Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training - Online + Live
300 & 500 Hr Living Yoga certification. Complete the 300-hour path online in 12-18 months with Shiva Rea.
Start the JOY — Fall offering begins
2027 Teacher Training begins
Invitation
We are inspired to offer you our Prana Vinyasa Evolutionary 200-500-1008 Teacher Training Program that has influenced teachers around the world for over the last fourteen years from the base in Los Angeles, CA and in global programs.
Our celebrated unique and effective Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training programs offer a creative full-spectrum approach to the art of living and embodying the flow of yoga.
Live year round
Move with the changing rhythms of nature: the lunar cycle, the turning seasons, the flow of the day. This mandala brings together namaskars, movement meditations and living yoga practices for a journey through the year, from solar vitality to lunar renewal.
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Teacher Training begins October 20, 2026.
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Teacher Training begins January 15, 2027.
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Your modules, your replays, your live schedule.
Continue where you left offPractice & study · Fall 2026
Every seasonal course is a variation of the namaskar of the week, along with the teaching lab and the Flow for All classes.
This week
Evolves in the weekly rhythm.
You can do this whole practice seated, with the arms alone, and lose none of it. Three slow rounds to settle, then a moving prayer that honours your life force. Teachers: you learn to build a class that works from a chair as well as it works from a mat.
Unfolding in 2027
Study unfolds sequentially, with foundation practices, solar and lunar variations, rhythmic sequences and full practice. The teaching schedule will be shared as the program opens.
Samudra Global School
A Teacher's Shala for embodied practice and creative exploration.
Begin with Embodying the Flow and the Mandala of Asanas. Explore breath, the movements of prana and solar-lunar practice as the foundations of Prana Vinyasa. From your own experience of the practice, learn the art of guiding others.
Our teacher training program is flexible so that contact hours be completed in a single time-frame or within the span of 2-3 years by your design by choosing modules that work for you and fulfill your contact hour requirements. This is a unique and versatile program style that allows you to choose a program that fits your lifestyle and needs.
Here's a simple breakdown of how our training works
The Prana Vinyasa Global School of Living Yoga is an evolutionary teacher training path offered across the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Students of the program are empowered to design their training based on personal intention regarding interest, location, cost, and length of time.
Solar and Lunar training programs are available
You can choose How and Where you Want to Begin.
Review the current calendar here as well as the Lunar program information here.
The 200/300/500hr programs require the foundation modules Embodying the Flow/Mandala of Asanas and either Elemental Prana Vinyasa or Art of Namaskar. The foundation modules are offered annually in Malibu, CA, Greece, India, and Costa Rica. Check the calendar for these location dates, as well as additional foundation offerings that may arise at yoga studios across the globe. Three week programs in these locations also complete the full 180 contact hours required for the 200hr certification. See the calendar for these dates.
Modules may be taken in any order, and up to two times for contact hour credit.
The 200hr program can be completed in two years maximum, and the 300/500hr programs in three years maximum.
Any modules offering contact hour credits can make up the remaining hours needed after completing the foundation courses.
The program hours consist of contact and non-contact hours. Contact hours are the live modules taken with either Shiva Rea or an affiliate trainer.
Non-contact hours are made up of supplemental online courses, required reading, and homework. Affiliate contact hours The breakdown of each program
is:
200hr: 180 contact hours, 20 non contact hours
300hr: 270 contact hours, 30 non contact hours
500hr: 450 contact hours, 50 non contact hours
You will incur the cost of the training modules, in addition to your accommodations and travel expenses. Shorter trainings are priced differently,
those details can be found on the calendar page of the website. In addition there, are membership and certification fees, as well as online courses.
Enjoy your time as a student in the 200/300/500hr program for up to two or three years!
Choices: Humaliwu/California, Europe, China, India, Australia, Costa Rica
Or Affiliate Programs across the US.
Prana Vinyasa is an elemental practice system for living flow connecting you to the healing force of nature and the power to heal, balance, transform and renew. A Prana Vinyasa class offers a practical and effective diversity.
Prana Vinyasa transforms a class into sadhana or ritual meditation and then full relaxation.
Prana vinyasa practice connects you with the elements within your own body and the flow of nature. Each practice is based upon a “pathway of prana vinyasa” - a progression of namaskars (elemental salutations), sequences, and peak asanas connected to the power of each element.
Prana Vinyasa Wave Sequencing is a method developed by Shiva over 25 years of teaching as an integrative, progressive, full-spectrum way of creating a progressive flowof a yoga class utilizing the natural structure of vinyasa as wave cycles as well as Krishnamacharya’s teaching of vinyasa krama or stages of evolution. Prana Vinyasa Wave Sequencing works with the “sutra of the class by offering students movement patterns from the very first om through the namaskars and related vinyasas to the peak asanas to the inner arts of regeneration integrated at the end of class. The journey is a spectrum from the micro-vinyasa of spanda, breath, and the pulsation within an asana to the macro-vinyasa of a Prana Vinyasa sequence. The awareness of moving from macrocosm to microcosm and from microcosm to macrocosm is central in embodying flow and vinyasa.
In addition to unique asanas, through our trainings you will learn to embody and teach the uniquely Prana Vinyasa™ methodologies of: Energetic
Alignment™, Hands-on Assists, Vinyasa Krama, Prana Vinyasa Three-Part Vinyasa™, and Wave-Sequencing™ for the Mandala of 108 Asanas™.
For More Information please visit our Prana Vinyasa Practice System
Experience a 200-hour program that offers foundational teaching of Prana Vinyasa including 12-20 Namaskars and 20-30 Sequences depending on how you design your program.
Immersions with Shiva to fulfill hours for the 200 hour program are hosted at 2 locations each year.
Please visit Shiva's Calendar and the Global Trainings Calendar to find out where you can fulfill your hours with Shiva and the team of Samudra Affiliate Teacher Trainers!
For 200-hour certification the following requirements are to be completed within a two-year span:
A unique format, approved by Yoga Alliance, our 200 Hour Program is self-paced and created from the program of your design
Visit Shiva's Calendar Here
V isit the Global Affiliate Calendar Here
Prana Vinyasa is an elemental practice system for living flow, connecting you to the healing force of nature and the power to heal, balance, transform and renew.
Our unique program offers a dynamic approach
to the art of living and embodying the flow of yoga.
Shiva works closely with our collective of Global Teacher Trainers to allow Prana Vinyasa Training to be accessible to all worldwide.
Our Global Prana Vinyasa certification program is to inspire you through a simple, practical, thorough, and professional application of yoga to a diversity of fields. In addition to completing your contact hours with our faculty we have also innovative, inspiring, on-going online programs and Prana Vinyasa gatherings to support you on your path via our portal of Yoga Alchemy.
Aspects of Our Training:
Evolve through our diverse modules, ranging from 3, 5, 7, 10 day immersions to a full 22 day immersion to offer flexibility as you create your teacher training experience.
Deepen your practice in online courses that correspond with each module and step of the training.
We Have Several Tracks of Certification:
200-hour track offering foundational teaching of Prana Vinyasa Yoga and embodiment.
300-hour track allowing students from other Yoga schools and lineages to join our teacher studies program
500-hour track is an in-depth offering of Prana Vinyasa Yoga and various electives to deepen your understanding and integration.
We are inspired to offer you our Prana Vinyasa Evolutionary 200-300-500 Teacher Training Program that has influenced teachers around the world for over the last fourteen years from the base in Los Angeles, CA and in global programs.
Our celebrated unique and effective Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training programs offer a creative full-spectrum approach to the art of living and embodying
the flow of yoga.
