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About Soul Align

One space. One community. A lot of people who genuinely care.

Meet the team behind Soul Align Chiropractic and Yoga in San Clemente.

About Soul Align

Built for people who've already been through the system.

Soul Align was founded on a frustration most people in chronic pain know intimately: the experience of cycling through providers, collecting temporary fixes, and never receiving a real explanation of what's wrong or what it would actually take to correct it. Dr. Whitney Boulton built this practice because she believed something better was possible, and because she'd seen firsthand what happens when clinical precision and genuine human care occupy the same room.

The chiropractic side of Soul Align specializes in Blair Upper Cervical Care and Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP). These are two advanced, research-backed approaches with a shared goal: identify the structural root cause of dysfunction and correct it, with objective measurements to track progress along the way. The diagnostic process reflects that commitment fully. New Practice Members receive a comprehensive consultation covering their history and a review of all organ systems, a neurological and orthopedic exam, full-spine X-rays, and CBCT imaging (a 3D scan of the upper cervical spine). The next business day, Dr. Whitney reviews every image with the Practice Member and someone they trust, explaining what's happening in the spine in plain language that actually makes sense. Nothing is glossed over. Nothing is assumed.

For individuals who are excited to commit to leveling up their health, practice members are accepted into an initial 3-month care plan. That's not a sales structure. It's the minimum time the correction process requires to produce results that are real and measurable. Soul Align doesn't work with people looking for a one-time adjustment, and Dr. Whitney is direct about that from the beginning. The Practice Members who thrive here are the ones who are ready to commit to the process and trust the timeline.

Soul Align Yoga was built as a natural extension of that same philosophy. Dr. Whitney founded the studio with the understanding that structural correction and intentional movement belong together. A spine that's being rehabilitated needs a body that's learning to move well. A nervous system under stress needs somewhere to land. The yoga studio provides both, with a diverse team of teachers offering everything from vinyasa and slow flow to restorative, sound healing, and yoga therapy. And while the studio sits alongside the chiropractic practice, it stands fully on its own. No adjustment required. The doors are open to anyone in the community who's ready to move, breathe, and show up.

The two sides of Soul Align share a building and a community in San Clemente, and that proximity is intentional. Practice Members often move between chiropractic care and yoga classes. Yoga students find their way into the chiropractic office. The space is open and communal, designed to feel like a gathering place as much as a wellness practice.

Soul Align serves surfers trying to get back in the water, parents who want to pick up their kids without wincing, entrepreneurs prioritizing their long-term health, and active adults who refuse to accept that chronic pain is just part of the deal. For the people who've already been through the system and are running low on hope, Soul Align tends to be where the real work finally begins.

Chiropractic team

The people you'll meet on the chiropractic side.

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Dr. Whitney Boulton

Chiropractor + Founder

Dr. Whitney Boulton is a California-born chiropractor, surfer, climber, and the founder of Soul Align Chiropractic and Soul Align Yoga in San Clemente. She specializes in Blair Upper Cervical Care and Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP), 2 advanced approaches to structural correction that go well beyond symptom relief. And for over 15 years, she’s woven yoga into that clinical philosophy, because she’s always understood that a body that moves well heals better.

What sets Dr. Whitney apart isn’t just her specialty. It’s how she shows up. She listens. She explains. She catches what others miss. She graduated summa cum laude with her Doctorate of Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic College West, holds 2 Yoga Teacher Training certifications, and has personally navigated chronic pain and found her way out of it. She knows exactly what’s at stake when someone walks through her door.

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Hannah Milner

Front Desk, Clinical Chiropractic Assistant, Social Media

Hannah Milner keeps the front desk running with the same steady, welcoming presence she brings to the yoga studio. As Soul Align’s front desk lead and clinical chiropractic assistant, she’s often the first face Practice Members see when they walk through the door, the voice answering their questions, and the person making sure the details of their care never slip through the cracks.

She also manages the practice’s social media, which means she’s telling Soul Align’s story to the community with the same genuine care she brings to every in-person interaction. It’s a role that sits perfectly alongside her work as a yoga teacher: whether she’s behind the desk, behind the camera, or on the mat, Hannah is meeting people exactly where they are.

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Annabel Lind

Licensed Massage Therapist

Annabel Lind is a licensed massage therapist, birth and postpartum doula, restorative yoga teacher, and sound healing facilitator with a practice rooted in the belief that the body already knows how to heal. Her job, as she sees it, is to help it remember. Her modalities include deep tissue, prenatal massage, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, Shiatsu, and circulatory massage, and her presence in a session is as much a part of the treatment as the technique.

