I’m Krista

And I believe your body is Holy.

I guide women back to the truth of their body—not through rigidity or perfection,but with reverence, humor, and embodied wisdom.

I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE

to exploring creative movement for healing and transformation.

I weave together yoga, bio-mechanics, improvisational dance, creative expression, and sacred ritual to create a space where you don’t just learn about your body—you remember the intimate connection that is your birthright.

This isn’t about moving the “right way.”

It’s about reclaiming your body’s natural intelligence.

Waking up every day feeling undeniably alive.

And cultivating a relationship of trust, curiosity, and deep respect.

It’s about being free

in your body.

With my support me, you'll step into a space of playfulness, appreciation, and full-bodied freedom.

This is more than exercise—movement is the language of liberation and transformation.

HOW DO I KNOW?

Movement is my love language.

My Story

At age three,

I started tiny tots dance class and just kept on moving. I played many sports as a kid, and spent hours in the forest surrounding my home. With puberty, my body changed, and my experience of dance and athletics changed, too.

I no longer fit the mold of the "ideal" ballerina, and sports became competitive and a place of harsh exclusion.

Fortunately, movement has many doorways.

At age 18 I found yoga. It gave me a deep sense of focus, presence, and contentment. My mat became my sanctuary—a place where I didn’t have to be the thinnest, the fastest, or the strongest.

Eventually, the yoga mat felt like a cage.

I could just be me.

After years of dedicated practice, I trained as a yoga teacher and studied anatomical uniqueness, philosophy, biomechanics, and functional movement.

I became fascinated with how different bodies move—how movement can be personal rather than prescriptive. I became more interested in teaching people how their body moves rather than leading them through a set sequence.

All the while, I kept dancing.

Tango, blues fusion, modern, West African dance, and ecstatic dance- but

it was contact improvisation that changed everything.

It bridged the precision of yoga and the wildness of dance—embodiment attuned to gravity, space, creativity, and bodies in relationship.

The more free I was to move, the more stillness I found within.

I learned how to pulse between precise, intricate awareness and full-bodied, expansive expression. I learned to guide others to find their own pulse of embodied awareness.

While deepening my embodiment, I immersed in the sacred feminine arts and plant medicine.

I assisted retreats and ceremonies, facilitated workshops and women's rites of passage, and trained in holding transformational spaces. These experiences heightened my sensitivity and awakened my singing voice—I developed exquisite awareness of the movement of energy, and the healing power of sound and ceremony.

Through it all I fell in love with serving women and their bodies—creating spaces for reverence, reclamation, and transformation.

After years of guiding movement and ceremonial spaces I had a realization:

Life is a ceremony.

My body is the altar.

Training & Teachings that inform my approach

- 25-hr Yoga for the Female Body with Adelaide Meadow - 2024
- ERYT- 500, Yoga Alliance
- YACEP - Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider
- Asana Lab - 25 hr. Mindful Yoga Therapy CE - 2020
- 300-hr YA Training with Karen Miscall-Bannon/Embodyoga - 2018
- Teacher Assistant, 200-hr YA Training at Island Yoga in Thailand with Karen Miscall-Bannon - 2018
- Trauma-Informed Yoga Training at Sedona Yoga Festival, AZ- 2017
- Teaching Assistant, 200-hr YA Training at Rasa Yoga Center, Ashland, OR - 2016
- 25-hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training at LEAP Yoga, Folsom, CA - 2015
- Applied Anatomy for Yoga Asana with Jamie Elmer, Ashland, OR - 2015
- Pelvic Floor Training with Natalie Stawsky E-RYT 500 - 2014
- 200-hr YA Training with Sarah Sol at Rasa Yoga Center, Ashland, OR- 2014
- The Mythic Body Course with Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast – 2024
- Body-Mind-Centering, Balancing the Two Halves of the Body series with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – 2024
- Contact Beyond Contact Facilitator Training (Levels 1, 2, 3) – 2022
- Apprenticeship in Peruvian Mestizo Shamanism - 2019 - ongoing
- Kambo Practitioner & Trainer – 2021
- Holographic Sound Healing Practitioner (Levels 1 & 2, Dr. Paul Hubbard) – 2021
- Midwifing the Veils, Priestess Training with Lady Graelynn Kolibri – 2019
Thai Massage Training at the Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai, Thailand– 2018
- Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies – Southern Oregon University – 2014
- Certification in Mediation & Conflict Management – Southern Oregon University – 2014
- BA in Communication Studies, Minor in Anthropology – University of Wisconsin-La Crosse – 2011