Trans Futures Collective began as Trans Yoga Project in July 2020, when eight gender expansive yoga teachers came together to lead a virtual trans inclusion webinar during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2023, after assessing all the ways we have grown and shifted since our inception, the remaining 5 members came to a consensus to change the name to Trans Futures Collective. This allows us to hold space more expansively for our trans and non binary siblings beyond (though still including) yoga.

We support Trans* people's spiritual wellness through community (re)education, advocacy within the yoga and wellness industries, community building, and the creation of supportive and affirming content and guided practices by and for Trans* and non-binary people. This group has committed to both internal and external work in service to ALL Trans*, non-binary, and queer siblings, and thus is vested in dismantling all systems of oppression, including White Supremacy and Capitalism in all of their manifestations.

The collective's members are all queer, Trans*, and non-binary yoga teachers based on stolen lands in California, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Beyond yoga asana, we hold certifications in meditation, classical mantra, reiki, education & doula services.

We offer training modules, workshops, classes, events and private sessions. Click here to hire us! (link)

With firm grounding in our values and a clear orientation towards our vision, we commit to cultivating the conditions that allow Trans* people to thrive and to safeguarding Trans* spiritual, mental, and physical wellness by developing both healing and educational resources for our communities. We create and hold space for Trans* people to live wholly and thrive loudly by dismantling barriers to access in yoga and wellness spaces and by offering classes and wellness services as affirming, Trans*-centered containers where our siblings can explore their own inner landscapes, tap into their various innate wisdoms, and co-create healing environments that serve their deepest needs. We further support the Trans* community by (re)educating allied yoga teachers and wellness professionals through trainings and resources that honor the expansive nature of Trans experience and the practices of yoga and liberation.

We are teachers, learners, students, and practitioners seeking healing for ourselves and our Transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive siblings. We collectively embrace abundance, collaboration, joy, speaking our truth, living boldly on our own terms, and supporting one another along the way. We reject assimilation, individualism, imposter syndrome, scarcity, and hierarchy. We are committed to resisting the forces of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism while aligning with and honoring the values of yoga and the interdependence and divinity of all beings, human and non-human.

We are teachers, learners, students, and practitioners seeking healing for ourselves and our Transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive siblings. We collectively embrace abundance, collaboration, joy, speaking our truth, living boldly on our own terms, and supporting one another along the way. We reject assimilation, individualism, imposter syndrome, scarcity, and hierarchy. We are committed to resisting the forces of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism while aligning with and honoring the values of yoga and the interdependence and divinity of all beings, human and non-human.

Isazela “Zel” Amanzi (they/he)

Zel (they/he) is a multiply-neurodivergent and agender transbeing. Other identities include writer, hobby gardener and typewriter collector. Formerly a classroom teacher and food sovereignty organizer, they now integrate their M.S. Ed in Social Justice Education, certification in Early Childhood Education and formal training in Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Western Reiki and Tantric meditation as a counter-colonial Sacred Energy Educator. In addition to building Trans Futures Collective/Trans Yoga Project, Zel is the founder and Director of Pollination at Transgressive Medicine & a meditation and sound practitioner with CutiesLA who was taught for the former Transgender Training Institute, written for Translash Media and self-published a book of trans-affirming poetry and affirmations. His work uplifts the liberatory practices of disability justice, neurodiversity, transgender liberation and intersectionality.

Follow Zel on Instagram: @transgressivemedicine

Daniel Sannito (they/them)

Daniel (they/them) moves through this world as a trans, non-binary activist, educator, and yoga facilitator based in San Diego, CA. As a person in constant transformation, Daniel leans into telling their story, finding full self-expression as a trans person, and gaining connection by helping others through activism and facilitating the practice of yoga.

Daniel is rooted in a heart-forward practice and movement in their life, seeing through a perspective of heart-to-heart connection. As Daniel completed their 200-hr and 300-hr YTT, they deepened their relationship to self and found profound healing. Through this healing, they were able to find liberation and full expression in their gender, identity, and community. Daniel dedicates their voice to create inclusive and welcoming spaces for all humans to explore and connect to their own hearts deeply and fully.

