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](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2x2-Allison.png)
Allison Prince
Co-Founder of Be The Change, Yoga Therapist, Director of Teacher Training
![Katie Allen](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2x2-Katie.png)
Katie Allen
Co-Founder of Be The Change Yoga, School Director of Yoga Therapist Training & Yoga Therapist
![Tiffanie Westlie](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Tiffanie_144x144.png)
Tiffanie Westlie
Administrative Director, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
![Brie Guercci](https://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_4269-e1594268266821.jpg)
Brie Guercci
Front Desk Team Manager, RYT-200 Yoga Teacher
![Ali Rumi](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Ali_144x144.png)
Ali Rumi
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Health Coach
![Amanda Shepard](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Amanda_144x144.png)
Amanda Shepard
RYT-500 Advanced Yoga Teacher
![Ashley Zarnegar](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ashley_144x144.png)
Ashley Zarnegar
MA, RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
![Amy Harper](https://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Amy-Harper-1.png)
Amy Harper
Yoga Therapist Specializing in Meditation and Spiritual Guidance
![Cheri Dostal Ryba](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Cheri.png)
Cheri Dostal Ryba
Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Musculoskeletal Ailments, Franklin Method Movement Educator
![Chris Henry](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Chris_144x144.png)
Chris Henry
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer
![Jeff Naber, DACM, LAC](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jeff_144x144.png)
Jeff Naber, DACM, LAC
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist
![Jonah Montes](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Jonah_144x144.png)
Jonah Montes
RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Sound Healing & Meditation
![Juris Zinbergs](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Juris_Zinbergs.jpeg)
Juris Zinbergs
Yoga Therapist in the Viniyoga lineage
![Katsina Love](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Katsina_144x144.png)
Katsina Love
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training
![Karen Duganier](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Karen_144x144.png)
Karen Duganier
E RYT-200 Yoga Teacher &Reiki Master, Meditation
![Kathy DuVernet](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Kathy-1-e1488813622853.png)
Kathy DuVernet
Yoga Therapist Specializing in Process/Substance Addictions and Somatic Counseling
![Kelsey Delane](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Kelsey-D.png)
Kelsey Delane
Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500, Yoga Teacher Trainer
![Kimberly LaLonde](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kimberly-LaLonde.png)
Kimberly LaLonde
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher
![Kyle Montes](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Kyle_144x144.png)
Kyle Montes
Front Desk Team Member
![Lindy Ker](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Lindy_144x144-1.png)
Lindy Ker
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist
![Linda Trumpfheller](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Linda.png)
Linda Trumpfheller
E RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Prenatal Yoga Specialist, Reiki Healer & Yoga Therapist in Training
![Maria Chavez](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Maria_144x144.png)
Maria Chavez
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist in Training
![Megan McCarver](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Megan-1-e1488813665325.png)
Megan McCarver
Co-Director of Yoga Therapist Training, Yoga Therapist Specializing in Pain Management and Meditation
![Norma Archcer](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Norma_144x144.png)
Norma Archcer
RYT-500 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist In Training
![Patrice Maloney-Rames](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Patrice.png)
Patrice Maloney-Rames
RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Specializing in Gentle and Restorative Yoga
![Teri Nejad](http://bethechangeyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Teri_144x144.png)
Teri Nejad
Board Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner & Pilates Apparatus instructor