Let’s work together!
“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers, or parching dusty ways may lie between you: it is yours now and forever.”
—Freya Stark
so many ways we could work together!
Here’s some ideas:
Coaching Session
Coaching is basically using your intentions, desires, dreams, thoughts and visions to create your best life—as the truest version of yourself! If you’ve lost your way, coaching helps you find the path. If you have a dream you want to pursue, coaching helps you begin. This rich process uncovers limiting beliefs, your deepest of dreams, and taps into your own inner wisdom. It’s not advising. You’re the driver, I have the tools and show up to support you. Through coaching you’ll reconnect with your authentic self, trust your own vision, and take action—or rest. Whatever’s needed. Appropriate for any intentions, dreams, issues, and desires—small or large.
Feng Shui Consultation
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice of arranging buildings, objects, and space in a way that creates balance, restores the energy (Qi), and is in harmony with nature. The four Principles of Feng Shui are: Everything is energy; Intention is key; Nature is the guide; Your space reflects your life.
Feng Shui means “the way of wind and water” and it’s all about bringing a natural flow into your space and life. It’s arranging your environment to enhance your life. This happens through the use of Feng Shui tools applied to a particular room, your desk, an area of your life, or your whole house.
Using the tools of Feng Shui, I’ll evaluate your living or working space, assessing its energy flow, layout, and design. Together we’ll explore your goals, challenges, and aspirations, then make adjustments to your space that support you, your dreams and visions. Your vision could be as simple as wanting more energy—to wanting a partner or new career.
Here are some additional benefits of using Feng Shui: Attract opportunities; Bring clarity to indecision; Clear negative energies; Clear clutter and create spaciousness; Create a space you love; Reenergize your life; Support transitions in life; Claim and clear a space after remodel or move; Adjust space after divorce or death.
Five Elements Session
The Five Elements, also known as the Five Phases, Wu Xing (Five Movements), describe a process or system of relationships and patterns that are used in Chinese medicine and Feng Shui. This system was developed sometime between 500 B.C.E. and 200 B.C.E. A long time ago! It’s a tool used to describe and understand patterns, like seasonal changes, the lifecycle, illness, moods and behavior, how a space feels. The pulsating of life—growing and shrinking, creating and destroying, expanding and contracting—and the tension between these opposing forces, is demonstrated by this system. This tension is necessary for movement, life force. But as with anything, too much and it becomes exaggerated. The Five Elements can be used as an aid for finding the spot that either needs to be nourished or subdued, for bringing in balance. When there’s harmony in the cycle, with equal amounts of nourishment and tension, equilibrium is restored.
This is a cycle without beginning or end. There is no “starting” element. Each element continually gives birth to, consumes, or tempers another. The elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.
Using this tool of the Five Elements I help you determine the choices and activities that will bring balance back into your life. We start with a Five Elements questionnaire to determine where there’s stagnation in your cycle. Then we’ll explore the Five Elements as they relate to your current situation, and come up with solutions for restoring equilibrium, bringing in nourishment or tempering - whatever’s needed. There’s an optional art making component to this work if that sounds fun!
Values Session
Values are seen in how you invest your time, energy, and focus. What you’re valuing becomes apparent through the choices you’re making, and the actions you’re taking. Oftentimes, stuck on autopilot you can become disconnected from your personal values, and end up living out the values of your family, culture, or society…or none at all. Using coaching tools, I assist you in uncovering YOUR personal values. As these become conscious, you can begin to make choices and take actions that are in alignment with who you are—and who you choose to be. Luckily values can be accessed immediately, at any moment. Don’t need something to happen first, someone to give you permission, the stars to align… This is a life changing process. There’s an optional art making component to this work, especially useful if creativity is one of your values.
Purchase The Elemental Values Card Deck here and stay tuned for the Reclaiming Your Values Retreat.
