Kristyn has spent her life in motion. She danced and choreographed professionally across myriad styles, and during that career yoga was simply one more tool in the mix, something to keep her limber and performance-ready alongside weightlifting and technique classes. Then she found a Baptiste teacher who didn't teach from the mat, but instead decentered herself entirely from the practice. It was a revelation to move in service of the feeling of a movement rather than the look of it, and that experience is what led her to pursue yoga more fully, eventually taking the first of many teacher trainings.

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She completed her 200-hour training and then traveled to the Baptiste Institute in New York for their Journey into Power Level 1 intensive and Art of Assisting program. But the structured methodology eventually felt constraining, and she followed that feeling toward something more expansive. Her 500-hour advanced training at Blue Osa Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica opened her practice wide, with deep immersion in pranayama, meditation, functional movement, and intuitive, student-centered teaching.

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Today her teaching draws from all of it. Her choreographic background shapes flows that build with intention and momentum rather than feeling assembled. She teaches to instrumental music, using rhythm and breath as anchors. Her cues are layered so that a brand-new student stays connected while a seasoned practitioner finds room to explore, and her philosophy of hands-on assisting comes directly from her bodywork background, approaching touch not as correction or comfort but as a way of drawing a student's awareness into their own body in space, helping them focus, ground, or find direction from within.

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Her master's level training in exercise science and her work as a neuromuscular therapist ground every class in anatomy and safety. She regularly shares the why behind what students feel on the mat, from how the practice protects joint integrity as we age to how specific shapes build strength in the hips, ankles, and shoulders.

Her favorite word while teaching is play. Children move fearlessly and fully, without self-consciousness or judgment, and somewhere along the way most adults lose access to that freedom. Kristyn invites every student, regardless of age or ability, to reclaim it. The mat is a place to experiment, to surprise yourself, and to discover what becomes possible when you stop performing and simply move.

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Specialties:

~ Functional movement and applied anatomy

~ Sequencing with choreographic intention

~ Hands-on assisting as a tool for body awareness

~ Layered cueing for mixed-level classes

~ Integrating exercise science into yoga teaching

~ Finding your authentic teaching voice

~ Music as a tool for breath and rhythm