Our Teachers
We are inclusive, lighthearted, and dedicated to making yoga enjoyable, beneficial, and doable for all people. Every teacher has a different style and approach, which enables us to provide variety and keeps things interesting. All of our teachers are friendly, caring, and skilled at adapting yoga for individual bodies.
Christa Stebbing
Christa’s Style in 3 Words: Uplifting, real, supportive
What do you love most about yoga?
The power of yoga to improve health, emotional wellbeing, relationships, and life. I love experiencing my body as it continually changes, and how my practice evolves as I get older. I also love witnessing so many different people with different bodies and needs doing yoga their own way.
Since my first class in 2005, my yoga and meditation practice has been a constant source of healing, inspiration, and connection through the ups and downs of life.
About Christa:
Christa opened Kindred Yoga to provide a space where anyone and everyone can experience peace and connection in the midst of this often chaotic life.
Each class with Christa is a mind-body-spirit experience that is at the same time accessible and light-hearted.
She has been teaching yoga since 2010, has over 2000 teaching hours, and earned her 500-Hour certification through the Himalayan Institute – the highest level recognized by Yoga Alliance. She holds an additional certification in the Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga from Yoga Synergy in Australia.
Christa is the owner of Kindred Yoga LLC, and the creator and Director of the Kindred Yoga 200-Hour teacher training program.
Barb E.
Barb’s Style in 3 Words: Open, Enthusiastic, Inclusive
What she love’s most about yoga:
Yoga is a practice of self care; of body, mind and spirit. In my experience every practice balances these things in the way that we most need at that point in time. Our yoga practice grows with us throughout our life, through our joys and struggles, and only asks that we show up on our mat with an open heart.
About Barb:
Barb has been a yoga devotee for decades and appreciates how it has held her up - body, mind and spirit. She always wanted to train as a teacher, if only to better understand why I had found yoga so integral to my life. She completed the Kindred Yoga Teacher Training program and is dedicated to sharing the benefits of yoga practice with others.
Bonnie H.
Bonnie’s Style in 3 Words: Caring, Supportive and Heart-centered
What she love’s most about yoga: The mind, body, spirit connection and the harmony this can bring.
About Bonnie: Bonnie has been practicing yoga on and off since her childhood when she learnt the basic standing poses alongside her mother who would practice on their living room carpet before dinner.
She has a background in the Anusara and traditional Hatha disciplines and received her 200 hr teacher certification from Christa at Kindred in 2020/21. She is currently working towards her 500 hr teacher training with Yoga Medicine and has earned additional certifications in sequencing and lymphatics.
One of the things she loves most about yoga is the mind, body, spirit connection and the harmony this can bring. Her aim in every class is to help the individual yogi student to seek balance and a sense of well-being in both body and mind. She absolutely loves being a part of the community that is Kindred and hopes to further this spirit of connection even more. She looks forward to meeting you on the mat. Until then, Namaste.
Connie C.
Connie’s Style: Balanced, sincere, encouraging
What Connie loves most about yoga: I love that yoga is a natural, peaceful, inclusive, and comprehensive practice offering tools that can help anyone move towards the best version of themselves!
About Connie: With a background as a Physical Therapist, Connie is interested in human movement as well as holistic approaches to health and wellbeing. She believes that the regular practice of yoga can help us to counteract the negative effects of our busy, modern lives and can contribute to healthy aging.
She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) with Yoga Alliance, having completed her yoga teacher training at Kindred Yoga Studio.
She is happy to have the opportunity to share this valuable knowledge with others!
Connie’s other interests include music, cooking, and spending time in nature.
Danielle M.
Danielle’s style in 3 words: Light, connected, open
What Danielle love’s most about yoga:
Yoga allows us to go inward and find balance, strength, and relaxation on and off the mat. I love it because it feels so good for my body, mind, and soul.
About Danielle: Danielle am an elementary school counselor who enjoys reading, macrame, food, most Philly sports, and spending time with family and friends. She grew up in the area, but lived in Philly for 3 years and China for 4 years.
Danielle so happy to be at Kindred!
Effie E.
Effie’s style in 3 words: Flowy, balanced, mindful
What Effie love’s most about yoga:
Yoga is a practice of the connection between the body and mind, its time to your self to grows stronger, physically, and mentally, yoga can take you to a new path of self-discovery, every time that we spend on our mat, we learning something new about ourself.
About Effie: Effie recently completed Kindred Yoga’s RYT 200 program and is very excited to share her love of the practice. She began her yoga journey long ago when her kids where younger. in the summer of 2023, she decided to start her journey as yoga teacher at Kindred Yoga. discovering a deeper meaningful connection with the body and the practice. Now Effie would like to help other people to learn how to get the benefit from practicing yoga..
Ellie F.
Ellie’s style in 3 words:
Flow, genuine, evolving
What Ellie love’s most about yoga:
I love that yoga is accessible to everyone.
About Ellie: Ellie began her yoga practice six years ago and fell in love with the empowering style of vinyasa and flow classes. Her favorite thing about yoga is how it truly is a practice of one. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in May 2019 at Kindred Yoga Studio.
Outside of yoga, Ellie’s other passions include travel, running, writing, visiting National Parks, and all things Disney.
