CHRIS YONKER
Chris began practicing yoga in the 1970s after years of being an athlete and dancer. In 1993 she completed her first Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. Since that time she has studied with numerous yoga masters in various traditions. She was one of three women who founded Big Bend Yoga Center in the 1990s (closed in 2020)and was solely responsible for creating Yoga Source in 2003 (sold in 2016, closed in 2018. During her nearly 30 years of teaching full time she created a teacher training program that trained over 150 yoga teachers. She was instrumental in bringing vinyasa yoga as well as the yin style to this area. Today her classes consist of these two styles as well as therapeutic movement drawn from the Chinese discipline of Qigong. Her classes will leave you feeling centered and grounded.
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