About Me

Hi, I´m Krissa! I´m a 500hr certified Dharma Yoga Teacher as well as a Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra & Women´s Circle Facilitator. I´m also a global nomad and proud mama to two beautiful girls.

When I first started practicing yoga at the age of 17, yoga to me was a physical practice. I soon learned to call these poses, “asanas” and loved forming shapes on the mat. After discovering Dharma Yoga at the age of 24, yoga to me became a spiritual practice. I still remember my first Dharma Yoga class - I think it was the first time I “melted” and exhaled a long sigh of relief, contentment and gratitude I didn’t even know I needed. I never thought I would become a yoga teacher, but this practice made me feel a strong calling to give back. For almost 10 years, I taught classes and workshops in London, Hong Kong and Norway. Yoga made sense to me because its teachings and philosophy resonated on a deep level. It gave me direction, conscious community, inspiration and a remedy for the mental and emotional aches of life. At the age of 35, I was called to do ceremony in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California. It was through my experiences with shamanism, plant medicine and deep, soulful healing that I now find myself with a new framework for describing what yoga means to me. That word is: remembrance.

“We can look at our lives as one big ceremony, and everyone is on their own ceremony of life. There will be challenging times, where we feel lost, confused. But also incredibly beautiful moments, where we feel gratitude and awe for being alive. May we always remember to respect and support each other´s energy, space, growth and journey. May we all walk each other home…”

— Krissa

More about my journey…

I was born in San Francisco but grew up in Manila, Singapore and Hong Kong. My biological parents are from the Philippines but my adoptive dad who raised me is Scottish. I did my Media & Communications degree in London and lived there for 7 years, the Caribbean for 6 months and back to Hong Kong where I met my husband who’s half Norwegian half American. We´ve been living in Norway for the last 7 years with our two little girls, Maya and Zoie. After a failed attempt to move to Vancouver back in March 2020, we finally managed to make our dreams come true, March 2023. It was during this move that I decided to go ALL IN with the yoga, no longer taking the backseat but making it the centre-stage of my life. I realised and fully embrace that my dharma in this life is to be of service - to harness my gift of attracting people to create communities centred around the path of the yogini and the sacred path, because for me, they are one and the same.

  • I completed my 200hr and 500hr teacher training at the Dharma Yoga Center in New York, studying directly under Sri Dharma Mittra himself as well as the Senior Faculty at the Shala. I have practiced and taught classes internationally at locations / studios / festivals / events such as:

    London

    Moving Arts Base, Angel & Islington

    SOHO Gyms, London

    KX Gym, Chelsea

    London School of Economics

    Hong Kong

    Yoga Bam Bam, Sheung Wan/Soho

    Embody, Discovery Bay

    OpenSpaceDB, North Plaza, Discovery Bay

    Movement Improvement, Discovery Bay

    Secret Island Party 2014

    Secret Island Party 2015

    Norway

    Leela Yoga, Oslo

    Raw Yoga, Oslo

    Joy Yoga, Oslo

    Humle Yoga, Hvaler

    Nøsen Yoga Retreat

    Atman Yoga School

    AYS Festival 2020

    Canada

    RVN Wellness

    Jai Yoga

    Sadhana Yoga & Sound

    Kushala Yoga

    I have also attended workshops with Sri Dharma Mittra, Andrei Ram, Meghan Currie, Briohny Smith and Dice lida-Klein, Patrick Creelman, Amy Ippoliti, Jason Crandell, Sharath Jois,Tiffany Cruikshank, Dov Mittra, David Swenson, Ana Forest, Duncan Peak, Jason Nemer, Carlo Mendes, Joakim Olin, Kino MacGregor…

  • I am and always will be a Dharma Yogi first and foremost. This is the practice that inspired me to become a teacher in the first place and has formed the roots and backbone of my practice for the last 10+ years. Having said that, since becoming a mother and in this new season of life, I have grown to love, honour and embrace the subtle beauty of restorative yoga and yoga nidra. Together, these 3 practices combined have made me a better teacher and a better student in my own practice.

  • After struggling to find the perfect yoga strap to help teach my own classes and events, I decided to make them myself! Dharma Straps are a new kind of yoga strap. They are buckle-free, hassle-free, closed loops that come in 3 different sizes and a wide range of fun and grounding colours. My goal is simple: to make yoga straps that are easy to use. Browse our store on Etsy.