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.