Christine Harrell

Christine Harrell - Bio

Christine Harrell is a certified 500/hr CE-RYT from National Yoga Academy and is a certified Ayurveda Wellness Lifestyle Counselor. She is a Childlight Yoga Instructor and a graduate of the Wise Earth Ayurvedic School with a certification in Ahimsa Japa Meditation. Christine is also a trained birth and postpartum doula and enjoys guiding pre-natal and postnatal mothers and babies in yoga. She is a  certified Prison Yoga Project teacher, taught by the founder of the Prison Yoga Project, James Fox M.A. Christine is the Executive Director of the Virginia Community Yoga Jail Project in Hampton Roads, VA in which she teaches Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation, and Non-Violent Communication (NVC) in the local jails in hopes to pursue to the prisons. She has expanded her knowledge in yoga by training in Trauma Informed yoga and becoming a Prison Mindfulness Meditation teacher. 

It brings her bliss in her life when she can serve others through yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. She is also an accomplished martial artist, holding a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has trained in other styles of martial arts as well. The balance in the yin of yoga practice and the yang of martial arts along with meditation and Ayurveda are the elements that unites the mind, body, and spirit in her teachings. 

Her yoga practice off the mat includes being a wife and mother of 3 beautiful children, arts and serving the underserved population in her bridge projects that she is building under Virginia Community Yoga. She embraces the experiences of life and its lessons and through that, she became the founder of Virginia Community Yoga (VCY) established in 2016, director of the VCY Jail Project established in 2018, and co-owner of Equinox Coffee Co. established in 2018. Christine is also the Wellness Coordinator for Primeplus Norfolk Senior Center, a mentor to high school seniors, and a community builder.

~ "Yoga fills the heart with humility, love, and strength. It inspires us and opens the doors of our inherent creative potential. Self knowledge liberates individuals from the limitations of worldly existence." ~ Tattva-Bodhah

~To Serve is to Love, To Love is to Serve~

“Unity in Diversity through Yoga”