“I have been taking one on one yoga classes with Kiana for only 8 weeks and I have to say that I have made enormous strides in my practice… Even in our first session together Kiana noticed the problems I was having with my forward folds and immediately told me about the need to place my body into an Anterior Pelvic Tilt. I am now able to easily touch my toes when doing a forward fold without rounding my back.

The yoga teachers who I have worked with over the past 2 years never noticed this.  The specific tips Kiana’s given me to improve my Downward Dog, Upward Dog, Chaturanga, and Warriors make me much more confident doing them. I am now able to do the vinyasa flow with great form and am having a great time practicing some of the advanced asanas such as Camel, Half Moon, Dancers, and Sugarcane based on the many specific feedback critique that she always gives me. 

I also thoroughly enjoy the way Kiana splits the classes into a flexibility and a yoga practice as without flexibility, yoga can be more challenging. Kiana’s pointers about the necessity of being aware of and maintaining the Ujjayi breath in a certain way was instrumental in me being able to hold poses for a longer time.

I’m looking forward to continuing on with my “Master Your Yoga” program with Kiana!”

“Working with Kiana 1:1 has given my handstand practice just what it needed.

I was practicing handstand and jumping up for many months, only being able to hold a few seconds here and there and my practice felt stagnant.

Once I started working with Kiana, I started seeing huge improvement with my hold time. She helped me to finesse my entrances, work on important drills, and even started my press journey! I am so grateful for our time together. I look forward to more sessions in the future!”

– Esther Krieski, USA

“If you crave empowerment and improvement constantly, physically and mentally, you go to Kiana. She leads by example as the discipline and dedication she demonstrates in the practice of yoga and handstands are equally important during practice and in life. 

Prior to practicing with Kiana, I thought I had felt the benefits of yoga and the synch of body, soul and mind. However, once I started practicing with Kiana, and it has been years now, I realized that all was brought to a new level.

There are no sufficient words to describe all she brings to the table – one or two sessions with her and that will likely make you see what I mean. You will get to do poses you thought were beyond reach and that affects your perspective positively at the physical and mental level.

There are things you say to yourself that you’ll never do, but discover, not only that you can, but that you enjoy immensely – that was my experience practicing online with Kiana. I discovered how effective it is.  I will keep doing my online classes. 

Kiana would appear to be in the room practicing with me. You do not need to commute or get stuck in traffic and the practice is a button away. You can choose when you want to practice on the days when there’s no chance you could join a live class or just felt like practicing solo.

Now when I heard about handstand, I truly thought impossible because I have never been an acrobat or dancer or anything close to it. In my mind, the strength and balance handstand practice requires was simply beyond reach. What I discovered is that by attending Kiana’s classes regularly online, consistent practice, and patience get you step by step closer to handstand. It’s still a work in progress, but the handstand practice regardless has provided me with such an abundance of skill set and strength that I can bring it to my yoga practice. 

Mentally what it has done for me is, once again, reinforce the principle that nothing is impossible with the right instructor and mindset at any age. And Kiana is an instructor second to none. You try one class and you never want to let go.”

– Rovena Hajderi, Canada

“Kiana’s coaching has helped my physical yoga practice break the plateau barriers over and over again. Her ability to read the body and see where improvement is required is amazing. Her cues and corrections are specific and easy to follow making it easy to remember the next time you find yourself in that pose. Her overall knowledge of structural composition of a pose and proper alignment was critical in my improvement, she was able to guide me to a higher level of openness, flexibility and strength.

The strength shown in her own practice validates the work she puts you through and certainly motivates you to follow her lead as she guides you into a stronger practice.

Before I started practicing with Kiana, I was rigid and inflexible with a lot of strength. Since finding Kiana I have found more ease in movement, allowing me to twist, bind and be more open in each yoga pose. In parallel, Kiana was able to provide guidance, mentally and emotionally through not only my yoga practice but through different life challenging situations. She has an immediate sense of awareness, and a kind, gentle yet firm manner of helping with her words.

As for handstand, handstanding is not an easy feat. Especially since I had never tried it before meeting Kiana. Balancing upside down is a lot of work, it takes a lot of training, over and over again. If you don’t know the proper cues and alignment you could certainly injure yourself or more likely become discouraged and not want to continue training.

