Therapeutic Yoga
with Krista

pause and breathe

How would it feel to…

✓ Anchor yourself in self-love

✓ Release unresolved patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn

✓ Widen your ability to tolerate emotional discomfort

✓ Develop a felt sense of resilience

✓ Reclaim connection with and trust in your body

✓ Ground yourself in the present moment

Meet your body where it’s at.

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Ready to pause and breathe?

I currently offer Therapeutic Yoga for Stress & Trauma recovery on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m EST
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Through the integration of polyvagal theory, mindful movement and conscious breathing, we allow the practice to become a conversation with your body in a way that allows you to transform and grow.

Research has shown tremendous benefits of yoga for increased vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery.

“The body is a place of connection to our daily life and profound experience, a place of historical habit and survival strategies and our Interdependence with Land and the mystery.  When we talk about embodiment or living through the body, we mean opening to more life, more aliveness, more discernment and more skillful action.” 

— Staci Haines, Author & Somatics Practitioner

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At each therapeutic yoga class, receive practices to feel more spacious, grounded and at ease.

  • Reduce Stress and Anxiety: Learn practical tools to calm your nervous system and bring your body back to a state of ease.

  • Improve Emotional Regulation: Develop the ability to stay grounded and centered during difficult emotions or life challenges.

  • Enhance Mind-Body Connection: Deepen your awareness of the body’s signals and sensations, helping you to trust and understand your body’s wisdom.

  • Increase Resilience: Build the capacity to navigate life’s stressors with greater balance and flexibility, reducing overwhelm.

Love Notes

  • "Krista's yoga sessions have been profoundly beneficial to me. She effectively explains the physiological rationale behind her techniques and offers multiple alternatives to accommodate individual preferences. Following an unsettling work update that left me anxious, her evening session enabled me to transition from a state of heightened stress to deep relaxation, resulting in a restful night's sleep. Krista's classes provide lasting value, empowering students to integrate her methods into daily life. Her instruction is characterized by authenticity, intimacy, and intentionality, inspiring sincere gratitude."

    Ashley

  • “Connection was my main goal in yoga, but I have gained flexibility, lessening of joint pain, and have had an overall feeling of calmness and peace come to my days. I look forward to more gains as I continue this practice with Krista.”

    Meredith

  • Krista is a master at the art of yoga. Her calm voice , expertise in guiding the practice to benefit her students , and educational information is top notch. I will drive two hours round trip to experience her classes .

    Marcy Pippenger

Four Key Principles of Therapeutic Yoga

  • A therapeutic approach to asana invites you to listen to your body and to meet yourself on the mat exactly where you are.

  • What’s beautiful about this practice is that it invites us to examine where we are armoring and supports us to land on the ground, allowing the breath to fill us deeply, so that the armoring we find can be less gripping and we can soften. 

  • Being human can often feel messy and complex and we are hardwired to avoid uncomfortable feelings. In time, your practice can help you to slow down and be present with yourself in the midst of discomfort. This allows you to choose consciously how you would like to respond to distress rather than react from a place of stress and activation.

  • Staying busy and zipping to and fro can be a coping strategy designed very deliberately to help us avoid the harder stuff of life.  When we are busy and distracted, we don’t have to face the truth about our lives and ourselves.  The time we spend on our mat allows us slow down and be present with those parts of us that are often easier to avoid.

Yoga teaches us to greet our bodies where they are and enter into a lifelong conversation that helps us more flexibly experience the world around us and within us.

—Chinese proverb