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Meet the Yoga Instructors

Christine Riccio - RYT 500

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  • Christine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who worked for over 30 years as a School Social Worker in Amsterdam. She has been involved with fitness all of her life, primarily with high intensity activities, training in yoga over the past 15 + years.

  • Over the past few years, Christine came to value the physical, spiritual and mental benefits of yoga and was drawn into a regular practice. After completing the 300 Hour Hot Warrior Yoga Teacher Training Program in July 2017, she began teaching at Alpin Haus Fitness (Amsterdam), where she offers a blend of gentle and vinyasa flow classes.

  • Christine continues to deepen her practice and journey with yoga in a variety of ways. She is currently in the 500 level Inner Sanctum Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with her teacher, Jennilee Toner, author of The Perfect Chaturaga: A Comprehensive Guide to the Human Body Through the Practice of Vinyasa, Yoga and creator of Hot Warrior Yoga. This one year training is divided into three modules: teach, serve, meditate,  completed in December 2018.

  • She is trained by Jennilee for Envision Yoga, a methodology that artfully combines Kundalini Yoga movements with Neurolinguistic Programming, intending to move you from a small contracted, fearful and limited sense of self, to an expansive, unlimited and free expression of Self.

  • Christine  completed the #Unstoppable Baptiste Yoga for Youth Training Program in April 2018 through Power Yoga NY, Niskayuna. The purpose of this training is to create a resilient generation of children that use Baptiste Yoga as a life skill.  â€‹â€‹Christine can be reached at christinericcio2013@gmail.com 

Tristin Hotaling

Tristin's been practicing yoga since 2014. In 2019, she completed her first 200 hours in Saratoga Springs,  NY with High Peaks Teacher Training with Julie Bell and Julie Coluccio. Originally,  she pursued this to advance her own personal practice and knowledge base of yoga but really started to enjoy connecting with students and building sequences. Tristin has been an instructor teaching yoga to seniors at the Saratoga Senior Center before the pandemic. In 2020, Tristin started her 500 training program with Jason Crandall based out of San Francisco, CA. www.jasonyoga.com. Tristin has been completing her 500 hours yoga program with Jason Crandall at TriYoga in London in August 2022 and at Mission Yoga in London in December 2023. With no offerings in her own community, Tristin brought yoga in 2021 to Charlton, NY through present day, teaching classes outdoors with her business "Yoga on the Lawn. " She started offering private sessions in her community in 2022. In addition,  Tristin is an instructor at "The Yoga Hot Spot" in Saratoga Springs,  Clifton Park and Latham, NY teaching vinyasa style classes and power flows. Tristin can also be found flowing with our furry friends here at "Into the Woods Farm" where she teaches outdoor goat yoga classes from May through October. 

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