CO-FOUNDER, 500 RYT

Betsy is a 500+ RYT trained teacher and has been a student of yoga and mindfulness for over 20 years.  Since retiring from a 40 year career in banking, she has deepened her yoga training and practice and has taken a range of graduate level courses in Mindfulness.  Betsy has taught in community centers and to marginalized populations through the Hands to Heart Center.  She is thrilled to open Harbor Yoga Boston in June 2025, a small boutique yoga studio, to offer mindfulness and yoga.

Completed Trainings Include:

Down Under School of Yoga (200) January 2016
Down Under School of Yoga (300) December 2016
Back Bay Yoga Union (300) May 2024
Trauma Sensitive Foundational Training (40 ) March 2023 
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Foundations Course, Brown University Center for Mindfulness, May 2025
Dharma Yoga Training (175 Hours) June 2025
Graduate Certificate in Religious Studies, Harvard Extension School, December 2025

CO-FOUNDER, 500 RYT

Kristen (Krissy) is 500 RYT teacher and Certified Pilates instructor that has been a student of yoga since her teenage years. Krissy holds a BA in Advertising and Dance from Loyola University Chicago, an MA in Dance Education from New York University, and is currently pursuing an MA in Special Education from Salem State University. An East-Coast native, she spent her formative years as a twenty-something between Chicago and New York, teaching, learning, and gaining as much knowledge and experience as possible with a goal to share the wealth. Since 2012, Krissy has been committed to bringing her passion for movement and living well to people through classes and programming designed for all walks of life.

Now back in Boston, Krissy continues to be a teacher and practitioner of yoga, dance, and Pilates. Her classes require diving into the mind, body, and spirit, using the physical modalities to enhance and progress the whole body. As a yoga and Pilates instructor, she specializes in teaching beginners, empowering people to make smart, educated decisions that work for their body.

Krissy specializes in adaptive dance, having taught on faculty at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Adaptive Dance Program, and was Lead Teacher for North Shore Dance Academy’s Dancer Within program. Krissy consults for studios and trains teachers on programming and educating dancers with disabilities.

When not at HYB, Krissy works for Boston Public Schools, and is on staff at Boston Yoga Union and Soma Yoga Center.

Here’s a little more about what makes her tick.

Completed Trainings Include:

CorePower Yoga Sculpt (150), May 2015
Ohm Culture Yoga Studio (200), October 2017
Karuna Yoga School (200), October 2017
PowerPilates, June 2020
Boston Yoga Union (300), May 2024
Katonah Yoga (200), ongoing