The Living Yoga Program

is a collaboration between Ellen B. Smith, and Charles MacInerney. Both partners ard registered yoga instructors, and business entrepreneurs who have trained and mentored hundreds of yoga students through the Living Yoga Program, a 200-hour yoga teacher training certification course which they own and operate. Graduates of the Living Yoga Program now teach yoga in 41 states and a dozen countries around the world.

 

LYP Founders

Charles MacInerney, E-RYT-500 hr. Charles has been a fulltime teacher of yoga, meditation and mind/body skills since 1989. He also offers weekend workshops, workplace yoga, specialized classes (such as cardiac care, nursing homes, athletes, dancers). Charles travels extensively, leading Yoga & Meditation Retreats and Yoga & Writing retreats in the US, Mexico and Guatemala. Charles' teaching style is a blend of the precision and alignment in Iyengar yoga, the balanced routine of the Hymalayan Yoga Instute, and input by his students from whom he continues to learn. Visit Charles' personal Yoga website at www.yogateacher.com.

Charles is also a public speaker and trainer. For more information visit his professional speaking website at www.expandingparadigms.com. Please feel free to call Charles at 512-459-2267.

Ellen B. Smith, M.A., E-RYT Ellen has Certifications in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Restorative Flow yoga, and is a registered yoga instructor. With a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, Ellen has worked for decades as a mentor to people of all walks of life. Her true passions are teaching yoga and Intuitive Mentoring, a name she coined to describe the unique one on one coaching work she does. Ellen uses her own blend of deep listening, uncanny intuition, and genuine praise to help others act on their innately fabulous qualities and move forward in the direction of their dreams. Ellen has a passion for learning, and integrates information about yoga, qigong, health, disease intervention, nutrition, meditation, psychology, exercise physiology, and countless other topics into her sessions. She offers compassionate instruction with a touch of humor, honoring each student's path and abilities. Ellen is Co-Founder, Director, and faculty member of the Living Yoga Teacher Training Program, a 200-hour yoga teacher training program and Co-Founder and Director of the Texas Yoga Retreat, a bi-annual yoga event. She lives in Austin, Texas. Please feel free to call Ellen at 512-266-7926 (voice mail) or send her an email.

Donna Belk (original founder of the Living Yoga Program) left the program in Charles' and Ellen's capable hands at the beginning of 2009 and will be greatly missed. Donna can now be reached through her websites, www.restorativeflow.com which is a style of yoga she developed called Restorative Flow Yoga and she offers a manual and training based on that style. She also offers consulting in the area of Conscious Death and Dying with a Yogic Perspective (www.consciouslivingdying.com). Donna has been studying hatha yoga and meditation for more than 25 years. She began teaching after becoming certified from Barbara Germenhausen of Yoga House in Austin, Texas, where she also assisted with yoga teacher training there. Barbara later moved away from Austin, but Donna was so impressed with the quality of the course that she created the Living Yoga Program based on her experience in the Yoga House program. Later Donna invited Charles MacInerney to become part of the business and then the substance of Living Yoga Program expanded greatly. Very shortly after that, Ellen Smith was invited to be a part of the business, and the program benefitted from her contributions as well.

Others who assist with Living Yoga Program

Tara White has been a licensed massage therapist since 1994 and a certified yoga instructor since 1997. She has taught at The Lauterstein - Conway Massage School since 1997 as a core instructor. The focus of her practice is injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management. Human kinesiology and postural alignment are one of her passions and she loves to apply this interest in her massage and yoga practice. She has extensive experience working with many different populations from elite athletes to the elderly. Tara is certified in prenatal massage and is a Reiki Master. Other modalities she has specialized in include Deep Massage the Lauterstein Method, Thai Massage, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, myofascial release, sports massage and many more. Tara takes a holistic approach to bodywork believing that the shortest route to a higher quality of life is to address both the structural and energetic aspects of a person, facilitating their journey towards a balanced and pain free life.