Students learn to embody and teach yoga with connection to the roots of yoga
and evolution of the Prana Vinyasa System of Practice.
From the core foundational modules Art of Namaskar/Embodying the Flow and Mandala of Asanas, students then form a program from the advanced, elective and online programs that allow a student to:
Shape their personal and professional interest with specialties in ayurveda, tantra, bhakti, pre-natal vinyasa, creative core, flow arts, yoga trance dance, prana danda yoga and kalarippayatu;
Incorporate travel and pilgrimage into their studies by taking modules on retreats in India, Costa Rica, Greece, Europe and other locations;Be part of an online community of practitioners that connects live around the globe;
Develop your sva dharma - life purpose through your teacher training program, including sacred activism.
Prana Vinyasa is dedicated to providing a full-spectrum mandala of solar-lunar practice for activating, balancing and nourishing the flow of yoga in daily life - the living of energetic vinyasa. Yoga Alchemy is our online school and support system for our teachers in training and students who desire to deepen their practice and understanding of Prana Vinyasa. The "pathways of prana vinyasa" is a practice guide to each the 10 Namaskars and 10 Solar-Lunar Sequences that correspond to each of the teacher certification modules: Foundation (Art of Namaskar/MOA/Art of Teaching Vinyasa), Elemental, Chakra, Rasa.
Prana Vinyasa is invested in your education and the assimilation of the transformative practices you will learn in teacher trainings and modules.
We offer sample classes and teaching materials in abundance for every training module. The embodiment of the knowledge received during your training
is key. Once home you will have time to digest the information through our online videos and living yoga sadhana courses. With each course we also
have private Facebook groups that are rich with connectivity and love, the perfect accompaniment to stay connected with your teachers and fellow
tribe members.We create sacred space in cyberspace!
Our vibrant online community offers ongoing workshops, courses and resources to stay connected and continue the deepening of your education and
evolution on the path. We celebrate and respect the householder’s rhythm by offering trainings and retreats that are accessible for students who
need flexibility around dynamic lives. You can choose the module rhythm that works for you and stay connected through year-round teacher training
courses and live meditations.
Enhancing your education without having to leave your house!
Prana Vinyasa offers unprecedented, supportive online courses that include:
30 videos for solar and lunar Foundation (Roots) Prana Vinyasa, Elemental Prana Vinyasa and Chakra Prana Vinyasa sequences, filmed in Santorini
and Costa Rica
Art of Namaskar and Solar Mandala of Asanas: which covers 71 blueprint asanas, over 400 photos and short videos, written teaching cues for embodying
the threepart vinyasa and teaching energetic alignment of the core asanas of namaskars and of the blue-print asanas for each family of asanas
Advanced and Elective modules, Rasa Prana Vinyasa, Kalari Vinyasa, Prana Danda Vinyasa and Soma Prana Vinyasa, have online study programs each including 5 videos to practice the corresponding Prana Vinyasa sadhanas.
Study steeped in ancient wisdom, tradition and positive cultural exchange.
Experience the Living Vinyasa of your teacher training journey on a global level in pilgrimage to the earth's most mystical, powerful + elemental locations with Shiva Rea as your guide.
200 Hour Solar/Lunar Prana Vinyasa Trainings with Shiva / 7-21 day options
Costa Rica: Vital Living Sol Retreat + Prana Flow Wellness
North America - California
India- Bhakti Prana Vinyasa 7-21 day options
Greece
300 Hour Prana Flow + Specialty Tracks
Europe- Cologne, Amsterdam, Santorini 3-21 day options
California Flow Arts + Sahaja Prana Flow / 3-7-9 day immersion options
West Coast Prana Vinyasa- Denver, Tara Mandala,
Costa Rica: Vital Living + Prana Flow Wellness 7-21 day options
India: Kahjuraho to Kashi: Shiva Shakti Rasa / 9 day immersion
Australia: Byron Bay- Breathing with Tighers / 7 day immersion
East Coast US: Kripalu,
Click here to view Shiva's Calendar of Upcoming Trainings and Retreats
Train with Shiva or our Global Collective of Affiliate Teacher Trainers are experienced and leading teachers of Prana Vinyasa who offer trainings and advanced modules all over the world.
Prana Vinyasa is committed to honoring accessibility, diversity, and the roots and evolution of the Samudra School of Living Yoga.
We are committed to sacred activism as a tool for integrating living yoga practices into the macrocosm of life.
Lokha Samastha Sukhino - May all beings be happy and free
Samudra Global School Prana Vinyasa is an open circle that supports inclusivity, diversity and equality for all beings in the circle of life.
We support people of all backgrounds to embody our innate life-force - prana - the breath within all beings.
We welcome and respect people from all walks of life, race, ethnicities, cultures, faith, gender, sexuality and embodiment.
We offer respect in our language, actions and exploration of our own biases to evolve on a path that opens our hearts to equality and respect for all beings.
We recognize our inter-connectedness with all of life and respect the quality of all the earth, water, fire, air and space that we all share and effect together in our shared ecosystem.
We take responsibility for our energy and expression and are open to continue to evolve towards a positive future for all.
More opportunities to coming soon.
Welcome to the Evolutionary Global Prana Vinyasa®
Teacher Studies Program!
We are inspired to offer you our Prana Vinyasa Evolutionary 200-500-1008 Teacher Training Program that has influenced teachers around the world for over the last fourteen years from the base in Los Angeles, CA and in global programs.
Our celebrated unique and effective Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training programs offer a creative full-spectrum approach to the art of living and embodying
the flow of yoga.
Students learn to embody and teach yoga with connection to the roots of yoga
and evolution of the Prana Vinyasa System of Practice.
From the core foundational modules Art of Namaskar/Embodying the Flow and Mandala of Asanas, students then form a program from the advanced, elective and online programs that allow a student to:
As Part of the Program You Learn:
Our certification program merges the great rivers of Tantra,
Yoga, and Ayurveda for embodied, ecstatic living.
This creative, synthesis-oriented program is for self-motivated yoga practitioners who want to evolve and integrate the diversity of their life experience
under the Great Tree of Yoga.
We empower teachers with a broad and deep base
to live and teach the flow of Prana Vinyasa Yoga.
The entire program offers teachers
the full range of yogic experience from meditation to advanced asanas to service in the world.
Our unique program offers a dynamic, integrative approach
to the art of living and embodying yoga.
In addition to completing contact hours with Shiva and Prana Vinyasa Teacher Trainers, we have our online Yoga Alchemy resource that offers practice
and study support throughout the year.
Our emphasis is on practical and experiential studies that are transformative, inspiring,
and in rhythm with the realities of our lives as householders and teachers.
We
seek the balance of being a grounding force for teachers to develop a body of integrated knowledge while leaving freedom for each teacher to follow
their own path of evolution as they continue their studies with Shiva and other teachers.
Our program is open to Yoga students with at least two years
of active study in embodied Yoga practices.
GENERAL OVERVIEW
We Have Several Tracks of Certification:
Our unique program offers a dynamic approach
to the art of living and embodying the flow of yoga.
Our Global Prana Vinyasa certification program is to inspire you through a simple, practical, thorough, and professional application of yoga to a diversity of fields. In addition to completing your contact hours with our faculty we have also innovative, inspiring, on-going online programs and Prana Vinyasa gatherings to support you on your path via our portal of Yoga Alchemy.
Aspects of Our Training:
The 200-hour Yoga Alliance Registered program offers foundational teaching of Prana Flow®: Energetic Vinyasa Yoga, embodiment, energetic alignment sequencing, philosophy, and Ayurveda .
