General Profile

First Name

Robin
Last Name

Christ
AY License Category

Experienced Certified Anusara Teacher
City

San Diego
State or Province

California
Country

USA
Regional Location

USA
Email Address

robinc7755@gmail.com
Instagram

@lightdancer555
FaceBook

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Yoga Bio

Robin Christ
Robin (MataJi) has been a dedicated practitioner of the meditational Science of the Soul, Surat Shabd Yoga, for 45 years.  A former dancer, actress and passionate lover of the arts, in 2008 she was drawn to a hatha yoga practice and discovered Anusara Yoga®. This was the beginning of her passionate and devoted study of Anusara’s methodology and the acquisition of a deep understanding of its exquisite Universal Principles of Alignment along with its rich and deeply spiritual Tantric tradition. She received ‘Anusara Inspired Teacher’ status in 2011 and became a fully ‘Certified Anusara Teacher’ with the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga in 2014 (Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500® / YACEP®), a ‘Subject Matter Specialist’ (SMS) for the school in Philosophy in 2017, a ‘Certified Advanced Teacher Trainer’ (CATT) in 2018 and an ‘Experienced Certified Anusara Teacher’ (ECAT) in 2019. She joyously shares the boundless gifts she has received from her years of practice and study in her teaching and enthusiastically brings to her classes, workshops and teacher trainings an innate love of movement, grace and beauty that is inextricably linked to her unwavering devotion to the Divine Light within and all around us.
Weekly Class Schedule

Robin teaches’ Anusara®: Yoga of the Heart’ and ‘Anusara: Open to Grace’ on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30, Noon and 5:30 and ‘Anusara: Sacred Sunday’ on Sundays at 10:30 at Riffs Studios Yoga in Ocean Beach, California
What do you love most about Anusara Yoga?

1. Tantric Philosophy – First and foremost, Anusara Yoga is a Spiritual Path. Cultivating my Spiritual Nature has been the through line of my life and Anusara’s deep and rich underlying emphasis on the Philosophy of Tantra has sustained and supported my personal spiritual practices as I grow ever more toward the Light!

2. Universal Principles of Alignment – I love to move and the ‘yoga’ of movement to spirituality that these exquisitely graceful Principles offer me allows my sadhana to become a ‘moving prayer’ . As I lovingly apply the UPA’s to the asanas of Hatha Yoga, I directly experience their power to open up a Pathway into my own Heart. I am able to truly ‘feel’ aligned with my own Divinity.

3. Kula – The sometimes arduous Journey back to my own Essence Nature, the Truth of who I am, is lightened and made joyous by Anusara’s emphasis on community. The company of like-minded souls on the Spiritual Path is not only a gift, but essential to the process. When we bring together our individual lights as One, we become a radiant flame … able to give warmth and sustenance to ALL!
Why do you teach Anusara yoga?

My Journey as a seeker on the Path of Yoga began early in life and was brought into the light of clarity when I met and received diksha from my beloved Guru in 1975 and became a lifelong practitioner of Surat Shabd Yoga (Yoga of Sound and Light). After spending years diving deeply into the meditational aspect of the yogic practices, I discovered Anusara ® Yoga in 2008 and was astonished at the spiritual depth of this elegant and refined asana practice. I decided after my very first Anusara class that it would be my life’s mission to share this beautiful meditational ‘body prayer’ practice as well as the powerful Tantric Philosophy that underlies it with others, so I signed up for my 200 hour Anusara Immersion and Teacher Training that very day. Since then I have devoted the past decade to passionately deepening my own studies and my personal practice, as well as teaching Anusara Yoga and training teachers as my seva and my legacy. My approach to teaching and to the training of teachers has always been deeply steeped in the spiritual and philosophical traditions of the yogic practice and I am dedicated to encouraging continuing growth towards spiritual awakening in all of my students – guiding them towards the strengthening and refining of the ‘vessel’ so that they may courageously and wholeheartedly hold the Light and be of service to all Beings.
Why do you license with Anusara?

I align myself with Anusara Yoga for all the reasons given above. It speaks directly to my soul.
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