Kim Valeri Povey, C-IAYT, AYT, E-RYT500, CAP

Kim Valeri Povey is the Founder and CEO of Yogaspirit Studios and Director of Boston Ayurveda School. Kim is a leader and visionary committed to uniting the worlds of Ayurveda and Yoga knowing both paths share the common understanding that all disease is rooted from the mind’s disharmony with one’s heart. Kim is an Ayurveda Yoga Therapist, AYT (NAMA) &  CIAYT (IAYT), E-RYT 500, YACEP (Yoga Alliance), certified Ayurveda Practitioner CAP (NAMA), certified Neurolinguistic Practitioner, and Pranic Healer who works to raise conscious awareness by bringing clarity and understanding to all aspects of life and for being a catalyst for accelerated personal growth.

Through yogaspirit® and her teachings, Kim has been able to assist in the evolution and healing of human consciousness by way of education and inspiration. She believes this is best done through strengthening the natural human resource of body, mind, and spirit. If we have healthy, wise, discerning, strong, flexible, understanding, compassionate people, making empowered decisions for the highest good of all, we can become the remedy to our world’s most urgent problems.

Kim is a guest teacher of Yoga Therapy for Kerala Ayurveda Academy and is grateful for her many teachers which primarily include Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath of Kerala Ayurveda in Fremont, CA, Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, and Pratibha Shah, Doctor of Ayurveda. Kim used her organizational leadership at Kerala Ayurveda Academy and made her way to the highest-ranking executive position, CEO (2012-2015). During her leadership at the academy, Kim was instrumental in strengthening the school’s administration and transforming strategic, operational, and technological academic platforms.

Kim and her loving husband Jim share a blended family of five musically talented children ranging in ages from 14-28 years old. Kim is a musician and competes as a bare-bow Olympic Recurve Archer.