Experience a 200-hour program that offers foundational teaching of Prana Vinyasa including 12-20 Namaskars and 20-30 Sequences depending on how you design your program.
200 hr Teacher Training Program - Foundational
Welcome to our dynamic Prana Vinyasa 200 hour teacher training program!
Our 200-hour Yoga Alliance registered program focuses on the foundational teachings of Prana Vinyasa, including vinyasa yoga, somatic and subtle embodiment, energetic alignment-based sequencing, yogic philosophy and ayurveda practices. Depending on how you design your program, our 200 hour teacher training offers you 12-20 innovative namaskars and 20-30 supportive sequences.
To receive your 200 hour certification (180 contact hours)
the following requirements are to be completed within a two-year span:
200 HOUR CERTIFICATION MODULE REQUIREMENTS:
Both of these titles below are required and strongly encouraged to be the FIRST modules taken as you start on your journey.
Art of Namaskar (previously Embodying the Flow)
Mandala of Asanas
One or two (depending on hours and interest) of our advanced modules from our advanced modules titles below.
Prana Vinyasa Advanced Modules:
Chakra Prana Vinyasa (Mandala Prana Vinyasa)
Elemental Prana Vinyasa
Rasa Prana Vinyasa
Yoga Trance Dance
Advanced Vinyasa + Living Ayurveda
PranaDanda Yoga
Naga Shakti / Tantric Studies
Shakti Sadhana: Embodying the Goddess (Yoga for Women)
Pre and Post Natal Teacher Training
Tending the Fire: Living Yoga Sadhana
Yogadventures Retreat Specialty Modules
Review of Required Teacher Training for 200 Hour Certification:
Part One: Art of Namaskar / Mandala of Asanas modules
Part Two: 1-2 of the advanced immersion modules, dependant on your hours and interest.
Corresponding Living Yoga Sadhana online programs for your trainings
History of Yoga Vinyasa online or three sacred reading projects
Teaching demonstration video.
Embody and empower what you learn in live intensives with our required online program, Yoga Alchemy, that corresponds
to your track of study includes 10 videos for the solar-lunar sequence and five namaskars you learn for each module (Rasa and Soma Prana Vinyasa have
different format of short-long form practices):
Upon admission into our program you will be given our private facebook group with direct access to questions for Shiva and Teacher Trainers, enrollment in our year-long Meditation Program and a lifetime membership to our online course site, www.yogaalchemy.com, and a welcome letter.
The 300-hour Yoga Alliance Registered program allows teachers with a 200-hour program from other Yoga schools and lineages to join our teacher studies program at an advanced level. 270 required contact hours are required via a self-paced, unique, and global 'create your own' training method.
300 hr Teacher Training Program - Evolutionary
Welcome to our dynamic prana vinyasa 300 hour teacher training program! Our 300-hour Evolutionary Vinyasa training offers foundation and evolutionary teachings of prana vinyasa including 20-30 namaskars and 30-40 sequences depending on how your design your program. This program focuses on the evolutionary teachings of prana vinyasa, and is designed for versatility. Our flexible 300 hour program allows those that already may have a 200-hour program completed from other yoga schools and lineages to join our teacher studies program at an advanced level.
To receive your 300 hour certification (270 contact hours) the following requirements are to be completed within a two-year span.
Review of Required Teacher Training for 300 Hr Certification:
Part One: Modules of Embodying Prana Vinyasa/ Mandala of Asanas
Part Two: Minimum of one and up to three advanced immersions. Click here to see Shiva’s calendar
Remaining hours fulfilled by one of the Advanced Vinyasa Modules:
Elemental Prana Vinyasa
Chakra Vinyasa/Prana Mandala Vinyasa
Rasa Vinyasa
Soma Prana Vinyasa
Kalari Vinyasa (offered in India)
Prana Danda Yoga
Shakti Sadhana - Pre-Natal Vinyasa
Global Yoga Trance Dance
Corresponding Living Yoga Sadhana online programs for 3-4 of your modules
History of Yoga Vinyasa online parts 1, 2, 3 or six sacred reading projects
Teaching Demonstration Video
For 300-hour certification the following requirements are to be completed within a three-year span:
Upon admission into our program you will be given our private facebook group with direct access to questions for Shiva and Teacher Trainers, enrollment in our year-long Meditation Program and a lifetime membership to our online course site, www.yogaalchemy.com, and a welcome letter.
The 500-hour Yoga Alliance Registered program is an in-depth offering beginning with the foundational program and continuing to study deeper into the roots teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Flow Arts, and Ayurveda.
500 hr Teacher Training Program - Excavation
Welcome to our comprehensive Prana Vinyasa® 500 hour teacher training program! This is a vast, in-depth offering beginning with the foundational programs and continuing deeper into the roots teachings of yoga, tantra, flow arts, and ayurveda. This 500 hr track is an in-depth offering of Prana Vinyasa® yoga and various electives to expand your understanding, embodiment and integration. Our 500-hour training offers foundation and evolutionary teachings of Prana Vinyasa. These are offered as advanced electives within the program including 20-35 namaskars and 40 - 64 sequences depending on how your design your program.
To receive your 500 hour certification (450 contact hours) the following requirements are to be completed within a three-year span.
500 HOUR CERTIFICATION MODULE REQUIREMENTS:
Part One: modules of Embodying Prana Vinyasa (Currently titled 'Art of Namaskar') / Mandala of Asanas
Part Two: modules of Chakra Vinyasa, Elemental Vinyasa and Rasa Vinyasa
Part Three: Design your own program based on your choice of the advanced elective modules within the program to attain 450 contact hours.
These are offered as advanced electives within the program including 20-35 Namaskars and 40 - 64 Sequences depending on how your design your program.
For 500-hour certification the following requirements are to be completed within a three year span:
OR
Prana Vinyasa modules offered in yoga studios from Humaliwo, CA, Flow Yoga in Washington D.C. and European studios in London and Amsterdam.
Created from the program of your design:
Foundation - Art of Teaching Vinyasa (Previously known as Embodying the Flow) and Mandala of Asanas
and any of the Advanced Vinyasa Immersions:
* Elemental Vinyasa
* Chakra Vinyasa
* Rasa Vinyasa
* Soma Prana Vinyasa
* Kalari Vinyasa (offered in India)
* Prana Danda Yoga
* Shakti Sadhana - Pre-Natal Vinyasa
* Global Yoga Trance Dance
Embody and empower what you learn in live intensives with our required online program that corresponds to your track of study ($84 for each online program) includes 10 videos for the solar-lunar sequence and five namaskars you learn for each module (Rasa and Soma Prana Vinyasa have different format of short-long form practices):
Mandala of Asanas / Foundation Prana Vinyasa / Elemental Prana Vinyasa / Chakra Vinyasa / Rasa Vinyasa / Prana Danda Yoga, Shakti Sahana (Navaratri) or Soma Prana Vinyasa
Upon admission into our program you will be given our private facebook group with direct access to questions for Shiva and Teacher Trainers, enrollment in our year-long Meditation Program and a lifetime membership to our online course site, www.yogaalchemy.com, and a welcome letter.
Our 1008-hour Prana Vinyasa Professional Program is the first of it’s kind program combines your assisting hours and additional training towards a professional path certification that prepares you in the progression of being a teacher trainer out into the world and being a leader in the Prana Vinyasa Global Collective.
Our 1008-hour program provides a way to honor the deepening and integration that happens through assisting a Samudra Teacher Training Program as preparation for professional development as a workshop leader or potential teacher trainer for foundation trainings or as a Samudra School Affiliate.
