Kim LacyCertified Iyengar Yoga Teacher |
Kim Lacy is certified as an Iyengar Instructor through the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the U.S. and has been teaching since 1991.
Kim took her first yoga class in 1983 at the Lawrence Art Center when she was a student at KU. The teacher suggested she practice 20 minutes a day from Runner’s World Book of Yoga by Jean Couch, a student of BKS Iyengar. She loved practicing daily, how it made her feel more quiet, centered, grounded, strong and open, and wanted to learn more.
She enrolled in the 2 year teacher training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, which she stretched into 4 years before graduating and moving to Bellevue, WA to study with Aadil Palkhivala, an advanced Iyengar teacher. She finished her student teaching with Aadil and spent a month learning from the Iyengars at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India after which she became certified in 1994.
She attended classes and taught for years at Aadil’s studio Yoga Centers and Ingela Abbot’s Yoga Northwest in Bellingham, WA before moving back to Kansas in 2006. Here she has been teaching at Yoga Center of Lawrence and The Yoga Studio in KC as well as privately.
Over the years she has taken workshops from many senior Iyengar teachers, most recently a week of classes from Abhijata Iyengar, granddaughter of BKS Iyengar, called The Path of Practice, at the 2019 Iyengar Yoga Convention in Dallas, and another virtual week called Power of Unity in 2021.
Though it’s wonderful being back in class now and seeing everyone in person, a blessing during the last couple of years has been the ability to take and teach virtual classes.
A highlight for Kim and big help during this isolating time has been the early morning practice she shares with friends on zoom. Let her know if you are interested in joining. It’s the perfect combination of personal practice and connection with other practitioners without having to drive anywhere (she lives in the country between Lawrence and Kansas City).
Kim hopes in her classes students will feel the benefits and possibilities of a yoga practice, learn how to use props to adjust the asanas to their individual needs, and be inspired and encouraged to explore their own practice at home.
Other education includes: U. Of Kansas BA English, BS Education 1984, Brian Utting School of Massage Certificate 1996, Core Star Healing Training Program Certificate 2008
A quote she loves that has been inspiring her yoga recently is from the late Thich Nat Hahn.
“I have arrived. I am home.
In the here and In the now.
I am solid. I am free.
In the Infinite I dwell"
Kim took her first yoga class in 1983 at the Lawrence Art Center when she was a student at KU. The teacher suggested she practice 20 minutes a day from Runner’s World Book of Yoga by Jean Couch, a student of BKS Iyengar. She loved practicing daily, how it made her feel more quiet, centered, grounded, strong and open, and wanted to learn more.
She enrolled in the 2 year teacher training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, which she stretched into 4 years before graduating and moving to Bellevue, WA to study with Aadil Palkhivala, an advanced Iyengar teacher. She finished her student teaching with Aadil and spent a month learning from the Iyengars at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India after which she became certified in 1994.
She attended classes and taught for years at Aadil’s studio Yoga Centers and Ingela Abbot’s Yoga Northwest in Bellingham, WA before moving back to Kansas in 2006. Here she has been teaching at Yoga Center of Lawrence and The Yoga Studio in KC as well as privately.
Over the years she has taken workshops from many senior Iyengar teachers, most recently a week of classes from Abhijata Iyengar, granddaughter of BKS Iyengar, called The Path of Practice, at the 2019 Iyengar Yoga Convention in Dallas, and another virtual week called Power of Unity in 2021.
Though it’s wonderful being back in class now and seeing everyone in person, a blessing during the last couple of years has been the ability to take and teach virtual classes.
A highlight for Kim and big help during this isolating time has been the early morning practice she shares with friends on zoom. Let her know if you are interested in joining. It’s the perfect combination of personal practice and connection with other practitioners without having to drive anywhere (she lives in the country between Lawrence and Kansas City).
Kim hopes in her classes students will feel the benefits and possibilities of a yoga practice, learn how to use props to adjust the asanas to their individual needs, and be inspired and encouraged to explore their own practice at home.
Other education includes: U. Of Kansas BA English, BS Education 1984, Brian Utting School of Massage Certificate 1996, Core Star Healing Training Program Certificate 2008
A quote she loves that has been inspiring her yoga recently is from the late Thich Nat Hahn.
“I have arrived. I am home.
In the here and In the now.
I am solid. I am free.
In the Infinite I dwell"