Kiesha Battles

Kiesha Battles is the founder of iamyoga, a yoga community based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She teaches in person and online. iamyoga describes its mission as bringing together people who support and uplift one another through yoga, and its teachers now reach across the United States and to Senegal.

She is lead faculty for iamyoga's 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings and co-leads the 300-hour program with Candace Jennings. Her areas of teaching include yogic lifestyle, yoga philosophy, Yin Yoga, meditation, prānāyāma, Āyurveda, accessible yoga and community building.

Her work centers on making yoga available to the community. She teaches within SAFE Yoga, a free, movement- and music-based program built around safe, accessible, free-flowing energy. She also guides the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color, including a Black History Month gathering at Kripalu with its creator, Maya Breuer, and other guides.

iamyoga teaches from three principles: you are not stuck, no effort goes to waste, and discipline, dedication, devotion.