Please email us at affiliates@yogaalchemy.com to be put on the waiting list.
As a Member of the 1008-Hour Professional Program You Will Receive:
May we be fulfilled and deepen in the process of collective yoga!
Participation Guidelines:
*Actively engaging in Prana Flow social media, Prana Flow FaceBook & WhatsApp groups, Instagram, TikTok, etc…
*Documentation of the accumulation of your ongoing qualified hours to be applied towards your 1008 hour program, including dates/locations/hours to be submitted for final approval/certification. This is a 3-5 year program and begins now!
Our 1008 Professional Program is consciously designed as preparation for participants to become an Affiliate. Giving participants the opportunity to offer Prana Vinyasa teacher training programs in your local or under-served areas of the world.
Affiliates can offer in Europe and U.S. the 200-hour teacher training at one’s local studio for the first two years after completion of the 1008-hour program, and then on a case-by-case basis for other parts of the world.
If you are interested in becoming an Affiliate please contact us at affiliates@yogaalchemy.com.
After many years of offering our integrated program of solar-lunar evolutionary vinyasa from the roots, we are so happy to offer our first LUNAR only Teacher Training path.
Join vinyasa teacher Shiva Rea and the Global Prana Vinyasa Collective for new Personal Change and Professional Teacher Training programs to create balance, healing and greater accessibility of all forms of yoga for all.
This is an all-level teacher training path for your wisdom, life-experience and embodiment without any physical restrictions upon the level of your asana practice. In this training you develop your skills to
Program includes live modules in both healing and sacred places around the world and urban yoga centers combined with our Yoga Alchemy’s Lunar Arts Online Program integrates lunar arts into your daily life through the rhythm of the year.
Embody and Learn:
54 / 108 / 200 / 300 / 500 Hour Certification Programs. Complete your program with the Lunar Arts Modules that fulfill your desired contact hour certification and speak to you as Lunar Prana Flow Yoga Teacher & Wellness Guide.
Choose your combination of modules:
Core Modules (Required, if taken in past 5 years with Shiva may count)
Lunar Prana Vinyasa - Slow Flow Lunar Foundation Prana Vinyasa or Slow Flow Lunar Elemental Prana Vinyasa
Soma Prana Flow - Tantric Yin
Elective Modules
Power of Pranams - Practices for Healing and Balance
Chakra Prana Flow - Tantric Movement Meditation
Rasa Prana Flow - Art of Tantric Yin
Bhakti Prana Flow - Devotion in Motion
Shakti Prana Flow - Healing and Empowering Practices for Women
Sahaja Prana Flow - Flow Arts and Ecstatic Yoga Trance Dance
Inner Arts - Meditation Mandalas
Woven into the tapestry of the Lunar Arts Prana Flow modules you will learn and circulate:
Foundation, Elemental, Chakra, Rasa, and Bhakti Meditations, Mantras and Mudras
Additional Elective Course Modules:
Relaxation in Flow: Soma Prana Vinyasa and Moon Salutations
Global Ecstatic - Yoga Trance Dance & Tribal House Jam
Tending the Fire - Living in Rhythm to explore the Art of Teaching
Body Flow Arts: Self-Partner Massage
Prana Flow Massage I - Rolling Arts - Self-Massage Tools
Prana Flow Massage II - Nadi Flow Arts- Nadi Sampradaya & Ayurvedic Massage
Prana Flow Massage III - Anatomy through Massage: Know Thy Self
Online Sadhana at www.yogaalchemy.com
Living in Rhythm
Online course offerings for all offering seasonal and lunar cycle meditations, sadhanas, and reflection. Supports health, vitality, and embodied living in sync in with nature.
Modules (live and with online course support) and Descriptions
Power of Pranams - Practices for Healing and Balance
Experience the Power of Pranams- the practice of bowing within to full recpeptivity to the earth and rising that is at the heart of the world’s spiritual traditions, central to yoga in India and open to all as a universal movement meditation. Learn to teach and practice pranam as movement meditation- flow for all.
Lunar Prana Vinyasa - Slow Flow Foundation
Applies theory of Elemental and Foundation Prana Vinyasa- embodying Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space with focus on the Lunar Prana Flow sequences and creating a healing, calming quality to the elemental sadhana. You will learn 5 Lunar Prana Flow Elemental namaskars or 5 Roots Lunar Prana namaskars and Lunar Prana Vinyasa sequences.
Soma Prana Flow - Tantric Yin
Soma Prana Vinyasa is a moving meditation into a deep whole-body opening, relaxation as a flowing tantric-based approach to lunar or yin yoga. This regenerative practice offers one half meditative Prana Vinyasa namaskars and deep lunar mudrasanas, and one half inner arts of meditation, mantra, mudra, self massage, and deep savasana. Soma is a Vedic-Tantric understanding of the “revivifying elixir-nectar”, the secret to longevity, and a refined healing essence that can be generated with us through forms of meditation and natural flow.
Chakra Prana Flow- Tantric Movement Meditation
Chakra Prana Flow embodies the circular power of the Chakra Prana Vinyasa mandala namaskars as lunar healing arts. This sadhana includes one or more of the four Prana Vinyasa Chakra namaskars paired with long lunar mudrasanas, backbends, inversions, mantra, pranayama, and deep savasana.
Rasa Prana Flow - Art of Tantric Yin
Literally translated as “juice, essence, taste, plasma, alchemy, or transformative state” rasa assumes the concentrated essence of something, such as the sweetness of the mango. Rasa Prana Flow cultivates the relaxing, softer essence of the four Rasa Prana Vinyasa namaskars and sequences. You will learn to invoke lunar energetic states of flow through Prana Flow namaskars for Vira, Sringara, and Shanti rasas.
Bhakti Prana Flow - Devotion in Motion
In this transformative immersion, we will integrate both universal and traditional yoga practices of the heart and awaken and regenerate the body of love through meditations of the mystic heart, transformative Prana Vinyasa backbending sequences and life practices. This module explores heart practices to open us to every breath for cultivating love and compassion to support our health, longevity, and genuine happiness.
Shakti Prana Flow
This module is a path to awaken the living connection of the sacred feminine from fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and the change that continues to deepen through the loving and transformative process. Deepen your cultivation of embodied spirituality, opening to and nurturing the creative juices, creative empowerment, and wisdom change. As students we explore how to teach Prana Flow lunar arts for women through three Shakti Prana Flow practices , exploring the universal aspects of the Goddess as Great Mother.
Sahaja Prana Flow - Flow Arts and Ecstatic Yoga Trance Dance
Learn to lead this internationally celebrated prana yoga and free-form movement meditation. For yoga teachers and yogadventurers who are interested in the interconnections of yoga and dance, this Trance Dance intensive provides the basic tools to explore the foundations of Yoga Trance Dance.
We are all born knowing how to dance; this inherent movement is well documented as one of the oldest planetary yogas. Evolving since 1994, Yoga Trance Dance is a contemporary exploration of the spirit of dance within yoga. Beginning with sahaja prana vinyasa or the experience of prana initiating yogasanas in a spontaneous, natural flow, yoga trance dance unfolds into an exploration of free-form, breath driven movement to liberate one’s creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom.
Additional Elective Modules
Relaxation in Flow: Soma Prana Vinyasa and Moon Salutations
Experience a regenerative immersion into Soma Prana Vinyasa - a “tantric yin” approach to rejuvenation and meditation in motion. Soma is connected to the inner water, ojas (essence, vitality, and amrita), and the healing energy that can “green a desert”, and restore love. Includes practical tools for soma cultivation in Tantra, Ayurveda.
