Chris believes in yoga. This comes across in his passionate, soulful and precise teaching. As a committed student of yoga he is constantly refining his personal practice and teaching. Yoga has been and continues to be a potent and profound path of healing and self understanding for Chris. Amongst the constantly shifting waves of inner and outer change he has relied on the practice for stability. Chris is skilled at making the physical and philosophical practice of yoga relevant to our modern, messy world.

As a long time athlete growing up, Chris rediscovered his connection to physicality when he began practicing yoga in 2005 in Portland. Immediately he experienced an emotional revelation, a reminder of the intensity and exhilaration he once found in sports and dancing across the country at Phish shows. Through four years of work as a children’s psychotherapist he practiced as often as possible. With the seed of an idea to integrate mental and physical health into a professional practice, Chris first trained to teach yoga locally in 2009.

In 2010 Chris experienced a reoccurrence of major depression and stopped practicing both psychotherapy and yoga for nearly nine months before seeking help in residential treatment. He returned to yoga during treatment and has been dedicated to its transformative practices since.