YogaMinded began in 2003 as the container for the pursuits and passions of Christy Brock. YogaMinded seeks to support the teachings of Yoga and help grow them in the hearts and minds of all interested practitioners. Reaching out to young people is of special and dutiful consideration.

To be Yoga Minded is to:

• You - Look Inward
• Offer Compassion
• Gain Understanding
• Admit Ignorance
• Mend Relationships
• Integrate Wisdom
• Never Harm
• Discipline Good Habits
• Embrace Truth
• Disengage from Wrong Thinking
  
  
  
  

Christy's love of Yoga began in 1994 as a natural turnabout from the world of investment banking to a life of simpler means. From her early career at Bank of America in Charlotte, NC and JP Morgan in New York City, she gradually reoriented her life to teaching Yoga full time beginning 1997.

With over a decade of study and teaching of yoga, she enjoys passing on useful information to her students and seeing them grow. Her personal practice is both a mainstay and a delight of daily life. Christy’s straight forward instruction, clear yoga demonstration and contagious enthusiasm empower her students to source new ability in their body and gain deeper appreciation for yoga.

Christy is E-RYT 500 certified through Yoga Alliance and attended Piedmont Yoga Studio’s Advanced Studies 18 month program. Christy has traveled to Pune to study with the Iyengars.

Other formative study includes teachers Ramanand Patel, Manouso, Rodney Yee, Abhay Shivanji, Jinsung, and Mary Lou Weprin. She thanks Yoga Journal magazine for the experience she gained there and extends gratitute to all her teachers.

Yoga for Teens experience
Christy is especially passionate about teaching yoga to teenagers. Currently, she is the resident yoga teacher for CSP Crisis Center for Teens in Laguna, an organization committed to re-unifying teens with their families.

She helps local schools and teen organizations coordinate their yoga programs. Christy has trained over 100 teachers through her YogaMinded teen teacher trainings.

She began the Teens program at Piedmont Yoga Studio, volunteered teaching Yoga at Girls, Inc., and was an adjunct professor teaching Yoga for Virginia Wesleyan College. In Nashville, she taught high school Yoga at University School Nashville and Community High School for Teens in Recovery.

Christy is an active member of Saddleback church. She enjoys connecting with nature through adventure sports like surfing, snowboarding, running, and hiking.

Christy is happily married to Donaldson Miele and has a daughter named Kate, born July 27, 2006.