Global Ecstatic - Yoga Trance Dance & Tribal House Jam
Experience a universal tribal gathering into the roots of trance as a rhythmically induced state of natural flow that is innate within all beings. The activation of free-form movement as one of the oldest ecstatic pathways of collective meditation. This dynamic and rejuvenating exploration accompanied by global tribal rhythms from the roots and contemporary pulse will release tension, generate energy and new neural pathways, entrain your breath, heart and brain wave rhythms to all the movers and shakers around the world.
Tending the Fire - Living in Rhythm to explore the Art of Teaching
Experience the integrated approach of Prana Vinyasa as a living and teaching flow to navigate the rhythms of body and mind. Through daily practices, workshop-style practicums and interactive presentations, you will learn and experience energetic, elemental sequences within Prana Vinyasa Flow as well as the Ayurvedic insight for awakened and illuminated living.
Email lunararts@yogaalchemy.com
Yoga Alchemy: the online school of Prana Vinyasa
Prana Vinyasa is dedicated to providing a full-spectrum mandala of solar-lunar practice for activating, balancing and nourishing the flow of yoga in daily life - the living of energetic vinyasa. Yoga Alchemy is our online school and support system for our teachers in training and students who desire to deepen their practice and understanding of Prana Vinyasa. The "pathways of prana vinyasa" is a practice guide to each the 10 Namaskars and 10 Solar-Lunar Sequences that correspond to each of the teacher certification modules: Foundation (Art of Namaskar/MOA/Art of Teaching Vinyasa), Elemental, Chakra, Rasa.
Prana Vinyasa is invested in your education and the assimilation of the transformative practices you will learn in teacher trainings and modules. We
offer sample classes and teaching materials in abundance for every training module. The embodiment of the knowledge received during your training is
key. Once home you will have time to digest the information through our online videos and living yoga sadhana courses. With each course we also have
private Facebook groups that are rich with connectivity and love, the perfect accompaniment to stay connected with your teachers and fellow tribe members.We
create sacred space in cyberspace!
Our vibrant online community offers ongoing workshops, courses and resources to stay connected and continue the deepening of your education and evolution
on the path. We celebrate and respect the householder’s rhythm by offering trainings and retreats that are accessible for students who need flexibility
around dynamic lives. You can choose the module rhythm that works for you and stay connected through year-round teacher training courses and live meditations.
Enhancing your education without having to leave your house!
Prana Vinyasa offers unprecedented, supportive online courses that include:
30 videos for solar and lunar Foundation (Roots) Prana Vinyasa, Elemental Prana Vinyasa and Chakra Prana Vinyasa sequences, filmed in Santorini and
Costa Rica
Art of Namaskar and Solar Mandala of Asanas: which covers 71 blueprint asanas, over 400 photos and short videos, written teaching cues for embodying
the threepart vinyasa and teaching energetic alignment of the core asanas of namaskars and of the blue-print asanas for each family of asanas
Advanced and Elective modules, Rasa Prana Vinyasa, Kalari Vinyasa, Prana Danda Vinyasa and Soma Prana Vinyasa, have online study programs each including 5 videos to practice the corresponding Prana Vinyasa sadhanas.
Step by Step Guide to Your Teacher Training Journey
The Prana Vinyasa Global School of Living Yoga is an evolutionary teacher training path offered across the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Students of the program are empowered to design their training based on personal intention regarding interest, location, cost, and length of time. Solar and Lunar training programs are available.
Step 1: Choose How and Where you Want to Begin.
Review the current calendar here as well as the Lunar program information here.
The 200/300/500hr programs require the foundation module Elemental Prana Vinyasa/ Art of Namaskar. The foundation modules are offered annually in Malibu, CA, Greece, India, and Costa Rica. Check the calendar for these location dates, as well as additional foundation offerings that may arise at yoga studios across the globe. Three week programs in these locations also complete the full 180 contact hours required for the 200hr certification. See the calendar for these dates.
The foundation modules may also be taken with a Prana Vinyasa Affiliate teacher trainer as Roots Prana Vinyasa/ Mandala of Asanas/ Embodying the Flow.
Please see our Global Training page for these dates.
Modules may be taken in any order, and up to two times for contact hour credit.
The 200hr program can be completed in two years maximum, and the 300/500hr programs in three years maximum.
Any modules offering contact hour credits can make up the remaining hours needed after completing the foundation courses.
The program hours consist of contact and non-contact hours. Contact hours are the live modules taken with either Shiva Rea or an affiliate trainer.
Non-contact hours are made up of supplemental online courses, required reading, and homework. Affiliate contact hours The breakdown of each program
is:
200hr: 180 contact hours, 20 non contact hours
300hr: 270 contact hours, 30 non contact hours
500hr: 450 contact hours, 50 non contact hours
You will incur the cost of the training modules, in addition to your accommodations and travel expenses. Shorter trainings are priced differently,
those details can be found on the calendar page of the website. In addition there, are membership and certification fees, as well as online courses.
Contact Hours Requirements
This is a brief outline of Teacher Studies Workshops:
Workshops are always evolving and transforming in the flow and are subject to change.
Based upon the teachings of Krishnamacharya’s lineage, Tantra, Sacred Arts, Ayurveda, Bhakti and Somatics, 200-500 Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training models the synthesis approach to integrating the roots and evolution of living yoga that Shiva has been pioneering for over 20 years of teaching in the fertile soil of LA’s yoga community and annual retreats to India.
Mandala of Asanas includes the uniquely Prana Vinyasa methods of Energetic Alignment, Hands-on Assists, Vinyasa Krama Sequencing for 108 Asanas. In this immersion, you will learn the energetic alignment for core asanas within the Mandala of Asanas™ based upon an integrated understanding of the movements of Prana, practical anatomy, and how to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment from head to toe, skin to subtle body. This module is often included in the scope of your Elemental Prana Vinyasa training or Greece-Costa Rica-Affiliate 200 hour trainings, because it may be combined with Art of Namaskar or Elemental Vinyasa.
Experience yoga as a way to embody the flow of our elemental body and invigorate our primary connection with nature from within the “roots and evolution of vinyasa” in the Elemental Prana Vinyasa module. This pathway includes 5 Elemental Namaskars and 10 Solar-Lunar Prana Vinyasa Wave Sequences. Elemental Prana Vinyasa is a unique part of our teacher training which offers the maps of embodiment through the elements as a way to recognize the flow of our elemental body and invigorate our primary connection with nature from within. This module is offered in a 5 day format (with Shiva) or in a 5 module weekend format with Senior Prana Vinyasa teachers.
Chakra Prana Vinyasa is a practical and inspirational exploration of the chakra system and yogic body. We will develop a transformative approach to the body mandala and learn to assess our imbalances and translate this into practical vinyasa yoga sequences for our self, private students, group classes and living the flow of yoga. Teachers will explore the 10 Solar/Lunar Chakra Prana Vinyasa sequences to balance and liberate your system. We will also integrate circular namaskars and sequencing, chakra-based meditation, mantra, mudra, and yoga nidra (deep relaxation). Our mission is to emerge nourished and inspired with tools to deepen your practice, teaching living yoga. This module is taught by Shiva in an immersive format globally.
Experience a full-spectrum yoga practice intensive into the art of Rasa Vinyasa™- an approach to sequencing vinyasa yoga drawing from yogic arts, tantra, and Ayurveda. In this teacher training, Shiva offers the theory and practice of Rasa Vinyasa by exploring three consummate rasas: Vira (strength, potency), Sringara (divine love and sensuality) and Shanti (living peace). You will explore the power of alchemical yoga that is sequenced in harmony with the energetic state of the day for activation, healing, and rejuvenation to bring balance and “juice” to your practice, teaching, and life. You will learn 5 advanced Rasa Prana Vinyasa Namaskars and solar and lunar Rasa sequences. This advanced module is only offered by Shiva worldwide in a week long immersive format.