Kiri N.
Kiri’s Style in 3 words: Authentic, Uplifting, Releasing
What Kiri love about yoga: What I love most about yoga is that there is so much to love about yoga! Yoga can be your own individual practice or it can be one you share with others. The practice allows you to build physical, mental, emotional strength and well-being. This sacred holistic practice has the power to lead you to the path of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and much more.
About Kiri: Kiri originally started her yoga practice to supplement her running exercise. Kiri quickly realized the benefits of yoga and now practices yoga for the sake of yoga! She immediately felt the calming effects and saw her stress levels from work and life drastically go down. Kiri developed a new outlook on life and for years would tell everyone that they need to practice yoga. She recently completed Kindred Yoga’s 2022-2023 RYT-200 program and is extremely excited to share her love of the practice. Kiri hopes to help others find peace, strength, confidence, balance, harmony, and a sense of camaraderie at Kindred Yoga Studio.
Maddie R.
Maddie's Style in 3 Words: Flowy, Empowering, Holistic
What Maddie loves most about yoga: I am drawn to yoga for its transformative ability to bring stillness to the mind and foster mental clarity. It serves as a space, providing me with essential time for self-care. Yoga, for me, is not just a physical practice but a powerful outlet for releasing emotions, shedding stressors, and finding inner peace amid life's challenges.
About Maddie: Maddie is certified as an RYT 200 hour instructor at Kindred Yoga. She began her yoga journey in the summer of 2022 at Kindred Yoga, discovering a meaningful connection with the practice. Having danced since the age of 2, her movement background enriches her approach to yoga. With a passion for yoga and mindfulness with children Maddie has broaden her practice to children aged 2 to 15 at a summer camp and is currently sharing yoga practices with elementary students. Maddie's heart is deeply invested in fostering a passion for yoga among kids.
Rebecca N.
Rebecca’s Style: FUN
What Rebecca loves most about yoga: She is dedicated to sharing the Nia Technique because it benefits all aspects of our being with strength, flexibility and expression of body, heart and mind.
About Rebecca: Rebecca has many chapters of learning and teaching. She has an MA in Theater Education; has taught school K-8, worked as Healthcare Chaplain and is a certified Hendricks Somatic Coach. Also a mom and grandma, Rebecca’s life long purpose is to help herself and others realize and experience our basic goodness.
Rebecca Narva has been working with group dance and fitness for nearly 30 years.
Sherri R.
Sherri’s Style: Focused, Caring, Holistic
What Sherri loves most about yoga: I appreciate how yoga offers a holistic space to rest my thinking and strengthen my body simultaneously. It is both calming and invigorating.
About Sherri: Sherri began her yoga practice fifteen years ago seeking a daily exercise routine. When she arrived at Kindred in '23, she discovered immediately Kindred's holistic approach that felt like a garden for the body/soul. Sherri recently finished her teacher training and compliments her practice with her own Spiritual Direction practice.
Susan C.
Susan’s Style: Gentle, Centered, Considerate
What Susan loves most about yoga: I love yoga for the mind, body, and soul connection, as well as the calmness and steadiness it has taught me. Yoga brings me peace and will continue to guide me on my life journey.
About Susan: Having a background in communications and human resources, Susan has always been drawn to others. This has gradually led her to the world of yoga.
Susan has been practicing yoga for many years and finds joy in a variety of types of yoga classes. She was guided to Kindred Yoga where she completed her 200-hour teacher training. She believes in the importance of striving for a balanced lifestyle.
Susan is grateful to have the opportunity to serve others on their yoga journey.
Winter M.
Winter’s Style: Resilience, Joy, Connection
What Winter loves most about yoga: Yoga is about connections - with our inner self, our breath, our physical body, our heart and thoughts. As we find peace within we are more able to share our peace and joy with others. On the physical level I love the healthful effects of yoga for better balance, flexibility and strength regardless of age or your initial physical condition.
About Winter: Yoga first came to me in my teens. For the next fifty years I kept returning to yoga as time allowed, often immersing in different styles of yoga and learning more aspects of this brilliantly multifaceted path. I'm overjoyed to finally begin teaching and continuing to learn with the Kindred community. I'm particularly interested in helping seniors maintain functionality as a first step towards preventing falls and injuries, and plan to focus much of my continued learning in this area. I'm grateful that retirement allows me the time to share the joy that I find through yoga.
Kristine K.
Kris’ Style: Inclusive, Supportive, Caring
What Kris loves most about yoga:
I love that there are no expectations. Each and every practice is about what your needs are at that moment, and your individual practice changes with you over time to meet your needs.
About Kris:
Kris started taking yoga classes as part of a physical fitness routine about 6 years ago. Soon after, she realized the benefits of stress reduction and a change in state of mind. She began seeking time to practice more and more as an outlet to her stressful job, and to help her cope with personal events in life. After orthopedic surgery, then a broken bone, yoga helped to advance Kris’ physical recovery and kept her state of mind healthy and positive.
Once she began Yoga Teacher Training at Kindred to learn more about how to help herself, she saw the potential to help others. Now Kris can’t wait to share her learnings and support others in the opportunity to explore their practice in the best way possible for themselves.