Sound Healing
Everything is energy, is vibrating, and has a frequency. Our thoughts, our bodies, our spaces—and everything within them! Our frequency and vibe can be altered through the use of different Sound Healing instruments. Just as we can be affected by loud noises, emotions, confrontations, or stress in our environments, our vibration can be changed and balanced through the use of healing sounds. Experience the transformative power of sound through tuning forks, singing bowls, gongs, drums, idiopan, chimes, bells and other healing instruments.
When our inner self is vibrating in sync with the vibration of our outer self, in sync with our soul, this is when we are in harmony! In harmony with our life, with life, with everything.
Sound Healing can alleviate stress, bring balance and calm into the body and mind, activate our body’s self healing capabilities.
1:1 Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini yoga is a dynamic combination of breathwork, movement and mantra meditation—may include dancing! Kundalini yoga will push you to your edge, giving you a chance to lean in and move beyond your perceived limitations. This wisdom and skill can be applied to working through any challenges in life, toward any goal.
I offer personalized Kundalini Yoga sessions based on your current needs and desires. During a session you’ll experience movement, breathwork and mantra meditation—all of which can be integrated into a daily practice.
Work with me to connect with your heart, dig deep into your vision for the life you want, hook up with your intuition, and take time to listen up. Through Yoga, you create a practice of showing up for yourself and learn to ground—tuning into your body, mind and spirit—your inner wisdom.
Kundalini Yoga balances the nervous system, tones the body, calms the mind, invigorates the spirit.
Stay tuned for group class offerings and retreats.
Photostylist
30+ years design experience. Expertise in Accessories, Beauty, Clothing, Home, Props, and Toys. You can check out my portfolio here. I’m a natural, and would love to work with you to make your images amazing!
Clients include: Target, Sundance Catalog, Banana Republic, Josten’s. Click here for portfolio.
What Clients Are Saying
Coaching:
“Thank you, Chrystina! I always feel very comfortable discussing the biggest challenges of my life with you, and so happy that you are helping me guide through the path to my goals. I appreciate your bringing so much of your positive energy and excitement to each of our sessions.” - NK
“Chrystina is the best. I have worked with a lot of coaches and she is by far my favorite. She is incredibly easy and fun to talk to which makes her coaching incredibly effective. I feel comfortable sharing whatever may come up! She asks thoughtful questions and uses creative tools that always offer me new insights. I walk away from each session feeling lighter. I highly highly recommend anyone to work with her!” - MW
"I have been working with Chrystina for many months now and I love how every time I discover something new about myself that gives me clarity on my path to a happier version of myself. Chrystina provides a safe space that is free of judgement where you can be yourself and explore yourself in new ways." - Heike
"Chrystina is a great listener who leads gently and with curiosity. Over the many times that I worked with Chrystina, I felt seen in an open, spacious, and non-judgemental way. Working with Chrystina is a joy, plus she has a great sense of humor!" - AR
"Coach C. helps me question my assumptions, and reflect on personal mythologies that lead to negative self talk and habituated and mal adaptive modes of thinking, behavior, and speech. She's also a nice person to talk to." - CC
Feng Shui:
“I found your recommendations extremely helpful AND hopeful. You are so compassionate and supportive. Our conversation and your recommendations left me feeling energized and inspired. I felt very stuck prior to your visit. The language and concepts you discussed resonated with me and how I see the world. I was so touched by how non-judgmental you are and so kind.” - SL
“Chrystina has given us a bunch creative ways to improve our home. We were energetically stuck. She patiently learned and listened to our respective needs, analyzed the five elements for us and came up with simple but effective ideas to improve the energy in our house. Our condo is very space limited, so it was essential to get Chrystina’s insight into making each part of our place used to its greatest potential. Her calm, gentle manner was re-assuring and helped put us at ease for the changes that were to follow. It was amazing to experience the new energy by just moving the dinner table from one wall to another. We feel very honored and blessed that she has shared her many talents with us.” - JH & LN
