About Us
The Inner Yaga Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has been leading women’s trainings since 2002. We offer personal growth workshops for women and develop Yaga Circles in communities throughout the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Our trainings and circles celebrate and support women to grow as leaders in their own lives.We offer a training specifically for women, because we know that women change the world, and benefit greatly in having a place to be heard and supported.
The Inner Yaga Foundation is a dynamic community of women of diverse ages and backgrounds and welcomes all women. We do not discriminate onthe basis of ethnicity, culture, color, national origin, age, religion, disability or LGBTQ+ status.
The word “Yaga” comes from the ancient folklore icon, Baba Yaga, who helped people free themselves from what they feared, and what could not be seen so that it no longer ruled their lives.
The Inner Yaga Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that began in 2001. We have a Governing Council, and a Board of Directors elected by the Council. The Board collaborates with the Council and assures the financial stability of the organization. The Board also collaborates with Yaga Circles and administrative staff. There are many Yaga sisters who volunteer in our organization as well.
2025 Board of Directors:
President, Claudine DeLorey
President Emeritus, Barb Stevens-Newcomb
Treasurer, Becky Fasth
Secretary, Tiff Noone,
Members, Beth-Anne Lye, Michelle Kroll
The Inner Yaga Board of Directors and Wisdom Council extend a heartfelt thanks to our volunteers and donors! Because of your support, we’re able to provide scholarships for women to attend trainings and offer trainings at the lowest cost possible.
Governing Council:
Teresa Atwill
Becky Fasth
Teddy Gardner
Barb Stevens-Newcomb
Annie Vrijmoet
Debbie Zygmuntowicz
Inner Yaga Foundation Founder
Barb Stevens-Newcomb.
Teacher, artist, storyteller, and social creative, Barb has a long history of organizing
collaborative adventures.
The founder of the Inner Yaga is Barb Stevens-Newcomb. (QUOTE FROM FOUNDER…)
Teacher, artist, storyteller, and social creative, Barb was exposed to many personal growth
workshops her parents led in the 1970's and 1980’s. ForBarb, these workshops missed
something. She wanted participants to be seen and heard, to be a part of a community where
they felt that they belonged. She wanted events that explored the divine feminine; creative, filled with love. Barb wanted to create community. Many years later in 2001, Barb had a spiritual vision that lasted four months. A training for women came from this spiritual vision. It was the gift of thePurple Fire, something Barb could see in the evenings when her family slept, that informed her writing. A book Barb wrote entitled, The Scent of Oranges, Spirit Underpinnings of the Yaga, published by the Inner Yaga Foundation, explores this vision.
