Christine Tran
Yoga Instructor
At age 13, I started learning about yoga on my own through a wonderful book called Yoga for Beginners by Mark Ansari and Liz Lark. As a nerdy, uncoordinated kid, I started noticing that yoga helped me feel more confident and at home in my body. To learn more, I started attending vinyasa classes at Samadhi Yoga (RIP) in Seattle in 2003. The next year, I decided to skip high school and attended the Transition School/Early Entrance Program at the University of Washington instead, matriculating as a freshman in 2005. Those years were full of growth and exciting opportunities, but they were also full of doubt, fear, and uncertainty -- my yoga practice was an anchor that helped me feel grounded through it all.
In 2011, I moved to Minnesota to attend Mayo Medical School and recently completed my Internal Medicine residency through the University of Minnesota in 2018. Yoga was a safe place for me to reconnect my mind with my body and heart (the latter two of which can fall to the wayside during medical training). As a yoga teacher, I strive to help students tune in to awareness in class -- that calm, still, peaceful space within each of us that is always present but sometimes gets lost in the noise of our everyday lives. I completed Yoga Sanctuary's Holistic Yoga Teacher Training in May 2019 and am excited to share my love of yoga with the world.