Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Rhythmic Vinyasa utilizes pulsation of breath and body to teach energetic alignment and open the body in safe and effective pathways.
Prana Flow ~ Mandala Vinyasa
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Mandala Vinyasa takes us on a creative journey good for body and mind, opening circular pathways to practice and movement beyond the boundary of the yoga mat and linear ideas of asana.
Circle Sadhana~ Vinyasa of the Hoop
Experience a unique form of mind-body-awareness training using a hoop and Prana Flow-inspired vinyasa sequences. Integration of the Hoop, a symbol of unity and continuity, invites greater opening throughout the body, while honing one’s sensitivity, balance, and embodiment of energetic alignment. We seek harmony of strength and fluidity, that of the graceful warrior who serves the Sacred Hoop of Life. Class will be playful, joyful, and creative, both with and without the hoop.
AFTERNOON YOGA BLISS Get into balance with this feel good Vinyasa Yoga class all levels welcome. Beginning with grounding and breath alignment then flowing into an active meditation of mindful movement practice. This class will include hip openers, standing balances, core love, plenty of twists, heart openers and a relaxing Savasana. With a focus on listening to your truth and connecting with your intention, the yoga practice will realigning and re-energizing the body, mind, and soul.
BIO: Yoga for Jem is a way of being, a transformational opening to awareness and deeper self realization. When Jem was introduced to yoga, it was very humbling and she was intrigued by the challenge and insight it provided. After dedicating years of daily practice and realizing this was a way of living, she decided to complete Yoga Alliance certification with Rusty Wells and with Mark Stephens in 2007. She currently teaches yoga at Peacebank yoga studio, teaches aerial silk at several studios, and is a fire dance performer. Her teachings offer a playful and challenging experience where students evolve, celebrate, and are flowing with purpose. Her intention is to share the healing medicine, awakening truth , and divine connection that the yoga practice offers. When Jem is not practicing yoga in San Francisco, teaching all over in the Bay Area or dancing with the community, you can find her spinning with a hula hoop or flying with her aerial silk.
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Rhythmic Vinyasa utilizes pulsation of breath and body to teach energetic alignment and open the body in safe and effective pathways.
Prana Flow ~ Mandala Vinyasa
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Mandala Vinyasa takes us on a creative journey good for body and mind, opening circular pathways to practice and movement beyond the boundary of the yoga mat and linear ideas of asana.
Circle Sadhana~ Vinyasa of the Hoop
Experience a unique form of mind-body-awareness training using a hoop and Prana Flow-inspired vinyasa sequences. Integration of the Hoop, a symbol of unity and continuity, invites greater opening throughout the body, while honing one’s sensitivity, balance, and embodiment of energetic alignment. We seek harmony of strength and fluidity, that of the graceful warrior who serves the Sacred Hoop of Life. Class will be playful, joyful, and creative, both with and without the hoop.
AcroYoga PLAYGROUND Monkeying around is always more fun with friends! If you like to play on your hands, hang around upside-down, try new things with the assistance and support of others, join in! Partner work for refinement and excitement in handstands, ease and safety in walkovers, and excitement entering and exiting partner flying is freeing and empowering! Embody strength and openness without tiring out; break out your ultimate playful self and overflow the joy that is within all of us.
BIO:
A mover and shaker all her life, Michelle Nayeli embraces the wild, celebratory, and transformational aspects of embodiment, and lives for that nameless connection to the ecstatic divine which we often call “flow”. A lifelong dancer-yogini, Michelle has been blessed with amazing teachers throughout her life, having been particularly touched by Tim Miller, Tias Little, John Friend, the global AcroYoga tribe, Christopher‚ Hareesh‚ Wallace, Christopher Tompkins, and Shiva Rea, whom she continues to assist as much as possible! Nearly twenty years of yoga practice have woven together with studies in Ecology, Herbalism, Shaiva Tantra, Thai Massage, Contemporary Dance, Capoeira, Tribal Bellydance and Hoopdance to expand what embodiment practice means to her, and can be through her offerings as a teacher. Yoga is a state of connection to our essence and truth, and Michelle’s intention is to evolve our collective notion of Sadhana~ that there are many ways to reach the state of flowing presence and inner radiance!
Michelle Nayeli, a mostly self-taught hoopdancer, is a leader in the emergence of Hoopdance as a personal Sadhana. She has taught yoga, hoopdance, and somatic arts at studios across the country, national conferences and festivals for the past thirteen years. Michelle currently resides in San Francisco where she teaches public Prana Flow and Hoopdance classes while maintaining a private practice.
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Rhythmic Vinyasa utilizes pulsation of breath and body to teach energetic alignment and open the body in safe and effective pathways.
Prana Flow ~ Mandala Vinyasa
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Mandala Vinyasa takes us on a creative journey good for body and mind, opening circular pathways to practice and movement beyond the boundary of the yoga mat and linear ideas of asana.
Circle Sadhana~ Vinyasa of the Hoop
Experience a unique form of mind-body-awareness training using a hoop and Prana Flow-inspired vinyasa sequences. Integration of the Hoop, a symbol of unity and continuity, invites greater opening throughout the body, while honing one’s sensitivity, balance, and embodiment of energetic alignment. We seek harmony of strength and fluidity, that of the graceful warrior who serves the Sacred Hoop of Life. Class will be playful, joyful, and creative, both with and without the hoop.
AFTERNOON YOGA BLISS Get into balance with this feel good Vinyasa Yoga class all levels welcome. Beginning with grounding and breath alignment then flowing into an active meditation of mindful movement practice. This class will include hip openers, standing balances, core love, plenty of twists, heart openers and a relaxing Savasana. With a focus on listening to your truth and connecting with your intention, the yoga practice will realigning and re-energizing the body, mind, and soul.
BIO: Yoga for Jem is a way of being, a transformational opening to awareness and deeper self realization. When Jem was introduced to yoga, it was very humbling and she was intrigued by the challenge and insight it provided. After dedicating years of daily practice and realizing this was a way of living, she decided to complete Yoga Alliance certification with Rusty Wells and with Mark Stephens in 2007. She currently teaches yoga at Peacebank yoga studio, teaches aerial silk at several studios, and is a fire dance performer. Her teachings offer a playful and challenging experience where students evolve, celebrate, and are flowing with purpose. Her intention is to share the healing medicine, awakening truth , and divine connection that the yoga practice offers. When Jem is not practicing yoga in San Francisco, teaching all over in the Bay Area or dancing with the community, you can find her spinning with a hula hoop or flying with her aerial silk.
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Rhythmic Vinyasa utilizes pulsation of breath and body to teach energetic alignment and open the body in safe and effective pathways.
Prana Flow ~ Mandala Vinyasa
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living, as well as the energetic base of sustainability in embodied practices. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics, Therapeutics, Michelle Nayeli’s teaching of the last thirteen years and her years of study and assisting Shiva Rea. Mandala Vinyasa takes us on a creative journey good for body and mind, opening circular pathways to practice and movement beyond the boundary of the yoga mat and linear ideas of asana.
Circle Sadhana~ Vinyasa of the Hoop
Experience a unique form of mind-body-awareness training using a hoop and Prana Flow-inspired vinyasa sequences. Integration of the Hoop, a symbol of unity and continuity, invites greater opening throughout the body, while honing one’s sensitivity, balance, and embodiment of energetic alignment. We seek harmony of strength and fluidity, that of the graceful warrior who serves the Sacred Hoop of Life. Class will be playful, joyful, and creative, both with and without the hoop.