Kiana’s advanced knowledge of handstanding helps close the gap on getting your handstand. She can’t make you do the work or make you balance sooner as it takes everyone their own time, but she can certainly pave the path for you and make sure you are doing things correctly. She gives you all the right tips and cues before, during and after your work on your handstand.

Kiana helps you understand the effort that is required to hold a handstand, she sets you up with the proper exercises to strengthen your body so that you can hold the handstand.

I will continue to follow her handstand tips and would recommend anyone learning to handstand to see Kiana and work with her, or any individual from beginner to advanced who is willing to learn and work with her for advancement in their yoga practice.”

– Joe El-Achhab, Canada

“Before Kiana I was deathly afraid of going upside down, over backwards, basically anything but being right side up, which is sometimes hard enough!

Never in a million years would I have imagined I could be doing any sort of arm balance, let alone trying headstands and handstands.

Kiana helped me find courage and strength I never thought I had. Now I am hooked on always trying new arm balances and am continuing my journey to being able to hold a handstand.

From the first time I practiced with Kiana, I loved her teaching style and the way her flows just, well, flow! Because of distance, I have not been able to attend one of her classes in quite some time.

Now, with her new Body to Soul Movement platform, I can continue to practice along with Kiana and can pick a flow according to what my body is feeling that day. I would recommend anyone to check it out!”

“I first started seeing Kiana on Instagram in 2019 along with many other yoga teachers who demonstrated postures from their practices. As I live in London UK, the possibility of actually attending a class never crossed my mind & I was only a beginner really so felt that at my age (54) the level of practice was out of my league anyway.

Then lockdown hit the UK in March 2020….suddenly the world changed. I was already dealing with a broken heart & yoga had become my medicine, now this isolation was threatening to flip everything. Of course I reached for the grounding presence of yoga practice again.

“Kiana is the kind of teacher that makes you believe in yourself and that you can reach your goals, and when she sees her students progress its always recognised which is huge for the student!

Her classes are so much fun, never the same, its always exciting trying to figure out what we will be doing. Kiana’s classes are planned out so carefully that by the end of it, and when you reach the peak pose and you do the pose you never thought you could, you leave the class walking in clouds.

She has a very grounding energy which i really admire and look forward to being a part of!

Thank you Kiana for being such an inspiration and for being a wonderful teacher and showing me the correct steps to get to where I want in my practice!”

– Reem Aker, Canada

“I have been practicing yoga for several years and handstands are something that I have always been wanting to do. I’ve been to yoga classes in the past where there were a few drills that we did to work up to it, but there wasn’t really a focus on doing the actual pose especially in terms of alignment.

Over the years, I have been able to do handstands against a wall but never a freestanding handstand. When I trained online with Kiana, I learned more drills that I could do to help with my handstand practice, and what’s even greater is that with her coaching, I was able to realize which parts of my body I needed to focus my attention on for better alignment.

Kiana’s classes are well thought out with no two classes ever the same, and the succeeding classes built up on what I learned in previous classes. I learned from her that I needed to know how to fall out of my handstand in order to be more confident in doing a freestanding handstand, so falling out was one of the things that we worked on in the first few classes. She is also great in that she emphasizes that flexibility, strength, and core training are important for handstands, to which these are included in her classes as well. She is very encouraging and I am glad that I have been able to train with her.

At the present, I’m now working on holding a freestanding handstand for longer than two seconds. I can definitely see a lot of improvement in how I get to the pose and how my alignment is now in the pose.

Thank you, Kiana!”

– Anna Saldivar, Canada

“First of all, Kiana is an AMAZING teacher.

I love the way she conducts her classes and makes everyone feel comfortable.

Before attending her handstand workshop, I had a pretty consistent handstand practice. What I was most struggling with were my press-ups. I really didn’t know what my next steps were, especially what drills to incorporate into my practice to target my handstand press.

Then, I took Kiana’s zoom workshop and was blown away at all of the drills that I a) had never seen before, and b) found to be incredibly helpful. Even though it was over zoom, it was still just as effective as an in-person class.

I would highly recommend Kiana’s teaching and all of her classes and workshops!”

– Abby Gaskin, Canada

“Kiana’s teaching has transformed my yoga practice for the better. She clearly directs my awareness so that I appreciate the purpose of each asana and have a stronger connection with my body and the movement. Kiana encourages you to be curious and explore postures. The lessons I’ve done were intense, the work goes deep and stays in the body long after class is over! There are many “ah-ha” moments as Kiana brings unique elements to her teaching always patiently taking each lesson step by step.”

