The KYT Approach with Kintla Striker

07/10/2025

This is my spine surgeon teaching a yoga pose. 🙌

As many have noticed, I've been quiet here. After nearly three years of therapies for post-concussion issues and pain after fainting and hitting my head in 2022, I recently learned that my lingering symptoms are actually from my severely injured neck from the fall.

In 11 days, I'll have major cervical spine surgery to (ideally 🙏) replace three discs. Super grateful to have found Dr. Ehsan Jazini. In addition to his skillfulness and expertise, he's been incredibly compassionate and kind, plus he LOVES yoga. ☺️

This injury has kept me from so much that I love, including my work. I'm hopeful and looking forward to being able to return to more life and work after recovery.

Working on my new website and offerings. 🥰

For now, love each other. Speak truth. Let go. Notice the beauty all around in the here and now (a smile, a cloud, a tree, a bird, your own body and breath).

Remember we're more powerful to embody and ripple peace and good (and change) than anyone's likely ever affirmed.

As my daughter reminds me still, I am you and you are me. We "interare" (Thich Nhat Hahn).

Our individual choices matter. Our connection matters. And, together we give rise to heartfulness that will ripple long after we're gone. ((( ❤ )))

11/11/2024

10 years ago!

Our very first yoga for trauma case study with a former Marine scout sniper reflecting several statistically significant positive outcomes, including the more than doubling of working memory capacity and the disappearance of PTSD symptomology. Follow-up testing showed the results were holding. I've learned so much more since then!

G100 Mental Health United States

Yoga helped Logan Stark, an MSU senior and former Marine scout sniper, recover from PTSD and also improved his brain function, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by psychology researcher Jason Moser.

10/22/2024

“It says so much about a society, a world, that deems it appropriate to mislabel those who have endured and overcome trauma, as disordered.

The DSM-5-TR is littered with erroneous and misleading language that is toxic and obstructive to healing and empowerment. 'Defects', 'deficits' and 'dysfunctions' continue to be used to describe a whole host of psychological and physical responses which (commonly) arise from trauma. For which, the answer almost always resides in medication (another post for another day).

My current 'favourite' is the latest addition/diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR: prolonged grief disorder. WOW.

So grief must manifest in a certain way in order to be considered normal - and there's a timeframe in which grieving must be complete.

This is the best that the 200 or so 'experts' from around the world, from the many medical and mental health disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, paediatrics, nursing and social work could come up with.

And I thought that at long last, we were making sufficient progress.”

-Dr. Mine Conkbayir

09/26/2024

Join us in NYC as we come together from across the globe to help eradicate the stigma against mental health. I'm so honored and delighted to be the Master of Ceremonies and participate as a panelist at the Hearts of Change :: G100 Global Mental Health Conference 2024 :: in New York City next month! 🩷

A full-day conference held in the Presidential Ballroom at Columbia University on October 23, 2024. The event will be preceded by an exclusive invite only cocktail reception on the 22nd at Gracie Mansion Conservancy with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Hope to see you there! If you can't make it and wish to participate, please join me in sharing the vision that mental health and wellness become a non-stigmatized basic human right across the globe.

To learn more and register visit:

https://www.heartsofchange.org/g100globalmentalhealthconference?fbclid=IwY2xjawFiX1NleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYY0MD3PUePfXhv0rQ4dsXZ4bWQdYSx9LTDL2lVOKc8e9rAIVPlmghQg9Q_aem_czHmbi7UfqaXCqV5avKOdQ

Dr. Harbeen Arora Rai Dr. Bindu Babu G100 Mental Health United States G 100: Mission Million ALL WEF G 100: Mission Million ALL WEF Women Economic Forum - WEF

07/25/2024

I have a lot of dreams, one is that all beings discover the power of their own as a for moving through challenges and creating a life of greater ease, equanimity, and better overall wellbeing (mental and physical health). Creating breath as a resource is not as easy as it sounds. Teaching trauma-adapted is one of my joys, but here's another way to practice deepening the breath to great benefit. Makes good sense.

Visualizing breathing patterns can improve interoceptive awareness and mental well-being.

07/23/2024

Many challenges and many blessings in this lifetime. It's been 15 years since I taught my first class—a vocation of pure joy. 🤍

07/19/2024

Let's remember who we are—a mind, body, and heart that’s connected to more than what we see with our eyes or hear with our ears. We are a part of the vast limitless love of the universe. We hold the power to heal ourselves, to choose, to move through challenging times learning to modulate panic and fear as it arises, and we hold the power to help each other heal, one breath, one step at a time together—a smile offered, a breath shared, a few moments of deep listening and true presence, an invitation for a call, a walk, or tea, kind words expressed, a compassionate wish or prayer. We hold the power. We also need each other. ((( 🤍 )))

07/18/2024

This man’s work and quiet support helped make my own work and career flourish from a seed to a dream come true—fifteen years on my gratitude is boundless. Lately, he's been crankin' out one interview after another and I'm delighting in them all!

'The Body Keeps the Score' author Bessel van der Kolk explains the complicated work of treating trauma.

07/07/2024

I remembered this former private student's artwork from 2019 when I awoke this morning (purchased and shared with permission). Beautiful. Hopeful. Timely. 🌙✨⭐️

"I have a whole universe in me." Original student artwork (purchased and shared with permission).🌙✨⭐️

www.kintlastriker.com

06/26/2024

reminder❤️
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06/25/2024

We reached a ResearchGate milestone! 700 reads of this trauma-adapted yoga and mindfulness study presented at Harvard Medical School on the KYT method.

Looking forward to our upcoming global research docuseries where we look at other cultures and how they process chronic and traumatic stress.

PDF | Exposure to trauma can lead to debilitating health conditions that are not effectively addressed by the current standard treatments, which include... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

06/06/2024

Happy and honored for the opportunity to contribute trauma adapted breathwork practices for the FREE online groundbreaking the Midwest Broken Mirror Project workbook! Check it out: https://www.creativeembersnonprofit.org/workbook

The Midwest Broken Mirror Project is a photo/video series of body image stories. The series explores how our culture, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma, and abilities affect how we feel about bodies, our own, and others. Our mission is to connect and inspire people to share their experiences and feel empowered by our collective differences — to “see bodies differently.” We envision a world where the identities our bodies hold are no longer seen through a lens of systemic oppression, and we are all visible and able to thrive within our skin.

https://www.creativeembersnonprofit.org/brokenmirror

The Midwest Broken Mirror Project The Midwest Broken Mirror Project is a photo/video series of body image stories. The series explores how our culture, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma, and abilities affect how we feel about bodies, our own, and others. Our mission is to connect and...