About Us

Vision: To provide a new model for community care that cultivates social support, utilizes the best evidence-based practices of natural health, and empowers the individual and collective to live well.

 

Allison and Katie have been sharing the life-changing of wisdom together since 2007 when they met at Soul at Home. They  began running teacher training programs in 2010 and are extremely passionate about sharing the totality of life-enhancing yogic practices. Together, they co-founded Be The Change Yoga studio in Orchard Hills in 2013 with the intention of making yoga accessible and creating community.

Since then, we’ve grown to become Orange County’s center for higher education and launched OC’s first Yoga Therapist Training Program in 2016! We have developed and implemented yoga therapy research studies with Argosy University and UCI Medical School.

Be The Change Yoga also provides weekly yoga therapy programs for the Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living in both English and Spanish for underserved residents. In leading the way for the future of yoga therapy, we are also building relationships with UCI’s Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine and have launched yoga therapy initiatives in various FQHC’s such as Serve The People Community Health Center, Korean Community Services and Families Together Clinic.

Most recently, we moved our studio after 10 years in our Orchard Hills location to Old Town Irvine, where we have expanded our offerings with a Tea House and non-profit organization, the AlcheMē Natural Health Institute.

 

Meet Our Team!

Allison Prince

Allison Prince

Co-Founder of Be The Change, Yoga Therapist, Director of Teacher Training

Katie Allen

Katie Allen

Co-Founder of Be The Change Yoga, School Director of Yoga Therapist Training & Yoga Therapist

Tiffanie Westlie

Tiffanie Westlie

Administrative Director, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training

Brie Guercci

Brie Guercci

Front Desk Team Manager, RYT-200 Yoga Teacher

Ali Rumi

Ali Rumi

C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Health Coach

Amanda Shepard

Amanda Shepard

RYT-500 Advanced Yoga Teacher

Ashley Zarnegar

Ashley Zarnegar

MA, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training

Amy Harper

Amy Harper

Yoga Therapist Specializing in Meditation and Spiritual Guidance

Cheri Dostal Ryba

Cheri Dostal Ryba

Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Musculoskeletal Ailments, Franklin Method Movement Educator

Chris Henry

Chris Henry

RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer

Jeff Naber, DACM, LAC

Jeff Naber, DACM, LAC

Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist

Jonah Montes

Jonah Montes

RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Sound Healing & Meditation

Juris Zinbergs

Juris Zinbergs

Yoga Therapist in the Viniyoga lineage

Katsina Love

Katsina Love

RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training

Karen Duganier

Karen Duganier

E RYT-200 Yoga Teacher &Reiki Master, Meditation

Kathy DuVernet

Kathy DuVernet

Yoga Therapist Specializing in Process/Substance Addictions and Somatic Counseling

Kelsey Delane

Kelsey Delane

Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500, Yoga Teacher Trainer

Kimberly LaLonde

Kimberly LaLonde

RYT-500 Yoga Teacher

Kyle Montes

Kyle Montes

Front Desk Team Member

Lindy Ker

Lindy Ker

C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist

Linda Trumpfheller

Linda Trumpfheller

E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist, Reiki Healer & Yoga Therapist in Training

Maria Chavez

Maria Chavez

RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training

Megan McCarver

Megan McCarver

Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Pain Management and Meditation

Norma Archcer

Norma Archcer

RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training

Patrice Maloney-Rames

Patrice Maloney-Rames

RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Gentle and Restorative Yoga

Teri Nejad

Teri Nejad

Board Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner & Pilates Apparatus instructor