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
Co-Founder of Be The Change, Yoga Therapist, Director of Teacher Training
Katie Allen
Co-Founder of Be The Change Yoga, School Director of Yoga Therapist Training & Yoga Therapist
Tiffanie Westlie
Administrative Director, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
Brie Guercci
Front Desk Team Manager, RYT-200 Yoga Teacher
Ali Rumi
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Health Coach
Amanda Shepard
RYT-500 Advanced Yoga Teacher
Ashley Zarnegar
MA, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
Amy Harper
Yoga Therapist Specializing in Meditation and Spiritual Guidance
Cheri Dostal Ryba
Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Musculoskeletal Ailments, Franklin Method Movement Educator
Chris Henry
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer
Jeff Naber, DACM, LAC
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist
Jonah Montes
RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Sound Healing & Meditation
Juris Zinbergs
Yoga Therapist in the Viniyoga lineage
Katsina Love
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training
Karen Duganier
E RYT-200 Yoga Teacher &Reiki Master, Meditation
Kathy DuVernet
Yoga Therapist Specializing in Process/Substance Addictions and Somatic Counseling
Kelsey Delane
Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500, Yoga Teacher Trainer
Kimberly LaLonde
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher
Kyle Montes
Front Desk Team Member
Lindy Ker
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist
Linda Trumpfheller
E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist, Reiki Healer & Yoga Therapist in Training
Maria Chavez
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
Megan McCarver
Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Pain Management and Meditation
Norma Archcer
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training
Patrice Maloney-Rames
RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Gentle and Restorative Yoga
Teri Nejad
Board Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner & Pilates Apparatus instructor