Meet Comeback Yoga’s Staff
KELLY, Executive Director
Kelly has been with Comeback Yoga since 2017 and is proud to serve our nation’s service members. She is the granddaughter of World War II veterans and works every day to honor their memory.
Kelly has been a part of Denver’s nonprofit scene since 2009 and feels lucky to have such a meaningful career. She specializes in trauma-informed yoga and teaches active duty and Colorado Army National Guard on military bases across the Denver Metro Area.
COLE, Program Director
Cole’s passion is to support everyday people as they safely and playfully step into their own confidence and connect deeply with themselves. Her method of choice: yoga.
Yoga can empower individuals physically, mentally, and emotionally. And with some curiosity and openness, it can have lasting benefits that run deep.
While working with an organization for the end of violence against women, Cole regularly witnessed the disconnect that women experiencing physical abuse sometimes have from their bodies. This disconnect is what spurred Cole’s intrigue in the physical body’s place in supporting trauma recovery. So began her journey with Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. Since then she has studied with trauma-informed teachers such as Janine D'Anniballe, Hala Khouri, and Nancy Candea.
She has been with Comeback Yoga since 2020, and is honored to get to know and serve the Comeback Yoga community.
NIKKI, Program Assistant
Nikki has experienced, first hand, the healing power of yoga. After years of competitive sports, she began to suffer from injuries and chronic pain. Every activity caused pain and that started taking its toll on her overall well-being. After trying medications and physical therapy for many years without much relief, she decided to give yoga a try. She wanted to be on a path that would empower her to take control of her own health and well-being. With consistent practice, the resulting relief was so profound, she knew she had to share this natural healing modality with others and began her training to become a certified yoga instructor.
For Nikki, the physical healing of the practice was powerful, but yoga gave her much more than that. Yoga taught her to calm her mind, live in the present moment and truly appreciate the world around her. This gift she will always treasure and it is her passion to guide others to this calmer, more peaceful way of living in an often chaotic world.
Thanks to yoga, Nikki can now spend her free time teaching, hiking, biking, riding horses, walking her many rescue dogs, and most importantly, spend time with family joyfully, while feeling strong and pain- free.