My name is Deneene Bell. I am a freelance writer-editor, certified yoga teacher, and Reiki practitioner. I live and practice in Sonoma County, CA,  on unceded Pomo land. 

I facilitate yoga classes, mediation, healing arts workshops, and women’s circles based on belief in the transformative, healing, and empowering nature of embodied expression in all forms: writing, art, breath, movement, ritual, and meditation. I write, practice, teach, volunteer, and facilitate to energize, awaken, inspire, and co-create personal and communal  (rev)elation + (r)evolution.

My background is in education—teaching  literacy skills and composition. Over the last 25 years, I have worked with students of all ages, levels, backgrounds, and abilities.

My longtime yoga practice, cultivated in the crucible of grad school and a sweaty Berkeley studio 20 years ago, yielded into a daily devotion that naturally evolved into teaching. 

I was trained and certified by Sienna Smith in Shri Yoga, a synthesis of Hatha traditions rooted in the eight limbs and based on principles of Anusara (consciousness) 

and Viniyoga (adaptation). 

[Krishnamacharya-Desikachar Lineage] 

I have also received teachings from Sally Kempton, Michelle C. Johnson, Dianne Bondy, Amber Karnes, 

Anusha Wijeyakumar, Reggie Hubbard,  Shiva Rea,  Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, Suzanne Sterling, Nikki Myers, Sadie Nardini, Stephanie Snyder, Amy Ippoliti, Christina Sell, Chinnamasta Stiles, Mirka Kraftsow.