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.

Certifications & Continuing Professional Development

“Our lives are just one big ceremony. When we practice yoga, sit in circle, take the medicine, we are experiencing ceremony within the grander ceremony of life, the ritual of existence. Knowing this, may we remember to respect and support each other´s energy, space, healing and growth, so we can all have a good journey home…”

— Krissa

More about my journey…

If there is one thing you should know about me, it´s that the places I have lived and the countries I have been to have played a significant part in shaping who I am. Asking, “Where are you from?”, is the hardest question you can ask me. Let me try and paint a picture…

I was born in San Francisco but grew up in Manila, Singapore and Hong Kong. My mom is from the Philippines, so is my biological father, but my 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 lived in Norway for 7 years, and had two beautiful little girls, before moving to Vancouver March 2023. In between my many homes around the world, I have travelled to thirty countries - Australia, Barbados, Cambodia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Morroco, Netherlands,

Norway, Peru, Philippines, St Lucia, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, UK, USA and Vietnam. This global experience has been priceless and helps me to relate to people on a very human and universal level.

I´m also proud to say that I have practiced/taught yoga in incredible places like New York City, London, St Lucia, Hong Kong, Oslo and San Francisco. Why does this matter? Because some of the studios I have been to, and the quality of teachers I have had, has been absolutely first-class. From the teachers at PURE Yoga in Hong Kong to Indaba Yoga & TriYoga in London, and of course the Dharma Yoga Center in New York… my experience of yoga and the standard of teaching I received has been such a massive inspiration for the last twenty years. The teacher I am today, is a reflection of the places I have been, the life I have lived, and the teachers I have had (both on and off the mat).