you HOLD THE POWER.

You hold the power to begin again—to befriend the body, release the breath, connect with the heart, restore calm, and to create a life you love.

Individual Sessions & SEVA Community

Virtual evidence-based support for adults seeking relief after challenging experiences and Global Seva Community Circle.

Lectures & Events

Dynamic, engaging, heartful, and cutting-edge lectures, presentations, workshops, academia, NGO, and community collaborations.

Advocacy

Kintla has long been an advocate for vulnerable populations, particularly survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking.

Expert Help worldwide bridging east and west, science and spirit. A compassionate, pioneering approach to integrative trauma treatment and sustainable mental wellness.

Thank you for being here.

the KYT® Approach

The KYT® Approach is an integrative trauma treatment first developed by Kintla Striker in 2009 as a response to the limitations of Western-only, top down, blank slate methods prevalent at the time she began her work and to the healing power of heartfulness, social engagement, and mind-body practices in trauma recovery.

The approach’s evidence-based mind-body-heart medicine outcomes in individuals with varied traumatic stress histories reflect significant improvements in five domains of function: cognitive, psychological, emotive, relational, and physical health and wellbeing.

KYT is a somatic/bottom-up approach to healing that is also a first and continuing step in the treatment of the origins of chronic and traumatic stress and a lifelong toolbox for mental wellness sustainability.

Eight weekly sessions of the KYT Approach with individuals with varied traumatic stress histories reflects significant improvements in five domains of function: cognitive, psychological, emotive, relational, and physical health and wellbeing.

mind-body-heart tools for life from your own home

Virtual compassionate, attuned, intuitive, safe connection from your own home.

Through opening to deeper understanding we learn that healing is more than the story of what happened; it is the art of transmuting and weaving those experiences into the fabric of who we are, guiding both our everyday living and the dreams we carry forward.

Testimonials

“Kintla Striker, creator of KYT®, came to Houston to teach trauma-informed yoga to victims of Hurricane Harvey [and train FEMA Corps personnel]. I learned a series of empowering practices from Kintla, including breathing exercises, mindfulness techniques, and mindful movement. I may have started our session as a hurricane victim, but I ended up a warrior with a new lease on life.”

Angela H., Houston, Texas

“You won’t meet a more kind and welcoming person than Kintla. In the short time I have been working with her, I have gained several new coping skills. I consider what I have learned invaluable. ”

Erin Lunstead, Michigan

“[Kintla] opened my eyes to this whole other opportunity for well-being that I didn’t even know existed. I wanted to say it in a simple way: I am very thankful for Kintla and her healing gift in all our lives. ”

Logan Stark

Former Marine Scout Sniper/Documentary Filmmaker, Texas

“Kintla has been a great resource and colleague. She is extremly knowledgeable, skilled, and wonderful to work with. She is naturally curious about her practice and the science that could contribute to better understanding of how yoga and related practices work and how they produce salutary benefits many people are now coming around to acknowledging and accepting.”

Jason S. Moser, PhD

Professor, Clinical Science, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Michigan

“Gratitude to you and your work Kintla. Your teachings were enlightening on all levels of my life and relationships. Keep shining that light onto the darkness.”

Leslie K. Reynolds, MD

Module I Training Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan

“I feel truly blessed to have met and worked with Kintla on my healing journey. She is an inspiring, genuine soul who truly cares about helping others. I once told my family that Kintla can see into your soul and read you like a book, in the best way. She has been a steady supporter of my healing, always caring and professional, never pushing me beyond my comfort. She deeply understands trauma and how the mind and body connect, and I learned so much about myself. ”

Larissa

Coming IN 2026: A New Book by Kintla Striker

Minimalist blank book cover held in a bright room with flowers in the background.

Founder of Kintla Mind-Body Global, LLC (formerly Kintla Yoga) and the creator of the KYT® Approach, Kintla Striker brings her expertise, personal experiences, professional work with trauma survivors, research, and detailed integrative trauma treatment protocol to the pages of this upcoming heart-centered memoir-meets-handbook of her life’s work.

This hybrid book is rooted in the life of a survivor of early childhood traumatic events and college sexual assault who managed to protect her own sensitive heart while also building grit, finding meaning, and being of service to others. It also touches on her rise from more recent tragedy, injury, and the most profound loss of her life.

Kintla’s trauma-informed adaptation of ancient mind-body practices, understanding of the neuroscience of trauma, intuition, and focus on the wisdom of the heart culminate in a dance that marries mind, body, and heart in a compassionate integrative trauma treatment protocol for all people that she details step-by-step.

This work offers readers a pathway to better understanding themselves, how to heal the mind-body-heart disconnect at their own pace (or that of their client’s), unique somatic tools and guidance for whatever challenges arise for the reader personally or in a therapeutic setting with clients, and stories of suvivors reveling in new found agency, finding purpose and meaning.

It contains insightful guidance for both licensed mental health professionals working with survivors, individuals focused on self-healing, helping organizations, and those simply interested in the unfolding of one human being’s story of healing and commitment to help others.

Highlights:

Creating safety in the body
Challenge and choice as the great facilitators of growth
The end of the “blank slate”: provider social engagement as a foundational superpower in trauma treatment, including a step-by-step approach to intuitive compassionate social engagement in trauma treatment
Practical somatic tools and approach for navigating trauma recovery for all
Harmonizing Mind, Body, and Heart: The 5 W’s and 1 H of the KYT Approach
Insights into the gifts of heart coherence
Real stories and reflections for inspiration
Accessible compassionate and self-compassionate guidance for anyone seeking heartful tools for nervous system regulation and greater equanmity

mind-body-heart tools for life.

Start your healing journey now and regain your agency, peace of mind, sense of safety, and connection with your own heart. A first step toward all possibilities.

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