Christina Collins-Smith, MLA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, LMT, CMMP,
Christina has spent the last two decades offering community arts programs, most recently focusing on mind-body medicine with functional yoga, meditation, and therapeutic massage working in her own studio and with medical professionals, hospitals, educational institutions, art museums, libraries, media, community organizations and senior centers to create partnerships and opportunities for achieving maximum wellness and enjoyment of life through mindful movement that is synced with breath and intention.
As a celebrated artist, writer, art educator, producer, curator, and community arts facilitator Christina co-founded the Roots Music and Arts Festival and First Thursday Evenings of Poetry, Music, and Art series at Common Ground on the Hill, which became an award-winning monthly TV series at CCTV where she was an editor/producer and co-founder of Women in Television. Later, she established Wellness as an Art and the Janice Gilmore Youth Art Scholarship Program at the C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts. Christina has led art and writing workshops internationally, and has taught art and art history at the undergraduate level for over 18 years at Carroll Community College.
Personally, Christina has practiced yoga fusion since the age of 23. Shifting her focus in 2016, she began her formal yoga teacher training with a desire to share the benefits of living in balance and aging gracefully. She earned her professional yoga designation of E-RYT 500 in early 2023. Christina brings a range of educational and life experiences to her practice along with a seasoned ability to support others in their wellness journey with a gentle, functional, compassionate approach. Among other accomplishments, she is also a licensed massage therapist and certified medical massage practitioner, a certified mind-body medicine coach, health and wellness coach, and a YogaMedCo trained and certified yoga coach.
Christina currently serves as the Director of beWellnessArts, LLC, is the Wellness Arts Director at the Gilchrist Museum of the Arts, a yoga and health coach with UPMC Western Maryland’s Community Wellness Department, the designer and facilitator of the “Yoga 4 Wellness” accredited college course, currently taught at Allegany College of Maryland, is a contributor to the UPMC Real Well quarterly newsletter, and the author of “let me be a blessing” to be published in Winter 2025.
Offering a practical, functional approach to yoga, movement, and mindfulness, Christina offers an accessible approach to practices that focus on the art of living in balance and happiness. She welcomes the opportunity to share her experience and work in the art of wellbeing with clients, students, teachers, and leaders who seek to have and offer the most meaningful life-enhancing experiences possible for themselves and others.
Christina Collins-Smith is proud to be a Yoga Alliance Member and Education Provider.
She can be contacted via email at [email protected]
Christina has spent the last two decades offering community arts programs, most recently focusing on mind-body medicine with functional yoga, meditation, and therapeutic massage working in her own studio and with medical professionals, hospitals, educational institutions, art museums, libraries, media, community organizations and senior centers to create partnerships and opportunities for achieving maximum wellness and enjoyment of life through mindful movement that is synced with breath and intention.
As a celebrated artist, writer, art educator, producer, curator, and community arts facilitator Christina co-founded the Roots Music and Arts Festival and First Thursday Evenings of Poetry, Music, and Art series at Common Ground on the Hill, which became an award-winning monthly TV series at CCTV where she was an editor/producer and co-founder of Women in Television. Later, she established Wellness as an Art and the Janice Gilmore Youth Art Scholarship Program at the C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts. Christina has led art and writing workshops internationally, and has taught art and art history at the undergraduate level for over 18 years at Carroll Community College.
Personally, Christina has practiced yoga fusion since the age of 23. Shifting her focus in 2016, she began her formal yoga teacher training with a desire to share the benefits of living in balance and aging gracefully. She earned her professional yoga designation of E-RYT 500 in early 2023. Christina brings a range of educational and life experiences to her practice along with a seasoned ability to support others in their wellness journey with a gentle, functional, compassionate approach. Among other accomplishments, she is also a licensed massage therapist and certified medical massage practitioner, a certified mind-body medicine coach, health and wellness coach, and a YogaMedCo trained and certified yoga coach.
Christina currently serves as the Director of beWellnessArts, LLC, is the Wellness Arts Director at the Gilchrist Museum of the Arts, a yoga and health coach with UPMC Western Maryland’s Community Wellness Department, the designer and facilitator of the “Yoga 4 Wellness” accredited college course, currently taught at Allegany College of Maryland, is a contributor to the UPMC Real Well quarterly newsletter, and the author of “let me be a blessing” to be published in Winter 2025.
Offering a practical, functional approach to yoga, movement, and mindfulness, Christina offers an accessible approach to practices that focus on the art of living in balance and happiness. She welcomes the opportunity to share her experience and work in the art of wellbeing with clients, students, teachers, and leaders who seek to have and offer the most meaningful life-enhancing experiences possible for themselves and others.
Christina Collins-Smith is proud to be a Yoga Alliance Member and Education Provider.
She can be contacted via email at [email protected]