Chrissy Mehnert

RYT 200

Yoga snuck into Chrissy’s life after twenty years of dance study. She tagged along with a friend to a power vinyasa class at a donation-based studio in New York City’s east village. This first and most honest class startled her with its resonance, springing her life forward into opening after opening. She trained in the summer of 2009 with Yoga to The People, dove right into teaching 10+ classes a week and gaining the YTTP studios in Berkeley and San Francisco a foothold. Until 2013, she was a prominent teacher for Yoga to the People, at which point she moved out here to the foothills to study sustainable living, permaculture, market gardening and more. She has woven a unique place within the overlapping layers of community through fusion dance, yoga, thai massage, food and farming. 

Inspired by her lifelong love affair with dance, Chrissy teaches a smooth yoga flow that is energizing and grounding, and deeply focused on breath as the source of all movement. To Chrissy, a yoga practice is a coming home to breath. It is the building of the most significant companionship we have the chance to make in life - the one with our breath. From the strength of this companionship comes the self-love that leads to happiness, confidence, and prosperity.