Eliot Street Collective

Yoga for Young Warriors:  www.yogaforyoungwarriors.com

Christen Bakken

In an effort to find her dreams, Christen Bakken has gone in two different directions in her adult life.   Her life has always been filled with children.  From a very young age, she sought any job that worked with children-from camp counselor to day care worker and preschool teacher.  For a few years, Christen taught elementary school north of Denver. Even though she took great pleasure in watching the lightbulb go off in a child's head and joy fill their eyes, Christen spent the remainder of my day searching out her yoga practice. 

Yoga has also been a big part of Christen's life.  She began with Bikram yoga in 1998 and just fell in love.  For  years, she has practiced daily anywhere she could take a class.  During the summer of 2007, Christen received her  yoga teaching certification through Core Power Yoga in Denver.  This accomplishment brought her lots of joy and personal growth-as well as the opportunity to teach adults.  Still searching, she began taking kids yoga workshops and reading anything ever printed about children's yoga and physical development.  Over the next year, she began to dream of how to link her passions together.  Yoga for Young Warriors is the product of this dream.  It is intended to honor a child's spirit through yoga.  Christen, too, is a young spirit and am anxious to get to know children through a new avenue...movement!