Mindful-U is dedicated to helping you helping you increase your happiness quotient and cultivate sustainable joy in your personal and professional life and relationships. We invoke practical mindfulness techniques, lifestyle coaching, and personal empowerment tools you can use in all aspects of your world. Mindful-U offers a dynamic menu of e-courses, live events, personal coaching and meditation instruction, and transformational retreats blending coaching exercises and mindfulness techniques designed to help clients access what's truly important to them and let go of the rest. Andrea and Katy have been featured speakers with The Women's Health Foundation, Soul Theatre and CommuniTeach's Learnapalooza.

Katy Flatau
CPC, ELI-MP

Katy Flatau, a Certified Professional Coach, practices individual and group life coaching in Chicago as well as phone-based coaching internationally. Katy has an innate ability to actively listen and creatively vision, as well a genuine desire to see each client move positively forward. These traits, combined with her 12+ years of corporate experience, make her an engaged and empathetic partner in the coaching process. Katy is also certified in Energy Leadership through IPEC. The Energy Leadership Index is a powerful assessment tool that provides a detailed framework for the coaching process.

Andrea Klunder
E-RYT, Certified Thai Bodywork Practitioner, Co-director of Mindful-U

Andrea Klunder is a healer, teacher and singer who works with the body, mind and spirit with an integrated approach custom designed for each client. She has many years of experience practicing the healing arts of hatha yoga, meditation, Thai Bodywork and Reiki and views teaching as a spiritual practice. A true entrepreneurial yogi, Andrea was the director of a yoga for women’s health program at a major medical facility for 2 years, boutique yoga studio and spa owner in Lincoln Park for 5 years, and has led yoga teacher trainings and retreats in Chicago and abroad. She is the founder and organizer of the Kirtan Chicago Meetup, connecting like-minded souls in the practice of Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of devotion, music, and dance), and the Chicago Women's Creative Collective Meetup, bringing women from all forms of expression together to share and celebrate their work and support the creative process. And most importantly, she loves singing kirtan as much as humanly possible. You can learn more about Andrea's practice at www.InfuseLife.net