Chris Warner (M. Ed., CYT) has been practicing yoga for more than a decade and has had many years of private instruction, both here and abroad. Notably, her teachers in Massachusetts include Elliot MacEldowney, currently teaching at O2 Yoga in Somerville and at Yoga Mandala in Winchester. Chris has also studied under Lisa Bickerstaff of Maui, HI, and with Carole Cousin of St. Bart’s; most recently, her teachers have included Sarah Powers (Insight Meditation and Yin Yoga) and Paulie Zink (Taoist Yoga, Yin and Flow). Chris holds a Master’s Degree in Human Development and Statistics from Harvard University, and taught Research Methods and Statistics at Boston College for several years. She also served a two-year internship at the Sheppard and Enoch-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, working with long-term inpatients who presented with a variety of mental-health challenges and addictions. Chris is also certified to teach children’s yoga at Levels I and II— Color-Me-Yoga© with Marsha Metzger. Over the last few years, Chris has focused her practice and studies on Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation training. This practice draws upon the tenets of ancient wisdom systems such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda, as well as on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism. Readings from the Tao Te Ching are often part of the discussion during yoga sessions. On a personal note, Chris deeply believes in that which she now shares with others in her role as teacher. She and her husband, Mike Maguire, have seen the healing power of this practice through the many challenges that they have recently faced. In the late summer of 2006, Mike suffered a series of 3 strokes (transient ischemic attacks), and he subsequently underwent intra-extra cranial brain by-pass surgery. Miraculously, he returned home to recover, only to then lose his long-time position as vice-president of his company, and to see his other company sold. Through their commitment to the practice of Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation, they have been able to come through these challenges, in health, mind and spirit. The body, the mind and the spirit all have the power to heal, and the yoga and meditation practice prepares the fertile ground in which the healing begins to take root and to flourish. Today, Mike continues in his long-time profession, healthy, free and strong, and life goes on, in all of its varied and precious moments… Chris continues to study and to practice, honored to learn and share along the way with her students, but always continuing to be a student herself, cultivating a beginner’s mind… Also introducing ‘Sake,’ the beloved Japanese Chin!