Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio

Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio (she/they) is a white, cis, queer mom and writer who taught yoga and mindfulness in the San Francisco Bay area for over twenty years, bringing a body love and social justice perspective to her teaching and learning. She has completed the Dedicated Practitioner’s Program at Spirit Rock, teacher training at the Mindfulness Training Institute, racial justice facilitation training with Holistic Resistance, the Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program at East Bay Meditation Center, Mindfulness Mentor Training with Banyan, Dharmapala Training with Sacred Mountain Sangha, Original Medicine Yearlong and InDepth with Braided Wisdom, and is a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock, EBMC, New York Insight, Insight Santa Cruz, and is a Core Teacher at the Sit Feel Heal Center in Santa Cruz. She is currently a member of the Community Dharma Leaders cohort at Spirit Rock and serves as a teacher for Braided Wisdom’s 2026 Original Medicine training. As a practitioner, Kimber values the intersection of social justice, self-knowledge, and decreased reactivity within Buddhist practice and appreciates how these skills help us increase our ability to connect deeply. Undermining white supremacy internally and externally is a core component of her work. She deeply appreciates how the practice of mindfulness has brought more compassion and joy to her relationships and life. She currently lives on the land of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi people, stewarded by the Amah Mutsun Ohlone, colonially known as Santa Cruz, CA.