The Red Fort, India photo: Melina Meza
Kim Erica Schleicher, IAYT-500 is an alignment based, gentle yoga and somatic movement teacher. Her desire to teach Yoga was inspired by the transformative powers she found as a yoga student. She completed the Yoga of Awareness for Cancer and Mindful Meditation Programs through Duke University, IRest Level 2 with Richard Miller, Ph D. and Restorative and Somatic Training with Judith Hanson Lasater. Kim is IAYT certified in Therapeutic yoga. Through her 34 years' work with the Feathered Pipe Foundation she studied with the best yoga teachers in the world. She continues to embrace both the simplicity and mystery of the practice.
Kim has a BS in Forest Biology from USU. She continued ethnobotanical studies with Sage Mountain School in Vermont. She worked for the US Forest Service as Wilderness Ranger and Wild Land plants surveyor. After the Forest Service Kim grew her love of plants into Night Sky Botanicals, an Herbal Business in Helena, Montana. In 2014 Kim combined her passion for wild places, travel and culture and launched YogaBeyonda. Her favorite tours include movement, most often yoga. She embraces the idea of “living your yoga on and off the mat”..