Kia Islam is a yoga and meditation instructor, multidisciplinary artist, co-founder of Good Juju, and a Nike Well Collective Trainer. Growing up between the East Coast and the Middle East, Kia was immersed in diverse cultural and devotional practices from an early age. She graduated from The New School with a double major in Photography and Culture & Media, where she first encountered Hatha Yoga through her first teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra. This exposure sparked her passion for the mind-body connection and the teachings of the eight limbed ashtanga yoga system.

Kia completed her 200-Hour RYT with YogaVeda School in 2016 and has since pursued extensive training in the healing arts, including Reiki (Level 2 under the Usui lineage), Meridian Yoga Therapy (Science of Self Yoga), Somatic Intuitive Leadership (Good Moves), Thai Yoga Bodywork (Thai Brooklyn), and the 75-Hour Spiritual Warrior program with Jivamukti. She also completed both 200-Hour Meditation and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Three Jewels NYC and is currently working through the 18 Asian Classics Institute courses on Mahayana Tibetan Buddhism.

Kia is dedicated to a lifelong study of creative expression, the healing arts, spirituality, movement, culture. Kia's classes focus on breath awareness, grounding into the soma, intuitive movement, and the nourishing power of music. She serves her community through in-person and virtual classes across NYC and beyond, and leads sessions for private clients, corporate partners, events, and international retreats. Kia gives eternal gratitude to her teachers, their lineages, and the great mother earth and realms unseen that continually inspire and inform her journey

Her clientele and collaborations include Nike, Glossier, The New Museum, Complex Magazine, Shopify, Happier, The Good Life, Camp Nice, Outbound Hotels, The Rockaway Hotel, The Lower East Side Girls Club, Weeksville Heritage Center, Aire Ancient Baths, Lalu Studio, Therapart, Spoonful, Ice Cold Club, Seed To Body, Sincerely Tommy, SolWave Collective and Rise Radio NYC.