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Yogaland Podcast

Chrissy Carter: Seeing Yoga Poses with Fresh Eyes

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chrissy Carter is an alignment-based flow teacher who teaches in New York City. She's been teaching for YogaWorks for 10 years and has 25 teacher trainings under her belt! Yes, 25. You read that correctly. Given that, and given the attentive, caring way Chrissy has about her, we talked about:* Her former job as a Wall Street trader * Why she loves a great Iyengar Yoga class and how it helps her see things with fresh eyes* Why it's important for teachers to study Iyengar (even if you're not an Iyengar teacher)* What it feels like to be an experienced yoga teacher vs. being a newbie* How cooking is her yoga put into practice* Her feelings about whether or not students and teachers should be friendsShownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode12/

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0:30.0

Hi everyone, it's Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 12 of

0:33.8

yoga land.

0:39.5

My guest today is Chrissy Carter.

0:41.9

Chrissy is an amazing yoga teacher who's based in New York City.

0:45.8

And we met actually digitally years ago

0:49.4

when she sent some photos into Yoga Journal

0:51.9

and I remember looking at her photos and thinking how gorgeous her classical triangle pose was and I like to think that was the basis for our very solid nerdy yoga friendship that we have.

1:04.6

Anyway, Chrissy is an alignment-based flow teacher and she's still very much steeped in

1:09.7

practicing and studying Iangar Yoga, so that's why her triangle is so gorgeous. So we're going to talk a little bit about a yangar yoga today. It's not something I've talked about yet on the podcast. It's not a consistent part of my current practice practice but I feel that it's a very important

1:25.0

style of yoga and we talk about why.

1:28.4

Chrissy has been a teacher trainer at Yoga Works for 10 years, so she's taught 25 teacher trainings for them.

1:35.6

So I also got to ask her about that

1:38.0

and kind of what it's like to grow

1:40.2

from a beginning teacher to the point

1:41.9

where she is now and she has so much experience.

1:44.4

Like so many of us, there are so many facets to Chrissy beyond her yoga practice.

1:49.6

She started her career as a trader on Wall Street,

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