Shiva Rea began studying yoga at the age of fourteen as a way to understand her name given to her by her father, an artist and surfer. Shiva is an avid Ashtanga practioner who respects the core technique of the Krishnamacharya lineage (asana, bandha, pranayama, meditation) while being true to other streams of influence that have deepened her experience of yoga from dance and bodywork to rockclimbing and her extensive travels in India, East and West Africa, Nepal, Bali and the Carribean. She teaches flow (vinyasa) based yoga integrating alignment and intuition, strength and fluidity, meditation and wisdom in action. As a yogic usher, she guides you to the seat inside your Self and then supports your experience with your life-long teacher - the intelligence within. Shiva looks for your potential and both challenges and nurtures you to embody your being with vitality and grace.
Shiva has studied with some of the world’s best teachers who have fertilized her understanding of yoga including Chuck Miller, Maty Ezraty, Shandor Remete, Richard Freeman, Erich Schiffman, Lisa Walford, Rodney Yee, John Friend, Donna Farhi, Rod Stryker, Patrica Walden, Tim Miller, Anna Forest, Gary Kraftsow and the extraordinary Kirtan of Jai Uttal and Krishna Das. Shiva teaches at Sacred Movement in Venice, California. Her classes at Sacred Movement are special mandalas to experience the whole range of energy cultivated in yoga from the sweaty purification of vinyasa and the tapas of standing and balance poses to the multi-dimensional opening of backbends and the release work of deep twists and hip openers and the stillness of inversions and meditation. She works with world music in her classes and chanting as a means to help people syncopate with their natural rhythm and feel more at home in our skin.
She is also on the faculty of UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures Program where she received her Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy while studying world dance, cultural anthropology, comparitive religions and somatics.
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