Kim Povey, Ayurveda Doctoral Candidate

Kim Valeri Povey 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 doctoral candidate for Doctor of Ayurveda Medicine (A.D.) with a specialty in Ayurvedic Psychology (Satvavajaya Chikitsa), Ayurveda Yoga Therapy, and Family Health. Ms. Povey has been training Ayurvedic Wellness Professionals, Yoga Therapists, and Yoga Teachers for decades through prestigious schools around the Country. 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 C.E.O. of Kerala Ayurveda Academy, U.S.A and former Academic and Clinical Director of Boston Ayurveda School. 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 which supports the interconnected biopsychosocial and spiritual holistic healing, that the modern world needs now. Kim is a climate advocate and natural health activist. Her work Greta Thunberg's Tweets: A Maiden's Message to People on the Earth has been displayed at Lesley University's Raizes Gallery at the Lundar Art Center, where she has given talks on youth activism, climate justice, and citizen engagement. Kim was instrumental in forming and lobbying a Bill in the Massachusetts legislature to support the protection and access to complementary and alternative healthcare. 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

Kim Povey has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.