Shiva Rea, this month’s featured teacher in Yoga Journal’s new online Master Class series, calls herself a movement alchemist. Here, she shares her love of Sun Salutations. Read on for her inspiring story and an exclusive practice.
Prepare for a life-changing Sun Salutation practice with Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow pranams.
Celebrate the summer solstice and second International Day of Yoga with Shiva Rea's Prana Flow pranams, a healing movement meditation featuring whole-body prostrations to the earth.
Shiva Rea offers five hand mudras to cultivate heart consciousness in celebration of the Summer Solstice and the First International Yoga Day.
Prana Vinyasa founder Shiva Rea has an Earth Day eco-challenge for you: 10 body mudras and eco-actions to help you connect to the Earth.
Vinyasa yoga teaches us to cultivate an awareness that links each action to the next—on the mat and in our lives.
Get your inner glow on with gently flowing, quieting Moon Salutations.
Shiva Rea recommends infusing asanas with affirmations to call forth your deepest intentions.
Shiva Rea offers tips from yoga and Ayurveda for calming nervous energy and anxiety.
Shiva Rea answers how yoga can ease back problems.
The five koshas, or 'layers' of the body, constitute a map for navigating the inner journey.
The next time you find yourself going through the motions in your yoga practice, why not imagine that your mat ends at the edge of the Grand Canyon?
Anjali means "offering," and in India this mudra is often accompanied by the word "namaste."
It's a twist! It's a standing pose! It's an arm balance! The super-pose Visvamitrasana is all of those things and more.
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Find the best prenatal yoga poses for all stages of your pregnancy.
Here's how to integrate it into your flow and your life.
Based on Taoist Meditation practice, Shiva Rea's inner smile meditation is an opportunity smile at yourself and embrace your happiness.
By visualizing your heart as a lotus flower, you can begin to create a safe, comfortable place for your mind to settle.
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This contemplation meditation is an opportunity to focus "thinking mind" on the mystery of being.
Shiva Rea offers a meditation is based upon the mantra "so hum," ("I am that") used within the traditions of Tantra and Vedanta.
Meditation invokes a shift in consciousness, whether in stillness or motion.
Head-of-the-Knee Pose fosters flexibility in the hamstrings and spine while calming the nervous system.
This is no easy chair. Sit back and power up in Chair Pose.
Learn how to do Downward-Facing Dog Pose properly for the ultimate full-body stretch.
Let Warrior II teach you how to bring more wisdom, courage, and unwavering focus into every action.
Spread consciousness throughout your body, head to toes, surface to core in Cobra Pose.
This concentration practice grounds you in the present moment.