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Dr. Allen Arnette’s Yoga Bio

Allen’s blending of various yoga traditions produce classes that are filled with support, experience and wisdom. Yoga traditions of Iyengar (alignment orientation), Asthanga/Vinyasa methods, Viniyoga and Sivananda are woven together with Pramayama (breath work) and meditation to provide an authentic yoga practice. For the past 12 years he has been teaching yoga and meditation throughout Long Beach, CA.

Allen has studied yoga with Seane Corn, Richard Freeman, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee and completed his teacher training with Yogaworks in Santa Monica with Heather Seiniger and Malachi Melville (2006). He has also completed advanced Vinyasa flow teacher training in Santa Monica with Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Vinnie Marino and Annie Carpenter (2005). In an ongoing quest to deepen his personal practice and understanding of yoga philosophy he has taken many specialty seminars on such topics as shoulder health, safety in inversions, jumpings, and weeklong retreats with Omega Institute in New York. He has a RYT-500 hours worth of teacher’s training.

Growing up in the 60s with hippie parents Allen was exposed to yoga at an early age. The attitude and intention of peace, wholeness and health were the background of his childhood in Dallas Texas. Today, he practices yoga with conviction, passion and life-long enthusiasm.

By day Allen is better known as Dr. Arnette at his clinic- ParkView Health & Wellness Center in Long Beach California where he is the clinic director. Here he combines his natural medical degrees, licenses, talents and skills of Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Functional Medicine and Nutrition with the use of Chinese herbal medicine. Combining a sound physiologic and orthopedic basis upon which to understand “what goes wrong” (pathology) with a deep understanding of the human psyche, Dr. Arnette has tackled conditions ranging from rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome and many viral conditions to Stress related conditions as well as sports and yoga-related injuries.


Yoga and its traditions awaken within its students an awareness of how much broader-visioned and grand life can be. When one releases and let’s go of how they are habitually gripping and reacting to what they are experiencing in their life, they anchor themselves in the natural reality that there is some larger force at play governing their life. This allows one to release the tension and resistance to over-whelm inherent within man’s worrisome world. Within the breadth of yoga, asana practice allow humans to experience these releases for periods long enough to balance our physiological and psychological states producing change that is evident in our outer life experiences of health, memory, energy and creativity.

Understanding that well being and wholeness are the natural states of the human experience, Dr. Arnette found that passive medical care could only go so far for healing what ails people. A holistic approach to life encompasses greater territory. One important cornerstone is the vital and radiant health bestowed upon the practitioner of Hatha yoga. He refers to yoga as “active acupuncture” and acupuncture as “passive yoga.”

Allen therefore, brings to his yoga students over two decades of experience in helping to end suffering, ease tension, reduce pain and find greater states of well-being and joy.