CHRISTY BROWN, E-RYT 500Teaching yoga since 2000, Christy has studied in India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga Yoga) and S.N. Goenka (Vipassana Meditation) and in the U.S. with Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley (Yin Yoga), T.K.V. Desikachar (Viniyoga) and H.H. the Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhism).
Emphasizing mindfulness, breath and safe alignment, Christy draws on Yogic, Buddhist and Taoist philosophies to weave a creatively flowing, invigorating yet calming, centering yet expanding exploration of Self through Asana—dedicated to highest wellbeing of the Earth and all beings (for the next seven generations and beyond).
For 20 years prior to the pandemic, Christy led weekly yoga classes, Yin Yoga teacher trainings (of her own curriculum), and 200-hour YogaWorks teacher trainings in San Francisco and Marin County. Post-pandemic she has focused primarily on leading (and co-leading) yoga and meditation retreats, both locally and internationally.
Christy has volunteered time to guest teach with Prison Yoga Project at San Quentin Prison, is a Yoga Works certified teacher trainer and has written an unpublished book entitled Yin Yoga & The Art of Letting Go (copies available upon request).
Christy graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1993, with a B.A. in Latin American & Iberian Studies and a Political Science Certificate in Global Peace & Securities. Intending at the time to become an Anthropologist, she subsequently studied Mayan Archeology in the highlands of Honduras with Harvard University for a summer before leaving to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia where she lived and worked 2+ years with indigenous basket weavers. It was during her time in Bolivia that Christy discovered yoga from a book and started practicing on her own. The profound transformations and physical healing she experienced from yoga and meditation (together with a transition to a gluten-free, dairy-free, mostly plant-based, organic diet) resulted in a lifestyle and career shift to a lifelong path dedicated to teaching and sharing the practice of yoga with others.
Christy was also an exchange student for a year in Brazil when she was 16. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
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