Kevin Wicks, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), completed his 200-hour teacher training at the ShivaShakti School of Yoga and Healing Arts in Rockland, Maine in 2011.

His high school science teacher, Ms. Campbell, first introduced Kevin to meditation in 1992. To Kevin’s surprise, what he had explored as a teenager was just the cornerstone of what he has discovered in the fundamental nature of Yoga as an adult.

While recovering from a back injury in 2003, Kevin found yoga when he saw a teacher from Jai practicing. He began taking classes and was immediately hooked. Yoga was the meditation he had always been looking for.

Since beginning his practice, Kevin has found an overall sense of well being in body, mind and spirit. Those close to him noticed his growing sense of peacefulness and started asking him to teach them yoga. Though he never planned to teach, Kevin is grateful to share the transformative power of a steady yoga practice with his students and fellow teachers.

One way he does this is with Mantra, which he first discovered at ShivaShakti, a multi-style school of yoga. Mantra has now become a part of Kevin’s daily sadhana practice. Kevin leads Kirtans and teaches mantras for individual practice of Mantra yoga or Bhakti yoga.

At ShivaShakti, Kevin was also certified in the healing art of Nuad Bo-Rarn (Thai Bodywork). He aspires to someday learn the final levels of Thai bodywork in Chang Mai, Thailand. Although Kevin goes into the practice empty and without the intention to “fix” people, receivers of Nuad Bo-Rarn have found relief from discomfort. He sometimes incorporates this work into his yoga classes.

Kevin is always delving deeper into his studies and practices and has attended many workshops in many disciplines, including Physical Therapist Joint Therapy and Herbalism. Continuing education in yoga has including: AcroYoga, Defying Gravity, Mudras, Assists and Ayurveda, Smart Sequencing with Ame Wren and Live Love Teach workshop with Philip Urso. He has also dabbled it the martial arts of Ju Jitsu, Shoulin Kempo and Tai Chi.

Click here to learn more about Kevin’s Kirtan group, Ananda Bhakti.