Outside the treatment room, she works with families through birth and postpartum support and teaches restorative yoga and sound healing at addiction recovery centers. There’s a thread running through all of it: Annabel is drawn to the moments when a person remembers what it feels like to be fully at home in their own body. At Soul Align, she’s exactly where she belongs.

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David Wilson

Licensed Massage Therapist

David Wilson is a licensed massage therapist and certified Holistic Health Practitioner who grew up in Memphis, made his way to Southern California at age 10, and found his footing in the ocean. His path to bodywork ran through a severe back injury and some deep personal lows that ultimately redirected his life toward health, wellness, and helping others navigate the same terrain.

He graduated from Healing Hands School of Massage Therapy with 1,000 hours of training across structural integration, lymphatic drainage, deep tissue, and sports massage. His work is grounded, thoughtful, and deeply informed by lived experience. When he’s not in the treatment room, he’s in the water or somewhere outdoors, still doing what he’s always done: connecting with nature and letting it do its thing.

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Christian Gentile

LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST

Christian Gentile is a licensed massage therapist, yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and Thai massage teacher who came to California by way of Puglia, Italy, London, Thailand, India, and Goa. He’s been studying and practicing bodywork since 2005, and his sessions reflect every mile of that journey: deep tissue, acupressure, cupping, myofascial release, and Thai massage woven together into something that feels less like an appointment and more like a full system reset.

He spent 6 years at one of India’s foremost wellness retreat centers before eventually landing in California, where he and his wife Chloe, a yoga teacher in her own right, are now raising their family. He surfs, cooks, meditates, and travels whenever possible. He fits right in at Soul Align.

Yoga team

The teachers holding space in the studio.

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Nadia Sessen

Yoga Teacher + Musician

Nadia Sessen leads with her heart, and everything about her teaching reflects that. She completed her 200-hour Hatha training at the Himalayan Yoga Institute in India, deepened her practice through osteopathic-based yoga study and immersive work with Biodynamic craniosacral therapist Hawk Mark Sanders, and went on to complete a 200-hour Prana Vinyasa training with Kelley Doyle and Trance Dance training with Shiva Rea.

Nadia is also a musician, and that dimension of her work is something genuinely rare. She provides live music for yoga classes, sound healing sessions, and events, weaving her original compositions into soundscapes that shift the entire quality of a room. Her classes at Soul Align blend fluid natural movement, intuitive bodywork, and sound in a way that meets students somewhere deeper than most yoga classes reach.

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Julia Solazzo

Yoga Teacher

Julia Solazzo has been teaching and refining her yoga practice since 2013, with over 600 hours of Yoga Alliance certified training behind her. Her credentials include a 200-hour training with YogaWorks, a 100-hour SmartFlow Yoga program, and a 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with UluYoga in Bali. She teaches vinyasa, slow flow, yin, and restorative yoga with an intention that’s become her signature: guiding students back to themselves.

Her sequencing is thoughtful, her cuing is clear, and what students tend to remember most is how they feel in her space. There’s a quality of safety and sacredness that she brings into every class, a sense that this hour is genuinely yours. She teaches at Soul Align because the environment matches her intention.

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Katsina Bhatia

Yoga Teacher + Yoga Therapist + Sound Healer

Katsina Bhatia has spent 20 years teaching movement, and her range is genuinely unusual: dance, art, aikido, yoga, yoga therapy, and Empowered Self Defense, all in service of the same underlying mission of empowering the people in front of her. She’s a Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, ESD Instructor, and Tibetan Sound Healer whose classes range from gentle to challenging but always provide a welcoming space for joy, creativity, and proper alignment.

Her Tibetan sound healing work adds another layer to what she offers, creating experiences that move beyond the physical and into the deeper settling that sound and vibration can produce. She calls herself a forever learner, and 20 years into her teaching career, that impulse is clearly still very much alive.

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Chloe Porter-Gentile

Yoga Teacher

Chloe Porter-Gentile came to yoga early, introduced by her mother, an Iyengar teacher, and she’s been studying it seriously ever since. She holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences and a Master’s in Nutrition for Global Health, spent years living and teaching in India, and brings a rare blend of scientific grounding and deep experiential wisdom to every class she teaches.

Her philosophy centers on self-discovery: she believes the beauty of yoga lies in helping students find what works best for them, improving energy, balance, health, and happiness, while being guided rather than directed. She’s also the partner of Soul Align’s own Christian Gentile, which means this family brings a formidable amount of combined expertise to the practice floor.

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Lindsey Miller

Sound Healing + Meditation Guide

Lindsey Miller is a classically trained musician, lifelong vocalist, meditation guide, and the face behind @ManBunMeditation, his handpan sound bath and meditative experience practice. His sessions at Soul Align are equal parts soulful and lighthearted, built around the belief that deep stillness and genuine joy aren’t opposites. He channels his musical roots into experiences that invite presence, resonance, and the occasional ocean breeze.

