Meet our floating yogis who lead your on water studio!
I’m Kelli Carlson, and founder/owner of SUP-Poser.
My first foray into yoga was in 2010, looking for ways to rehabilitate an injury and reboot my unbalanced lifestyle. Yoga helped me learn how to breathe, discover t
rust in alignment and find strength in balance. That next summer, yoga brought me to the water – a place that I feared. Basically, I flunked about every swim lesson I ever took as a child and was terrified of doing more than a mean doggy paddle in the water. Calling upon a newfound energy cultivated by yoga, I discovered calmness in practicing on SUP and learned to unlearn my fear of water. Fast forward to now, I can’t get enough of floating on water.
Certified by Core Power Yoga (RYT 200), I’ve completed completed my Paddle Yoga certification in San Diego, CA. Over this last year, partnering with Christine Coleman, we’ve had the opportunity to bring SUP-Yoga Teacher Training, ‘Wood & Water’ to the Twin Cities YMCAs and certify more than 12 group instructors.
Currently I teach yoga on land at Yoga Forest, Wild River Fitness and City of Marine/Scandia, and of course, on water on the great St. Croix River. While, yoga is my breathe and my water is my spirit, in my day-to-day pursuit of happiness, I lead Ideation and Employee Engagement (including yoga!) in the Financial Industry and mom to two boys ages 18 & 24.