Yoga Intensive

Mandala of Asanas: Essential Tools for Teaching Flow

with Shiva ReaLondon

Teaching vinyasa flow is an art that requires a teacher to develop related tools using their voice, hands-on assists, observation and energetic attunement to provide guidance to facilitate the state of flow. In this 5 day intensive, you will learn the energetic alignment for core asanas within the Mandala of Asanas™ based upon an integrated understanding of the movements of prana, and how to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment from root to crown, muscles to subtle body.

• Experience practical application of the Mandala of Asanas™ to develop and evolve your personal practice and class sequencing

• Learn to teach alignment in the flow through Prana Flow™ movement patterns and Shiva’s three-part vinyasa™methodology to sequence vinyasa combinations with skill, effectiveness, fluency, and creativity.

• Learn to teach five primary alignment actions in any asana including foot patterns, spiral actions of the legs, position of the pelvis, and spinal alignment.

• Understand how to teach and verbally cue the energetic alignment and flow actions of the core “blueprint” asana of the mandala of standing poses, backbends, arm balances, core abdominals, forward bends, hip openers, twists and inversions.

• Develop Energetic Observation – begin to assess imbalances, blocks and leaks of energy flow within the asanas.

• Experience hands-on assists as both adjustment and “enhancement” to the core movement of the asana

• Rejuvenate and activate your flow of yoga through daily energetic vinyasa practices and meditation.

AND… finish off the week with Shiva by joining Jai Uttal for his London concert on the Friday night or make a weekend of it and join Jai and Nubia for a Bhakti Yoga weekend workshop

Required Reading and Materials:
Please read and bring Scientific Keys Volume 1: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long.
Please also read Articles on Yoga Injuries (downloadable below).

This intensive also counts as one of the foundation modules for Shiva’s own 200 hour teacher training.

Shiva will also be doing a more advanced training in France (residential) in September Chakra Vinyasa 2 and a Thursday evening workshop on 14 June called Inner Fire Mediatation

Articles on Yoga Injuries (PDF)

Related video: watch 'shiva rea mystic yoga goddess' (Shiva in White Sands photographed by Sion Michel)

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Los Angeles based Shiva Rea is a leading teacher of vinyasa flow yoga worldwide. Shiva began exploring yoga at the age of fourteen as a way to understand her name, given to her by her father, a surfer and artist. She has studied in the Krishnamacharya lineage, and explored Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement. Her studies and zest for life infuse her approach to living yoga and to 'embodying the flow'. She is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways. Read Shiva Rea's full biography.

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For more information please email info@yogacampus.com or call +44 (0) 20 7042 9900