Gina Caccavalla is a a Nationally Registered Multi-Certified Teacher and Yoga Therapist with over 25 years experience in the fields of Holistic Health & Fitness. Her compassionate and inspiring style emphasizes quality of life, while honoring each students unique mind, body and spirit while together exploring health and happiness along the journey of personal and spiritual growth. She specializes in custom programs for stress, weight and pain management through yoga, lifestyle, education, goal-setting, diet, movement, exercise, journaling, therapy, nature, balance and more. Gina says, "I Live and love this work, it gives me the greatest joy to share it with you." Visit Gina's website at www.AyurYogaSpa.com

Jogi Bhagat RYT-500, is a Certified Yoga Instructor and Yoga Therapist, has attended many Yoga courses and retreats in India, Europe and US during the last 28 years, including residential Teacher Training at Svyasa Univerisity (www.svyasa.org), intensive Iyengar Yoga course at Patanjala Yoga Kendra (www.iyengaryoga.in), residential Teacher Training in Yoga Therapy at Yoga University (www.yogapoint.com), Buddhist Vipassana retreat (www.dhamma.org) and 3 Art of Living courses (www.artofliving.org) . He had the honor of studying Yoga therapy from some of the best living Yoga Masters, including T.K.V. Desikachar (www.kym.org) and Swami Ramdev (www.divyayoga.com). He conducts classes and workshops for general fitness as well as for different ailments like back pain, arthritis, hypertension, asthma, digestive disorders, depression and diabetes etc. He has written articles and given talks and TV interviews on Yoga.

Victoria Pennock, a nationally certified massage therapist, offers massages during the retreats, teacher’s training and intensives. She graduated from Sioux Falls Therapeutic Massage & Education Center (South Dakota) in 2003. She has worked with the Living Yoga Program since November 2009 with rave reviews. She specializes in Ortho-Bionomy (the use of gentle movements, comfortable positioning and compression to non-evasively allow muscles to relax), Deep Tissue & a very relaxing Swedish Massage. She received her National Certification (NCBTMB #563787-080) in December of 2008. . Specific issues can be addressed with a more therapeutic approach. The massage is catered to your needs, no two massages are the same. www.moonstarmassage.com

Mary Esther Middleton moderates the Living Yoga Program email list, LYP-all, which is open to all LYP attendees and provides a forum for sharing information and resources. Mary Esther attended the Living Yoga Program teacher training in 2003. She teaches gentle, eclectic hatha yoga classes that blend breathing and stretching techniques to enable you to enhance and explore your mind and body awareness and evolve your personal yoga practice. Mary Esther also teaches a class for breast cancer survivors. All classes are taught with compassion, encouragement and good humor! Visit Mary Esther's personal web site at www.yogasense.net. Please feel free to call Mary Esther at 512-343-1739 or e-mailThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it her.

Havilah Tower-Perkins, M.A. is a singer/songwriter, marketing consultant, certified dietary guidance counselor, yogini-in-training and Reiki certified. She has a Masters degree in Advertising as a Copywriter and a Bachelors degree in Psychology, both from the University of Texas in Austin. With over fourteen years experience in public relations and marketing for a variety of businesses including non-profit, for-profit and small business, she combines her passion for intuitive living with day-to-day business sense. A Jane of many trades, she owns Tower Relations and is the marketing consultant for Living Yoga Program and Texas Yoga Retreat as well as manages the internal Large Enterprise Marketing blog for Dell, Inc. She is passionate about her online business CompleteSelf.com where she shares her favorite healthy foods. When she is not consulting and writing, you’ll find her performing with her band Havilah Tower & The Seekers. Perhaps due in part to her Irish and Jewish heritage, or just her love of sharing a laugh, her philosophy is that most things in life taste better with a touch of humor.

Kathy Wood is a devotee at the Radha Madhav Dham Ashram. She helps keep the facilities running smoothly, and looks after the LYP students as if they were her own family...