Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Christine Moore. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Christine, appreciate you joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

Amidst teaching dance and practicing yoga, I started attending meditation classes. In these sessions I was able to dissolve the chatter from my mind and find the true meaning of being present.

This could happen for anyone, right? What made it so significant that it shifted my course, was that my son was away serving his last tour as a sailor in the far away, dangerous and remote mountains in Jhagatu Afghanistan. My nights were restless and I could spend hours spinning out about the endless stream of possibilities that left me wide awake and frightened. Through the practice of meditation, I eventually accessed the gift of a calm nervous system. I had a profound aha moment when the meaning of being present truly hit me. The time I was fretting over the things that never happened was waisted away by my monkey mind wanderings.

Because of this new way of experiencing my reality,, I was able to move into the awareness that my son was safe, until I learned otherwise.

I became curious about the multitude of healing aspects of yoga.
This was what inspired me to shift gears and take my yoga from practice to a practicing yoga instructor.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

In 2018, I moved to Palisade in western Colorado, where I practice Yoga Therapy and Trauma Informed yoga mostly for people who are differently able bodied than your average yoga practitioner. While my classes are really perfect for any ability, I do move slowly and with the intention of fully experiencing the yoga within, not focusing on simply stretching and strengthening, but the more subtle awakenings within.

Through weaving in the stories of tantric deities and celebrations in mother India, where I took a pilgrimage in 2023, I offer the gifts of yoga philosophy through story and art. Being in India really added a deeper perception of all these sustainable stories, and increased my love of the art. Witnessing people who live the practice daily and in every action inspired me.

My favorite offering is my monthly womens circles where we unravel the riches of the Goddesses of yoga with their sustainable wisdom that mirrors ourselves in all of our aspects and layers. I offer this to women to provide a safe space to share intimate life challenges.

I also offer private sessions for people to dive a bit deeper into their own source of strength, physical, emotional and spiritual. My training as a certified yoga therapist, enables me to dive much deeper, so I can offer this type of support.

My work is adapted to work with people who have experienced trauma. I work with people varying from being in wheel chairs, to bed ridden to injured athletes.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

I think that it is really beneficial to be someone who has experienced a great deal of trauma, as I have, to walk through to another place with it in order to authentically witness and provide support for others with the same.

It broadens the capacity for seeing someone for who they are, not as someone who needs us or someone we can help.
When I worked 5 years teaching yoga in Boulder County Jail, my first aha was the reality of how this a line there is between “us and them.”

People with trauma usually have better BS detectors than anyone.

Experiencing India is also a bridge to fully embracing yoga in a way that makes it all come full circle in offering a practice that embodies Mother India and the culture there.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

If I could go back I would choose this at a much younger age and again and again! It is my Dharma, my calling.
The trouble with thinking this way is that the life experiences preceding my yoga study, are what makes me good at what I do.
Without that journey, I could never offer practice with the passion and depth that I have.

I am a lifelong student of yoga. There is an endless wealth of knowledge and it inspires me daily.
Yoga is life.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.christinemooreshimmyogini.com
• Instagram: christineshimmy
• Facebook: christinemoore.545
• Other: https://linktr.ee/Christineshimmyogini

Image Credits

Mary Sanchez
Laurie Ann
Douglas Lipper