Today we’d like to introduce you to Tylee Personett.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My path to Kisma has been anything but linear, although looking back, I can see how every chapter has prepared me for the work I’m doing now. I’m so grateful to be here.
I returned to yoga years ago, during a pretty heavy season, when I was looking for something that could help me feel more connected to myself again.
What started as a personal practice eventually became a coaching and teaching career – spending years studying and practicing yoga, Ayurveda, holistic health, nervous system regulation, nutrition, embodiment, and the many ways our physical, emotional, mental, and energetic lives intersect.
But the most important part of my education has never happened in a classroom or a training. It has happened through living.
Becoming a mother. Recovering from old patterns. Learning what it means to listen to my body. Experiencing burnout. Rebuilding my relationship with rest. Questioning the ways I had been taught to measure productivity, wellness, and even success. Again and again, I found myself coming back to the same realization: healing isn’t about becoming a better version of yourself. It’s about becoming more of who you authentically are.
That realization eventually became the foundation for my Whole-Body Wellness Blueprint, which brings together the pieces of wellness that I had spent years studying and, more importantly, living. It became a way of teaching that honors both science and intuition, structure and seasons, education and embodied experience.
For years, I taught primarily through studios and other people’s spaces. I’m deeply grateful for what those years gave me. Though, I eventually realized that the work I wanted to create needed more room to breathe. Through my practices, many meditations, and a few conversations with my business coach, I was able to see the ecosystem and put some pieces together.
That shift led to Kisma Wellness.
Today, Kisma is becoming the home for the work I’ve been building toward all along: whole-body wellness education, community, embodied practices, seasonal living, retreats, teacher education, and creating spaces that help people develop a deeper relationship with themselves, rather than simply giving them another list of things to do.
I’m still evolving. Honestly, I hope I always am. But for the first time, the different pieces of my work don’t feel like separate things. They feel like one body of work – and Kisma is the space I’m building to hold it.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Not at all. I’m honestly grateful for that, though.
There have been plenty of moments when the path felt uncertain – financially, professionally, and personally. I’ve built a career in spaces where I was often holding a lot: teaching, creating, supporting other people, raising a family, building programs, and continually learning how to be there for everyone while also trying to hear my own voice.
For a long time, I thought the answer was to become better at carrying it all. Eventually, I learned that wasn’t sustainable.
Burnout became one of my greatest teachers.
So did the uncomfortable seasons when something I had invested years of my life into no longer felt aligned. Leaving familiar structures (even ones I was grateful for) required me to trust myself before I had proof that the next thing would work.
There have also been plenty of quieter struggles: questioning whether my work was valuable enough to stand on its own, learning to charge appropriately for what I know, resisting the pressure to constantly produce, and figuring out how to build a business without recreating the same exhaustion I was trying to leave behind.
That last one has probably been the biggest lesson.
I’m learning that building something meaningful doesn’t have to mean building something that consumes me.
I don’t want success at the expense of my health, my family, my creativity, or my ability to actually enjoy my life. I want to create work that has depth and impact while still leaving room for being a human being.
And I think that’s why Kisma feels so different.
It’s being built from a much more honest place. I’m not interested in creating another version of wellness that tells people to optimize themselves harder or bypass the hard days. I’m interested in creating spaces where we can slow down enough to actually listen – to our bodies, our seasons, our intuition, and the parts of ourselves we may have been overriding for years.
The road hasn’t been smooth.
But it has taught me how to build something that feels true.
At this point in my life, that’s worth far more to me than a perfectly straight path.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
At its heart, my work is about helping people come back into better relationship with themselves.
I’m a whole-body wellness educator, yoga teacher, and creator of Kisma Wellness.
My work lives at the intersection of embodied movement, nervous system education, nourishment, intuition, and the inner beliefs and patterns that shape how we move through our lives.
I teach, write, and create self-guided practices and educational resources, lead retreats and trainings, and work with people individually and in groups.
Yoga was my entry point, but it has never been the whole story.
