About Christy
The ancient system of yoga is designed to lead practitioners toward higher consciousness and union with the divine, through Self-realization. This, coupled with the present and urgent need for a positive shift in global collective-consciousness, is the inspiration behind Christy's teaching. By practicing yoga as a vehicle to expand consciousness, we contribute to the whole by optimizing our own physical-mental-spiritual well-being.

The practice of asana grounds, calms and expands the mind—using body and intention as our tool. We become aware of imbalances, holding patterns, and our degree of distraction. Diagnosis and remedy are often one and the same. When we shine our awareness on contracted, blocked or blind places, healing occurs, tissues soften, channels in the subtle energy body open, and our chi flows more freely.

Christy teaches vinyasa, yin yoga, and yin flow and emphasizes breath, bandhas and core, and abiding in the heart. She draws on Buddhist practices, bhakti yoga, Taoism, various other wisdom traditions, and music, to weave a creatively flowing, invigorating and calming exploration of asana. Christy has studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, S.N. Goinka, John Berlinsky, Lea Watkins, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, and John Friend. Christy is also guided by H.H. the Dalai Lama, Mata Amritanandamayi, and the divine teacher within.  

Prior to teaching yoga, Christy was an exchange student for a year in Brazil, at 16. In 1993, she received a B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara, in Latin American & Iberian Studies and a certificate in Global Peace & Securities. Christy spent 1996-98 in Bolivia, as a Peace Corps volunteer, working with indigenous, Guaraní basket-weavers. After the Peace Corps, Christy worked for a year as the Communications Manager for a non-profit social services agency in San Francisco. In 2000, she started teaching yoga. Over the years, Christy has also spent time in India, Europe, Bali, and elsewhere, and retains her love for travel.

In addition to her regular teaching schedule, Christy teaches occasionally to inmates at San Quentin prison in Marin County.