About Kristin

Kristin began her career in movement at the age of six in tap shoes and a pink tutu, and took her first yoga class at eighteen. She considers her own personal pilates/yoga and Vippassana meditation practice as her foundation for living mindfully and becoming a more compassionate human being. She has been teaching movement full-time since 2001.

Kristin recently completed the 500-hour Ana Forrest Yoga Teacher Training and is an Certified Forrest Yoga Teacher. She is certified in Pilates Mat and Equipment by the Ellie Herman Studio, Mat and Standing Pilates by the PhysicalMind Institute, and Elvis "the Pelvis" and MasterStretch by Bodycode. For over five years, she worked at Center of Balance in Mountain View, CA (Voted “Best Yoga Studio 2007” by the Mountain View Voice and “Best Pilates Studio 2004” by San Francisco Magazine) under the mentorship of master Pilates, Ashtanga Yoga and Franklin Method teacher Tom McCook. Her style is also heavily influenced by many years of study with beloved San Francisco Vinyasa Yoga teacher Steph Snyder. She enjoys working with clientele of all ages and abilities, and has had great success with acute and chronically injured clients and pre- and post-natal women, as well as a younger, more athletic demographic.

Kristin is committed to helping all of her students gain focus, grace and awareness of breath for improved strength, coordination, posture and balance. Her soulful and challenging classes will make you breathe, sweat and laugh! When not teaching, she is often hanging out with her friends and loved ones in the East Bay or performing with her 1960’s go-go dance troupe, The Devil-Ettes!