What is yoga? Yoga connects breath with movement and is an amazing way to get exercise, strengthen bones and muscles, increase lung capacity, regulate hormones, calm the nervous system, lose weight, and improve mental clarity and focus. My classes focus on optimal alignment of the body which includes feet, knees, elbows, hips and spine. It is very important to me that my students feel safe and are in their comfort zone.

Why do CWYoga? People ask me what kind of yoga do I instruct. I respond, “Customized Yoga” because I incorporate the most exciting and most pertinent material from my teachers into my classes to best accommodate my students. I have studied Anusara Yoga with Todd Norian and Ann Greene, Wai Lana Yoga, Miranda Esmonde-White in her Esmonde technique, Yoga for Depression with Amy Weintraub, Self-Awakening Yoga with Don Stapleton, Vinyasa Yoga with Shiva Rea and Sean Corne, Yoga with Rodney Yee, Atma Yoga with Christopher Ken Baxter plus many more caring and professional instructors. From this I pull material and design a class that meets each individual’s needs for a particular session. Whether it is Yoga for Fertility, Chair Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga for Kids, Teens, Families, or Persons with Disabilities, a program can be individualized just for you.

My personal experience with the effectiveness of yoga:

Yoga has helped me stay strong, flexible and improve my balance to keep up in sports such as snowboarding, surfing, skiing, ballroom dancing, roller-skating, mountain biking, road biking and hiking. Yoga has helped me stay calm and centered through my divorce and through my miscarriages. Yoga has taken me calmly through moves overseas and interstate. Yoga has helped me lose weight, release my cravings for unhealthy foods, focus my mind on thoughts that are positive, In my classes, students report back to me that when they do yoga, they can sleep though the entire night, their mood lifts, flexibility increases, aches and pains go away. Families report that their lives are improved when their spouses return from yoga feeling happier and better about themselves. After instructing a children’s class, teachers will tell me how calm and centered their students have become. Community, that is what I seek to create in all my classes, a place where we can share, grow, learn and respect one another.

What students are saying:

“Christine has a wonderfully soft, yet firm voice that assists her participants through the postures. This natural ability to comfort people and put them at ease, along with her knowledge and experience helps to make her a great instructor,” devoted yoga student.

About Christine

• Christine Wilkinson is a certified yoga instructor, spiritual teacher, and healer. Christine’s passion is teaching yoga to children. Christine has also studied with author and healer, John Gray Ph.D.
• Currently training in Anusara Yoga, 200 Hour Certification
• Prenatal Yoga Certification with Janice Clarfield
• Certified Yoga Ed™ Instructor for Yoga in Schools K-12, Yoga Ed™ with Leah Kalish
• 200 Hour Certified Yoga Teacher in Atma Yoga with Christopher Baxter
• Kripalu Yoga Teacher Association Member
• Reiki Master
• IET Master/Instructor™
• Certified Angel Therapy Practitioner™

Christine has traveled to Mexico, United Kingdom, Scotland, Canada, Portugal, Poland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand.

Yoga Trainings:
• 28 Hours - Oct 2008, Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Janice Clarfield, Kripalu Institute, Lenox, Massachusetts
• 100 Hours - Aug 2008, Anusara Yoga Immersion I, II, and III with Todd Norian and Ann Greene, Lenox, Massachusetts
• Apr 2008, Instructor Training for Yoga in Schools 9-12, Yoga Ed™ with Julie Serichethi, Kripalu Institute, Lenox, Massachusetts
• Oct 2007, Yoga Tune Up™ Certification with Jill Miller, Fresh Yoga, New Haven, Connecticut
• Sep 2007, Anusara Yoga with Todd Norian and Ann Greene, Newburyport Yoga, Newburyport, Massachusetts
• 30 Hours - Jul 2007, Yoga Tune Up with Jill Miller, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• Jul 2007, Vinyasa Yoga with Sean Corn, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• May 2007, Anusara Yoga with Todd Norian, Samadhi Yoga, Newton, Massachusetts
• Oct 2006, Anusara Yoga with Todd Norian and Ann Green, Newburyport Yoga, Newburyport, Massachusetts
• Sep 2006, Intro to Self-Awakening Yoga with Don Stapleton, Kripalu Institute, Lenox, Massachusetts
• Mar 2006, Anusara with Deb Neubauer, Newburyport Yoga, Newburyport, Massachusetts
• Jan 2006, Anusara Yoga with Todd Norian, Newburyport Yoga, Newburyport, Massachusetts
• 30 Hours - Dec 2005, Anusara Yoga Training with Todd Norian, Kripalu Center, Lenox, Massachusetts
• Aug 2005, Instructor Training for Yoga in Schools K-8, Yoga Ed™ with Leah Kalish, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• Jul 2005, Yogilates® training with Jonathan Urla, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• 30 Hours – Jul 2005, Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Training with Amy Weintraub, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• Jan 2005, Yoga training with Rodney Yee, Kripalu Center, Lenox, Massachusetts
• 30 Hours – Dec 2004, Anusara Yoga Training with Todd Norian, Kripalu Center, Lenox, Massachusetts
• 200 Hours – Oct 2004, Certified Atma Yoga Teacher Training with Christopher Baxter, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• 35 Hours – Oct 2004, Foundational Vinyasa Teacher Training with Shiva Rea, Kripalu Center, Lenox, Massachusetts
• May 2004, Power Vinyasa Training with Baron Baptiste, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• Jan 2003, Training with Rodney Yee, Kripalu Center, Lenox, Massachusetts

Education

Masters in Business Administration, Marketing, May 1998. Southern New Hampshire University Graduate School of Business, Manchester, New Hampshire.

Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Jun 1985. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.

Oct 2007, Reiki Master, Divine Healing, Nashua, New Hampshire

Oct 2007, Integrative Energy Therapy Master/Instructor, Integrative Center of Well Being, Woodstock, New York

Minister from the Universal Life Church, Seattle, WA

Training with Doreen Virtue, www.AngelTherapy.com

Nov 2005, Professional Spiritual Teacher Training Course, Laguna Beach, CA

Sep 2005, Certified Medium, Laguna Beach, CA

Oct 2004, Angel Therapy Practitioner ™, Laguna Beach, CA

Belly Dance Training
Christine studied Egyptian belly dance styles with Dondi, Titanya, Morocco, Suhaila, Jillina, Sonia and other international performers who perform with Bellydance Superstars. Christine received her Turkish belly dance training with Sophia Eastley.

• 28 Hours - Jun 2008, Belly dance with Dondi and Titanya, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
• 30 Hours – 2007-08, Belly dance with Sophia Eastley, Concord, NH