Center for Yoga LA's Gathering for India (Donation Base Event)

Join us at Center For Yoga for a special class co-led by YGB Ambassadors at CFY and performances by LA's greatest artists. Along with the class, enjoy speeches, a silent auction, and a gathering supporting Yoga Gives Back's mission to aid India's women and children in creating sustainable lives. Let's come together to make a difference through the power of yoga. This is a donation-base event.

MEET THE INSTRUCTORS & YGB AMBASSADORS -

ASHLEY RIDEAUX - Ashley Rideaux is a Los Angeles–based, 500 E-RYT teacher trainer, mentor, lover of life, and professional giggler who rocks big hair, a big smile, and an even bigger heart. In addition to the strong following she has built in LA, she also leads trainings, workshops, and retreats all over the world. Ashley's classes are challenging and playful, ranging from therapeutic work to advanced vinyasa flow. Outside of traditional studio spaces, she teaches yoga to women and adolescents in eating disorder treatment facilities, has experience working with seniors with neurological disorders, and was the featured yoga instructor for NBA player, Jordan Farmar's, Hoop Farm basketball camp for 4 years, where she worked with kids from ages 7-16. Ashley is passionate about making the practice of yoga accessible to all, and all of her classes are a balance of the physical and the philosophical, inviting the body and mind to unfold through her detail to alignment, breath, and subtle body.

CAROLINA GOLDBERG - Carolina teaches classes to share the healing art of finding balance, health, vitality and spiritual awakening and deepening. She is a master teacher and senior yoga teacher and teacher trainer. Carolina is a level four Reiki master practitioner, certified mystical Shaman and master healer, soul coach and medicine woman. She is a certified hypnotherapist in QHHT, quantum hypnosis healing therapy. She offers private yoga classes as well as group classes at CFY, healing sessions, reiki sessions, house blessings, guided detoxes, soul journeys, and spiritual awakening workshops.

DEARBHLA KELLY - Dublin native Dearbhla Kelly M.A. moved to the US in 2001 to pursue a PhD in analytic philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been teaching yoga since 2003 and believes that the practice is an invitation to self-enquiry and skill in action, but also a method of healing trauma and integrating psyche and soma. An advanced Ashtanga yoga practitioner, Dearbhla’s superpower is encouraging students to go deeper, to try new things and get comfortable with being uncomfortable. She invites her students to embrace challenges, to expand the edges of their capabilities and step into the unknown. The invitation comes from the experience of her own practice which has yielded gifts of empowerment and deeper self-trust. Dearbhla is able to support people of all experience and physical aptitudes. She has taught at festivals, conferences, retreats, teacher trainings and studios worldwide. The diverse populations she has taught yoga include prisoners, veterans with PTSD, Navy Seals, children with severe physical limitations and college students. She maintains a robust private clientele in Los Angeles. A warm and welcoming teacher, her lilting Irish accent and Dublin wit make her classes especially enjoyable.

DEEPA CHEMERY - Deepa is a trauma informed, holistic practitioner specialized in various healing modalities like Yoga, somatic experiencing, mindfulness and DBT, Ayurveda nutrition, polyvagal theory and neurofeedback therapy. She is a software engineer turned therapist due to immense passion for healing sciences stemming from her personal life experiences and inspired by her personal yoga journey. Deepa brings over a decade of experience practicing and teaching Yoga, Workshops, and Trainings. Her deep love of Yoga Philosophy, Anatomy and Ayurveda inspires her work. Deepa is passionate about bringing Yoga and Ayurveda together as a fundamental lifestyle practice to maintain good health and mental wellbeing. She considers Yoga as a wonderful tool to educate and empower women. Through her work she encourages her clients to bring insight to action and to practice Yoga beyond the mat. Deepa works with clients trying to find support for PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, insomnia, childhood trauma, and disordered eating, to name a few. Deepa currently works for United healthcare/Optum as a therapist, and teaches at California State University, Northridge. She facilitates asana, pranayama, meditation classes and ayurveda nutrition coaching, conducts private therapy sessions and serves YogaGivesBack, a nonprofit organization supporting girls and women in India as their global ambassador.

JEANNE HEILEMAN - Jeanne Heileman – MA, 500-ERYT, YACEP, Founder of Tantra Flow Yoga™, Jeanne brings together more than 36 years of yoga study with over 25 years of teaching into a style of yoga inclusive of asana, Ayurveda, Pranayama, meditation, and the added focus of cultivating energy. She has studied extensively in ParaYoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, ParaYoga, Vini and Tantra Yoga with many masters in each tradition. Jeanne teaches with sensitivity, generosity of spirit and a lot of humor. She specializes in discovering the needs of an individual and gently guiding students to their own grace and balance. This is not always a “normal” flow class. We will break out of the box, wisely. Jeanne’s classes weave attention on alignment and play through the poses, usually following a specific theme. Borrowing from her rich history of study and practice, you will be guided through intelligent, creative sequencing. Each class often opens with a short Pranayama session that sets the tone for the rest of the class. Tantric elements will be woven in secretly as we work on a specific pose or set of actions throughout the class. Our main goal is to move, breathe, and explore space with our bodies. jeanneheileman.com.

MICHAEL HATHAWAY-Michael discovered his musicality and voice through the practice of devotional chanting. He was introduced to daily chanting at the Sivananda ashram in the Bahamas in the late 90's, and quickly became immersed in the Bhakti scene – taking every opportunity to sit with his teachers Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Bhagavan Das, Shyamdas, and others. He feels grateful and blessed to be able to share his practice and medicine with others by creating an uplifting communal experience of ecstatic group prayer. He sings with sweet, celestial, heart-felt yearning. His songs are traditional Sanskrit mantras set to his original music, weaving an enchanting soundscape of hypnotic harmonics, joyful celebration, and fierce intensity. His unique melodies (often channeled in dreams) reveal a blend of musical influences including jazz, soul, folk, psychedelic rock, church hymns, Western classical, and Indian classical – creating an innovative fusion that honors the tradition while expressing a deeply personal offering.He can be found leading kirtan at yoga studios, festivals & conscious gatherings, and singing with his harmonium for yoga classes in the Los Angeles area. His two albums, remixes, and music videos are available on streaming platforms. He's also a Jivamukti yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, 3rd degree black belt in Seido Karate, and regular practitioner of 5 Rhythms/ecstatic dance. He humbly bows at the feet of Maharaj-ji Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass, and all of his Teachers, and wishes to honor them by singing the holy names. https://www.michaelhathawaykirtan.com/

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