I specialize in helping people connect the dots between the different parts of themselves.
We tend to separate everything – physical health over here, mental health over there, movement over here, spirituality somewhere else – and I don’t really believe we’re designed that way.
How we eat, move, think, rest, relate, and respond to stress are all part of the same conversation.
That’s the foundation of my Whole-Body Wellness Blueprint, which I originally created from years of education, my own experience of healing, and the tools that helped me rebuild my relationship with myself.
It’s become one of the clearest expressions of how I teach: practical enough to use in real life, but deep enough to actually change the way you understand yourself.
I’m probably best known for making wellness feel grounded and accessible while keeping the depth.
I love bringing together things that aren’t always put in the same room, like science and intuition, ancestral wisdom and modern education, structure and seasonal living, movement and stillness. The duality of life itself.
I’m also very interested in what happens when we stop treating wellness as another performance.
I know you don’t need another person telling you to wake up earlier, eat perfectly, meditate every morning, hit your goals, and somehow become the most optimized version of yourself. Most of us already know how to push ourselves.
What we’re often missing is the ability to listen, discern, regulate, and make choices that are actually sustainable.
That’s the space I want to hold.
I’m especially proud of the body of work I’m building through Kisma because it finally allows all of these pieces to live together.
Through The Portal (Kisma’s membership space), my writing/blog/programs, and in-person offerings, I’m creating a slower, more intentional way for people to learn and practice. Through retreats and teacher education, I get to help other practitioners deepen their own work. And through private and collaborative work, I get to meet people wherever they are in their lives.
What sets me apart is probably less about one particular credential or methodology and more about how I see people. How I feel people.
I don’t believe people need to be fixed.
I believe they need better information, safer spaces to explore, practices they can actually live with, and permission to trust some of what they already know.
I’m proud to build work from that belief.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
Absolutely. No meaningful body of work is built alone, and I feel especially grateful for the people who have trusted me enough to grow alongside me.
My family deserves the first mention. My sister is my biggest cheerleader and truly I don’t know where I’d be without her. My husband and my three children are my greatest teachers and have lived alongside every version of this journey – the early mornings, the teaching, the retreats, the business ideas, the pivots, and all of the seasons when I was figuring out what came next. Building a life that allows me to be present with them is one of the reasons I care so deeply about creating sustainable work.
I’ve also been incredibly fortunate to have teachers and mentors who expanded the way I think about wellness and education. Yoga teachers, Ayurveda teachers, health educators, and the people I’ve studied with over the years have cracked open my heart, each adding another layer to my understanding.
I’m grateful for every person who challenged me to look deeper.
My students and clients have probably been some of my greatest teachers, too. They have trusted me with their stories, their bodies, their questions, and sometimes their hardest seasons. So much of what I teach has been refined through listening to what people actually need – not what I think they should need.
And there are collaborators who have become really important to this next chapter. My business coach has brought so much clarity and structure to my wild mind. I am incredibly grateful for her support.
Working alongside people who share a vision but bring different strengths to the table has reminded me how powerful collaboration can be.
I’m also grateful for the friends and colleagues who have simply believed in me before I had everything figured out. Entrepreneurship can be incredibly isolating, and having people who will say, “No, I think you’re onto something,” when you’re still standing in the middle of the uncertainty is invaluable. Thank you to everyone who has invited me to shine wisdom into your space. It means the world to me.
Ultimately, though, I think the biggest credit belongs to the people who have trusted me with their own healing and growth. Every class I’ve taught, every conversation I’ve had, every retreat I’ve led, and every person who has told me, “Something shifted for me,” has helped shape the work Kisma is becoming.
I’m very aware that I’m not building this alone.
I’m building it in relationship – with the people who taught me, the people who continue to challenge me, the people who practice with me, and the people who have trusted me enough to walk alongside me for a while.
Pricing:
- The Portal | $66/month
Contact Info:
- Website: http://kismawellness.com
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/kismawellness
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tyleehealthcoach
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@tyleepersonett
- Other: https://theportal.mailerpage.io/
