Kristi moved to the Grand Valley in 2012 for a new job and new life. Graduating from CMU in 2015, she started her own social media marketing business as well as continuing to do office management and bookkeeping for different companies.

Then she was introduced to yoga and hot yoga. It was an immediate love affair for Kristi. From there, Kristi joined the Academy of Yoga for her first Hatha Yoga 200-hour training and certificate.

Immediately following, she started another 200-hour training in the Baptiste methodology. She has taught at Fruita Yoga, Thrive Fruita, Fruita Rec Center, the Climbing Gym, and Orange Door Yoga.

Because of life’s occurrences, she has melted the methodologies into her own brand of strength and awareness yoga. Using faith, asking self-awareness questions, and physically doing yoga and breathing to relieve grief, addiction and life are the tools she hopes to share in her classes.

I began practicing in 2004 following the birth of my daughter. Yoga was a powerful tool in healing and strengthening my body after pregnancy and childbirth. I practiced at home off and on for years before setting aside my insecurities and deciding to attend a class at Yoga West. That was a turning point for me. I was welcomed with warmth and kindness. I immediately felt at home. 

Not long after attending my  first class, in 2018, I was fortunate enough to be able to learn to teach Yoga. Throughout the yoga teacher training, I met and formed friendships with several amazing people. I grew a new appreciation for Yoga, not only as a physical practice, but also a tool for emotional and spiritual healing and development.

I am now a RYT 200, specializing in Restorative Yoga. I'm in the process of completing my RYT 500 training.

Yoga, for me, is home. It's where I return when I'm feeling lost. It is my desire to provide that same sense of comfort to my students. I am humbled to be able to share the gift of Yoga.

I began my journey as a yoga teacher nine years ago at Baltimore Yoga Village where I started my 200 hour teacher training that I completed in 2012. The first classes that I taught were very close to my heart because I taught classes to veterans(I served in the Navy from 1987 to 1993). I’m proud to say that I started the first yoga class for individuals who struggle with PTSD. Following my time there, my friend, Wendy and I opened Earth Pulse Yoga in Hamilton, Maryland and we never looked back. In the last few years, I began teaching more yoga classes for businesses, I have brought wellness to  people  at TRowe Price, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola University.  I have instructed a number of private students during that time as well.

Recently, I have returned home to Colorado to support my parents and I am excited and pleased to be back in Grand Junction. I am looking forward to meeting a lot of new people and helping them with their wellness journey. 

I am a registered nurse working in healthcare for the past 25+ years while dabbling in yoga and the healing arts even longer. I recently obtained my Avita Yoga Teacher Certification and my Nurse Coach Certification helping me to really join these two often dualistic scopes of practice.  The goal for me in all my work is to see the person in front of me, as well as myself, as Whole and not defined by perceived limitations, disease or lack.  I believe that we are our own best experts and are guided by a deep inner knowing, however, oftentimes this knowledge gets buried in the shadows and veils of life. My practice is to use Avita Yoga and its beautiful shapes and moving meditation to gently reveal and then undo the blockages to that inner wisdom resulting in perfect peace and healing. I love that Avita yoga truly joins us to our own healing and best of all it is a practice for every body for a lifetime.

Nora is a Grand Valley native who is very involved in her community as well as the yoga, arts and recovery communities. She is a mother, a grandmother, a youth mentor and very active in outdoor activities. She has been teaching kids yoga for close to 7 years and has been teaching adult yoga since she received her 200 RYT four years ago. Nora is currently working towards attaining her 500 RYT as well as 20 hours of continuing education credits in yoga for addiction recovery work. When she is not teaching or practicing yoga, she enjoys being in nature, spending time with her family and fur babies, and helping out at the local art center. She also is employed as a medical technician at Hilltop. She is currently teaching yoga for recovery at Orange Door Community Wellness.