Charissa completed her 200 hour training at Yoga Now (then Omaha Yoga and Bodywork Center) under the direction of Susi Amendola (C-IAYT, ERYT-500). Her 300 hour training was completed at Kripalu through Integrative Yoga Therapy under the direction of Joseph Le Page (C-IAYT and author of “Yoga Toolbox,” and “Mudras for Healing and Transformation”). She is also a Certified Yoga Therapist through Kripalu’s School of Integrative Yoga Therapy.

Charissa’s classes include body and breath awareness practices designed to help people recognize emotions and physical sensations in the body. With that knowledge, participants are empowered with yoga tools for working with their own subtle emotional and physical energy, on or off the mat. She is especially skilled at adapting practices for people who do not wish to practice on the floor, have limited range of motion, or consider themselves “not flexible enough for yoga.”