“I'd bought and had been living in a townhome for a year before I reached out to Chrystina. I needed help feeling at home in the space and didn't even really have any idea of what my 'lifestyle' was or what I wanted it to be. Chrystina planned two hours for our initial consultation where she came to my home to scope out my space, set up my ba gua, and go over my five elements profile. Chrystina had a deep understanding of the five elements and how they interact to create balance or disharmony. She used this to explain the principles of Feng Shui and how I could use them to set up my space, but the most important skills she shared were how to develop intuition about how I want to FEEL in the space. She was a wellspring of tips and tricks for how to be intentional about creating internal as well as external harmony. She had immediate ideas of how to make the entryway inviting, how to arrange the bedroom for the best sleep, and how to best utilize some awkward corners. Now I'm quite happy finding out what the space is telling me and in no rush to make it look like someone else's idea of home. Thank you, Chrystina!” -JR
5 Elements:
“With Chrystina, I discovered new wisdom about the unfolding of a project according to the 5 elements. How to give care and nurture each phase once understood where I was at. Oh yes! A very cluttered space, reflecting my cluttered mind, result of a depleted “metal”, echo of a prolific “wood” . Our meeting gave me the energetic impulse to clear out my space and it really uplifted my spirit! I highly recommand Chrystina. She shares a hearfelt and deep listening, fleshy juicy solutions and metaphors to embody our life flow at home.” - SB
“My 5 elements session with Chrystina felt both easy and empowering. The conversation was comfortable and flowing, she cued into things that I tend to struggle with and pulled them forward with grace, making goals and new patterns seem simply achievable, exciting. Having a clear and affirming statement to hold onto about who I am and what I want has been powerful, defining that intention has freed up space for me to embody it. I had read some about the 5 elements and related traits beforehand, but with Chrystina I understood how I held these with new depth, especially where in the cycle I needed to slow down and how I could allow myself to do that. Many gems from this brief but full meeting have been with me daily since; physical objects on my altar, tapping, the impact of small gestures and efforts. I am grateful to Chrystina for her generosity, insite, and intensely warm energy.” -AS
Photostyling:
“Chrystina is an expert stylist in every sense of the term. She takes the time to thoroughly understand each clients' needs and produces precise and artistic work. She's a problem solver, drawing on years of experience and quick thinking. And maybe best of all, she's a joy to work with! Whenever Chrystina styles for us, we always end the week with stellar results and leave the studio smiling. Consider yourself very lucky if you get the chance to work with her – I always do!” - Brenda Manthe
“I love working with Chrystina! Working with her is an experience where organization, collaboration, and creativity come together with ease and efficiency. Chrystina's easy to work with style and exceptional talent results in best in class quality for overall product & brand integrity. Working with Chrystina is a joy!” - Mary Maguire
“Chrystina is an extremely talented stylist! As a wardrobe and lay down stylist, she brings an expert eye in her knowledge of how fabrics lay and work in different lighting scenarios which is a great compliment to the 'style' she brings to a job. Christina's talent is easy to identify by the speed at which she is able to accomplish her work. If that wasn't enough, she always brings a smile and positive attitude to photo set! I'd also hire Chrystina to style or remodel my house if I had one! She has great vision for layout, design, the flow of a space, and mixing different materials and textures. Chrystina's a jem!” - Brigette Lynch
Values Session (Retreat):
“I’m so thankful for this retreat and have been integrating quite a few discovered and re-discovered values. I’m also taking time to work on my value deck today.” - JV
“Since returning, I’ve tackled some mountainous home improvement projects and have been hard at work bringing BEAUTY and CALM into our home. The retreat helped me clarify some goals.” - JH
“Such an expanding and deeply adventurous retreat.” - RC
“What I loved about this retreat: The food! Healthy and delicious. Small size - gave me more comfort and the ability to connect with all the wonderful folks! Having space for alone time. Amazing yoga instruction and sound baths. Not too far of a drive. Puppy to play with. Things I didn’t love - nothing comes to mind.” - PM