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 Kim Childs is a teacher, writer,
musician, and award-winning public radio journalist who left the news
media in 1999 to explore yoga, holistic health and
spiritual
lifestyle practices at the Kripalu Center for Yoga
and Health in Lenox, MA. Today, she guides
all kinds of people in her Kripalu yoga
classes, her workshops on conscious eating, and her
self-discovery/creative recovery course based on The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,
by
Julia Cameron.
Kim is a member of the Arlington
Helping
Professionals
Alliance.
A former resident of Hoboken, NJ, and a “Childs of Cape Cod,” Kim
currently lives with her husband in the Boston area. She's been
published in Chicken Soup for the Mother and Daughter Soul,
and
Natural
Awakenings magazine among other places, and writes a blog
called "A Pilgrim on
the Path." Kim has been a
singer and a drummer
with the Mystic
Chorale, The
Drum
Connection, and the Boston
Community
Choir,
which is often featured in the annual Gospel Night at the Pops concerts
at Symphony Hall.
Kim volunteers with
the Sudanese Education Fund,
which helps Sudanese refugees find their way to education, job
training, and job opportunities in the Boston area. To
volunteer or make a contribution, visit www.sudaneseeducationfund.org.
She's
also
worked
with
African
Baobab, an
Boston-area non-profit that helps AIDS orphans and their caretakers in
Uganda
.
Visit
www.africanbaobab.org
to make a donation to The Grandmother Project – matching U.S.
grandmothers with those in Uganda who have taken in their children’s
children. As Swami Kripalu said, “The whole world is one family.”
Kim
with
Majak Buoi
in
Winchester, MA, July, 2005
“Every
child
comes
with
the
message
that
God is not yet discouraged of man.” --Rabindranath
Tagore, Indian poet
 A member of The
Grandmother Project with her grandchildren in
Siironko, Uganda , 2007
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