Soma Prana Vinyasa is a regenerative practice that is connected to the inner water, ojas, essence, vitality, and amrita as the sublime nectar of healing - the energy that can green a desert and restore love. This new class format is distilled from 24 years of evolution of vinyasa and is the first module (part one) to offer how to teach lunar vinyasa as a balancing healing approach to transforming stress and tensions, cultivating ojas, and circulating nectar.
Evolving since 1994, Yoga Trance Dance emerged from leading innovator Shiva Rea’s
immersion and research into ritual dance while living in India, Africa, the Caribbean and Bali.
Learn to lead this internationally celebrated prana yoga and free-form movement meditation.
For yoga teachers and yogadventurers who are interested in the interconnections of yoga and dance, this Trance Dance intensive provides the basic tools to explore the foundations of yogatrancedance™.
Throughout our time together, we seek to create an embodied spirituality, opening
to and nurturing the creative juices, fiery passion, and wise depths of the feminine
in relation to nature and the sacred masculine. As we address the unique nature of
lives as contemporary women, we allow and honor the organic unfolding of each
woman’s experience and expression of yoga and life.
Experience an immersion into the balancing and dynamic Prana Mandala Vinyasa that is rejuvenating for all levels from beginners to teacher’s practice.
Enjoy learning to practically apply the elemental, chakra and mandala body maps to sequencing and embodiment in our daily life.
Review all four Elemental Prana Vinyasa Namaskara and wave sequences for balancing our life-force. Learn Chakra Meditation/Theory I to liberate and embody our natural flow, health and vitality. Receive the LIVE experience with your guide, Coral Brown who will integrate Chakra Psychology and online Elemental Prana Vinyasa home practice with founder, Shiva Rea.
PranaDandaYoga is an empowering and fluid way to center the mind and awaken the energetic spine (inner danda) by engaging with a specially designed 5 foot staff (outer danda). In yogic tradition the danda is perceived as a reflection of the central energy channel, a symbol of present-moment rootedness and serves as the pivotal axis which grounds one’s practice in guardianship; the penetrating quality of alertness that neutralizes all distraction.
Experience an immersion into the art, practices, and realization of the yogic-tantric view of the “body as temple”. Your immersion will bring you into the capital city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram for seven Kalari Shakti daily practices at CVN Kalari with Shiva’s teachers leading to the practice sequence of the “Puttara Vandanam” or core namaskar of Kalarippayatu.
In this immersion, we will cultivate the root of Chandra Namaskar and explore meditative dancing warriors in a lunar flow as we learn how to skillfully lead lunar wave sequences. You will receive the transmission of lunar elemental namaskars as movement mediation along with lunar prana vinyasa sequences integrating mudrasanas (long holds with inner visualization).
Living in Rhythm with nature’s sacred cycles and the elements is the essence of the Prana Vinyasa curriculum and life practices. The Prana Flow Yoga Wellness Program is an integration of full spectrum healing with the wisdom of yoga, ayurveda, health, and vitality, and is now being applied to our Teacher Training modules and online content as part of our 200/500/500 hour teacher training certification. These are skills a Prana Flow Yoga teacher can offer as a holistic approach to support well being within themselves and their students while embodying yoga as a path of living flow.
The 200 hour program is a foundational yoga teacher training program which is recognized by the Yoga Alliance. It offers you the foundational teaching methods and modules of Prana Flow® Yoga.
The 300-hour teacher training program is for yoga instructors that have already received a 200-hour certification through another school of yoga and are looking to deepen their studies and personal practice. Once the 300-hour program is completed, you are able to receive a 500-hour RYT certification through Yoga Alliance. This program offers the same foundational Prana Flow® Yoga modules and includes advanced and more in-depth training with electives and desired areas of further study. The 500-hour training program is for those interested in becoming yoga instructors that have not yet taken a 200-hour program and are interested in becoming a 500 RYT though the Yoga Alliance. This program offers the same foundational Prana Flow® Yoga modules and includes advanced and more in-depth training with electives and desired areas of further study.
It is best if you submit your application as soon as you are inspired to enter our program. This way you can begin our mentorship process and be supported every step of the journey.
If you choose to apply to the program after you have already taken a teacher training module with Shiva, those contact hours are still applicable toward your certification once you have applied to the program.
Although we recommend starting with Art of Teaching Vinyasa (Also known as Embodying the Flow) we understand that life rhythms may orient you differently so we are flexible on the order of progression. During each training we will offer afternoon sessions, which are tailored to the various needs of the teacher training kula.
Depending upon your travel flexibility and where you live, the 200 hour program could be completed in as little two 10-day programs (our Immersion programs that take place in Venice, CA and consist of two required modules) or as long as two years. The 300 / 500 hour program could be completed in one year (taking two Immersion programs plus additional elective modules) or two to three years, depending on your life rhythm.
We require that you complete the 200-hour program in a maximum of 2 years and the 300/500 hour program in a maximum of 3 years. If there is an extenuating circumstance please email the office at teachertrainings@yogaalchemy.com to request an extension and we will review the situation.
We have four options for completing the program:
1) Individual Modules: By looking at the online calendar (and speaking with your mentor or one of our Samudra Office Staff), you are able to create a program from our individual required modules offered at various locations around the country in any order, with the foundational module, Embodying the Flow, suggested as the first module.
2) West Coast Immersion Programs in Venice, CA: Offer two required modules per Immersion, allowing you to complete the required modules in two Immersion training sessions. *You must make sure that the number of contact hours adds up to 180 for the full 200 hour program.
For the 500 hour program applicants, the Immersion Programs offer you the required modules and many advanced programs are offered in Venice as well for elective hours.
3) East Coast Residential Week-Long Program at Kriplau, MA:One to Three, week-long residential programs are offered in Lenox, MA throughout the year and can be counted toward the 200/300/500 hour programs.
4) International Retreat Programs: Offered in Costa Rica, Europe and India. The retreat programs give Prana Flow® students a relaxing and transformative environment in which to absorb teachings and offer elective contact hours.
*Required modules are NOT offered on International Retreats. Elective hours only.
Yes, you can. In this case you would apply to the 300 hour training program. You are still required to complete the four required modules and then you are able to choose your elective modules to complete the rest of your contact hours.
Once you have completed the 300 hour Prana Flow® program you are able to receive your 500 hour RTY from Yoga Alliance.
Yes, you can tailor this program to meet your personal needs/ interest only and not be officially enrolled in the Prana Vinyasa® program. The Teacher's Exploratorium is the only module that requires previous Teacher Training modules.
Depending on the length of each module or Immersion you choose to take for and the contact hours offered, you may need 4 - 7 modules to complete the 200 hour program.
For the 300 or 500 hour programs, the number of modules you will need depends on how the number of contact hours that are offered for each module you choose. It's best to look at the online calendar and plan out your year by seeing what modules work with your life flow and checking the number of contact hours offered for each module. Typically the 300 and 500 hour programs can be completed in 2 - 3 years.
In addition to contact hours in each module there are requirements that further your evolution as a teacher. These requirements are offered as Evolutionary Self - Study programs and include:
In modules, you will be completing suggested readings with response questions, OM works are assigned and quizzed are given. In between your trainings you work on projects and near your program completion create your class video. At the completion of program you will be given take home exam.
