About
Christina King was born in the prairies and lived in Saskatchewan for most of her life. She followed a path to Saltspring Island in 2006 for yoga teacher training, explored Vancouver Island between the two sessions, fell in love with the west coast and it is here she currently resides in the quaint and quiet little town of Metchosin on Vancouver Island.
Christina began practicing yoga ten years ago, but it wasn’t until 2001, when she was travelling in India that she began to study with her first regular teacher, in the little village of Bhagsu. It was an unsettling time in the world, after the occurrence of “911”. The three hour practice each morning grounded and calmed her, and she was hooked on yoga hereafter.
Like many students, the practice began as a physical one. She saw how a regular and steady practice transformed her body, making it strong and flexible. Eventually she began to observe the effects it had on her mind and spirit as well. She liked how concentrating on her breath and the postures, made her thoughts disappear and for the duration of yoga class, she was able to let go of her worldly concerns.
After studying yoga with teachers from various lineages including Vinyasa/Power Flow, Hatha, Jivamutki, Sivananda and Ashtanga for the next five years, Christina travelled to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, to attend yoga teacher training in Classical 8 limbed Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga in 2006. The Saltspring Center of Yoga was founded 35 years ago by Baba Hari Das, a master yogi and lifelong monk. Baba Hari Das has observed continual silence for over fifty years, but by example and writing on a small chalkboard, his teachings reflect wisdom, grace, and compassion. Aside from the Saltspring Centre of Yoga, Baba Hari Das’s teachings are the inspiration for Mount Madonna Center of Santa Cruz, the Ashtanga Yoga Fellowship of Toronto, and Shri Ram Orphanage in India.
The teacher training at the Saltspring Centre of Yoga was a transformational journey for Christina. She began to strive to make yoga not only a practice, but an entire lifestyle. Since receiving the training in 2006, Christina has steadily taught yoga; her mantra “teach to learn”. She has incorporated the philosophy into her work as a high school teacher, a youth worker, and most recently a farmer! Her practice and teaching change and grow as her life changes and grows. Just this past fall, Christina went for more teacher training; this time in prenatal yoga with Janice Caulfield in Vancouver, as she had her first child this last December. Teaching yoga to expectant mothers has become her latest yoga joy and she plans to teach Mom and Baby Yoga this coming winter.
Christina currently teaches yoga at the Juan De Fuca Recreation Center in Langford, and in her home studio in Metchosin.
