Shiva Rea serves the art of yoga around the world inspired by her Sat Guru Mata Amritanandamayi and thirty years of pilgrimage and studies in India.
As founder of Prana Vinyasa and the Samudra Global School for Living Yoga, Shiva honors the roots of yoga, Ayurveda, and tantra in creative, life-transforming courses and trainings.
Her studies in Tantra, Ayurveda, Krishnamacharya lineage, Kalaripayattu, Odissi and somatic movement infuse an approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. Her book, “Tending the Heart Fire – Living in Rhythm with the Pulse of Life” offers vinyasa as movement meditation for life-regeneration and following the flow of 54 Namaskar as a mandala for the journey of the year.
Shiva teaches in conferences, festivals, and actions for the environment, yoga, and the arts, from the International Yoga Festival to Bhakti Fest. Shiva Rea received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in World Arts and Cultures where she started the first yoga program at UCLA.
Her dharma is to support thousands of students, teachers from around the world on how to integrate yoga as a way of life.
