Kailen (Kai) Nelson

Kailen (Kai) Nelson is certified as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist. Through years of personal practice and teaching, he explored different approaches to present-moment orientation. Over time, spatial referencing became the key insight that tied these experiences together, allowing him to reduce the process to its fundamental elements of body mapping and body-centered spatial referencing. His approach draws from frameworks in both traditional yoga and modern neuroscience.

Kai was selected to teach multiple cohorts at the University of Minnesota for a brain-computer interface study using motor imagery, in which imagined movements were detected through EEG and translated into commands for controlling a robotic arm. His cohorts consistently outperformed the control groups in the study.

Today, Kai teaches live and online classes, seminars, and private sessions, with a focus on cognitive support for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, their caregivers, and neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD.