Kristie Nichol

At Shift experience collective wellness + yoga studio

Yoga has the capacity to take you to the edge of who you consider yourself to be and supports you in redefining your reality. Yoga has been the constant in Kristie’s life for the past 20 years, from early morning practices, to the understanding that yoga goes beyond the mat and becomes an inner orientation from which a more compassionate, curious and inspired life can be lived.

Her practice began as a lifeline that helped her manage emotional dysregulation and soothe her mental exhaustion. “You never feel worse after yoga” became the mantra that got her to the studio on snowy dark mornings, day after day. Yoga became a love letter to her soul – it was the container from which she could show up for herself through the discomfort, where she was able to connect to the most profound spiritual joy, and is the consistent mirror that reveals just how temporary, and therefore precious, this life is.

Her classes work with the body, as the fertile soil from which awareness can rise, they navigate philosophical and poetic ideologies through the language of sensation, intuition and inner truth telling. Classes are crafted with a deep attunement to the felt sense - which allows us to become aware of unconscious patterns and perceptions and inner desires.

We will also have fun! – as her teacher Yogrishi Vishveketu reminds us – “you are joyful, you are expandable, you are playful – this is you, this is your true nature”

Her greatest hope is to offer you a practice that allows you to experience the mental clarity and emotional freedom that will lead you back to yourself. 

Teaches: Sunday Yin into Nidra and substitues all other style classes