After you have completed all contact hours required for your program, you will digitally send your materials via drop box to the office with your $108 certification fee. Once your materials have been received, the office will send you your exam via email, which you have 2 weeks to complete and send back to the office via email. Your projects and exam will be graded within 6-8 weeks of receiving exam. Once everything is graded, your Prana Vinyasa® Teacher Certificate will be sent to you digitally. For any questions please email teachertrainings@yogaalchemy.com
You have two weeks for the final exam to be completed and returned via email.
Each module's contact hours vary by the duration of the module. They can range from 3 for a teacher training workshop, to 45 for a module during the immersion (90 for both modules for full immersion), to 30 - 50 for a teacher training on a retreat. It is recommended that you check the venue that is hosting the teacher training's website to see the number of contact hours to plan your full program.
Generally, a:
5 day module = 45 hrs
10 day immersion= 90 hrs
One retreat week in Costa Rica/Greece = 60 hrs
To formally enroll in any of the programs please submit the Prana Vinyasa® Teacher Training Application form online. You do not need to have taken any modules prior to submitting an application, but it is recommended that you register for Art of Namaskar (Also known as Embodying the Flow), our foundational module, prior to or soon thereafter to help you become familiar with the basic teaching methodologies. Once the application is processed (this may take up to 2 weeks) you will receive our welcome email with detailed information on all of the evolutionary self-study programs, a module tracking grid and the certification requirements.
Once you apply, participants will be giving access to our online Facebook community group as well as having access to the office via email for additional questions regarding the program.
Office Email contacts:
Retreats - retreats@yogaalchemy.com
Online Courses - yogaalchemy108@yogaalchemy.com
Affiliate programs - affiliates@yogaalchemy.com
Teacher Training Program - teachertrainings@yogaalchemy.com
Assistant Program - assistants@yogaalchemy.com
General Contact - shiva@yogaalchemy.com
Yes, we are a Yoga Alliance Registered School. Once you receive our certificate of completion then it is up to you to submit our certificate to Yoga Alliance along with your application.
Each yoga studio or center that is hosting Shiva's teacher training module handles their own separate registration unless you are attending a teacher training retreat through Yogadventures (Upcoming Trainings). To register for the teacher training program you need to contact each organization separately and register through their office.
We allow two years for the 200 hour program and three years for the 300 / 500 hour program. If circumstances prevent you from completing the program in this allotted time and extension request can be submitted to teachertrainings@yogaalchemy.com
We offer residential trainings, depending on our location at Humaliwo, Malibu, California, Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts and at our global retreats in India, Costa Rica and Greece.
We offer modules in Malibu, CA, Denver, CO, Lenox and Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New Hope, PA, Providence, RI, Chicago, IL, Costa Mesa, CA Tampa, FL, New York City, NY, Frederick, MD, to name a few!
Immersions are offered in Humaliwo, Malibu, CA, Lenox, MA, Europe and Kerala, South India, Australia
Each facility determines specific costs depending on length and location of module being offered. The range in price varies from $345 for 4-day modules (10+ hours) to $1375 for a 10 day training (90 hours). Please check the host venue's website for pricing details.
Between Shiva Rea and Senior Teaching Staff, approximately 70-80.
Yes, most of our modules can be applied to our current program. We will work with each applicant to honor previous teacher training completed with Shiva and credit hours toward the certification program. However, we do require that the corresponding online course is also taken, no matter when the modules were taken.
Yes, we offer foundational modules and specialty modules with Prana Vinyasa® Senior Teachers. These hours can be applied to the 200/500 hour program. 30% of your contact hours can be taken with a Senior Teacher.
We also offer full Affiliate programs around the world!
To find an teachers near you, please check out our teacher directory.
Prana Vinyasa Supports Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equality on and off the mat.
Gratitude for comments and ideas by Robyn Donaldson, Prana Vinyasa Teacher, Lawyer and Diversity-Inclusivity Activist.
Our Evolutionary Vinyasa program is a creative, roots-to-evolution journey for self-motivated yoga practitioners seeking to integrate their diverse life experiences under the Great Tree of Yoga.
We empower teachers with a broad and deep foundation to embody and teach the flow of Prana Vinyasa Yoga. The program spans the full spectrum of yogic experiences - from meditation and advanced asanas to service in the world.
Our unique approach dynamically integrates the art of living and embodying yoga. With contact hours led by Shiva and Prana Flow Teacher Trainers, plus year-round support through the online Samudra Global School, we provide ongoing practice and study resources.
Teaching Path With Shiva Rea
Evolutionary Teacher’s Path mentorship with Shiva
Self Paced - You can begin any time
Develop your teaching through Teacher’s Evolutionary Labs and mentorship circles with Shiva Rea
MembershipBegin your journey with the core foundational modules: Embodying the Flow and Mandala of Namaskars. From there, craft a personalized program by selecting advanced, elective, and online offerings that allow you to:
Shiva Rea
Evolutionary Teacher’s Path membership includes access to:
The full 300-hour program can be completed online within 12-18 months. Live workshops and retreats are optional.
Our current model is designed for self-motivated practitioners who are looking to be stimulated.
No previous yoga certification necessary & open to applicants already holding a 200, 300, or 500-hour certification in a previous yoga teacher program looking to deepen their embodiment. When you join, you will receive your welcome letter & connect with our Community Coordinator.
Mondays: 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Tuesdays: 10:00 - 11:00 AM PST
Thursdays: 10:00am - 12:00pm PST
Sunday: 10:00 - 10:30 and special programs
(Tuesday Curated Prana Vinyasa)
All sessions can be attended live or via replay. We encourage you to attend the Teaching Lab on Thursdays live for the best opportunity to practice teaching the material covered each week.
We begin with the universal vinyasa of our breath flow and elemental energetic connection within our own ancestral traditions of firekeeping to studying within lineage streams of Shakta Tantra, Krishnamachary, Bhakti, Ayrveda, Kalaripayattu and Odissi Dance.
We return to India twice a year for “Living in Sacred Rhythm Retreats in the Winter/Maha Shivaratri + Fall/Navaratri cycles. See our retreats for more information.
Prana Mandala Flow is a roots-and-evolution journey into meditation as a way of life.
Explore this unique online offering, designed to support your practice and teaching of circular flow for full-spectrum embodiment and vital living.
Through movement meditation, embody the circular power of the mandala, anchoring daily life cycles in soulful wellness. In Sanskrit, mandala comes from “manda” (essence) and “la” (vessel or container). In this immersion, the mandala is embodied as your body, home, community, earth body, and cosmic rhythm.
This practice cultivates balance, fluidity, strength, creative pathways, and a big-picture perspective, offering benefits for all levels.
You’ll learn:
Solar and Lunar Prana Half- and Circular Mandala Flows
The roots of namaskar as a ritual practice, including seated mandala meditation, pranayama, mudra, and mantra
Standing Asana Mandala flows and balancing doshas with Prana Mandala Vinyasa
Solar-lunar movement alchemy principles for whole-body balance
Body Mandala practices inspired by Yoga, Shaiva Tantra, Indian Classical Dance, and Kalarippayatu
Circular sequencing and namaskars for tonification, circulation, and wholeness
Prana Mandala Vinyasa is a solar practice that builds whole-body awareness and flows vital energy in mandala patterns. Beginning with rhythmic breath and movement, this practice integrates intelligent, circular sequencing for harmony and flow.
Explore the Art of Namaskar through the journey of the year with Surya and Chandra Namaskars, Pranams (prostrations), and the creative unfolding of the 54 Namaskar Mandala. This weekly journey offers a dynamic exploration of these transformative practices.
