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Kami Kessel, MBA, eRYT500, CHC

Coaching & Yoga Therapy

She/Her/Hers

My mom taught me yoga when I was 7 years old and I grew up thinking everyone did yoga during study breaks. Yoga helped me throughout my life and I knew I would become a yoga teacher someday. Eventually, I was able to dedicate my life as a yoga therapist and coach to help people overcome disasters, physical and emotional traumas, and eating disorders. 

My research-based coaching work is built on positive psychology and a growth mindset.  My yoga therapy work blends SomaYoga and trauma recovery science. A comfortable and friendly relationship with our bodies is our birthright, but it isn’t always obvious how to establish and maintain ease in our bodies. I study and teach techniques that can help each person to nurture their resiliency and reclaim a friendship with themselves, through habits and practices designed on their deepest values.

I am a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500, eRYT-200, YACEP® #282816), and a Certified Health and Well-being Coach (Wellcoaches #257904). My work with fire survivors was featured in research at Stanford Medical Center in California. For more information, please see https://gntlyoga.com.

I hope to see you soon for your free consultation or a grounding session before or after your therapy appointment! 

Kami sees clients by appointment only.

Testimonials

  • "Kami is a highly trained, natural born coach. Her ability to quickly, efficiently, and accurately help me identify factors which were impeding my progress and overcome them is unrivaled. She is an absolute pleasure to work with and delivers tangible results. If you're willing to do the work, she'll help you get where you're going.

    R from Texas

  • “Kami has a way of asking the right questions to help me process thoughts and get down to what matters to keep me moving in the direction of my goals.”

    J from Minnesota

  • “I love Kami's yoga therapy and have noticed great improvements in physical + mental health so I keep coming back :) My favorite parts are when we get up on our feet -- I tend to have built-in laziness :) or maybe it's Newton's Law, objects at rest tend to stay at rest, but it's hard for me to transition from on my mat to on my feet, so anyway...I know in Kami's yoga that the transition is really gradual - like she almost sneaks it in there and gets me up and moving without knowing it! Once I'm up then it's like hey I'm here, I can do this!”

    M from Minnesota