Hi, I'm Kristen
I’m a somatic educator, yoga therapist, and teacher of teachers, with one foot in the water and one on terra firma. For nearly two decades, I have helped people explore their relationship with the body through movement, inquiry, creative practice, and time in the living world.
My work brings together yoga therapy, aquatic practice, ecosomatics, storytelling, improvisational and expressive arts. I teach people to listen closely to sensation, make room for their own pace, and discover how embodied awareness can inform everyday life. Whether on land or in warm water, I offer space for curiosity, connection, and meaningful sustained change.
I am both an educator and a lifelong student. I enjoy the places where disciplines meet and where an idea becomes something we can feel, question, and explore together. My teaching combines carefully applied theory and observation with room for play, improvisation, and discovery.
Two Decades of Teaching and Learning
As the owner of YogaLife Institute, I have served as a lead teacher, program director, curriculum designer and student mentor, helping train more than 1,500 yoga teachers and yoga therapists over 20 years. My experience includes over 10,000 hours of direct teaching in professional trainings, retreats, and immersive international learning environments.
I hold Postgraduate Diplomas in Mythopoetics from Dartington Arts School and Movement, Mind, and Ecology through Schumacher College. My continuing studies span ecology, multiple somatic movement disciplines, expressive arts, contact improvisation, and aquatic group experience and aquatic bodywork, including Levels 1 & 2 of Aguahara and Janzu.
I am a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), an experienced registered yoga teacher (E-RYT500), co-author of Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle, and former editor of Yoga Living Magazine.
Across these settings, my work returns to relationship: with ourselves, one another, and the living world.
The Inquiry Behind Body as Water
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