KENDRA: Kendra, a middle-aged, mixed-race Black woman with short natural hair and long feathered earrings, smiles warmly into the camera. She is standing in front of an out-of-focus river on a rocky shore. She is wearing a long blue maxi dress with a brown belt, and a gold bracelet on her left wrist. Her hands are folded in front of her abdomen.
KENDRA COUPLAND (she/her)
Instructor- Gentle Adaptive Yoga for Disabled Folks
Kendra Coupland (she/her) is a Yoga Grandmaster, who was initiated into the yogic tradition by Swami Vidyanand in 2017 while residing in Tamil Nadu, India. As a queer, neurodivergent yoga teacher, survivor of childhood sexual violence, and person of mixed Afro-Caribbean and Romani heritage, Kendra brings a compassionate, trauma-informed, and intersectional framework to her practice.
Her body of work includes creating programming for survivors of sexual violence at UBC and Capilano University; she is the founder of Spiritual Wellness for Black Bodies and the Dark Before the Dawn retreat for Black community healing; and she teaches a free trauma-informed, drop-in yoga class twice a week for the general public at The Gathering Place Community Centre.
Her aim is to create safer spaces for folks who experience marginalization and systemic violence to practice self-liberation within the yogic community.