Cheri Dostal Ryba, C-IAYT – Founding Director

Cheri Dostal Ryba, C-IAYT – Founding Director

Cheri is a C-IAYT and has been working with movement analysis and functional movement education for over 15 years. Aside from her formal yoga therapy training, her additional yoga therapy qualifications come from studying with and assisting Donna Farhi for over 7...
Arun Deva, AYT, C-IAYT, AP, E-RYT500 – Faculty

Arun Deva, AYT, C-IAYT, AP, E-RYT500 – Faculty

Arun serves on faculty in our IAYT-accredited 825-hour Yoga Therapist Training. Arun Deva, AYT, C-IAYT, AP, E-RYT500 has served both the State and National Ayurvedic boards. Recently he chaired the Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy Committee for NAMA, while a Board Member. Under...
Amy Harper, C-IAYT – Faculty

Amy Harper, C-IAYT – Faculty

Amy Harper is a Yoga Therapist with over 1000 hours of yoga therapy training in the Krishnamacharya lineage studying at the Healing Yoga Institute with Dr. Amy Wheeler. She has been practicing as a yoga therapist since 2011 and specializes in subtle body tools such as...
Susan Kjesbo, C-IAYT – Faculty

Susan Kjesbo, C-IAYT – Faculty

Susan has been a yoga teacher for over 20 years. Trained at the Ananda School for Yoga and Meditation, she has an alignment base style but also one that encompasses the whole individual meeting him/her where they are in the moment. She is a certified yoga therapist,...
Julie Rowland, C-IAYT – Faculty

Julie Rowland, C-IAYT – Faculty

Julie serves on faculty in our IAYT-accredited 825-hour Yoga Therapist Training. Julie Rowland is a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist. As an employee of UCLA Health, she facilitates sessions for the Integrative Medicine Collaborative, where she also works as an...