Kistler married New York City Ballet's balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins in 1991. They have one daughter, Talicia Tove Martins, born in June 1996

Family of 3

We tried. * "The next time you lose heart and you can't bear to experience what you are feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. That's basically the instruction that Dzigar Kongtrul gave me. And now I pass it on to you. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell…

We recently had our family pictures done in by the incredible photographer Brooke Bakken. We shot the pictures in Alpine and we are so happy with how they turned out. It was hard to snap any photos of the family standing up, because the Ava was too interested in the rocks on the ground the whole time. If you look through the pictures you will notice her fists clenched shut almost the whole time. That is because her fists were full of rocks. Oh to be 2 years old :) I am so excited and proud…

The Seilkop family live in Fairfield with me, so we met at a little park just down the road and had a quick mini session. Amy really wanted to document her family before her baby heads off next year. <3

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Jody and Derek’s daughter, Courtney, reached out to me wanting to gift her parents some adult family photos for their upcoming anniversary. The absolute best idea in my opinion! We met up at Fallbrook Recreation Center in Oswego, NY.