge on site, a lovely way to continue the reset.

If you’re new to yoga, returning after a break, or feeling like January is asking you to recalibrate rather than rush, this is a good place to begin.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yoga-foundations-a-6-week-course-for-beginners-returners-tickets-1971724970464?sg=19e35e017a2ff679afbf42828d3081dd0c8c13ade14fb7f7e59154a489fb4377a80e233bcddb4dfa34163f0c063cf393489079850be9cc53d56a7906340fec21db75342ee9a3f73f7f98057c&aff=ebdsshios

03/01/2026

So touched how these words resonate so much with me as both a Cancer woman & Family Constellations Facilitator. Attending to the Soul by John Wadsworth

A Cancer full moon draws our attention toward the care of the soul, to how we respect and nurture our deepest places of connection, the most private parts of ourselves. It is important at this time to tend to our inner sanctum, to the cave of the heart. We are likely to be more in touch with that need for connection, and the presence of the past is especially strong. There is a need to remember what has gone before, to honour the ancestors and recognise the ways in which our life is also a continuation of their story and how our experience as a soul is characterised by the powerful images that the family system has impressed upon it.

We honour the moon by recognising the cyclical nature of life, the returns, and the returnings; by protecting what is most precious, and remaining mindful of, and compassionate towards our complex and often contradictory needs. We would do well to call upon the soul-nurturing wisdom of maternal elders whose connection with the deep roots of life help nurture a sense of belonging, and remind of us what really matters. Photo of my crystals moon bathing .. ❤️

01/01/2026

As we close 2025 and step into 2026, I want to pause and mark the transition.

I often share about cycles, numerology, and the Chinese animal year on my Stories, not as belief systems, but as perspectives. Ways of orienting, widening the lens, and noticing where we are in time.

In numerology, 2026 is considered a Year 1 or 10, the beginning of a new cycle.
In the Chinese calendar, we remain in the Snake year until mid-February, a period associated with shedding, consolidation, and slow, grounded change.

January sits right in the middle of that. Still winter. Still low light. Not a month for leaping forward, but for sensing what’s beginning to move after a long period of inward work.

For me, 2025 brought a lot of clarity. Not reinvention, but maturation. A clearer sense of what I bring, how I work, and why people choose to work with me.

I work with people living inside complexity, in families, relationships, bodies, and working lives. I’m interested in movement that doesn’t come from force or effort, but from the right conditions being in place.

A few words from someone I worked with recently capture this well:
“Unlike anything I’d done before. It was profound, exhausting, and enlightening.”

Before looking ahead, I want to say thank you.
Thank you to my teachers, colleagues, and to everyone who worked with me during 2025. And thank you to those who return, recommend the work quietly, and bring others along. That trust matters.

As we move into 2026, I’m holding a grounded sense of direction and possibility.

Next Friday 9th Jan I’ll be at Arnolfini, among the artwork, offering the first of two experiential constellation-informed sessions. There are a few places left.

I’m also returning to the mat in January and to my Yoga Foundation Course at St Annes House , heading to Wales for Saturday constellation circles and opening the first of my quarterly Systemic Constellations workshops in March.

This post sets the tone.
I’ll share more, in smaller pieces, over the coming weeks.

Details and booking via the link in my bio.

21/12/2025

Winter Solstice. Foundations. Strength.

Today marks the solstice, the shortest day, the turning point back towards the light.
Not a dramatic reset, more a quiet re-orientation.

In yoga, this moment speaks to foundations.
How we stand.
How we meet the ground.
How we build strength that’s steady rather than forced.

My Yoga Foundations course is exactly about this.
Not pushing, not fixing, not performing.
But developing integrity in the body, resilience in the nervous system, and a more honest relationship with yourself.

We work with
• grounding through the feet and legs
• strength that supports the joints and spine
• breath that steadies rather than controls
• movement that builds capacity over time

This is yoga as something you grow into, not something you try to get right.

The course starts 12 January and runs until 16 February 2026.
Location: St Anne’s House, Bristol

If you’re wanting to begin the year feeling more rooted, more stable, more at home in your body, this might be the right place to start.

Booking link is in my bio.
And if you’re unsure, feel free to message me.

Solstice isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about strengthening what’s already there.

