Presenter Bio:
 

Shiva Rea, M.A., is a leading teacher of transformational Prana Flow Yoga and Yoga Trance Dance™. She began exploring yoga at the age of fourteen as a way to understand her name, given to her by her father, a surfer and artist. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement infuse her approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. She is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of vinyasa flow out in the world.

As a global adventurer, she has led over 70 retreats and pilgrimages nationally and internationally as well as served as a creative catalyst for conferences, festivals and actions for the environment, yoga and the arts including the third annual Yogini Conference of Kripalu and Omega. Shiva writes for Yoga Journal and is the author of award-winning CD's and DVD 's to empower and transform yoga home practice. She lives with her family near their favorite surf break at Sunset Beach in Pacific Palisades, California. See the seva page for more information on the service and action projects that Yogadventures supports.

 
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Workshop Descriptions:

1. Jai Hanuman! Kecak and Prana Flow Vinyasa Yoga in the Monkey Forest Temple
Explore the embodiment of the monkey spirit Hanuman within yoga and Kecak, the trance dance form that reenacts Hanuman's army with creativity and power.  These three consecutive afternoon sessions take you from your embodied play to the actual Monkey Temple Forest where you will be introduced to the Monkey families and experience an accessible introduction to the communal form of Kecak that involves the "monkey chant and movement" that tells the story of the Ramayana which awakens the energy within.  Shiva will offer the primal vinyasa forms that are part of Prana Flow based upon monkey movements from the play of handstands to the actual Hanuman Kriyas as ways to embody the bhakti spirit, power and playfulness of Hanuman.  The final session will include a public puja at the Monkey Forest Temple organized by Kecek of Bali Spirit Festival whose family has cared for the 800 year old temple that has become a protected sanctuary for over 400 monkey families.  This workshop will support the efforts of the Monkey Forest Temple Preservation.  

2. Prana Flow: Energetic Vinyasa
Experience the power of the five movements of prana underlying all of creation and the flow of yogasanas, bandhas and pranayama. We'll learn specific navigation methods within Prana Flow, an energetic approach to vinyasa that releases the "doing" of yoga and brings greater ease and vitality into "being" yoga as the liberating key to living flow. Include Shiva's fluid namaskars and experiencing a fully integrated Prana Flow yoga practice.

3. Yogatrancedance
We are all born with an innate love of movement that connects us with the intrinsic flow of our life force and nataraja, the understanding that we live in a "dancing universe" of continual vibration. Experience Yoga Trance Dance, which flows into an exploration of free-form, breath-driven movement to liberate our creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom