Who We Are

Peace In Practice’s mission is to create and support communities and conditions for healing and empowerment through body-centered practice and professional certification. 

Our Mission

Our career pathways include Yoga Teacher Training Certification, Yoga Teaching Mentorship & Apprenticeship, and Job Placement.

We are nurturing a homegrown, sustainable collective of healing yoga practitioners and programs in the Black and brown communities of the Twin Cities and beyond. We are creating more access to services and certifications in integrative health and wellness, yoga and mindfulness education. 

Meet the team

  • Jaina Two Rivers (E-RYT 500, YACEP) is the co-founder and lead trainer of our YTT programs. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Jaina is a respected leader in yoga education, known for integrating ancient wisdom with modern insight in a trauma-informed, inclusive approach.

    From 2022 to 2024, Jaina served as a college professor at Minneapolis College, where she developed and taught YTT curriculum focused on mindfulness, somatic wellness, and holistic education. Her academic background, paired with decades of embodied practice, gives her a unique ability to translate deep concepts into practical, transformative learning experiences.

    Jaina has also led educational international retreats in over 18 countries across five continents. These retreats serve as immersive, community-centered modules for both her 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Alliance–registered school, Beloved Retreats. Through this work, she’s created a truly global learning environment rooted in spiritual practice, cultural respect, and experiential education. She takes retreat groups to India every year to explore yoga's roots.


    Earlier in her career, Jaina facilitated 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings for CorePower Yoga (2003–2010) and 200 & 300-hour trainings for the school she founded: Radiant Life Yoga (2006–2017). She has also opened and operated yoga studios in Minnesota, North Carolina, and Costa Rica, each reflecting her commitment to conscious community and embodied liberation.

    Jaina’s teaching draws from the lineages of Raja Yoga, Tantra, Hatha, Ayurveda, and Buddhist mindfulness, enriched by her studies in somatics, trauma-informed yoga, and nervous system regulation. She balances rigorous study with soulful reflection, inviting students to explore yoga not only as a physical practice, but as a lifelong path of healing, awakening, and beautiful, ethical living.

    As a teacher trainer, Jaina is known for her depth, clarity, and compassion. Her approach is intended to cultivate confident, ethical, and visionary yoga leaders who are prepared to hold space for growth, beauty, and spiritual inquiry in diverse communities.


  • Yoga and Mindfulness Instructor — RYT-500

    A Yoga teacher and educator that began working in North Minneapolis schools in 2008. York currently teaches mindfulness at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, and is studying at Brown University in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teaching program. Teaching yoga and mindfulness specifically since 2016, York has reached a vast audience, diverse in age, culture, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

  • Stumbled into yoga in 2008 as a method of rehabilitation after a sports injury and quickly realized how beneficial the breath, postures and sequences would be in recovery and overall well being. The first ever home exercise equipment purchased was a yoga mat, strap, and a block. Nearly 15 years into the practice as a student, Bruce committed to multiple Yoga Teacher Training Programs; Hatha, Vinyasa, Kemetic and Rocket Ashtanga. These training experiences offered a holistic understanding of Yoga that motivated him to personalize by contribution to the practice. Bruce's ultimate goal is to provide unique spaces and experiences that meet people where they are in their life journey.

  • Yoga and Mindfulness Instructor —200 RYT Rochelle Younan-Montgomery (she/her) is the Founder and CEO of the Reset, and is also a published author, certified yoga teacher, and facilitator. Her mission is to guide teams and individuals back to what matters most: alignment with their values and purpose. She has practiced yoga for 15 years, and time and again it has proven to be a balm in her life: connecting mind and body in ways nothing else could. The more she learns to breathe through the discomfort on her mat, the greater capacity she has to face the challenges in her day to day life (one imperfect, messy moment at a time).

How To Support The Work

Donate

Every contribution, no matter the size will help us cast wider nets of inclusivity and representation within the yoga community, especially for those who have yet to find their place in the realm of integrative wellness.

Volunteer

We are in build mode and looking for teachers, fundraisers, capacity builders, and board members who can help us advance this work. Please reach out if you have gifts to share and a passion for BIPOC youth and community development.

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