Who We Are

Gopi Kinnicutt: Chair

Gopi Kinnicutt (she/her) (ERYT 500) is a dynamic, Bhakti and trauma -informed yoga teacher who has developed her own unique teaching style. She expertly adapts according to her clientele needs, whether it be working with trauma, injury, or vigorous movement yoga. She organically creates and designs fluid yoga sequences that re-educate the body to more functional movement patterns, infused with deep spirituality. She practices mindfulness. In her classes she emphasizes mindful movement, coupled with healing sound and breath work to release untouched energy and blockages. She is trained in trauma-sensitive yoga, and completed her foundation to yoga therapy with Gary Kraftsow, and she has studied Ayurveda (holistic yogic healing) therapies. She is the owner of Bhakti Yoga DC, and the chair for Anahata International .

Ingrid Duran: Treasurer

Ingrid (she/her) is a certified 200 hour YTT dynamic vinyasa flow yoga teacher with continued training and a concentration in yoga for depression and anxiety as well as providing therapeutic sequences for different needs. She initially came to yoga as a physical fitness exercise but discovered the powerful benefits of meditation and breath work. She uses the tools of yoga daily to manage the challenges that life sometimes presents. She serves as the Treasurer and volunteer for Anahata International and enjoys sharing her yoga practice with those in her local community that are survivors of trauma or organizations that work directly assisting survivors.

Titilayo Rasaki: Secretary

Titilayo Rasaki (She/Her) is a lover of God who shape-shifts to radiate that love in ways that serve the needs of each moment. Whether harnessing her skills as a lawyer, community organizer, or yoga practitioner (RYT 200), she is seeking to unleash the power of love as a healing force for social justice. Titilayo believes revolution begins in the heart and her classes focus on healing the trauma social injustices have on our nervous system, while decolonizing oppressive mental programming and somatic patterns. She is a commitment to loving, relational, and transformative organizing that unleashes resources to allow more people to access healing modalities to heal intergenerational trauma, affirm their dignity, and connect deeply to community resources. As the secretary of the Board of Directors of Anahata International, Titilayo helps us maintain organizational integrity, legal compliance, and institutional memory. She is the owner of Kindling LLC and a policy associate at Essie Justice Group. 

Rosalynd Harris: Member

Rosalynd(she/her) was introduced to Yoga in 2009. After she met Gopi Kinnicutt at Bhakti Yoga in 2016, Rosalynd became a certified RYT 200hr instructor. Incorporating her dynamic background as a Dancer into her sequencing along with a profound sense of intention and mindfulness within the practice creates a gracefully poetic approach to a Prana Vinyasa flow. Rosalynd focuses on the precision of anatomical alignment through verbal cueing, maintaining an eloquent and artistic visual journey in maximizing the use of prana in the body while stimulating a full mind, body, and spirit practice.

She currently leads workshops and classes throughout DC, MD, and VA, ranging from contracted corporate yoga to low income/under-served community spaces. In her mind, everyone deserves accessibility to the benefits of this practice and she is on a journey to be that vessel!

Alaina Sadick Goss: Member

Alaina Sadick Goss (she/her) is a yoga teacher and nonprofit communications specialist. Inspired by the organization's original leaders, Angela Cerkevich and Shawn Parell, Alaina joined Anahata International as a new RYT in 2011 to support outreach and fundraising. With a renewed focus on yoga's power to transform communities and individuals, she committed to an additional 300-hour teacher training with a focus on yoga as therapy and developed her specialty for trauma-informed yoga and supporting those living with cancer. Alaina was immensely honored to join Anahata in Ramallah in 2013 to train remarkable women from throughout the West Bank to share yoga and mindfulness in their own communities. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and is focusing on motherhood and serving as VP of Communications at Strathmore, a DC-based arts nonprofit. She remains deeply grateful to serve Anahata’s life-changing work.

Dr. Angela Cerkevich: Member

Dr. Angela Cerkevich (she/her) is thrilled to be a part of the transformation of Anahata International. Dr. Cerkevich created Anahata International with a group of passionate yoga activists in 2007 after designing and leading Rwanda’s first yoga teacher training program. Since that time, Dr. Cerkevich has served as board chair while Anahata provided a second teacher training in Rwanda, two teacher trainings in the West Bank and while Anahata began working with Washington DC organizations that focus underserved populations. Dr. Cerkevich remains Clinical Advisor to Anahata International while serving on the board. She works as a psychotherapist in Washington DC with individuals, couples, and groups with a special focus on relationship skills. While Dr. Cerkevich hopes to return to teaching yoga and meditation, her current focus is whole-being psychotherapy and building a healing retreat center using yoga, meditation and animals in Northern Vermont. Dr. Cerkevich is thankful and thrilled for the opportunity to continue serving populations that deserve, but might not have access to, the unique and profound healing benefits of yoga and meditation. She is especially grateful for the ingenuity and vibrancy of the new Anahata International team and looks forward to the further evolution of the organization. To learn more about Angela Cerkevich and her work go to www.drcerkevich.com