Crystal has been teaching yoga since 2005 and only started taking yoga in 2003.  She fell in love with the practice almost immediately and found that it was one of her true callings.  She received her RYT-200 certification through the Yoga Alliance at Global Yoga in Chicago in 2005 and is currently in the RYT-500 program at Moksha in Chicago. She feels most inspired when teaching yoga and feels that her students can connect with her and, in turn, themselves more deeply because of this.

Crystal and her husband, Marty, own and operate their own organic vegetable farm about an hour north of Champaign-Urbana and love feeling connected to nature and it’s seasons.  She believes that we are all connected to nature and to each other so feels that by teaching yoga, not only are the individual students benefitting, but the world.  By each person being uplifted spiritually, mentally, and physically, we uplift everything around us.

Crystal’s teaching style is straightforward, upbeat, nonjudgemental, and fun but at the same time focused and meaningful.  She herself admits to falling out of poses, sometimes falling on her face, and encourages her students not to be afraid of trying new poses because of embarrassing themselves!  That’s part of yoga and laughter is a part of a joyous life.