Meet Our Team

Ali Nohinek

BS, E-500 RYT

•Yoga therapist • Thai therapist • Reiki Master •

Growing up, I was diagnosed with ADHD, manic depression and bi-polar disorder. I was on medicine for the majority of my teenage years. None of which helped, by the way. One day, after I had developed a steady exercise practice, I got myself off meds cold turkey and decided that I didn’t need these labels to define me.

Now, as I have come to learn Traditional Thai Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine, I understand what created the behavior from my teen-age years. Learning element theory has helped me to understand that we are a product of our environment. We are what we eat, how we move, and what we think. We are limited or nurtured by all of these factors. Yoga is the process of becoming more aware and I am a humble and forever a student of this practice for those reasons. After over a decade of practice, I am only scratching the surface of this ancient lineage.

We are living in a world of increasing technology that is pulling us farther and farther away from nature. The amount of movements that we are making is decreasing and it is decreasing rapidly. These technologies might seem convenient but they come at a large price tag to our psychological, cognitive health along with our physical and mental health.

It is my passion and life work to bring people back to nature, back to themselves and ultimately back to God, as these things are not separate. This is the practice of yoga. I am passionate about the start of Radiant Sun Foundation, our 501c3 Non Profit that is dedicated to creating a more sustainable future for the coming generations.

I am also passionate about working with women one one one to mentor them to reach their fullest potential. I do shamanic practices, energy clearings, Shakti healing sessions and mentoring with individual women. I lead monthly women’s circles, and practice traditional thai medicine, along with do private yoga therapy sessions.

In 2020 I let go of my studio of 9 years and my business teaching yoga to athletes and started completely over in Costa Rica with my two children and husband. We are still practicing our medicines here in Costa Rica and Ali returns to Texas to lead a variety of workshops and thai massage clinics. 

EXPERIENCE
I have over 20,000 hours of teaching yoga experience. I have worked with a variety of individuals in my career teaching yoga. One group that I have had the pleasure of working with for years has been young athletes. For several years I owned Yoga Warrior, my yoga for athletes business. I started out teaching to Duncanville High School girls and boy’s basketball teams. I then started to teach to all of UTA’s athletes, along with South Lake Carroll’s football team, basketball teams. Since then I have taught all over the metroplex teaching every type of athlete excluding hockey!

I have worked privately with several individuals using yoga therapy and thai medicine with spinal cord injury, paralysis, neuropathy, MS, along with other neurodegenerative disorders. I am passionate, qualified and great at helping individuals find their way back to mobility, strength and freedom in their bodies and minds.

TRAININGS

• Bachelor of Science from University of Texas at Arlington in Interdisciplinary Studies
• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Live Love Teach in 2012
• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Shanon Buffington with Sri Vidya Lineage 2014
• Yoga and The Internal Organs with Srivatsa Ramaswama 2013
• 300 Hour Yoga Therapy Training with Tantra Vaya with Shy Sayar, Kimmana Nichols and Physical Therapist Christina Reach
• Complete Course of Thai Massage with Shama Kern in 2013
• Thai Massage Specialist Training – 250 Hour Live Course in the practice of traditional Thai bodywork from the Naga Center: School of Traditional Thai Medicine with Nephyr Jacobsen
  Bhagavad Gita with Manorama 2016
  Yoga Sutras Pada 1 and 2 with Dr. Katy Jane in 2013
• Introduction to Sanskrit with Dr. Katy Jane in 2013
• Reiki Level I and II with Sandra Vanatko, Jennifer Rylinski and John Stockenberge
• Down There For Women with Katy Bowman, A course all about how to repair the pelvic floor disorder and prolapse
• Reiki Master with Sandra Vanatko and Jennifer Rylinsky
• HO’OPONOPONO CERTIFICATION™ by Dr. Joe Vitale