Nya Patrinos

Co-Founder

Nya Patrinos, MFA, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP, is a Certified Yoga Therapist passionate about yoga and meditation as tools for healing, transformation, equity, and social justice. Nya's training is a combination of East and West, she has diplomas in Yoga Therapy from the Ghosh Yoga College in Kolkata, India, and Kripalu's  School of Integrative Yoga Therapy in Massachusetts, USA. She is the founder of People of Color Yoga for All Bodies, and co-founder of Yoga Jubilee an organization whose mission is to amplify BIPOC/POC Voices in Yoga. Nya has written about Yoga for Healing Race-Based Traumatic Stress in the international publication, Yoga Therapy Today, as well as, presented on Yoga for Social Justice and Community Healing at the 2018 International Association Yoga Therapy Conference.  Nya has written the chapter on Cultivating Resilience and Safety in Yoga Therapy Practice for the upcoming book Yoga Therapy Foundations, Tools, and Practice: A Comprehensive Textbook published by Singing Dragon.

Riley Skye

Co-Founder

Riley Skye, MS, LAc., MAOM, RYT-500, C.Ay, is a Jyotiish Astrologer, Yoga Therapist, Practitioner of Ayurvedic Medicine (C.Ay), Master of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (MAOM), and holds an MS in Pain Management from Tufts University School of Medicine. Frankye has over seven years of clinical and teaching experience using evidence based therapies, experiential techniques, and subtle-body methods to holistically manage pain and suffering.

Nadia Bey

Master Integrative Health Coach, specializing in Transpersonal Coaching, Meditation Guide, Creator of Yoga Nidra Trance and Yogini, Nadia believes each individual is whole, resourceful and holds all of the answers deep within.

Elika Aird

Elika Aird is a Prana Vinyasa instructor and specializes in Pre+Postnatal Yoga, women’s empowerment and has been supporting blissful bodies in every capacity for over 15 years from Atlanta to the Bay Area.

Jen Tullo

Natural Lifestyle Designer and founder of Cyanwood Cottage, a holistic wellness organization that weaves together integrated herbalism and Ayurveda, mindful movement practices like Yoga, Pilates, and Meditation, and community building to promote individual and collective healing. Jen is committed to building equitable and vibrant communities in union with the Earth, to celebrate the gifts each of us brings to embodiment and the human experience.

Alpa Raval

Alpa Raval is an experienced Yoga Teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is highly skilled in wellness coaching, yoga advocacy, Public Speaking, and Stress Management. Ms. Raval has a Master’s Degree in Yoga healing arts and Meditation. She also holds advanced level training from Kripalu yoga centers, Yoga therapy program. She has taught yoga as a professor at UCF, has held yoga therapy workshops, as well as teaching yoga to caregivers and medical professionals.

Ms. Raval is a healing arts specialist at the Integrative Medicine Department at UF Cancer Center at Orlando Health. Alpa volunteers at United Against Poverty Center in Orlando and teaches emotional intelligence through yoga and mindful meditation as part of their Success Training Employment Program (STEP).

Nuchapan Chianrapatanakom

Nuchapan was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. She has traveled the world and has lived in United States for several decades. She obtained her 200, 500 hour yoga teacher training, Ayurveda, and 800 hours professional integrated yoga therapist training at Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts. She is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) by the International Yoga Therapists Association.  Nuchapan has additional training in different Breathing Techniques, Meditation, Restorative and Yin Yoga and has been teaching yoga for more than 10 years.  She believes in creating a sacred and safe environment,  devoted to teaching yoga in a way that helps people find Prana (life force) through their own breath, that drives to a deeper level.  Teaching style is to focus on being in the present moment, which helps people bring their focus inward and integrated with their own true self. She encourages people to bring the practice of yoga off the mat for a better health and well being.

She specializes in working with underserved populations including cancer patients and survivors, Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Senior Citizens in group classes and private yoga therapy sessions.  Since the pandemic began, Nuchapan has continued to serve her students via Facebook Live, YouTube and recorded video.

Kimber Simpkins

Kimber (she/her/hers) is a white-identified, cis, queer mom who has taught yoga and mindfulness in the San Francisco Bay area for almost twenty years, bringing a body acceptance and social justice perspective to her teaching and learning.  As a long time yoga and dharma practitioner, Kimber values how our compassion, self-knowledge, and decreased reactivity help us increase our skillfulness in the face of injustice. Knowing that yoga and dharma can be used to bypass uncomfortable conversations and exclude people from the practice, she is constantly working on her ability to work mindfully with discomfort as a student, a teacher, and a facilitator.  She has witnessed first hand how mindful embodiment has brought more connection, sensitivity, and joy to relationships and life. She became an Anusara Certified Yoga Teacher in 2008, completed the Dedicated Practitioner's Program at Spirit Rock in 2016, teacher training at the Mindfulness Training Institute in 2017, racial justice facilitator training with Holistic Resistance in 2020, and is currently a member of the Spiritual Teacher Leadership Program at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. She’s honored to be part of the growing Yoga Jubilee community.  

Joseph Castañeda Carrera

I am Joseph, child of Yolanda, who enjoys radical laughter with Creator. Child of George, who creates intimate, rooted music alongside Creator. I am sad for my loss. I have her curiosity & wildly inappropriate sense of humor and his insatiable desire to connect and commitment to always love more deeply. They gave me my first and longest family, & they taught me how to form new family. 

I end my emails with, “Blessings & warmth, Rev. Joseph Castañeda Carrera, MPP,” but will never speak this silliness aloud. I make art, pastor, and experience the world in this body in ways that notice how we see other people and how we mutually long and ache for sacred joy, inclusion, diversity, connection, embodiment, & compassion.

When it gets difficult, I laugh or I cry. My spouse Jaffa often makes it better, and sometimes worse. If you know, you know that this is how it works. I accompany people rightly. I point at opportunities for growth even when it takes us through discomfort. I breathe and let people come to their own conclusions about how they will reconcile the fact that our well-being is contained in the well-being of everyone else, even those we can’t stand.

I am helpfully remindful until it is annoying that there are more effective ways of pursuing the future, and also acknowledge for a room when we deceive ourselves into being “right,” afraid, alone, & obviously lost in checking a box instead of listening to what we all need. I have worked beside many different people to stir up change in the world, failing and succeeding throughout the United States of America, people in Puerto Rico, Birmingham, England, Indigenous & Afrolatinx people of Ecuador, Queer Trans folx, & people striving for a new future who are of Western European descent. 

I’ve lived in different parts of the world, but I am always from Santa Paula and bring a Southern California [insert hand gestures here] in painting, consulting, & all endeavors. My favorite color is a dark somber magenta, I have two lovely, sassy dogs, I struggle with mental health, linear conversations, oppressions in the world & faith, and today I’m just fine.