Kiara Armstrong

Kiara is the author of Hands-On Yoga Assists: A Teacher’s Guide to the Rubber Band Method®—a groundbreaking book published by Human Kinetics and released in June 2025, available through all major outlets. She’s the creator of the Rubber Band Method®—a consent-driven, anatomy-informed, and biomechanically sound approach to hands-on yoga assists.

With nearly 15 years of teaching experience and over 25 years of personal practice, Kiara holds an E-RYT500 designation, is a Yoga Alliance continuing education provider, and has led both 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings since 2016.

She also brings extensive experience in clinical massage—having worked alongside chiropractors to provide therapeutic bodywork for medically referred patients—and has taught anatomy at both yoga and massage schools. Her study includes over five months of individualized cadaver lab research, which directly informs her biomechanical approach to hands-on education.

Kiara holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Communication and brings lived experience with complex PTSD into all her work. Her recovery journey directly shaped the creation of the Rubber Band Method®, and it’s why she advocates so fiercely for safe, consent-based, and trauma-sensitive touch—especially in yoga teacher trainings and trauma-informed yoga spaces. She helps educators reimagine touch as a somatically intelligent tool for health and well-being.