If you don't use them, you lose them. Many cultures who sit in a simple seat or squat to use the bathroom, utilize hip mobility throughout their days. However, for the rest of us, we need to move this amazing ball-and-socket joint in all ways to increase balance, add strength, and preserve mobility as we age. Join Kristin as she weaves hip mobility & flexibility through a 30-minute slow flow.

Pranayama and controlled breathing is a powerful way to get our nervous system to dance and regulate. This breath-infused 30-minute asana class with Kristin encourages you to experience several different breath techniques to help you release, revitalize, and return. "Our breathing is a stable solid ground that we can take refuge in. No matter what is going on inside us – thoughts, emotions, or perceptions – our breathing is always with us, like a faithful friend. Whenever we are carried away by our thinking, when we are overwhelmed by strong emotions, or when our minds are restless and dispersed, we can return to our breathing. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Does it feel like you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? This is a common feeling for many of us living in a modern world where we sit at desks and use poor posture while using our smartphones, watching tv, and driving. Join Kristin for a 30 minute soul flow that incorporates mobility morsels to easy shoulder and neck stiffness.

Yoga for Weight Loss: Sound of the Genuine. Join Kristin to get out of your head and into your body for 20 minutes of yoga with weights and then wind-down with some gentle yin postures to help you hear the sound of the genuine or the still small whisper of truth within. Release the weight of "sticking thinking" and get back to feeling strong and free!

Socrates said, "If you would seek health, first look at the spine." Kristin has been working spinal mobility since her back surgery in 1998. Enjoy a 30-min. slow flow that incorporates the 6 movements of the spine to improved strength and flexibility, as well as spinal articulation focusing on sustainable mobility.

This sequence is perfect after a run or walk and addresses tight hips, hamstrings, quads, low back and shoulders. It's short and sweet, but can be an asana practice to quick relief any day.

The body is central to our experiences, to our sense of ourselves, to our autobiographical narratives. The body is the only way we move through life.” Hillary McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

Join Kristin for a vinyasa-style practice that helps you tune into the beautiful wisdom of your body - giving you choice, agency and permission to flow with grace and power.

Join Kristin to activate your solar plexus power. We come into balance as we hold on with self-confidence, autonomy and will-power and simultaneously let go to the natural flow of life. Learn to access the appropriate amount of core-power to light your internal flame without striving or burning out. What's holding you back today? What's wrong with being confident?

How do you practice rooting or grounding when life feels chaotic? Deborah Adele wrote in her book Yamas & Niyamas "I had taken no time for even the semblance of reflection or integration, it was just on to the next thing, full speed ahead? Slow down with Kristin for this short practice where you will press pause button on your day, reclaim your right to be here, ground and reset, and allow time to integrate all that is going on in your life. Root into longer holds and invite in some deep breaths. Just 30 minutes of connecting to the earth beneath you could be all you need to settle the chaos.

Weight loss is not about beating up the body. It's about coming back to your wholeness and releasing the ways in which the body might be keeping the score. Join Kristin for 30 minutes of yoga sculpting, a cool down and a heart chakra meditation where we will connect to our breathing and expand our love to self and others. Heart Chakra Metta Poem by Beth Beard.

"We practice to nourish our hope — our hope for a more settled mind, a more stable breath, a more compassionate heart. Our practice feeds our hope, and our hope feeds our practice. In fact, our practice is hope in action." Judith Hanson Lasater

What does embodied hope look like? Is life weighing you down or are you walking with your head high and with an open heart full of hope. This practice incorporates nourishing backbends like sphinx, floor blow and even an opportunity to cultivate Ardha Chandra Chapasana (half-moon bow pose). Backbends energize and help us counter and strengthen our modern and chronic postural patterns. You can take this slow or customize with vinyasa transitions to build heat.

Do you need a wake-up call? A 30 minute power punch that includes squats, lunges, yoga push-ups, balancing and also a pause in your day to remind you that you are worthy? Yoga can help with weight loss by strengthening the body and burning fat, regulating the nervous system for stress reduction, and bringing awareness to our mindset. In this class, Kristin will remind you to move - not to beat yourself up, but to nurture your worthiness! It's from this place that you bring awareness in your day to the ways you can fuel your body with breath work, nutrition, and rest.

"When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think we’re supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness—that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging—lives inside of our story.” Brene Brown

Do the cocoon seasons of your life make you want to react with frustration or emerge transformed with the sense that your life, even the small ways that your light can shine, can make a difference in the world.

Join Kristin for a slow, but not easy, vinyasa focusing on shoulder and hip opening to help free you and create a ripple effect in your day!

"How strange that even a minor event, action or small shift can have such a tremendous effect. Like the butterfly's wing is capable of altering the path of a tornado, certainly everything, even the very tiny thing, can effect everything." Tuwalily

Letting go and cultivating faith is not an easy practice. Brené Brown said, “Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”

How can you loosen your grip on the struggle?

How can you let go a bit, and allow some ease?

How can you adopt a more gentle perspective while strengthening your entire body and mind?

*This class was originally filmed live and brought to you from our instructor’s living room, to yours. Now you can enjoy it anytime!

Join Kristin, who has recovered from back surgery and thrived for over 20 years because of her yoga practice. Much of our back pain is due to stress, tight hamstrings, psoas, and gluteal muscles. This 30 minute daily routine focuses on diaphragmatic breath and targeted yoga postures that educate, strengthen and release the tension causing back discomfort.

"Dear Body, You are a mystery to me. And instead of frustration, now I feel full of wonder, and appreciation. I love you." Hillary McBride.
What if we approached weight loss in a different way? What if instead of body shaming, we honored our bodies? In this FREE class, Kristin will lead you through a 30 minute dynamic yoga with resistance flow and an embodiment meditation to stimulate the rest and digest benefit of our nervous system. Let's move, breathe, and honor our bodies towards health and wholeness.

