Courtney Dillon, RYT-500. Courtney’s Prana Flow® classes are both challenging and invigorating, offering encouragement and a safe environment to release physical tension, gain strength and flexibility, and facilitate emotional healing. Her goal as a teacher is to help students’ uncover their personal truth, allowing them to lead more authentic and empowered lives. She brings these principles to her classroom, encouraging students to notice their minds as specifically as they notice their bodies, creating an intensely dynamic class. Courtney completed her 500-hour training as a Prana Vinyasa Flow Teacher from Shiva Rea’s Samudra Global School of Living Yoga in Venice, California. Additionally, she holds a 200-hour certification from renowned teacher Dharma Mittra in New York City and Advanced Teacher Training Certification from Ana Forrest of Forrest Yoga. Courtney currently serves as a mentor for teacher trainees in Shiva Rea’s program and is a member of Shiva Rea’s assistant program. Courtney holds a Master Degree of Fine Arts in Poetry from University of Maryland where she was awarded the prestigious poetry fellowship. She considers her devotion to poetry and yoga a way to spend her life walking in beauty.