Our Team

Serial Entrepreneur • Education Architect • Senior Yoga Educator

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Joy Ravelli brings over 30 years of experience designing education systems in yoga, movement, and holistic health, integrating classical philosophy with contemporary biomechanics and nervous system regulation.

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As Owner of Holistic Joy Yoga and Founder of Purusha Yoga in San Francisco, she has trained over 1,000 teachers and yoga therapists. Her programs span higher education (Smith College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute), healthcare (Veterans Health Administration), public institutions (San Francisco Unified School District, San Quentin State Prison), and corporate environments, including Intel, Raytheon Technologies, and Cigna — consistently achieving exceptional engagement, including 100% VA cohort participation and fully subscribed programs with waitlists.

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She founded the Purusha Seva Project, a nonprofit expanding access to yoga for underserved populations, and co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative. She currently leads trainings with Purusha Studio, Integral Yoga Institute, and Dharma Alive Incubator. Joy is the author of Threads, an exploration of the Yoga Sutras for contemporary life.

Master Instructor of Tai-Chi

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Yan Li, Ph.D., is a Tai Chi teacher, social psychologist, and embodiment coach whose warmth and grounded presence make the ancient art of Taijiquan genuinely accessible to everyone — from complete beginners to experienced practitioners. A Stanford graduate, she has taught Tai Chi and Qigong at Stanford University's Health Improvement Program and has won gold medals at regional Chinese martial arts competitions. Yan is certified as a Mid-Level Chen Family Taijiquan Instructor by the late Grandmaster Chen Qingzhou in 2011 and as a Master Instructor by the American Chen Taiji Society in 2019. 

Meridian Yoga & Zen Teacher

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Zen Master Rebecca Dawn Nie is the founder of Diamond Mountain Sanctuary and Vice President of the Maitreya Association for Buddhist College Chaplains, providing resources for contemplative spiritual care professionals across universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc. As Stanford’s Chaplain-Affiliate, Rebecca oversees the spiritual life for students, faculty, and staff. Her programs range from Continental Zen to Meridian Yoga, offering healing wisdom for contemporary life through dharma teaching, translation, and new media art.

Feldenkrais Somatic Integration Teacher

Elaine is a certified somatic instructor based in Silicon Valley and the founder of Nature Somatic. Specializing in the Feldenkrais Method, she guides individuals toward deep self-connection and nervous system regulation. With a background in Education and Psychology from UCLA, her approach helps the participants deeply connect with their inner selves and build self-awareness. It also addresses anxiety, sleep deprivation, chronic pain, and so forth. Elaine’s practice is rooted in a personal journey of profound reintegration, blending somatic education with Yoga and contemplative arts. She creates a supportive space for individuals to release deep-seated tension, refine self-awareness, and reclaim their capacity for healing.

Zen Priest

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Andy has been walking the Dharma path since 1999, ordained as a Japanese Soto Zen priest under Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi — the same teacher who guided Steve Jobs. He completed monastic training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and holds a Master's in Traditional Chinese Medicine. His practice weaves together somatic inquiry, neuroscience, philosophy, and music — not as additions to Zen, but as expressions of it. He carries a conviction Dharma Alive Incubator deeply shares: when meditation becomes a genuine response to this moment, it illuminates every corner of how we rest, act, and meet one another in ordinary life.