Kelley Binsfeld - Registered Yoga Teacher
My name is Kelley Binsfeld and I am a Registered Yoga Teacher with my two-hundred-hour RYT certification, a twenty-five-hour Registered Meditation Teacher, and a Certified Sound Practitioner. My path to each of these certifications tells you everything about who I am as a teacher.
My relationship with yoga spans fifteen years, but it was never just about the poses. From the beginning, I was drawn to the deeper layers: the philosophy, the breath, and the way yoga gives you tools to navigate the noise of everyday life and find stillness inside the chaos.
That curiosity led me to meditation, where my passion grew even deeper. Just as meditation invites the mind to slow down and the body to lower its frequency, I found myself drawn to something that could take that experience even further: sound.
I chose to study singing bowls and other instruments because of something remarkable: they instantaneously shift the body into a lower frequency. For people who struggle to meditate, whose minds race, or whose nervous systems feel stuck in overdrive, sound does what willpower alone cannot. It bypasses resistance and brings you to a place that is almost impossible to describe until you have felt it. A simple state of peace. Sitting in the nothingness of it all and truly resting. No outside thoughts, no deadlines, no checklists, no rolling emotions about future events. Just rest. Pure and complete rest for the mind, body, and soul.
What drives me most is witnessing the moment it happens. Watching someone who arrived anxious and uncomfortable settle into a level of peace they have never experienced before, that is what this is all about for me.
When I am not teaching, I am fully immersed in the beautiful chaos of raising four kids: three teenagers and a twelve-year-old, all of whom play lacrosse and keep me permanently on the sideline. I love to cook, gather my family around the table, and be truly present with the people I love most. My kids have grown up on the mat too. They do yoga, practice meditation, and have each found their own relationship with the bowls. My teenagers fall asleep in my classes because their bodies finally get the rest they did not even know they were craving. My twelve-year-old picked up the bowls on his own one afternoon when he was overwhelmed, and afterward looked at me and said, "Now I understand why you play them." It makes me feel so calm and at peace. That moment said everything.
Finding the present moment is contagious. And in our house, it is not something we talk about. It is something we live.