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Shiva Rea teaches vinyasa flow worldwide and has led more than 60 retreats throughout Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Tantra, Ayurveda, and art infuse her approach to living yoga. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and lives with her family in Los Angeles.

Heart Fire: Tending the Sacred Flame
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TISREA
All Levels


How do we tend the flame of our heart in modern life? This ritual practice will help us tend our heart fire authentically as the center of one's creativity, vision, inspiration, wisdom, and love. We'll explore teachings from Tantra, hatha, and bhakti yoga to unite an illumined body and awakened heart.



Spanda Shakti: Embodying the Creative Pulse
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Friday, September 26
8:00am-10:00am: Main Conference - Session 1
Code: M1SREA
All Levels


Bring the extraordinary understanding of spanda (the divine vibration) into embodied experience through meditation, pulsation vinyasa, spontaneous movement, chanting, and creative flow. This exploration gives a living reality to spanda as the great internal guidance system. Mostly asana. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**



Rasa: The Way Love Moves
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Friday, September 26
3:30pm-5:30pm: Main Conference - Session 3
Code: M3SREA
All Levels/Therapeutic


Experience the cultivation of sringara rasa (the sensual experience of the Divine) as the union of the beloved and lover at the heart of the yogic universe. Includes heart salutations (hridaya namaskar); liberating, backbending vinyasa flow; meditation; and visualization to cultivate the natural, healing alchemy of love. Mostly asana. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**



Mandala Namaskar: Circular Movement in Yoga
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Saturday, September 27
11:00am-1:00pm: Main Conference - Session 5b
Code: M5SREA
All Levels


In this increasingly gridlike world, experience the healing power of a mandala (sacred circle) within a namaskar, or moving meditation vinyasa. Learn four salutation sequences that unfold in an integrated flow. Includes mandala, mudra, meditation, and visualization. Mostly asana. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**



Yoga Trance Dance
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Saturday, September 27
3:30pm-5:30pm: Main Conference - Session 6
Code: M6SREA
All Levels


Beginning with prana yoga, or prana-initiating yogasanas, yoga trance dance flows into an exploration of free-form, breathdriven movement to liberate one's creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom. Experience the latest spin of meditative and high-energy world music. Mostly asana. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**




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