Follow Daniel on Instagram: @danielsannito_

M Camellia (they/them)

M Camellia (they/them) is a fat, queer, non-binary, neuro-emergent yoga teacher and advocate, called to create profoundly accessible spaces for self-inquiry by integrating mindfulness and adaptive movement practices with the spirit of social justice. They believe that the goal of yoga, as of life, is collective liberation and in turn challenge contemporary yoga practitioners to dismantle the systems and beliefs that hold us all back.

M teaches classes and workshops in the Washington DC Metro Area and as a Founding Instructor on the online class platform Core to Coeur. They train teachers in trauma-informed teaching practices, consent, and accessibility and mentor teachers looking to offer yoga as a liberatory practice. M is a founding collaborator with the Trans Yoga Project, co-leader of the Yoga & Body Image Coalition, and on the staff of Accessible Yoga. They’ve been called a “tour-de-force of encouraging radical self-love” (DC Refined) and listed among the “top thinkers and activists in the field of body positivity” (OmStars).

Photo by: Cinthya Zuniga
Follow M on Instagram: @foundspaceyoga

Rebby Kern (they/them)

Rebby Kern (they/them) is a wandering spirit shining light into the lives of others. Rebby’s personal mission is to operate from connection, seeking justice and empower voices. Their experience drives their passion to include diverse identities around race, gender identity, sexual orientation, body, ability and more.  Rebby works through their 10 years in LGBTQ activism, drawing connections to the yoga world and anti-oppression work.

Rebby began their yoga practice in 2011 as a student, learning to find source within during their recovery journey. As a student, Rebby was curious about the ways trauma, recovery, yoga and social justice intersect together through experience and outreach. 

Follow Rebby on Instagram: @rebbykernyoga

Puja Singh Titchkosky (they/them)

Prince Puja aka Puja Singh Titchkosky (they/them) is a queer, non-binary trans,  Indian-Canadian, yoga, meditation and music teacher based in Los Angeles, California (born in Vancouver, BC). Their work focuses on helping people tune into the power of the Universe, slow down, practice presence and find their unique voice in order to more fully and joyfully express themselves in any and all areas of their life.

Coming from an Indian background (Punjabi Sikh) and being deeply in love with India from a young age, Puja is constantly learning more about their own lineage and the practices and traditions that come from this beautiful land and culture. Puja’s work is informed by and shared through a lens of decolonization and the dismantling of oppressive systems of power (homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, ableism, fat phobia, etc).

Puja teaches private and public asana, meditation + music classes as well as offering workshops on yoga, meditation, kirtan and more. Please sign up for my mailing list to get updates on upcoming events, new offerings, etc.

Follow Puja on Instagram: @mxpujasingh

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TFC workshops are designed with community conversation in mind centering transgender, gender nonconforming and queer folks. Our workshops are offered on a rolling basis and can be held for small groups, large groups, studio and corporate settings to deepen knowledge and understanding. 

Integrating trans and queer inclusive content modules into yoga teacher trainings and staff development help ensure new teachers are prepared to commit to culture which radically uplifts diverse identities. Our trainings are rooted in challenging racism, transphobia and ableism while expanding direct support for trans and queer folks within yoga and wellness. Contact us to incorporate an existing 101 or a custom module into your yoga, reiki or doula training!

Dive deeper into implementing new practices to your team, studio or organization which uplifts authenticity of trans and queer people everywhere. Review studio climate, policies and practices with TYP staff and develop an implementation plan. 

Book private classes with TFC facilitators to grow your practice. Our facilitators are formally trained and have significant lived experience with neurodivergence, disability, gender transitions, and somatic trauma processing. Across our team, we offer sessions in accessible yoga, palm healing, vocal training & classical mantra, grief work, self-inquiry and personal coaching.