Preceptor

Kim Valeri Povey

Kim is Board Certified through the National Ayurveda Medical Association (NAMA) as an Ayurvedic Practitioner (C.A.P). She is a MA registered Community Health Worker (C.W.H.), a certified Yoga Therapist (A.Y.T., C-IAYT), and a 2024 candidate for Doctor of Ayurveda Medicine (A.D.) with a specialty in Ayurvedic Psychology (Satvavajaya Chikitsa), Ayurveda Yoga Therapy, and Family Health. 

She is a leader in the field of Ayurveda and is passionate about making Ayurveda accessible in the community. With forty years in the industry, Kim is the Founder and Owner of Yogaspirit® Studios, the former CEO of Kerala Ayurveda Academy, USA, and the former Academic and Clinical Director of Boston Ayurveda School. 

Kim has been training Ayurvedic Wellness Professionals, Yoga Therapists, and Yoga Teachers for decades through prestigious schools around the Country.

As a mentor for others in the profession, she is shaping the next generation of natural health professionals to impact the direction of complementary healthcare outcomes. She is passionate about Ayurveda’s role in integrative healthcare.

As Founder of Veda Vita Family Health and Wellness, she uses the timeless teachings of yoga and Ayurveda to deliver client-centered care by providing Ayurvedic traditional herbal preparations, lifestyle medicine, and yoga therapy protocols that support holistic healing that the modern world needs now. 

She lives on Boston’s North Shore in Cape Ann with her husband Jim and their blended family of five adult children. Kim is a musician and bare-bow Olympic Recurve Archer.