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About Christy Lynn​

  • Personal Responsibility & Leadership Coach

  • Keynote Speaker & Creator of the Yoga of Responsibility

  • Yoga Philosophy & Therapeutics

  • Yoga Teacher Trainer & Living Arts Mentor

  • Positive Psychology Educator

  • Founder of Elevation Central | Wellness Retreat & Integration Center

  • Author, Bless Your Heart, Now Do the Work​​​​

I’ve spent my life bridging two worlds - the high-achieving pace of corporate America and the soulful, grounded path of Yoga - and what I’ve discovered is this: transformation doesn’t happen when you escape the world; it happens when you take responsibility for how you show up in it.

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Before founding Elevation Central, my private wellness retreat and integration center just outside Nashville, I spent a decade in the corporate world as a General Manager, Senior Project Manager, and Satellite Engineer for multimillion-dollar companies. I learned how to lead, manage chaos, and perform under pressure. But I also learned that success without self-awareness leads to burnout, disconnection, and a life that looks good - but doesn’t feel good.

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Yoga changed that.


It brought me back home to myself.

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For 15 years, I owned and operated Yoga Blend, a thriving Los Angeles studio where I taught thousands of students and certified hundreds of teachers. It became a playground for conscious living and transformation - a place where practical tools met soulful practice, and where community thrived through compassion, humor, and humanity.

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In 2020, life (and a global reset) pulled me back to my hometown roots in Tennessee to build something new: Elevation Central - a space for conscious connection, lifestyle education, leadership training and embodied integration. It’s here that the Yoga of Responsibility was born: a living framework for turning awareness into aligned action, on and off the mat.

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Today, I am a Living Artist, creating my art in the way I respond to each moment. Through that lens, I guide yoga teachers, conscious leaders, and everyday humans to integrate what they know, embody what they believe, and lead from within.  

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My work blends Yoga Philosophy, Positive Psychology, the Chakra System, Leadership Training, Conscious Entrepreneurship, and straight talk - helping you remember that wholeness isn’t something you find; it’s something you practice.

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My mission is simple:
To help you live, lead, and create from integrity and joy.
To remind you that your attention is your destiny.
And to prove that when you take responsibility for your energy and your life, everybody wins.

​Teacher of Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Psychology & the Chakra System for 30 years

5000+ Hours of Embodied Yoga Therapeutics

Certificate in Positive Psychology with Tal Ben Shahar - Whole Being Institute at Kripalu

Integrative Yoga Therapy  - Kripalu 

Journey of Intrinsic Health with Dr. Zach Bush, MD

Entrepreneur in the world of health, wellness & spirituality for over 20 years

10 years in Corporate America as General Manager, Senior Project Manager & in Satellite Engineering

Meditation & Mindfulness

Breath Work & Pranayama

Mantra, Sound & Mudra

Visualization & Manifestation

Ayurveda, Nutrition, Cleansing & Fasting

Somatic & Energy Work

Music & Ecstatic Dance

Storytelling, Writing & Art

Ritual & Earth Based Practices

Herbs & Plant Medicine

Sacred Ceremony & Rites of Passage

Aromatherapy & Essential Oils

Anatomy, Physiology & Biology

Personal Training, Fitness, Gymnastics

B.S in Mass Communications: Radio, TV & Photography/Psychology & Sociology

Testimonials​

Marlene P

Christy has been my yoga teacher and mentor for over 8 years now. I met her when I signed up for my 300 hr. Yoga Training with her. Not only did Christy broaden my understanding of what yoga is, she became my yoga mentor during and after the year-long training. In addition to her training, I  attended her retreats and classes and have worked with her as my yoga coach as I have developed my own teaching style.

 

As a yogini and teacher now for almost 15 years I continue to seek out Christy to deepen my understanding of myself and of yoga. Christy’s experience working and guiding others is extraordinary. She meets people where they are at, is incredibly accepting, and also challenges us to be our most glorious selves!! 

 

I especially value her teachings from Positive Psychology to help me focus on, clarify and achieve my life goals.  I’m also very moved by her deep understanding of the Yoga Sutras and the way she helps to connect them with the practical aspects of real life.  As someone who studies ancient texts in my primary line of work, I find Christy’s interpretive skills of the Sutras to be phenomenal. 

 

Her teaching of asana is always quite amazing and helpful, especially because she combines her sequencing with personal stories and supportive comments with her students. She also has a tremendous sense of humor that I truly appreciate. 

 

Finally, I am also very appreciative of Christy’s use of the Chakras – interpreting them for us, helping us to explore them and apply their teachings to my life, and giving me yet another tool to enhance my understanding of the gifts of yoga. 

 

I have just touched on a few of the tools that Christy uses with her students; she tailors her coaching to each student and draws from her vast toolbox and uses: asana, the Sutras, pranayama, Chakras, chanting, Positive Psychology and Ayurvedic principles to guide her students. 

 

I am so grateful for Christy for teaching me and encouraging me to be my best self.

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© 2020 Christy Lynn Hicks

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