"I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything." ~Raul Seixas.

Join Kristin for a balanced vinyasa class that inspires you to find more freedom and acceptance in your life.

Metamorphosis is the journey from caterpillar to butterfly. All that the caterpillar was and all that the butterfly will be are contained in the cocoon, but one form must relinquish itself that another might emerge. We will practice emergence physically, mentally and spiritually in this vinyasa class. Be prepared to be challenged through balancing postures. It takes time, patience, stillness, suffering, before you spread your wings and begin to fly. Can you be okay with where you on in the process of becoming?

What if life balance was found in presence? Harvard research claims that we are the most over informed and under reflective civilization in history. A life without margin leaves no space for reflection or understanding. Richard Swenson said that margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. When present in yoga practice, we can find balance before we rush past our limits. Plan to be challenged in this full body practice with the intention to pursue the ease found in presence.

Join Kristin for a series of Metamorphosis classes focused on transformation and the beauty in the waiting seasons of life. Simone Veil said, “Waiting expectantly is the foundation of spiritual life.” Challenge yourself in the balance-focused, full mandala vinyasa flow that moves you from longer holds, fun variations of hip abduction to strengthen glutes and outer hips, to flowing with hope and expectation for positive transformation to come.

“The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and enjoy the dance. Alan Watts

Join Kristin for a creative flow working on transitions in the yoga practice that may improve functional movement off the mat. Learn to rock & roll to standing, pivot your feet for joint health and transition with mindfulness.

FREE tutorial to learn about the most popular types of yoga and what makes them unique.

There are several unique styles of yoga that exist and they can be quite different from each other. While starting out, it might seem like "yoga" is one practice or style, but students quickly discover that there are numerous forms of this practice to explore. While each style has similarities in the essence and philosophy of the yoga, they can differ greatly in their approach. So what is the difference between the styles of yoga?

Each style has unique characteristics. Some styles are more traditional, some more modern, some are more intense physically and fitness based, while others are focused more around mindfulness and relaxation, to name a few.

For those newer to yoga, it can be overwhelming to understand the differences between each style of yoga, let alone choose which style is best to begin your yoga journey. Fortunately, the abundance and diversity of yoga styles, makes it easier for people to find a type of yoga that is ideal for them.

This video makes it easy to understand the differences between 9 of the most common styles of yoga! You'll quickly and easily learn what differentiates these 9 common styles of yoga, in easy to understand terms, whether you're an experienced yogi, or someone who's never stepped on a yoga mat (but is hopefully curious to try)! Enjoy this video, and let it help you decide which style is ideal for you to try.

Brene Brown said “it takes courage to say yes to Rest and Play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”

Plan on working your way through a challenging 25 minute sculpt sequence followed by slowing everything down and releasing to an important state of rest and recovery.

Spiritual metamorphosis can feel much like cocooning and waiting for answers or a shift to a new season. Patience is required through this process before emergence. This gentle, 30-minute Hatha practice for all levels is perfect after other physical activity with some longer stretches. It could also be a pick-me-up in the office or a shorter beginner practice.

Join Kristin for a vinyasa flow that explores the intention of searching the "himsa" (the Sanskrit term that means to injure or harm) within. Ahimsa, one of the yamas or ethical guidelines for the practicing yogi, means non-violence. You can observe this by bringing awareness to the way you react to people or circumstances. Practicing every day ahimsa is non-harming behavior towards self and all beings everywhere in thought, word or deed.

Join Kristin for a series that addresses everyday application of the Yamas as given to us by Patanjali in the yoga Sutras. Satya urges us to live and speak in our deepest truth. This is a full-body, intermediate flow with much attention on opening shoulders and hips to move into birds of paradise as the peak standing posture.

Practicing Asteya, or non-stealing, is knowing the division between need and greed. Maybe we don't shoplift, but do we steal other's thunder by interjecting or not-fully listening? Do we steal from others by being late or wasting time on social media at work? The practice of posture and breath can help integrate mind, body & spirit to bring revelation to areas of our life where we need to upgrade our ethical walk. This practice focuses on shoulders, legs, upper back and hips building to forearm stand. Even if full expression is not for you, learn the building blocks to make you successful in your expression today.

From an everyday yama perspective, we'll focus on where we put our energy. Traditionally, Brahmacharya was meant for male renunciants to practice sexual restraint and focus on the yogic path. Another interpretation of this virtue is moderation. Living in our modern world, do we focus on external things and temporary satisfaction or are we recognizing excess in our lives and practicing moderation to grow spiritually? This is a short, wonderful, full-body flow that uses different muscles groups and moves continuously, to makes you feel like you flowed for an entire hour.

A yogi finds two drunken men in a boat on the Ganges River and asks them, "Where are you going?" They replied, "To the other side of the river." The next day the yogi finds the men in the same place rowing and tells them with compassion in his eyes, "Perhaps you want to untie yourself from the river bank."

What are you holding onto? Aparigraha is one of then 5 yamas or ethical codes that means "non-hoarding." Enjoy Kristin's fun class full of flow and opportunities to un-tether from what's holding you back from the fullness life has for you.

In many yoga postures we are seeking Tadasana or mountain pose alignment. True North is a beautiful way to learn how to encompass this central alignment in our minds through setting intention, and in our bodies by contracting muscles that support the natural curvature of our spine. We learn this in our spirit by connecting to a higher place through breath. This 20 minute flow brings awareness to True North Alignment in poses such as mountain, plank, side plank, crescent lunge, chaturanga and tree. Take some time to re-align!