about kim

Kim Valeri, ERYT (Amritma) is a master teacher, author, songwriter, spiritual counselor, and mother. She is a gifted American transformational healer who works with everyday people. Kim has a wealth of knowledge gained from firsthand experience in the esoteric teachings of yoga and understands how to balance the aspirant's spiritual journey with the roles of relationships, career, and family. With a daughter in college, a son in preschool, a marriage and blended family on the way, Kim remains rooted in day to day family life. She is known for bringing clarity and understanding to aspects of life that one is normally blind to and for being a catalyst for accelerated personal growth and global transformation.

She founded yogaspirit^® studios to share the powerful teachings of yoga from her home base in New England and has supports students worldwide using yoga as a sacred art of healing and self-realization. With 25 years of personal practice and over a decade of certifying yoga teachers, Kim blends spiritual compassion with technical proficiency, inspiring students with strength, grace, and service.

In addition to teaching locally at her Hamilton, MA studio, Kim has led international retreats to Costa Rica and the Caribbean and has been a featured instructor at Yoga Journal Boston Conference and at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She has contributed to several Yoga Journal articles and created audio CDs to bring her unique style and warmth to the home yoga practice of her students. Kim is currently working on publishing her comprehensive book for teachers on the yogaspirit^® methods and a personal book of everyday stories aimed to inspire readers to move past struggles and reconnect with their best selves. Her new book, Ma: Raising a New Generation using SOFTER™ Strategies for the Journey of Life, will be launched Fall 2012. In a 2011 national bookwriting contest, Kim was named one of the top 25 transformational authors.

After turning to alternative medicine in the early 1980’s, Kim has realized, firsthand, the power of healing and liberation from chronic pain through meditation which opened the doorway to her mystical journey. Her transformation in overcoming serious near-death injury, illness, and life events has allowed her to free her consciousness and acquire the knowledge to release pain and suffering within herself, and in turn, to help others. After completing B.K.S Iyengar’s training and acquiring a certification in Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, Kim decided that both of these paths were essential to one another and to her evolution. Kim decided not to choose a particular tradition and instead chose to follow the path of inner contemplation and direct experience which comes from a committed Sadhana. This led her to the Tantric practice of Surat Shabda Yoga and is where the innermost teachings of mystical yoga, tantra, and secrets for a happy life were revealed. The essence of this devotional practice is in contemplation of inner sound. Through turning the senses inward, and connecting with the Nadaam, or vibrational sound current of life, her innate realization of the soul’s song manifested in her outer gifts of word, music and message. She is a portal for healing, a pathfinder for awakening, and a bridge for those seeking connection. Kim is also a musician in the Sacred Angels Kirtan Band. She has been playing the piano since she was eight years old and brings her deep, melodic voice, harmonium, harmonica and percussion rhythm to the Sacred Angels'  unique sound.