There is a method to Shiva’s madness. We learned in day two why we were taken through the extremely tough series of arm balancing asanas on day one. She showed us how her yoga sequencing prepares the body through the class to go into the toughest asana at the peak. She doesn’t prefer to use [...]
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I am in the middle of taking Shiva Rea’s four-day foundational teacher training intensive, “Embodying the Flow.” Yesterday was day one. Well, I survived. First off, nothing could totally prepare you for this other than four hours of yoga a day – and who has time for that except full-time yoga teachers? My arms hurt [...]
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I honestly don’t get the fascination with Bikram (generic term: Hot Yoga). We’ve been having this awful heat wave in LA, and I went to a regular yoga class on Sunday that was just steaming hot. The teacher ended up putting on the air conditioning, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. (And this [...]
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Sometimes we can get spoiled in Los Angeles, seeing as it’s the American hub of yoga. We’ve got the best yoga teachers and the best yoga studios in the country. I’ve already studied with Shiva Rea; last night I ventured bravely out to Hollywood for a Full Moon Yoga class with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge. [...]
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I participated in Shiva Rea’s Yoga Trance Dance Teacher’s Training in Venice, California over the weekend. I am not a yoga instructor – but the class was advertised to both yoga teachers and “yogadventurers” so I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m not even sure where to begin to review the workshop. It was, [...]
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I’ve signed up for Shiva Rea’s Yoga Trance Dance Teacher Training this weekend…looks like it will be a lot of fun! It will be a weekend intensive that includes two Yoga Trance Dance nights. The schedule is a bit strange and I will have to get up for a 6:30-8:55 am session on Friday morning [...]
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