18/12/2025

A gift for yourself, or someone you care about

This time of year can mean many different things.
For some it’s Christmas, for others it’s simply the turning of the year, a pause, or a moment to take stock.

If you’re thinking about a gift for yourself, or for someone you care about, yoga is a quietly powerful one.

Not something that gathers dust, or needs feeding,
but a gift of capacity, strength, resilience, and a steadier relationship with your body and yourself.

My Yoga Foundations course runs at St Anne’s House Bristol, from 12 January to 16 February 2026.
Gift vouchers are available.

Sometimes the most meaningful gifts are the ones that support us long after the wrapping paper’s gone 🙏🏽❤️

12/12/2025

Last Constellation Circle of 2025
Tuesday 16 December, Clifton

As the year draws to a close, many of us find ourselves reflecting on family, on where we belong, and on the roles we’ve carried, willingly or not.

December has a way of bringing these questions closer to the surface.

This final circle of the year offers a quiet, held space to meet whatever feels present, before we step into a new cycle.

We’ll work with two constellations during the evening, with opportunities to participate as a representative, and for those who wish, to put their name forward for a personal constellation.

You don’t need experience or a clear story. Just curiosity, and a willingness to be part of a shared field.

A simple, human space to pause, notice, and allow something to shift.

Tuesday 16 December
Clifton
Booking link in bio

09/12/2025

December is a month that asks us to slow down.
So many people I’ve spoken to recently are feeling it, the tiredness in the body, the pull to turn inwards, the sense that everything wants a gentler pace.

With the solstice approaching on 21 December, the longest night of the year, our systems naturally begin to settle. Our ancestors rested at this time of year, long dark nights, reflection, gathering, letting go of what didn’t belong in the new season. Our bodies still recognise this rhythm, even if our lives don’t.

Next Tuesday’s constellation circle on 16 December is a space to honour that slowing, a gentle evening where the body does the talking, a soft place to land before stepping into a new year.

And in January, the work continues as part of Healing Season, where I’ll be offering constellation inspired sessions within their winter programme. A beautiful environment for this kind of work, spacious, creative and deeply supportive. Link in bio to book.

If you’re looking for something meaningful to give this Christmas, for yourself or someone who needs a shift next year, I’m offering
constellation gift sessions,
the January Yoga Foundations course at St Anne’s,
and 1 to 1 constellation or yoga sessions.
Gifts that are healing and genuinely helpful rather than more things to wrap.

Yoga and constellations both help us return to something quieter inside, the place that knows when to rest, when to release and when to begin again.

If you’re feeling the pull to go gently, you’re welcome to join me.
Link in bio for all bookings. .

02/12/2025

Hello all....I’m on the lookout for a new venue for my monthly Systemic Constellations Circle from January 2026, and I wanted to reach out here first.

I’ve been running these circles for quite a while now, but my current venue will no longer accept monthly evening bookings, and I need a quiet, private space where we can have the whole evening (5:30–9:30pm), ideally on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

I’m looking for somewhere calm, contained and undisturbed, with space for up to 20 people. Access to hot water for tea would be great. Ideally the venue would be in or near Old Market, Temple Meads or the City Centre, but I’m open to different options if the space feels right.

This doesn’t need to be a traditional venue. A garden room, an outbuilding, a studio above a garage, a room in a business or a private home that’s unused in the evenings could all work beautifully. And of course, I’m very happy to pay for the hire.

If you have a space you’d like to offer, or if you know someone who might love to host a monthly constellation circle, I’d really appreciate hearing from you. And if you’ve attended my circles before, you’ll already know how special the energy of the group is each month.

Thanks so much for reading and for any connections or ideas you feel called to share.

Katie x

24/11/2025

Something tugging at you lately?
Old patterns getting louder as the year ends?

Tomorrow’s Constellation Circle in Clifton is a space to look at things differently, gently, with others, not alone.
You can witness or step into representation, which simply means tuning into the sensations in your body and noticing what emerges.
You don’t need to know anything or prepare... just curiosity.

If you’re wanting a deeper understanding of how this work creates change, the Introduction to Systemic Constellations Training Day on 28 Nov is perfect.
It’s a full, grounded day learning the core principles, the systemic orders, and why certain patterns repeat with simple, experiential exercises throughout.

More info & booking:https://www.katiedespres.com/whats-on

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