Prana Vinyasa Jungle Christmas and New Years Retreat (week 2)

With Shiva Rea and Demetri Velisarius

December 24 - 31, 2016

Date and Time Details: Space is very limited, register now! We want to share the love to you while airfare direct to Liberia or San Jose/Nosara is still on sale. If you are ready to activate the Solstice New Year or need a break but the Euro-Pound exchange is rough - this ocean immersion/prana vinyasa/200-300hr TT is for you. Email for family rate. First Come First Serve!

Location: Blue Spirit

Address: Nosara Costa Rica

  • Hermitage (couple) double occupancy per person – $1,900.00
  • Costa Rica - Eco-Cottage (double) – $1,600.00
  • Nature Suite with A/C, (couple) per person – $2,100.00
  • Pacifico Cottage with A/C (couple) per person – $2,150.00
  • Hermitage (single) – $2,300.00
  • Mountain View Room with A/C double occupancy per person – $2,150.00
  • Ocean View Room with A/C (double) per person – $2,250.00
  • Superior Ocean View with A/C, (couple) per person – $2,350.00
  • Nature Suite with A/C, (double) per person – $2,100.00
  • Nature Suite with A/C, (single) – $2,700.00
  • Pacifico Cottage with A/C (single) – $2,700.00
  • Superior Ocean View (Single – $3,100.00

Retreat always sells out as this is the most extraordinary sacred ocean sanctuary to bring in the Winter Solstice-Jungle Christmas-New Year.

Awaken the power of the Solstice – New Year with a transformational Sol Revival retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica, a world-class surf spot and turtle reserve where the power of the warm, healing ocean meets the jungle.

Week 1: Solstice Revival – December 17th – 24th, 2016
Week 2: Prana Vinyasa Jungle Christmas/New Year’s Retreat December 24th – 31st, 2016
Week 3: Rasa Vinyasa – The Art of Living Flow December 31st, 2016 – January 7th, 2017
3 Week Immersion offers full 200 hour Prana Vinyasa Teacher Training (core 300/500-hr) * or Enjoy 1 or 2-week options with 60-hour TT segments per week

Chakra Vinyasa – Liberating the Body Mandala

Experience an immersion to tend the inner fire through the transformative full-spectrum practice of Chakra Vinyasa integrated with sublime teachings and meditations of the earliest Tantras.
Our journey will move through the Chakra Prana Vinyasa sequences refined over the last decade and integrated with the teachings and meditations from the earliest Tantra. Each day we will explore chakra prana vinyasa sequences to balance and liberate your system integrating chakra mandala namaskar, circular sequencing, chakra-based meditation, mantra, mudra, and yoga nidra (deep relaxation). We will also integrate movement meditations from prana vinyasa for exploration and embodiment.
Through this practical and inspirational exploration of the chakra system and yogic body, we will develop a transformative approach to the body mandala and learn to assess our imbalances and translate this into practical vinyasa yoga sequences for our self, private students, group classes and living the flow of yoga.
In a world where we can see the disconnecting effects of a “dim fire” or the burn out of the “excessive fire”, inner firekeeping is an all-encompassing metaphor for the yoga of householder life. The chakra system brings together the alchemy for tending the fire of the many dimensions of ourselves – root to heart to crown, inner and outer. Our mission is to emerge nourished and inspired with tools to deepen your practice, teaching living yoga.
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Highlights:

Embody and Teach Five Elemental Namaskars – Bhumi (earth) Namaskar, Jala (water) Namaskar, Agni (fire) Namaskar, Hridaya (air) Namaskar, Akash (space) Namaskar.

Practice and learn the principles of Five Solar Prana Flow Sequences to explore and continue to embody through Samudra’s Online Pathways of PranaFlow Program for certification.

Principles of Prana Flow Movement Alchemy for sequencing elemental vinyasa
Understanding the Microcosm-Macrocosm of the Elemental Body within Yoga and cross-culturally and the importance of embodying nature in our current times of ecological change

Integration of Tantric-based elemental meditation

Caring for the Elemental Body through Ayurvedic Dinacharya and Lifestyle (Daily and Seasonal) Rhythms

Experience the Prana Danda Yoga Elemental Movement Meditations

Prana Vinyasa Online Training is required for this training. The Elemental Prana Vinyasa Course offers you ten (1.5 hour) solar and lunar video practices for your continuing practice and support. Live teaching emphasizes hands-on assist, personal embodiment and understanding of Elemental Prana Vinyasa sequences.

