Education
Minta Allred, E-RYT 500, RCYT is a Yoga teacher, facilitator-trainer, and conscious activist. She has studied with a variety of teachers covering a vast array of approaches to yoga. Originally trained in a methodology which integrates Iyengar, Ashtanga and Viniyoga teachings, she has also studied with Tias & Surya Little, Ana Forrest, Nikki Myers, Seane Corn and Gary Kraftsow, among many others. Minta has traveled to yoga's origin, Rishikesh in northern India, in search of context and understanding of yoga's roots. After three and a half years of studying yoga, holistic health, mindfulness practices, and human development, Minta graduated with her BA in Human Develop through Yoga in 2015 from Prescott College.
Her college studies continued post graduation with the emphasis on how Yoga can transform the relationship to our physical body and heal negative body image, inspired by her personal journey described below. This path of research and practice lead Minta to attend an Embody Love Movement Facilitator Training with Dr. Melody Moore, founder & Clinical Psychologist. After 2 years of facilitating workshops regularly, under the guidance and mentorship of Moore, Minta became a certified Facilitator-Trainer for the nonprofit organization. (Unfortunately, post pandemic, the ELM organization closed doors, however the immense wave of change they facilitated continues on through those like Minta and many others that offer their wisdom and expertise in classes, workshops and other avenues.)
Her college studies continued post graduation with the emphasis on how Yoga can transform the relationship to our physical body and heal negative body image, inspired by her personal journey described below. This path of research and practice lead Minta to attend an Embody Love Movement Facilitator Training with Dr. Melody Moore, founder & Clinical Psychologist. After 2 years of facilitating workshops regularly, under the guidance and mentorship of Moore, Minta became a certified Facilitator-Trainer for the nonprofit organization. (Unfortunately, post pandemic, the ELM organization closed doors, however the immense wave of change they facilitated continues on through those like Minta and many others that offer their wisdom and expertise in classes, workshops and other avenues.)
Created
Minta has not only taught hundreds of adult classes, specialized workshops and private sessions, but she has also incorporated yoga for kids and teens as well as prenatal yoga classes into her teachings. She has assisted semester courses at Prescott College as well as two separate 200-hour foundational yoga teacher trainings within the Viniyoga lineage. She has offered several after-school enrichment programs for children of all ages. Her highest priority as a yoga teacher and mentor is the work she does with the nonprofit, Embody Love Movement, inspiring teens and women to find inner peace and outer purpose through self-acceptance . She spends the majority of her time on the study and practice of yoga and implementation of the Embody Love Movement programs in schools, organizations and yoga studios. Through facilitating workshops and trainings, she continues to pioneer the Embody Love Movement in the Pacific Northwest.
Background
Minta, born originally in the Pacific Northwest on a small remote island, Orcas Island, moved to Los Angeles at the young age of 17 to pursue a career in the print modeling and commercial acting. What she experienced first hand about our media, the cultural standard of beauty, and the impact it has on overall self-worth was exponential. She was told to lose weight on a regular basis. She witnessed photographers photoshop away her hips, add size to her breasts, add volume to her hair, change the shape of her nose, take away all her freckles, scars and even pores! She was encouraged to try the atkins diet, to count calories, cut meals in half and even try cigarettes and cocaine for appetite suppression. She was paid to be a product, an image, valued based on her appearance. All this information taught her a lot about what this industry is doing to girls and women worldwide.
Yoga brought healing to her soul and slowly the judgmental self-talk faded.
Yoga brought healing to her soul and slowly the judgmental self-talk faded.
Vision
Minta shares Embody Love Movement's vision, to foster, as Dr Moore states "a world where all girls and women (and all people) recognize their inherent worth and value, and see their contribution to the interdependent whole as necessary." She has experienced first hand that small groups of people can create powerful change, and that each of us has a responsibility to do the inner work necessary to create the world we want to live in. Minta's mission is to continue to embody love, authenticity, breath and prayer and to be a living conduit of all that is good, true and beautiful in this magical and soulful existence.
“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass
“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass
