Christie Abeling-Opper

“Living in our bodies for a lifetime every aspect of who we are connects to our physical form.”

Christie grew up dancing in New York City and went on to receive a BFA in dance education and choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her discovery of yoga unfolded out of her experience as a dancer and her love of the body as a healing and creative force. She began studying yoga in 1992 with Kripalu teachers and continued for the next 8 years as she danced professionally and taught in NY and Va. In 1999, after moving to the lush mountains of Western North Carolina, she completed the teachers’ training with the Asheville Yoga Center and began passionately teaching yoga to adults and children. Throughout her teaching and practice she has witnessed the immediate empowerment and vitality that comes through yoga. She is a practicing massage therapist, a blessed mother; and together with her husband, she teaches a nature and movement based program for kids. Her classes explore breath, fluidity, stillness and the integrity of alignment as a pathway to self-awareness and self-acceptance. Christie believes that, as a template for our every day life, the internal cultivation of yoga ripples out affecting our relationship with others, the earth, and our presence in everything we do.