About
About Yahweh Yoga
Welcome Brothers and Sisters!
We’re blessed to have you visit and hope you enjoy our website and community. We pray you find it informative and that it also allows you to have a moment for your peace.
Each week we will have a new Scripture and meaningful YouTube music and Quiet Moments/Meditations with God vids for a peaceful break during your day or evening.
Yahweh Yoga is about loving the Lord and doing what we believe He has called us to do, which is to spread His Word through yoga designed to inspire intimacy with Him and to offer programs that enrich, strengthen and empower individuals to higher levels of mind, body and spiritual health.
We are here to serve His people by delivering amazing yoga classes for our students and training wonderful teachers to do the same. We are passionate about teaching healthy eating and living and inspiring others to be passionate about their own health and to ignite that delight in others.
Yahweh Yoga is an Arizona State Licensed Private Post Secondary Education Academy and Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance. These accreditations allow our students to serve the Lord with professional credentials that come from being a Yahweh Yoga graduate. Yahweh Yoga is the only licensed and registered, exclusively Christian, yoga and healthy living studio and teacher training academy in the world.
Our yoga studio and teaching academy are designed for those who love and follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and all who would seek to know more about Him. We accomplish this through the practice of Yahweh Yoga style Christian yoga classes and healthy living programs.
Our Chandler Studio is provided in His honor as a sanctuary for locals and visitors to get some awesome Christ filled yoga on, have some fun, peace-out and grow together to become healthier, happier and stronger individuals. Our fees for membership at the studio are far less than most yoga studios because we want to be a blessing to our community while being good stewards of His resources. Our studio also offers amazing Zumba classes. We hope you will come visit us!
Our Teacher Training Programs are flexible and allow students to obtain their credentials at a pace that is comfortable for each person. Every student is important to us.
All hours, credits and tuition are transferable towards our highest designations; Yahweh Yoga Teacher (YYT) and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). For example: You may begin with our Online Course and decide later you would like to further your education and credentials by continuing your education with us. As long as it is within a year of taking your online course, all of your online course hours and tuition will be applied towards attaining the next level of your education.
We are not affiliated with any particular Christ-centered religious denomination and welcome all who seek to draw closer in intimacy with Christ through the practice of Yahweh Yoga and healthy living.
We are a Bible based school and believe every word in the Bible is Truth.
Yahweh Yoga was established in 2005 for the purpose of helping His people enjoy the extraordinary health and vitality benefits of a lifestyle lived; regularly practicing Yahweh Yoga style yoga, eating/drinking healthy organic whole foods and living a lifestyle that is emotionally peaceful and centered in Christ at it’s core.
All of our teachings are tethered in the Word of God and focused upon health and wholeness of the mind, body and spirit.
Yahweh Yoga was co-founded by DeAnna Smothers and Courtney Chalfant, mother and daughter.
Deanna Smothers Co-Founder of Yahweh Yoga
DeAnna Smothers – YYT, ERYT, Certified Raw Food Chef
DeAnna loves the Lord, her family, friends, students and being a Yahweh Yoga teacher!
DeAnna has been practicing yoga for more than 30 years and teaching since 2005. As an innovator, DeAnna developed a distinct style of teaching Christian yoga, which is being taught and popularized by many teachers currently teaching Christian yoga.
DeAnna co-produces and creates Yahweh Yoga’s Teacher Training Programs, Yahweh Yoga’s book Christian Yoga: Restoration for Body and Soul and Yahweh Yoga’s DVDs. During her 30 years of yoga practice DeAnna has studied with many of the master yoga teachers of today. “One of my favorite teachers is my daughter Courtney, she inspires me on many levels. Our graduates take my breath away too, many are from out of state or country and I always wish I could travel and take their classes, sometimes I do.”
DeAnna was Co-Founder and former CEO of Community C.A.R.E. Connections, a 50l©3 Nonprofit Organization founded with the Phoenix Suns to provide programs that serve highly vulnerable populations such as homebound seniors at risk of suicide, all 8 licensed domestic violence shelters in Greater Phoenix and the underserved poor at Maricopa County Hospital. She held this position for 10 years before God called her to co-found Yahweh Yoga with her daughter Courtney.
DeAnna’s passion is health and she believes that authentic health is achieved through the integration of mind, body and soul peace, strength and contentment. She believes this can be best obtained through a combination of lifestyle habits including; daily intimacy with Jesus Christ and His Word, fresh organic eating/drinking, love and daily awe-inspiring yoga practices centered with Christ.
She’s madly in love with her husband Mike of 11 years and together they enjoy their children, family and friends.
“My students are close to my heart. I hope they feel His presence in every class and become stronger mentally, physically and spiritually.”
Courtney Chalfant Co-Founder Yahweh Yoga
Courtney Chalfant - YYT, ERYT, Certified Raw Food Chef
Courtney has been practicing and teaching since 2005. She is co-founder of Yahweh Yoga, and co-author and director of Yahweh Yoga’s book Christian Yoga: Restoration for Body and Soul and Yahweh Yoga’s DVDs.
Courtney has been instrumental in bringing respect for Christian yoga throughout the yoga industry. Her delivery of extraordinary classes, teaching of postures and faith in the Lord has made her one of the most popular yoga teachers in the country, Christian or secular. Many secular yoga teachers have nominated Courtney for awards and embraced Christian yoga as a result of taking her classes.
It is an acknowledged fact that Courtney has brought professional authenticity for Christian yoga to the national yoga scene because of her professional excellence and teaching. Courtney has studied with numerous master yoga teachers and brings a wealth of knowledge to Yahweh Yoga’s classes and teaching academy.
Courtney is known for her unabashed love of the Lord and joyful countenance. She has appeared on the cover of Fitness Magazine and holds the honor of becoming the first Christian yoga teacher to become a lululemon Ambassador.
Courtney was also co-founder of Community C.A.R.E. Connections with her mother serving impoverished populations. She also graduated as a Licensed Practical Nurse and worked in Hospice. This is where her passion for life really became sparked.
Courtney is passionate about teaching Christian yoga and helping people draw closer in intimacy to the Lord. “My mom inspired me throughout life that my body is a temple, my mind should always be expanding, yoga should be a daily practice, you should always spend at least 15 minutes of quiet time everyday with God, pray without ceasing and go outdoors for a while everyday.”
She has a husband whom she adores and she is awaiting the arrival of their adopted daughter in 2012.
“I pray my students laugh, cry, pray, sweat and fee His presence during my classes. I know I am just a vessel to serve His word out there. I hope I make Him proud.”
