Kirsten has been practicing yoga and mind body movement for 18 years and teaching full time for 10 years. She is a highly respected and well-loved teacher known for her keen focus on intelligent alignment and her passion for yoga as a healing art.
Her attentive and playful teaching is creative, inspiring and multidisciplinary. Her work is inspired by her additional training in a wide range of mind body movement techniques including; The Gyrotonic Method, Garuda, Qi Gong, Somatic, Budokon, these varied techniques bring a more profound approach to her yoga and an emphasis on circular and spiral movement patterns, which are truer to life.
Her yoga teaching is rooted firmly in the healing effects of conscious breathing. Kirsten works with Transformational Breath and Inner Axis personal transformation work which combines breath with movement.
Kirsten’s heart of teaching is hatha yoga, but there are also clear influences from iyengar yoga, mindful vinyasa flow, hot yoga, Budokon, Inner Axis and yoga therapy. She has studied with a raft of incredible international teachers including; Max Strom, Tias Little, Donna Fahri, Annie Carpenter, Lesley Kaminoff, Tiffany Cruickshank, Bo Forbes and Susi Hatley. She has also studied with Judith Kravitz, Co-Founder of Transformational Breath.
Certifications
Yoga Qualifications
Baptiste Power Vinyasa Level 1 with Baron Baptiste New York 2008
Hatha Yoga 200 hour Yoga Alliance: Teach Yoga, Elena Voyce 2008
Max Strom Inner Axis 200 hour 2016
Max Strom Inner Axis Teacher Intensives 2010, 2012, 2015
Susi Hatley of Functional Synergy Yoga Therapy 2011
SMARTflow Intensives with Annie Carpenter 2009, 2015
Donna Fahri Teacher Intensive triyoga 2012
Bo Forbes Yoga Therapy Intensive 2011
Budokon Yoga: Miami, Ibiza and London 2009, 2010, 2013
Triyoga Hot Teacher Training: Kristin Campbell London 2012
Yoga Anatomy: Practices 2015 Leslie Kaminoff 2015
Prajna Yoga: Tias Little Intensive October 2015 and February 2017 &
SATYA Level 1 April 2018
Garuda Qualifications
Garuda Apparatus 2011, 2013
Garuda Matwork 2011, 2014
Garuda Barre London 2014
Gyrotonic Qualifications
Level 1 Gyrotonic London & Miami 2009
Gyrotonic Pre & Post Natal Applications 2010
Level 1 Gyrokinesis London & Germany 2011
Level 2 Prep Gyrotonic London 2011
Level 1 Foundation repeat 2016
Level 2 Prep repeat 2017
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Featured Events
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200 Stunden Yogalehrerausbildung (YTTC) BonnJan 13 to Jun 18
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Sensit Yoga Somatics retreat on Crete with Maja ZilihJul 17 to Jul 23
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