Instructors

Kristina R Kuzmich, RYT. LMT: Yoga Program Supervisor

Kristina's formal yoga practice began in 2004 when she attended graduate school at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She immediately immersed herself in the discipline of meditation, and eventually found yoga asana, the practice of poses, and while studying with Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kathleen Kaster of Maya Yoga in Kansas City in 2006, found herself completely enthralled by the combination of these two intense disciplines. An athlete virtually her entire life with many years devoted to competitive tennis, Kristina has always had a passion for keeping the body healthy, strong, and especially balanced. Now, with her competitive tennis days over, she is always studying from many different yoga teachers, with many different styles, while always seeking out enlightenment through mind and body, and the relation between the two. 

Kristina's dedication to the discipline of the full eight-limbed practice of yoga, over time, made it clear to her that it was her calling, her dharma, to teach. Moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Kristina began her teacher training under the auspicious Annie Carpenter. Kristina finished her 200 Hour SmartFLOW Yoga Teacher training, but before heading back to the mountians of Colorado in 2011, Kristina kept on with Ms. Carpenter adding another one-hundred-hours to her 500 hour certification. She still travels back to train with Ms. Carpenter, who has chosen Kristina as an assistant to her Summer Teacher Trainings of 2012. 

A devotee to the complex relations between body and mind, Kristina picked up her 600 Hour Massage Therapist Certification while in Kansas City in 2007. This has enabled her to spend her life ceaselessly hungry for the enlightenment that has blessed her from the combined knowledge of these two practices. Not one to choose sleep over experience, if Kristina isn't seeking enlightenment on the mat or in a book, she is busy chasing it down the slopes, or letting nature show it to her while hiking and camping in the Vail wild and enjoying the richness of the ocean waves.

Our other instructors include: 

• Libby Maio
• Elena Georgouses
• Linda Ostenburg
• Sally McNutt
• Jan Livergood
• Nicola Farrer
• Tracy Long
• Alex Moldoveanu