About Christine

My Yoga Journey

My first experience with yoga was well before I ever rolled out a mat or chanted Om. I would come home from my elementary school in central Connecticut and turn on our big console TV in the family room to channel 24 WEDH, our public TV station to watch the yoga lady. There she sat in her lotus position, on her raised platform, in her red unitard with her long, loose braid draped over her left shoulder.  I came to listen to her speak. She looked into the camera and spoke directly to me.  I sat in the circle of her warmth, cross-legged directly in front of the TV. I don’t recall seeing her do a single pose.  I just remember her soothing voice washing over me and feeling a sense of acceptance, openness, non-judgment and understanding.

My first formal experience on the mat would not be for 20 more years. A friend invited me to join her for a series of yoga classes in the basement of the yoga teacher’s home in Delaware. For me, it was about spending time with my friend. I was living in a new city and did not have many friends and was in a rocky marriage.  My life blew up, I moved again, and did not think about yoga until I found myself in a new relationship and unsteady ground as I, this single, childless woman moved in with a ready-made family. I began a steady yoga practice and it became my anchor, my support, my passion, my work and my life.

I began a steady yoga practice and it became my anchor, my support, my passion, my work and my life.

In 2009 I left my corporate job as a Senior Tax Manager at Deloitte. I continue to use my accounting skills in service to non-profit agencies, serving as Board Treasurer and on Finance Committees. But I had another yearning, to teach and work with young people. In 2011, I did a 30-hour training Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children Pre-K -Grade 5 with Yoga Child in Philadelphia. That year I began to teach 3rd – 5th graders at a Philadelphia charter school in North Philadelphia. After two years with the children, I was motivated to find a 200-hour yoga teacher training program so that I could be a better yoga instructor for them. In June 2013 I completed the 200-hour Teacher Certification Training at Yoga on Main in Philadelphia and began teaching to adults that fall. In August 2014, I completed the 300-hour Advanced Teacher Certification Training in Ayurvedic Yoga at Yoga on Main.

I continue to teach yoga and mindfulness to children at a Philadelphia charter school in Germantown. In the first weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, I began leading yoga classes on Zoom for friends and family. In June of 2020 I opened a virtual yoga studio.

Today I live in Philadelphia and New Jersey with my husband. I am blessed to be the stepmother to four inspiring people and a fun-loving Meme to my four beautiful grandchildren and Auntie Chrissy to my two superstar nephews.