About – Personal

“I see my work as a gateway to go from stress to peace.”


Personal

Me meditating in my 20’s

As an advocate for all aspects of wellness, I feel it’s imperative that we seek out authentic and holistic ways to protect our wellbeing and heal stress in our body and daily lives. In doing so, we keep our inner power and health fortified to face anything and everything we may be confronted with. In a recent post-COVID poll, 77% of Americans reported an increase in everyday levels of stress, and experts are projecting that mental health issues such as anxiety and depression will produce a roughly-16-trillion-dollar hit to the global economy between now and 2030. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have the innate capacity to manage our personal stress with the right tools and practices.

For me, the tool and practice of meditation is one of the best ways we can lead ourselves to better mental health and well-being. In fact, studies on the benefits of meditation have mounted over the past two decades – revealing the truth that meditation works.

Personally, my first encounter with meditation was by the grace of my grandmother. At the age of seven, my grandmother was a constant presence in my young life, with days spent in her company and nights sharing her bed. I would recall many twilight moments of drifting off or waking up and noticing Grandma alongside me: upright in a bedside chair, eyes closed, stock-still and silent, as peaceful, and unmovable as a mountain. My child’s mind found this both odd and intriguing, and one day I gathered up the courage to ask about it. Grandma just smiled, saying these moments were “quiet time with my maker,” and they helped “guide my days with ease and hope.”

Many years later, as a stressed-out college senior in my early twenties, I found out about a local meditation class that was happening, so I tried it and loved it. When I first started to meditate, my mind flashed back to my grandmother quietly sitting still in her chair with eyes closed full of wisdom and peace.

Now, more than ever, I often tell my clients – the only way OUT is IN. “IN” being Meditation. Paradoxical as it sounds, I say this because, when were able to clear out restrictive stress energy from our mind, body and spirit with meditation or any other powerful stress management modality for that matter, we invite wisdom, peace, and wellness to take root. Afterall, life is too magical to be stressed.

Professional

Kellye Davis is a wellness influencer and respected voice in the field of stress management modalities. Kellye’s passion for wellness and self-exploration was nurtured from the earliest age. Her aunt Flemmie P. Kittrell was a doctorate in nutrition and one of the first women to attend Cornell University in her field, later serving as an US Ambassador for the World Health Foundation. Her father a dentist and her mother a nurse and healthcare CEO provided ideal role models for her educational and wellness ideals.

A Speech Communications major from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, she later pursued training at the Integral Yoga Institute in the United States, where she became a certified and trained in Hatha Yoga, Dhyana Yoga, Pranayama Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She also holds a certificate in stress management.

She received rites of initiation as Earth-keeper by the Peruvian Shamans of the Andes in South America and feels strongly that our connection with the earth is pivotal to sustaining our humanity. She lends much of her ideals to her Native American – Oglala Sioux heritage.

Balancing an immersion in the practices of meditation, reiki, and restorative yoga with lived experience as a writer, publisher, speaker, and CEO, Kellye is truly a wellness dynamo. Her life’s mission and practice focus on helping others go beyond managing day-to-day stress and open themselves to moments of everyday bliss.

The groundwork of Kellye’s stress relieving philosophy is set in her first book, The Bliss Principle; Stress- Free Lifestyle program. Published in 2009, it offers readers practical methods for stress reduction that involve tapping into one’s inner peaceful power.

Since its publication Kellye has been featured in a variety of national media outlets, including Essence, Women’s Day, Woman’s First, Spa Magazine and Suburban Styles. Her print column “Natural Health” appeared in the New York Daily News, with media/lifestyle appearances featured on The Discovery Network and NBC-New York’s Weekend Morning Show.

She served as publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Unwind Magazine, a Westfair Communications publication focused on addressing workplace stress.

Kellye’s expertise in workplace stress also makes her an in-demand public speaker, with a client roster that includes Bayer, Fuji Film, Mastercard, Snapple Beverages, Berkeley College, Oxford Health Plans, and Capital Health Systems. Kellye’s newly opened Bliss Life Meditation & Restorative studio in Pelham, New York – offers personalized instruction and semi- private group classes in her signature Bliss Principle Meditation Method™ and other stress management signature approaches. In her free time, she enjoys hiking in nature, creating collage art, and attending music concerts.