Texas Yoga is a collaboration between Ellen B. Smith, and Charles MacInerney. Both partners are registered yoga instructors, and business entrepreneurs. Charles and Ellen 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 in Austin, Texas. Graduates of the Living Yoga Program now teach yoga in 41 states and a dozen countries around the world.

Our vision is to create a strong and caring yoga community,
to honor diversity, and to nurture 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., 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 (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.