OUR TEACHERS
Kelly | Owner & Teacher
As a former college athlete Kelly started to encounter the negative effects of repetitive movement around the age of 35. These effects eventually led to a year and a half of back pain. When she discovered Kaiut in 2015, the practice started unwinding not just the years of her softball fastpitch but also the years of many other sports as well as the impacts of aging and day-to-day stress. Fast forward and today she feels better than she did in her early 30s. With a background in Comparative Religion graduate studies, years of corporate experience on Wall Street, and many not-for-profit posts Kelly turned a corner committing herself to bringing Kaiut Yoga to St. Louis. Inspired by the changes in her body and improvement in her overall wellbeing, she undertook teacher training with Francisco Kaiut in 2017 and continues to explore what it is to live the method. Her mission is to deliver this method, with quality, to her hometown community.
Lori | Teacher
For Lori, Kaiut Yoga is a powerful source of transformation. Lori lost her 11 year-old daughter Ari in November 2017, after Ari’s nine-year battle with cancer. Lori found herself in a very deep hole with seemingly no way out. She started practicing Kaiut Yoga in January 2018. She experienced relief from gaining some space around her thoughts and grief during practice. Overtime, The Method has also delivered better mobility and an overall sense of wellness. From the encouragement of Kelly, Lori attended teacher training with Francisco Kaiut. As a teacher Lori wants each student to access peace within themselves, whatever life situations they are facing. Lori is passionate about sharing this practice across St Louis where she was born and raised. She firmly believes that everyone can benefit from this practice whatever state or shape they are in.
Andrew | Teacher
Originally from St. Louis, Andrew grew up in Kirkwood and moved to Webster Groves with his wife, Phoebe. After he picked up his newborn baby from her crib and triggered a recurring lower back injury, Kaiut Yoga’s legs-up-the-wall, knees-to-chest moves were the only thing that brought him relief. The real impact has come over time as the root of this issue was methodically uncovered and addressed. He has tried acupuncture, massage, chiropractic therapies, many different types of “marketplace” yoga, as well as weightlifting and swimming; all seemed to provide some temporary relief but never touched on the root of his back problem. When his back pain initially got worse and he was also diagnosed as having a labral tear in his left hip, he decided to stick with Kaiut Yoga and see what would happen. It was astonishing to him how both issues have been slowly resolved with no other interventions.
Experiencing this rigidity change, move and dissipate over time has been incredibly enlightening. Sensations that were shocking are now experienced as common or natural. His reactivity to these sensations has diminished, and although his body continues to change as he ages, he is more comfortable with the condition of his body in a more holistic way. Kaiut Yoga has become a very important practice for him to maintain and enhance his relationship to his embodied experience of himself, confronting very human patterns, rigidities and blockages that limit one from living more fully in the world.
He is a real estate investor and recovering consultant, previously working with Federal Government clients in Washington, D.C. and around the world on policy and organizational change initiatives.
Andrew has completed the Kaiut Yoga Teacher Training and has finished his 300-Hour Teacher Training Certification and is currently is another 300-hour training.
