Kristine Zakarison C-IAYT

Kristine first began studying yoga in 1984 with Dr. Ravi Kapur of Punjab, India, while he was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School. For the next 10 years, she continued her training in yoga at the BKS Iyengar Center in Cambridge, MA with Senior Iyengar teachers Patricia Walden and Karin Stephan, as well as continuing her study of yogic philosophy. Kristine continues her yogic education, having recently completed a 945-hour yoga therapy certification program. Her most recent training has focused on working with trauma survivors and special populations including those experiencing nervous system disorders, anxiety, chronic pain, diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease, and heart disease. The study and practice of this integrated path and sharing the therapeutic benefits of yoga continues to be her personal passion.

When Kristine discovered Nia, it felt as if she had discovered a long-lost twin to her yoga practice. She is a licensed Nia Instructor trained at the First-Degree Black Belt level. Dance informs her approach toward yoga therapy.

After some years on the east coast, she moved home to Pullman in 1995. She is the owner and a teacher of Nia and yoga at Aloft Studio in Pullman, as well as offering Yoga Therapy to individuals and groups.