ABOUT CHRIS & 9TH LIMB YOGA
“I accept You as You are, because I am a yogi, and that’s what yoga means to me.” Yogi Chris
Chris’ Teachers Are Everything To Him.
"I Would Not Be Here Without Them”
CHRIS’ YOGA JOURNEY
After years of Division 1 NCAA wrestling for the University of Oklahoma he encountered yoga. Though he disliked the postures due to discomfort and pain from the years of wrestling, he had a profound experience of feeling his connective tissues in his hands open up via the down dog posture. Even still, he disliked yoga so much that he avoided it for four years. Then, years later, after completing his Master’s degree and swearing off ALL exercise and dieting (post-wrestling) he found yoga again but this time to his liking. Now it seemed to ease his mind and body after many years of toxic habits and disregard for the condition of his body.
Chris (not Yogi Chris yet…) moved to Florida to pursue an Environmental Engineering PhD. He quickly took to a very disciplined daily morning home ashtanga (a form of physical yoga) practice and veganism. His daily process still wasn’t totally conscious, instead he went with what felt right according to his gut and emotions. Office mates would often comment that they didn’t know Chris was a vegan or that he practiced yoga because he didn’t “wear it on his sleeves”. After years of solo training and self-study this soon to be Yogi began attending public workshops and immersions where he was often asked questions by other participants due to his obvious physical abilities. Soon after he began publicly teaching.
His original certifying teacher (Doug Swenson) is one of the most experienced western hatha yoga teachers and happens to be a wanderer, so Chris took to wandering to teach while holding regular classes in his hometown of Gainesville FL. At first he traveled to nearby towns or when he visited family he would contact those studios and sometimes teach there.
After several personally profound mystical experiences in his quiet home practice, mystical meaning not easily explained through western language, Chris decided that after his PhD he would pursue full time yoga teaching while he was still young and vigorous, just to see how feasible it could be. After all, given that he needed money to support himself, the best way to support his yoga practice seemed to be to teach yoga. He finished his PhD and then took a 9 week pilgrimage to India to study with David Garrigues and BNS Iyengar (the oldest living student of T. Krishnamacharya).
Since returning in April 2017 he built a national following and teaching circuit via the skills of sales and communication, which themselves Chris considers to be a kind of yoga, or union of minds. He’s continued to learn from other masters of yoga such as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Robert Boustany, Dylan Werner, Jason Nemer, and Simon Borg-Olivier. See all of Chris’ personality and philosophies in any of his 1,000+ YouTube videos and Podcasts. Om
Graduation Ceremony
December 2016 I earned my PhD in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida. My Master’s and Bachelor’s is in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Graduation - Dr. Christopher De Vilbiss
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Dissertation Defense
Energy Sources of Earth’s Geobiosphere and the Emergy of the Crust
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PhD Dissertation Defense Energy Sources of Earth's Geobiosphere and the Emergy of the Crust
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Final Dissertation Document
Dissertation – Chris De Vilbiss
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