Kristen Rae Stevens

Kristen Rae Stevens, CAP, 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 and dharma, she has had the privilege of supporting students and clients on their paths toward greater health, healing, and inquiry since 1997.

Kristen Rae has served as faculty at Columbia College, Barnard, 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 multiple financial firms in NYC and primary and palliative care staff and physicians at Mount Sinai and Ellis hospitals in NYC and Albany respectively. She currently works with veterans and first responders in managing stress reduction and healing trauma through applied creative embodiment and psychoeducation as well as maintaining a private practice.

With each unique setting and population, Kristen Rae strives to create supportive spaces for individual and community healing for both students and professionals. She grounds transpersonal concepts by pairing experiential learning and practical knowledge by bridging Eastern and Western content and examining social and generational references. With culturally rooted discourse and relational awareness, Kristen Rae welcomes personal storytelling -both verbal and non-verbal that encourage greater healing and wellbeing  as defined by an individual. Through embodiment discoveries through movement, nervous system regulation, contemplation on ecology and creative self- and community experiences Kristen Rae hopes to foster deeper perspective and healing in profound ways for every participant.

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:    Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist +500 hour experienced yoga teacher

CPT:    Contemplative Psychotherapy + Meditation

ESAP:  Experiential Anatomist

CPI:    Certified Pilates Instructor