Katie Wise

Katie Wise is a Colorado-based kirtan artist who leads Katie Wise + Bhakti Explosion, a band fusing heart-opening mantra with folk rock. Her debut album, "Lovolution," blends sacred mantra, classic rock and country and Americana influences. Dave Stringer, the Grammy-nominated producer, composer and kirtan artist, described her vocals as "exquisitely textured — simultaneously vulnerable and powerful." Australian Yoga Life wrote that her "soulful, earthy voice embodies vulnerability in a way that turns emotion into art."

The band plays regularly in the Boulder, Colorado area. According to her YouTube channel, Katie has played festivals including Mt. Shasta, Sister Winds, Florida Flow Fest and Tribal Visions, and she is a student of Mike Cohen.

Katie's path to music ran through birth work. She is a certified doula and E-RYT, RPYT yoga teacher who spent over a decade as a prenatal, mommy and me, family and children's yoga teacher, childbirth educator and birth advocate. She attended hundreds of births as a doula and taught thousands of couples how to give birth safely and naturally. She founded Yo Mama Yoga and Family Centers, and trained with Gurmukh Khalsa, Saul David Raye, Chuck Miller and others. Her work and writing have been featured in Yogi Times, Special Delivery, The Sun Magazine, the Listen to Your Mother anthology and on NPR. She created the HypnoMama birth hypnosis audio program and the Inspired Birth childbirth class.

Today she also teaches voice, songwriting and performance, including the group class Song of Your Soul, which helps students open their voices and write original songs and chants. She lives and teaches in Lafayette, Colorado, and is the mother of two.