Each month, you’ll learn variations of these namaskars, including:
Roots - Foundation Prana Flow:
Prana Flow Pranams with root-to-rise variations
Surya Namaskar with mantra (Solar, Lunar, and Half-Mandala)
Classical Chandra Namaskar with mantra and Prana Flow (Solar, Lunar, and Half-Mandala)
Rhythmic Vinyasa A and B with Three-Part Vinyasa variations
Dancing Warrior Namaskars (Solar, Lunar, and Half-Mandala):
Hip Opening
Backbends
Side Opening
Elemental Prana Flow Namaskars:
Bhumi (Earth) Namaskar
Jala (Water) Namaskar
Agni (Fire) Namaskar
Hridaya (Heart) Namaskar
Akasha (Space) Namaskar
Elemental Namaskar Soulful Wellness Classes:
Solar Prana Vinyasa - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space
Lunar Prana Flow - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space
Chakra Prana Flow
Prana Flow Chakra Mandala Namaskars:
Muladhara (Root) Mandala Namaskar
Swadhisthana (Sacral) Mandala Namaskar
Manipura (Solar Plexus) Mandala Namaskar
Anahata (Heart) Mandala Namaskar
Dive into these practices to embody the art of namaskar, fostering balance, creative flow, and connection with the rhythm of life.
Discover and embrace your sva dharma - your unique life purpose and passion! Students are empowered to embody the change they wish to see in the world through sacred activism and community service projects.
As an open system of yoga, this approach encourages students to infuse their unique intelligence, creativity, and voice into their sequences. Drawing from asana families, the five elements, and the energetic-emotional states of rasa, students cultivate a deeply personal and transformative practice.
From the core foundational modules Embodying the Flow and Mandala of Asanas, students then form a program from the advanced, elective and online programs that allow a student to:
• Shape their personal and professional interest with specialties in:
ayurveda, tantra, bhakti, pre-natal vinyasa, creative core, flow arts, yoga trance dance, prana danda yoga and kalarippayatu;
• Incorporate travel and pilgrimage into their studies by taking modules on retreats in India, Costa Rica, Greece, Europe, California and Hawaii.
• Be part of an online community of practitioners that connects live around the globe;
• Develop your sva dharma - life purpose through your teacher training program, including sacred activism.
Join a vibrant, supportive network of practitioners and teachers from around the world. Participate in live online sessions, year-round practice and study support, and engaging discussions
Uncover your sva dharma - your unique life purpose and passion - through the art of yoga and sacred activism. This journey empowers you to bring meaningful change to your life and the world by integrating creativity, service, and soulful wellness into your practice. With opportunities to craft your own sequences, connect with elemental energies, and explore transformative namaskars, this path inspires you to live and teach with authenticity and heart.
Step onto the path
Choose Vital Living to evolve your practice, or Evolutionary Teacher’s Path for all-access, special group life coaching, teaching labs, mentorship circles and 20 certification hours a month.
For practitioners and teachers
$108$84/ month
Follow the Journey of the Year with Shiva through new and live classes, seasonal practice and the ongoing Kalari course. Teaching Labs and teacher group mentorship belong to the Teacher’s Path.
Choose Vital LivingCertification program
$140$108/ month
Evolve your practice and teaching with Shiva through a curated library, live Teaching Labs and group Life Navigation mentorship. Art of Namaskar, Rasa and Chakra teachings unfold sequentially through the Journey of the Year.
Choose Evolutionary Teacher's PathPrana Vinyasa is a liberating, evolutionary, rhythmic, vinyasa flow class that encompasses mudra, bandha, pranayama, meditation, asana, kriya, and a whole lot of fun. It’s set to music, and it is almost guaranteed to raise your vibration, open your heart and set your mind free. And I love it. After years of being inspired by all different yoga styles, it was like a light went on inside. I’d finally come home.
All yoga styles are yoga. Each has different things to offer. None is the “right” way. What I love about Prana Vinyasa is that it’s core teaching is that it’s about connecting with your internal teacher. a.k.a that innate intelligence, or prana, that lives inside of you, and it’s about allowing it to guide you. It gives you the freedom within class to go with what your body is telling you.
After four days of Prana Vinyasa, my body had opened up and released more than in the previous few months of practicing other yoga. But the most important difference that I noticed was that I felt this sense of lightness and joy that spilled out of me and translated through into my teaching. I felt like I was able to transmit my passion for yoga more easily to them than ever before. This liberating. This joyous. Now I know that OF COURSE it is. Yoga is a celebration of Life, of the Life Force within us. Although boredom is an ailment of the mind, and as such, something that will cease with regular yoga practice, I KNOW that for many of my students, they get bored practicing the same postures over and over again. Prana Vinyasa introduces infinite (almost!) asana - for example, there are some 40 different versions of Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation). This is what Prana Vinyasa is all about embodying the flow of shakti. Invariably in my practice, it takes me to a place where the shakti is blocked, and as I breathe into that place, surrendering into my body… the blockage melts and the shakti is free to move through until it reaches the next blockage. This is the magic of Prana Vinyasa and the magic of yoga.
~ K.L.G
“I was really excited to come back to teacher training and reconnect with Shiva and my friends in the Prana Vinyasa community. The practices are so powerful and fun and transformative, but mostly I LOVE being in lectures with Shiva. She’s hilarious and at the same time transmitting such profound and intelligent information. It’s amazing. I appreciate all of the details that Shiva attends to in order to create such a potent experience for everyone. This week I gained an understanding of new ways of relating to the practice of yoga and how to transfer that wisdom into my personal life.”
~ A.C.
“This is my third teacher training program, as I’ve taken other trainings before Shiva’s with different teachers. I’m stunned by how much I’ve learned and transformed in this program alone. My yoga practice is SO much deeper now and more connected. I am empowered and confident in my life and know how to positively handle obstacles that arise. I’m learning lessons for life! I’ve also overcome my addictive patterns and now make choices from a place of self-care and love. Thank you Shiva!”
~ Anonymous student
“Prana Vinyasa is AWESOME!! And it’s not just for girls! I learn so much in these trainings and connect more deeply to my practice and myself every module. Shiva’s such a fabulous teacher. She’s fun, super intelligent, and spiritual all at the same time. It’s the best of all worlds of yoga. And creativity is encouraged, which I love. We have a great time. I feel like I’ve found my tribe. Thanks Shiva!”
~ D.M.
“I’ve always been attracted to Shiva because of her level of embodiment and the way she seems to move effortlessly. I wanted to learn and study from a teacher who has cracked the code to living in alignment with the Divine. I’ve been on a spiritual path and practiced yoga for most of my life, but have been missing something. Prana Vinyasa has helped me discover the missing piece, the embodiment and mystical connection with source. I love this practice. I love the community. I’m grateful for the online living sadhana and look forward to the courses to guide me along in my life. Thank you Shiva Rea. You’ve opened my heart to the missing piece, the inner essence of yoga.”
~ H.W.
Track Your Hours Keep a log of your contact (video) hours throughout your journey. The 300-hour program can be completed online within 12-18 months; live workshops and retreats are optional additions.
Embodiment Journal Throughout your training, you’ll keep a weekly embodiment journal reflecting on:
Select which entries to share when you certify - this is your personal transformation record.
Certify Live When you’re ready, schedule a live certification call with Shiva or staff (this will be private or in our teachers’ group). Video submission is also available if preferred.
Certification Fee $108 (paid separately at time of certification)
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Living in Rhythm & Flow
Practice with Shiva and our global collective of teachers, online.
