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Yoga in Southampton NY
When you have the experience of taking a class with Charity be prepared to have FUN and be challenged in a way you never knew your body would enjoy.
About Charity
Charity chose this body that has always loved the joy of movement. She enjoys traveling the world facilitating and teaching all forms of movement from dance, yoga, mindful fitness, and spreading consciousness.
While discovering this amazing movement with her body, Charity also began a journey of functioning and living moment to moment. By following the energy she sought to travel around the world being who she is and sharing her knowledge with all those willing to receive.
Charity is a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Vinyasa teacher and in 2009, put over 900 hours of training at Moksha Yoga Studio of Chicago, IL. Once implementing her training into her teaching she started her own style of yoga by integrating all the different styles she had studied throughout the program.
Her formal training has exposed her to many cultures. In 2003 while in France she engaged training in hip-hop, break-dance, reggae, and African dance classes.
Ever hungry to learn more she joined a multi-disciplinary program with a Colorado Dance School. Daily training in break-dance and hip hop as well as intensive exposure to the African dancer, Djeneba Sako of Mali.
After becoming certified to facilitate classes as part of “The Good Life Program” Charity was sought out to teach in after school programs within the Midwest of USA. She taught elementary–secondary school children the elements of hip hop and dance. Her desire to train more led her to Seoul, South Korea where she trained with b-boy crews and started doing public performances, which led her to teach there and in Thailand. After Asia she moved to Chicago where she joined a Jamaican Dance Company. Advancing quickly, she was asked to begin to assist in teaching newcomers to the company. She has competed in international breakdance competitions as well in different parts of the world as B*Girl Eklektika.
In 2009, Charity moved to The Commonwealth of Dominica, where she taught public yoga classes and workshops throughout the island She was also involved in a few different primary and secondary schools teaching dance and movement for performances, along with extra curricular activities. She taught African dance accompanied by Ras Algi as well. Before leaving Dominica in 2011, Charity co-facilitated a workshop for secondary school teachers on the history of hip hop culture and dance.
In 2011, Charity moved to the island of Mustique, where she developed and facilitated a health and wellness program called “Get Fit and Have Fun”! In the three and a half years she taught classes to guests, homeowners, and the local community. The classes consisted of Yoga, Dance Fitness, Core Fit, Turbo Kick, Body Power, and Personal Fitness Training. She also would teach an occasional workshop on Detoxing/De-stressing the body through movement, breath and sweat.
The local children benefited from Charity’s dance classes and put on bi-annual performances for the island. The island did not have a program like this before Charity came and it was a true success in getting people to understand the importance of listening to your body and moving into a healthier way of being.
In October 2013 Charity was hired as the guest practitioner at The Siam Hotel in Bangkok Thailand. She taught various private classes in movement, yoga and dance.
Charity was also training the Opium Spa staff on energy healing modalities (the bars) to incorporate into their treatments, which allowed the clients to deepen into their relaxation even more. In her extra time Charity offered dance classes to the Siam Staff.
In 2014 Charity travelled extensively with private clients around the world, providing them with Thai yoga massage, fitness and yoga specifically designed for their body, and bars energy healing. She also planned curriculum for family members choosing to add more fitness and mobility in their life. Adjusting her life to meet their lifestyle and flying from one country to the next at their request gave Charity a great opportunity to see the world and learn to find a great balancing act in honoring her job and body at the same time.
2016 Charity moved to Sag Harbor NY
Charity ever ready to expand her wings, headed north to the Hamptons in Long Island New York. There she created World Dance shakedown for Project Most, an after school program for local children. She was hired by The Ross School for their summer camp as facilitator of Shakedown and Movement Yoga/ Dance with children from around the world attending this prestigious camp.
Charity worked in various yoga studios in The Hamptons, and worked privately with clients in Thai Yoga Massage, Access Consciousness Bars, and yoga sessions.
She facilitated Access Consciousness Bars classes, teaching over 20 students in the modality over the course of 3.5 years.
Being asked by Lululemon to be an ambssador for 2 years she held community classes in their loft studio in East Hampton. She also co-created events with Sweaty Betty and Wolffer Wine.
She was a steady yoga teach at Wolffer Wine throughout two summers and love being outdoors teaching as much as she could.
In 2019 Charity started her own kombucha company, Kombat-Cha, the only local kombucha company in the Hamptons.
In 2019 Charity started her own kombucha company, Kombat-Cha, the only local kombucha company in the Hamptons.
In 2.5 years she expanded to 15 locations across the Far East of Long Island.
Knowing it was time to Move
Charity left the Hamptons at the end of 2020 to do some some soul searching, and traveling around the world. She drove her Toyota Tacoma 3.4 of the way across the US, made it to Australia for 3 months where she continued her Kalaripayattu teacher training, and has found herself back on the East End. She is facilitating Elemental Ecstatic Dance, working for various kids camps and programs as well as teaching Yoga and Kalari. She continues to work on her memoirs and will keep the blog going for those interested in what her personal journey has been.
