About Yoga Effect
Welcome to Yoga Effect, an organization that is dedicated to elevating the quality of life for girls and young women through the practice of yoga. Our desire is to bring the transformative benefits of yoga to girls who may not have access to it otherwise. We invite you to learn more about our efforts and discover how you can get involved.
Our dedicated teachers share our goal: to provide yoga to those who might not have the opportunity to experience its benefits. Together, we hope to inspire a future where some of our students become yoga teachers in their own communities. You are welcome to join us.
Yoga Effect Locations
Cabarete, DR
We are in our fifth year of collaboration with the Mariposa DR Center in Cabarete Dominican Republic. They have been offering Yoga Effect funded yoga classes to their students during each of their 5 semesters per year since January 2018 (except for during COVID).
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
In Haiti, we are working with an individual, Ama Makeda from Port-au-Prince. She is a yoga instructor who would like to share the practice with people in her community who otherwise don’t have access.
Denver, Colorado
YE is excited about our partnership with Girls Inc. of Metro Denver. Summer of 2022, we will, for the second year, be funding yoga classes for the students in their Eureka summer program in 2022.
Yoga Effect Teachers
Lorena Medina Bournigal
Cabarete, Dominican Republic
2022 will be the 5th year that Lorena has been teaching Yoga Effect-funded yoga classes at the center. She completed Sivananda yoga training in Columbia. She has eight years of yoga teaching experience.
Moraima Capellan
Cabarete, Dominican Republic
Mariposa DR Center for Girls - Moraima is recently returned to the Dominican Republic from New York City. She is a welcomed calming presence to the girls at the center
Ama Makeda
Port Au Prince, Haiti
Ama is teaching yoga classes funded by Yoga Effect to students at Teach Haiti near Port-au-Prince. She will soon be opening a studio to teach yoga to people in her community who wouldn’t otherwise have access.
Chandrika Prem
Denver, Colorado
A Girls Inc of Metro Denver staff member, Chandrika led Yoga Effect funded yoga classes for Girls Inc of Metro Denver summer of 2021. She practices and teaches Hatha Yoga. She is in process of a four year program to become certified in yoga therapy.
Yoga Effect Contributors
Patty Novak - Yoga Teacher Contributor
Denver, CO
Patty is a CorePower RYT 200 yoga instructor located in the Denver Metro Area who first teamed up with Yoga Effect for the 2018 Yoga and Hip Hop Mash Up with Heart.
Rachel Brown - Yoga Teacher Contributor
Denver, Colorado
Laurie and Rachel led a 2019 yoga retreat in the mountains in Colorado to help Yoga Effect raise funds.
Lauren Gates - Yoga Teacher Contributor
Denver, Colorado
Laurie and Rachel led a 2019 yoga retreat in the mountains in Colorado to help Yoga Effect raise funds.
Gina Dyer - Yoga Charity Founder
Denver, Colorado
As a Yoga Effect founder and primary organizer, Gina organizes programs and raises charitable donations.
Georgia Brown - Yoga Charity Founder
Winter Park, Colorado
As a Yoga Effect founder and teacher, Georgia strives to help beginner yogis feel ease and comfort in their practice and helps maintain YogaEffect.org website.
Yoga Effect is looking forward to the time that one of the students in the Dominican Republic, Denver and/or Haiti will decide that they would like to pursue yoga teacher training.
Amanda Bucci, Program Director/Mariposa DR Center for Girls, Gina Dyer Yoga Effect, Lorena Medina Bournigal Yoga Instructor, Georgia Brown Yoga Effect