Kelli has over 15 years experience practicing and teaching yoga. She has studied under Sharath and Saraswati Jois (yoga asana) and Dr. Jayashree (yoga bhajan) in Mysore, Karnataka, India, and has experienced the darshan of Amma ("the hugging saint"), Prajnananda (of Yogananda's Kriya Yoga lineage), Sadhguru, and others.