Founder

With unparalleled passion, vision and enthusiasm Brynne Caleda, M.Ed.,RYT  has been a pioneer in the field of  yoga education for youth, an accomplished Mom & Baby and Pregnancy instructor as well as flourishing labor doula.  Brynne combines distinguished professional credentials including a M.A in Education, over 5 years of yoga instruction experience, apprenticeships in Pregnancy and Mom and Baby Yoga under Cathy Louise Broda of Purple Yoga as well as becoming a CAPPA certified labor doula under Katherine Julia.

In 2006, Brynne founded Under the Yoga Tree with the mission to share the gift of yoga with teachers, parents and children to create natural pathways towards health and wellness in communities throughout Hawaii.  During the 2006-2007 school year, Brynne successfully implemented her Master's Thesis, Yoga Ed. youth yoga education program, at Jarrett Middle School in Honolulu, Hawaii.  With the success of the program Under The Yoga Tree now has flourishing youth yoga programs in the public and private schools across the state.   In addition to her work in the schools Brynne trains school teachers, yoga teachers, and parents in the Yoga Ed. curriculum across North America, Asia and Europe.

With the vision of Under The Yoga Tree encompassing the whole family, Brynne has been teaching yoga classes to expecting mothers and new families sharing the amazing physical and emotional benefits yoga has for them before and after the child is born. Inspired by her pregnancy students and the belief that women's bodies have the wisdom to give birth, Brynne supports women on and off the mat as both a pregnancy teacher and labor doula.