EMBODYING THE FLOW + MANDALA OF ASANAS TEACHING LAB

Each week of our teacher training immersion will include teaching labs for Embodying the Flow and Mandala of Asanas.
Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training Program is for aspiring and seasoned teachers as the introduction to a wholistic, energetic approach to teaching vinyasa as more than a technique or style of yoga but a way of guiding the flow of our body, practice and life. Based upon the teachings of Krishnamacharya’s lineage, Tantra, Sacred Arts, Ayurveda, Bhakti and Somatics, 200-500 Evolutionary Vinyasa Teacher Training models the synthesis approach to integrating the roots and evolution of living yoga that Shiva has been pioneering for over 20 years of teaching in the fertile soil of LA’s yoga community and annual retreats to India. Teaching vinyasa is an art that requires a teacher to develop related tools using their voice, hands-on assists, observation and energetic attunement to provide guidance that facilitates the state of flow of a class.

In this week-long immersion, you will learn the energetic alignment for core asanas within the Mandala of Asanas™ based upon an integrated understanding of 1) the movements of Prana; 2) embodied practical anatomy; 3) how to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment.

 

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Teaching Labs include:

Embody Prana Vinyasa Wave Sequences
Teaching the rhythm and flow of our breathing body as synched with the universal pulse
Embodying the Sun-Moon for balancing active-meditative states within yoga and life* Learn the Wave of a Class – Leading Class Openings and Movement Meditation
Asanas as Mudras – Intro to the Energetics and Poetry of the Body
Hands-on assist and teaching cues for core asanas
Prana Flow Three-Part Vinyasa method for teaching alignment in the flow
Daily Meditation and Pranayama and the basics for personal practice and teaching* Daily Tantric-based meditation and yoga nidra for regeneration.
Roots-Evolution Background
The philosophical roots of Vinyasa Yoga and the embodiment of tantric hatha yoga
The Origins of Sun Salutations and Evolution of Prana Flow Namaskars
Embodying Prana – Understand five movements of Prana underlying all of the asanas and movements of nature
Living Vinyasa – the micro-macro cycles that guide living flow and the wave of a vinyasa flow class
Learning Krishnamacharya’s principles of Vinyasa KramaMandala of Asanas -Essential Tools for Teaching Vinyasa
Energetic Alignment™, Hands-on Assists, Vinyasa Krama, Prana Flow Three-Part Vinyasa™, and Wave-Sequencing™ for 108 asanas
Learn Prana Flow Wave Sequencing for Five Solar Sequences for backbends and arm balances and Five Lunar Sequences for deep flexibility and regeneration.
Learn to teach energetic alignment with skill, effectiveness, fluency, and creativity.
Work with Prana Flow Three-Part Vinyasa Method and Vinyasa Krama to teach to all levels.
Experience Prana Vinyasa method of hands-on assists and “enhancements”
Self and partner massage for regeneration and learning muscles, joints and boney landmarks of the body relevant to practice.

Please visit http://www.ShivaRea.com for additional retreat details and stay connected with the tribe through Shiva’s PULSE e-newsletter.

Registration questions can be directed to retreats@yogadventures.com

About the Leaders

Shiva Rea

Movement is life for Shiva Rea, M.A, global prana vinyasa teacher, activist, and innovator in the evolution of vinyasa yoga around the world from large-scale festivals and conferences to unplugged retreats. She has taught thousands of students, teachers, and movers and shakers how to integrate yoga as a way of life. As founder of Prana […]

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Demetri Velisarius

Demetri Velisarius, BSW, RYT 200, is a social worker, personal trainer, ex-boxer, bicycle racer, and Prana Flow Yoga teacher in the accomplished style of yogini Shiva Rea. Prana Flow yoga teacher and a tantric meditator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Vajrayana and Dzogchen. He has accomplished numerous meditation/yoga retreats and pilgrimages worldwide over the […]

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