Katie Allen, MPH, C-IAYT co-founded Be The Change Yoga, a studio and Center for Higher Education in Orange County, CA. The studio is deeply rooted in the philosophical foundations of yoga and understanding of yoga as a therapeutic modality. The studio offers 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program, as well as Orange County’s only Yoga Therapist Training program.
Katie is the Founder and School Director of AlcheMe Yoga Therapy; a yoga therapy company that offers professional training, comprehensive clinical programs, research and outreach initiatives. With a passion for yoga therapy and a background in Public Health, her organizations have built successful community-based relationships with hospitals, health systems and clinics to integrate yoga therapy services into their offerings.
Katie is also passionate about bringing yoga to under-served communities and directs the Yoga Therapy Program at Hoag Hospital’s Center for Healthy Living. She’s currently building out a Yoga Promotores Program to train Spanish-speaking students to become yoga teachers to spread healthy living practices throughout various community organizations.
She has presented at the Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) on ‘How to Develop and Market Comprehensive Yoga Therapy Programs in Clinical Settings’ in 2017 as well as ‘Yoga Therapy as a Health Promotion Strategy for Underserved Communities’ at SYTAR in June 2018.
Me and my teaching / business partner Allison Martin Prince. None of this would be possible without her.
My husband Dave and I love to travel, grow vegetables and snuggle with our pups, Tigre and Lola.
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Located in Irvine, CA
“I love developing programs and discovering innovative ways to bring new yoga therapy applications to life. Envisioning, organizing, marketing programs and coaching teachers / therapists professionally is truly my passion.”
Katie Allen
Kate Allen leads one of the popular new yoga classes at the Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living. – Heart of Hoag Magazine – Dec, 2016
Studying Mayan linguistics and indigenous health in Guatemala.
Exploring integrative medical systems in Taiwan.
Studying Yoga Philosophy in India.