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Trista Thorp - Yoga, Thai Massage, Primordial Sound Meditation and Reiki Master

Trista found her way into a whole new lifestyle when a girlfriend introduced her to yoga for the first time in 1999. It started out as a hobby. At the time, Trista was working in the fast-paced and demanding world of concert production and promotion in the Bay Area and was also in a long-term relationship with a touring musician. She was looking for something productive to do in the evenings and on weekends because her fiance’s band was going on tour. Trista desperately needed some balance in her chaotic life. She had no idea that her life was about to change in ways she never would have imagined.

“I first noticed the immediate physical benefits of my yoga practice; the feeling of enlivened relaxation you experience at the end of class and the way your body begins to shed inches and take on a new form. I’d never felt leaner or stronger. My moods shifted and my energy levels increased. I began to feel more compassionate toward others.”

Within 3 months, she had enrolled in a three-month intensive yoga teacher training program under the direction of Jazz Poitier at Yoga Source in Berkeley, California. Trista graduated from the first of her teacher training programs and was certified to teach in July 1999.

Two years later, Trista moved to Los Angeles, California where she slightly shifted her career direction from local concert production to national concert touring. Her yoga practice had fallen to the side that year while she struggled to find her place in the music industry.

“I had been having strong urges to leave the concert touring business altogether and start something new, something fresh, something more inspiring and fulfilling; something that would improve my quality of life and would contribute to the expansion of my spiritual growth”.

In November of 2002, Trista walked away from the music business and took a few weeks off to practice yoga and recharge. Six weeks later, she signed the papers to purchase a quaint little boutique-style yoga studio in Venice, California. It was called Yoga Sanctuary and it became her passion for the next two years. Trista’s intimate little studio was lovingly deemed “the west side’s best-kept secret” by Los Angeles Magazine and was the winner of Los Angeles Magazine’s “BEST OF LA” Award. For the next couple of years, she managed all aspects of owning and operating a small business and became fully immersed in teaching and taking classes at her studio. In 2004, however, Trista decided it was time to expand her education in the healing arts. She closed her studio and moved to San Diego, California, where she studied massage the International Professional School of Bodywork off and on for two years.

Trista had only been in massage school for a year when she found her way into a level 1 Reiki class and thus began her journey down the path of Asian Healing Arts.

“Energy work had always been such an enigma to me. I was disappointed, to say the least, because my level 1 Reiki experience wasn’t as profound as I had imagined it would be. I didn’t see any colors and I didn’t have any visions and I hadn’t felt the presence of my spirit guides.”

It was that (lack of) experience and skepticism that propelled her into the level 2 class that was being offered a month later. It was there that Trista began to fully experience the effects of Reiki and the healing energy we all have within us. Two weeks later, she went into the mountains outside of San Diego to receive her level 3 attunements and initiation to the Master level.

This is when her entire life began to shift in ways that she could never have imagined. Through these attunements and her continued practice of Reiki on a regular basis, Trista has taken the first steps down her path toward helping to heal herself and others through energetic connection.

“From the first Thai massage technique that I was shown in an Introduction to Asian Healing Arts class at the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego, I knew it was exactly what I had been born to do. It was the perfect marriage of yoga, energy work and massage. From the gentle rocking, range of motion and palm pressing, to the spinal twists and other yoga-like stretches, it is the perfect blend of the three centers of my foundation.”

Trista has studied Traditional Thai Massage under the guidance of renowned teachers Rick Gold, Skip Kanester, Joel and Lauren Sheposh at the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego, California, and under the guidance of Ko Tan and Patricia Kilpatrick at Radiant Lotus in Atlanta, Georgia.

Trista continues to practice Thai Massage and Reiki and also teaches Yoga and Primordial Sound Meditation courses in Carlsbad, Encinitas, La Costa, Del Mar and La Jolla.

Trista specializes in Traditional Thai Massage, Table Thai ®, and Thai Foot Massage. She is also a Certified Reiki Master, Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor and Yoga Instructor.