Texas Yoga is a collaboration between Ellen B. Smith, and Charles MacInerney. Both partners are certified and registered yoga instructors, and business entrepreneurs. In addition to Texas Yoga, they also operate the Living Yoga Program, a 200-hour yoga teacher training certification course.

Our vision is to create a strong and caring yoga community,
to honor diversity, and to nurtue the integrity and principles of yoga.

Charles F. MacInerney, E-RYT-500, has been a fulltime teacher of yoga, meditation and mind/body skills since 1989. He teaches ongoing yoga classes in Austin, Texas, offers yoga workshops at studios around the country, and leads Yoga & Meditation Retreats as well as Yoga & Writing Retreats throughout the US, Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala. He is founder of Expanding Paradigms through which he regularly presents at National and International Conferences, and offers training for businesses, hospitals, education and government. He has written articles for numerous magazines including the Yoga Journal. If you would like to be included in his monthly or bi-annual newsletter email Charles and let him know what city & state you are in. Please visit his primary website at www.yogateacher.com.

Ellen B. Smith, M.A., CYT, E-RYT Ellen is an Intuitive Mentor, Performance Coach, and Certified Hatha yoga instructor. She has a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, and has worked for decades as a mentor to people of all walks of life. Ellen uses her own blend of deep listening, uncanny intuition, and genuine praise to helps others see, claim, and act on their innately fabulous qualities. 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. She is co-founder of Sojourn Retreats www.sojournretreats.com, offering transformational weekend workshops for women. Please feel free to call Ellen at 512-419-1339.

Donna Belk (co-founder of Texas Yoga) 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.