His soundscapes create space for stillness and reflection, and the musical depth underneath ensures that what students experience is real and lasting. He’s equal parts creative soul and grounded practitioner, someone who can hold a room in complete silence and make a joke that lands perfectly right before it. Expect calm. Expect something that stays with you.

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Brie Bush

Yoga Teacher

Brie Bush has been practicing yoga for over 10 years, and somewhere along the way it stopped being something she did and became part of who she is. That transformation is exactly what she hopes to facilitate for her students. Her classes emphasize breath, alignment, and mindful movement across all levels, and she holds space with a quality of presence that makes people feel genuinely welcome to show up exactly as they are.

She teaches because she believes in what yoga does, not just physically but mentally and spiritually, and that belief shows up in every class. At Soul Align Yoga, she’s found a community that matches her intention, a space where the practice is taken seriously and the people in it are cared for genuinely.

Hannah Milner in a yoga tree pose inside a slot canyon

Hannah Milner

Yoga Teacher

Hannah Milner is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher with a background in psychology and 4 years of experience supporting people in special education settings. Her classes are grounding, heart-centered, and built around the belief that strength, confidence, and calm are cultivated from the inside out. She brings the same quality of presence to the mat that she brings to everything else: steady, warm, and genuinely invested in helping students feel capable and at home in their own bodies.

She also works the front desk at Soul Align, which means she’s often the first face people see when they arrive. That continuity between her role in the studio and her role in the community is a natural fit for someone whose whole practice is about meeting people where they are.

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Jessea Kobayashi

Yoga Teacher

With over a decade of experience, Jessea’s journey as a yoga teacher began through her own transformative practice, which became an anchor during a challenging period in her life. Through a dedicated daily practice, she discovered greater strength, clarity, resilience, and a deeper connection between mind and body.

Her teaching is inspired by nature and rooted in compassion, lived experience, and the belief that yoga can be a powerful tool for healing and empowerment. She creates inclusive, supportive spaces where students feel seen, safe, and empowered, whether navigating personal healing, pregnancy and postpartum, or simply seeking greater balance and connection in their lives.

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Ellie Morgan

Yoga Teacher

Ellie is a 200-hour RYT with an additional 50-hour Yin Yoga certification. Her teaching is intuitive and heart-centered, offering breath-led movement, thoughtful sequencing, and a touch of spirituality across vinyasa, slow flow, yin, and restorative practices.

Rooted in the belief that yoga is for every body and every season of life, Ellie creates an inviting space to let go of expectations and embrace the balance between effort and ease. She aims to leave you feeling lighter, stronger, and deeply reconnected to yourself.

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Vanessa Wasbin

Yoga Teacher + Mental Health Therapist

Vanessa is a 200 Hour-Registered Yoga Teacher and practicing mental health therapist. She embraces a calm, warm, and loving presence and enjoys holding compassionate space for others. With mixed studies in both Dance and Psychology, Vanessa aims to harmonize the connection between mind and body, guiding students toward self-love and inner peace.

Her classes blend breathwork, guided meditation, and slow movement, emphasizing strength and freedom in the mind, body, and spirit. Vanessa’s passions include yogic and Buddhist philosophy, singing and connecting to her inner theater kid, practicing her Spanish, and sharing the healing medicine of yoga and meditation!

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Loni Tydon

Martial Arts + Yoga Instructor

Loni’s movement journey began in 1981 at The Academy of the Martial Arts. Invited to watch a Black Belt test, he thought, “I want to move like that”—sparking a lifelong path of fascination and learning movement arts. Studying under Sensei GM Parker Linekin (Kenpo, Tai Chi, Wing Chun, and boxing), Loni earned his Black Belt in 1984. Over the following 3 decades that included raising a family, his practice deepened through Aikido and Judo and more Wing Chun. In the past 20 years, Loni has trained in Yoga, a 500+EYRT: 300-hour Prana Vinyasa training with Kelley Doyle and a 220-hour Yin and Hatha Yoga with Tamal Dodge and Sesa O’Conner.

His philosophy is rooted in adaptability: as our bodies change, we can always learn and grow. In Loni’s Tai Chi and Qigong classes, students awaken to how the body can move with coordinated breath, discovering the ease of slowing down. Loni views every class as a complete micro-journey—mirroring the arc of a day or the turning of seasons: we rise, we awaken, we exert, and we return to rest. Classes will blend influences from his diverse background, perhaps concluding with Shavasana or Yoga Nidra and even live guitar. There is so much to share. Where shall we begin?

Ready to experience it for yourself?

Whether you're here for your spine or your mat, there's a place for you at Soul Align.