Lovar Kidd

My  lifelong desire has been to create community through movement in all forms. With the knowledge I have gained over the years of the human body through massage therapy and yoga, and my experience as a professional dancer create the right conditions for the growth and transformation of my students and clients.

Although I’ve been blessed with the opportunities to travel the world, I am a true Iowan. I pursued a BFA in dance at the University of Iowa and was a 3 year member of the University of Iowa cheerleading squad. In 2006 I attended Carlson College of Massage Therapy in Stone City, IA. After becoming an LMT in the spring of 2007 I began to experience a void in my life as I began to miss dance. I also realized that Cedar Rapids did not have any performance opportunities so I decided to start MOvMNT Dance Company, a local non-profit contemporary & hip-hop dance company. Through MOvMNT Dance Company I have had the privilege of providing hundreds of students with affordable dance classes and performance opportunities in and around the corridor over the past 5 years.

I  continue to perform throughout the US, most recently in the 2011-2012 National tour of the tony award-winning musical In The Heights. Before touring with In The Heights, I had the privilege of being a core member of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater based out of Washington DC under the artistic direction of Helanius J. Wilkins.

When not choreographing or performing Kidd is husband to the beautiful Jennifer Kidd, and father to two Shiba Inu’s, Cora & Kodi.

In 2012 I finally began my journey into the yoga teacher community taking my 200 hour teacher training from James Miller, E-RYT 500. I have definitely been on the fast track to learning how to be the best yoga teacher I can be and am currently a 500 hour RYT, having completed my 500 hour certification in January 2014.