Kristen Rae Stevens

Kristen Rae Stevens, CAP, EYT, R-DMT, is a visiting instructor in the Integrative Mind Body program within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Pratt Institute. A former dancer, Ayurvedic Practitioner, and longtime student and teacher of yoga, dharma, creative and therapeutic movement (30+ years), she has had the privilege of supporting students and clients on their paths toward greater health, healing, and inquiry.

With a broad research interest in health and the humanities, Kristen Rae has served on the faculty of Columbia College, Barnard College, the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, and numerous esteemed yoga and mind-body research programs across New York City since 2001. She has been a contributing lecturer for Fortune 500 executive teams at leading financial firms, elite artists and athletes for SAG and the NBA, Primary and Palliative Care staff and physicians at Mount Sinai and LCSW’s at Ellis Hospitals in New York City and Albany, respectively. She also serves student populations in K-12 public schools in P-12 and NYC DOE schools.

Currently, she teaches as a visiting lecturer and adjunct professor of dance/movement therapy in the Expressive Arts and Mental Health Department at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY, as well as embodied interrelated arts and whole health programming at IMB, at Pratt Institute. In her private practice, she remains a consultant and guide for individuals and groups offering therapeutic applications for self and collective healing through creative and therapeutic practices from both eastern and western perspectives.

A lifelong learner, private researcher and facilitator, Kristen Rae is dedicated to creating supportive spaces for individual and community learning in a variety of environments. She grounds transpersonal concepts into engaging transformational experiential practice through bridging mind-body-consciousness traditions with the intersection of art and science, health and possibility. As an experienced guide, she carefully supports nervous system and network regulation through distinct therapeutic movement design, positive mindful inquiry and deep listening with carefully paced sensory exploration that encourages students to move towards deeper states of meditative healing. One student’s analysis on one class, “I feel safe and inspired here”.

While each class offered for IMB follows a specific syllabus, every offering draws from cultural, creative, and healing arts practices that investigate generational and geographical praxis. Students will have the opportunity to explore embodiment through lenses that are not limited to but include—sacred anatomy, scientific inquiry, and personal storytelling from lived experience and historical context. Always rooted in embodied philosophy and culturally informed discourse, the curriculum Kristen Rae offers helps student engage with their own stories of body awareness, personal wild earth ecology, relational reciprocity, including Nature as a fundamental relationship, alongside the many ways complex thought and feelings about embodiment can be expressed. With an invitation for experiential practice and personal storytelling—both verbal and non-verbal—students are encouraged to share and expand their own understandings of well-being and the collective understanding of wellness generated from class content, theory, personal reflection, and collaborative discovery.

Courses: Spring 2026

Frameworks of Healing: 12:30-1:50 pm: 26/SP YOGA-225WP

Beginner Hatha Yoga 5:30-6:50 pm: 26/SP-YOGA-105W-02 | (Graduate) 26/SP-YOGA-605-02

Awareness Through Movement 7:00 -8:20 pm: 26/SP-YOGA-100W-01 | (Graduate)26/SP-YOGA-600W-01

Education:

M.S. Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Institute

B.F.A. Dance Performance & Pedagogy, University of Illinois

Certificates:

C.A.P.: Nationally Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner

AyP EyT:  Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist +500 hour experienced yoga teacher

TIM:    Trauma Informed Meditation Practitioner

CPT:    Contemplative Psychotherapy + Compassion Based Meditation Practice

ESAP:  Experiential Anatomist

CPI:    Certified Pilates Instructor