Kiley
Holliday
Kiley Holliday is a yoga teacher and therapeutic movement specialist based in New York City. Born in Los Angeles, she spent her early years training as a competitive figure skater before moving east to attend college at New York University.
Kiley
Holliday
Kiley Holliday is a yoga teacher and therapeutic movement specialist based in New York City. Born in Los Angeles, she spent her early years training as a competitive figure skater before moving east to attend college at New York University.
After several years characterized by extreme bouts of sitting in the library, she turned to yoga to regain the strength and mobility she’d had as a young athlete. In 2007, Kiley left graduate school to become a yoga teacher and hasn’t looked back.
Her classes emphasize functional alignment, conscious muscular engagement, and fluid transitions within the framework of an innovative vinyasa sequence. Helping people learn to move more mindfully and with an inner tenor of kindness can change the way they relate to the world. As people become less aggressive and haphazard in their physical practice, as they become more fluid and consciously engaged, they also tend to become more thoughtful and less reactive in their daily lives. Watching that process is very inspiring to Kiley.
She has been featured in numerous publications, including Shape, the Fashion Spot, The New York Times, and Yoga Bodies: Real People, Real Stories, and the Power of Transformation, written by Lauren Lipton with photography by Jaimie Baird. Her writing has appeared in Yoga Journal.
Questions. Answers.
What are you most passionate about outside of yoga?
Public Health, and the idea that therapeutic movement and nutritious food should be accessible for everyone.
What’s the best advice you’ve been given?
Try yoga.
What’s your go-to grounding yoga pose?
It’s challenging to pick one single pose. Personally, I find slow, methodical transitions to be extremely grounding, because they require absolute focus and conscious muscular engagement.
Who are your most influential teachers?
Tiffany Cruikshank, Ana Forrest, Peter Singer, and my mother.