Kat is a yoga teacher, meditation practitioner/leader and a yoga therapist.

Kathleen (Kat) Kelly is the founder and director of the Bay Area Yoga Mindful Movement and Healing Center. For over 35 years, she has studied the disciplines of yoga, meditation and movement. Kat is passionate about helping people feel better.

Throughout her career, Kat has sought to learn from the best teachers of yoga, pranayama, meditation, stillness, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, and movement. Kat is a perpetual student who never stops learning and continues to regularly take courses, workshops and training. A few of Kat’s teachers include: Susi Hately, the late Michael Stone, and Junpo Denis Kelly. Kat is passionate about sharing her knowledge with her students.

In 2005, Kat became a priest in the Hollow Bones Zen Order, an American Zen Buddhist Community. She combines the practice of Ashtanga Yoga and Zen Meditation and practice in both her teaching and her life. Her teaching style is a blend of fluid movement, breath and postures. She pays close attention to alignment and proper function of the joints.

After three years of study with Susi Hatley, in 2021, Kat became an International Certified Yoga Therapist. As a yoga therapist, Kat helps people move and feel better so they live with less pain. Are you looking for relief from pain? Kat can help.

Kat is registered with the Yoga Alliance, a national non-profit organization designed to support quality yoga instruction for the public, at the Experienced level, which allows her to train teachers and students. She developed the Advanced Yoga Studies Teacher Training Program in 2009. She is registered with the Wisconsin Board of Education and has trained more than 70 yoga teachers in Green Bay and the surrounding communities.

Her passion for yoga and continuous learning is reflected in her warm and friendly teaching style. She is a native of Green Bay, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.