Carissa Spada

Carissa Spada is a yoga teacher, mindfulness coach, massage therapist and fertility specialist, and she has worked in these fields for over twenty years. Her path began with a weight loss of over 90 pounds, which started a healing and wellness journey that has kept growing and now shapes how she guides others.

She describes having known tremendous grief and sorrow as well as moments of absolute elation and bliss. Her yoga practice, her study of yogic principles, and her coaching and mindfulness training have helped her through challenging times. Those experiences, she says, call forth her purpose to support others. She offers comfort through loving-kindness, gratitude and intuition, and she hopes to help people trust their own intuition.

Her yoga classes are open to all ages and abilities. They emphasize accessibility and the tangible benefits of yoga at every stage of a wellness journey. Her massage sessions combine massage therapy with the energetic qualities of sound and a touch of life coaching. For people on a fertility journey, she offers lifestyle coaching and massage that includes abdominal massage and reflexology.

Carissa became a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher in 2002 and a Licensed Massage Therapist in 2004. She is a professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association. She completed the Life Mastery Certification Program in 2017 and graduated in 2023 from the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Her studies also include Ashtanga yoga with David Swenson and Beryl Bender Birch, and Jivamukti Yoga with Sharon Gannon and David Life.

Outside her work, she loves meditation, hiking, live music, dancing, storytelling events and gathering people, and she says she "runs" on connection. She is a single mother to two daughters, whom she names as her greatest joy.