Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas is the Executive Director of Yoga 4 Change. After being medically separated from the United States Navy in which she served as a Naval Aviator, she began studying to become a Yoga teacher through the Yoga School of Kailua (Kailua, Hawaii). Upon moving to Jacksonville, Florida, she witnessed the need for mental, emotional, and physical healing in her new community and started Yoga 4 Change to fill this void. Since Yoga 4 Change’s inception, the organization has grown to serve four regions of Florida: North Florida, South Florida, Tampa Bay and Central Florida. Yoga 4 Change has experienced many triumphs under Thomas’s leadership, including having the organization be researched by Boston University, correctional programming being written about in National Geographic Magazine, and creating the current sentencing relationship with the 4th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Kathryn has training in multiple disciplines including Power Yoga, Chair Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She is a 500 E-RYT as well as a formerly Certified Baptiste Teacher. Kathryn formerly sat on the board of the Yoga Service Council, where she served as the project manager and contributed to two of the Best Practice Book Series: Yoga with Veterans, and Yoga in the Criminal Justice System. In 2020, Kathryn received the Individual Sapphire Award from the Florida Blue Foundation. Kathryn resides in Florida with her husband, daughter and their 2 Labrador Retrievers.