– Spenser Chapple, Canada

“Kiana’s one of the most influential yoga teachers that I’ve been practicing with for a few years. She’s always challenging and motivating students to bring them to the best of their own abilities. Her energy is calm, but with strong, trustworthy leadership that gets you through challenging asanas. I never thought that I would be able to do handstands or arm balancing poses until I met her. She helps me build confidence and she pushes me through to stay motivated.

I hope you find Kiana on your own journey!”

– Aeran Harris, Canada

“I discovered Kiana about 4 months ago, through her inspiring posts and flawless poses in her posts on Instagram. I decided to follow her and was impressed with the daily pictures I was seeing. When I took a look at her website, I was quite impressed with her yoga journey and goal of wanting to help and teach others.

When I took a look at her different offerings, I noticed that she was very experienced (an expert) with handstands. This is something I wanted to learn for a while, so I decided to dive deeper in looking into her classes. I found out she was offering weekly online classes, specifically for handstands, so I decided to participate in some of these classes. After taking 1 or 2 of Kiana’s handstand classes, I am now able to set up and go into a handstand. I am still working on making it steadier and taking it away from the wall.

I also took a few of her flow classes online. I liked how upbeat it was, and how there were a variety of poses and sequences than those I’ve done before. It is refreshingly different from some other instructors in the community, who may be following the same routine or sequence of poses based on the type of yoga they’re teaching. It’s also really unique that all her flows and practices, on and off the internet, progress to doing a handstand.

Before discovering Kiana’s practice, I had a regular yoga practice, which involved doing poses and sequences on my own or following instructions online via other instructors. However, this previously did not involve handstands. Being able to do, and having a daily practice of, handstands, is one big addition to my practice, since I started practicing with Kiana.

Another big influence Kiana has had on my practice is through enabling myself to be aware of proper alignment in respective poses, therefore taking my time to progress into a pose. This helped me understand the importance of activating the correct muscles to increase range of motion and flexibility, and of focus and concentration during the yoga practice. This is nicely done through her verbal instructions, and hints from her videos and diagrams.

Kiana is very well rounded in her yoga practice, and in addition to her spiritual/life lessons discussions on her posts, she does a regular podcast, called “Soul Talks”. The chosen topics can be anything from what she may be going through or experiencing, or a general interpersonal or intrapersonal topic. She provides her own examples and experiences, which helps to relate to such topics. I enjoy listening to and reflecting on these discussions. It definitely helps to understand the connection between the body and mind.

Seeing Kiana’s posts and podcasts, and presence brings a nice light of energy everyday, and motivation to try something new!”

– Kapil Narale, Canada

“Kiana is a talented, deeply knowledgeable, and fun handstand coach!

Even though I’m in New York City, every class I took with Kiana felt like I was in studio with her, getting personalized feedback and cues every time I worked on a different handstand variation. I was struggling with aligning my hips in my tuck jump, and she guided me through the proprioceptive cues I needed to figure out how to stack my body in space.

She’s also incredibly approachable and friendly, making the handstand journey feel like you have a trusted friend helping you on your way. Check her out!!”

– Damien Ragsdale, United States

“As a new person to yoga, Kiana is the yoga teacher I didn’t know I was looking for!

I happened to take one of Kiana’s classes at a studio and was instantly hooked. Kiana’s ability to mesh strength, balance and creative transitions into a yoga class always left me feeling recharged and motivated for the next one.

I also enjoyed Kiana’s focus and passion for inversions and handstands, a passion that I think can be quite infectious; I know it was for me. After some time taking classes, I felt I would benefit with some focused instruction on transitions, certain poses and of course inversions and handstands!

“My yoga experience with Kiana has been nothing short of amazing.

In my previous yoga experiences, I was not able to open and channel energy as easily as I’ve felt recently. I find she really pushes me to stretch beyond what I thought was possible and always offers a variety of movements to keep the routine interesting.

As for my handstand poses, they have really improved with the guidance and patience of Kiana. I think her passion and experience really translates in her teachings.

Through Covid, it was amazing to do her yoga lessons online. I felt very comfortable and connected. This is a great option anytime I am unable to make it to the studio. That offers the ultimate flexibility and I can always be sure not to miss my favourite classes. Looking forward to continuing my practice, growing and learning spiritually, emotionally and physically.”

– Nicole LaBelle, Canada