Kristi Martel (born 1973), is a singer, songwriter, performance artist and yogini based in Rhode Island.
She studied music, theatre, dance, poetry, and performance art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, earning a bachelor's degree in 1994.
She pursued similar subjects at Mills College in Oakland, California, receiving a master's degree in 1998.
She has studied with several prominent yogi and learned meditation, kinesiology, herbal healing, and integrated energy therapy to complement the more traditional yoga.
[9][10] She continues to record and to give concerts, and for two years was music director at a local Rhode Island radio station.