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'''Shiva Rea''' is a teacher of [[Vinyasa]] flow yoga and yoga trance dance. She is the founder of Prana Vinyasa Yoga. She is one of the best-known yoga teachers in America, and around the world.<ref name="Collins 2007">{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Amy Fine |date=15 June 2007 |title=Planet Yoga |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/06/Planet-Yoga |publisher=Vanity Fair}}</ref>
[[File:2007-08-24 Hawaii Shiva Rea.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Shiva Rea in Hawaii, 2007]]

'''Shiva Rea''' (born 1967) is a teacher of Vinyasa flow yoga, and yoga trance dance. She is the founder of '''Prana Vinyasa yoga'''.
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| nationality = American
| birth_date = 1967
| birth_place = Hermosa Beach, California
| sport = Yoga, trance dance
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==Life==
==Life==
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Shiva Rea was born in [[Hermosa Beach, California]], in 1967; her father, liking the image of [[Nataraja]], dancing [[Shiva]], named her after that Hindu deity.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She started practicing yoga when she was 14 years old, learning from a library book.<ref name="Collins 2007" /> She studied [[dance anthropology]] at [[University of California Los Angeles|UCLA]], completing her master's thesis in 1997 on "hatha yoga as a practice of embodiment".{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She studied under yoga and tantra masters including [[Swami Sivananda Saraswati]] and [[Daniel Odier]].{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}}
[[File:1 dancing Hindu god Shiva Nataraja Tanjore, India.jpg|thumb|upright|Rea's father liked the image of Dancing [[Shiva]] ([[Nataraja]]), and named his daughter after the god.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} [[Chola bronze]], 12th century, [[Tanjore]], India]]
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She practised the vigorous [[Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga]] for ten years, adopting a more [[Restorative Yoga|restorative style]] when she became pregnant.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She teaches [[Vinyasa]] flow yoga, having created her own style called Prana Vinyasa, and yoga trance dance.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}}<ref name="Gaia">{{cite web |title=Shiva Rea |url=https://www.gaia.com/person/shiva-rea |publisher=Gaia |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> She teaches in the USA and many countries around the world, touring each year.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} Teachers are similarly trained in the USA and around the world in 200, 300 and 500 hour courses in her Prana Vinyasa yoga, which claims to combine [[tantra]], yoga, and [[ayurveda]].<ref name="Training">{{cite web |title=Welcome to the Evolutionary Global Prana Vinyasa Teacher Studies Program! |url=http://www.shivarea.com/page/teacher-training |publisher=Shiva Rea |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prana Vinyasa Global Training |url=http://www.shivarea.com/calendar/global-trainings |publisher=Shiva Rea |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> She has contributed to publications including ''[[Yoga Journal]]''<ref name="YJ">{{cite web |title=Shiva Rea |url=https://www.yogajournal.com/author/shiva-rea |publisher=[[Yoga Journal]] |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Shiva |url=https://yogainternational.com/profile/594 |publisher=Yoga International |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> and ''Yoga International''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rea |first1=Shiva |title=Introduction to the Dosha Series |url=https://yogainternational.com/article/view/introduction-to-the-dosha-series |publisher=Yoga International |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref>[[File:1 dancing Hindu god Shiva Nataraja Tanjore, India.jpg|thumb|Rea's father liked the image of Dancing [[Shiva]] ([[Nataraja]]), and named his daughter after the god.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} [[Chola bronze]], 12th century, [[Tanjore]], India|left|267x267px]]


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==Honors and distinctions==
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Shiva Rea was born in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1967;<ref name="Collins 2007">{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Amy Fine |title=Planet Yoga |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/06/Planet-Yoga |publisher=Vanity Fair |date=15 June 2007}}</ref> her father, liking the image of [[Nataraja]], dancing [[Shiva]], named her after that Hindu deity.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She studied dance anthropology at [[University of California Los Angeles|UCLA]], completing her master's thesis in 1997 on "hatha yoga as a practice of embodiment".{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She studied under yoga and tantra masters including [[Swami Sivananda Saraswati]] and [[Daniel Odier]].{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}}
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She practised the vigorous [[Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga]] for ten years, adopting a more [[Restorative Yoga|restorative style]] when she became pregnant.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} She teaches [[Vinyasa]] flow yoga, having created her own style called Prana Vinyasa, and yoga trance dance.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}}<ref name="Gaia">{{cite web |title=Shiva Rea |url=https://www.gaia.com/person/shiva-rea |publisher=Gaia |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> She teaches in the USA and many countries around the world, touring each year.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} Teachers are similarly trained in the USA and around the world in 200, 300 and 500 hour courses in her Prana Vinyasa yoga, which claims to combine [[tantra]], yoga, and [[ayurveda]].<ref name="Training">{{cite web |title=Welcome to the Evolutionary Global Prana Vinyasa Teacher Studies Program! |url=http://www.shivarea.com/page/teacher-training |publisher=Shiva Rea |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prana Vinyasa Global Training |url=http://www.shivarea.com/calendar/global-trainings |publisher=Shiva Rea |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> She has contributed to publications including ''[[Yoga Journal]]''<ref name="YJ">{{cite web |title=Shiva Rea |url=https://www.yogajournal.com/author/shiva-rea |publisher=[[Yoga Journal]] |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Shiva |url=https://yogainternational.com/profile/594 |publisher=Yoga International |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> and ''Yoga International''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rea |first1=Shiva |title=Introduction to the Dosha Series |url=https://yogainternational.com/article/view/introduction-to-the-dosha-series |publisher=Yoga International |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described her as one of "yoga's rock stars".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hontz |first1=Jenny |title=Yoga's rock stars |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-21-he-yogistars21-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=21 August 2006}}</ref>


The author and [[Yoga for therapeutic purposes|yoga therapist]] [[Janice Gates]] honored Rea with a chapter of her 2006 book on [[women in yoga]], ''Yoginis''.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} Rea has contributed invited forewords to Mark Stephens's book ''Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques'',<ref name="Stephens2014">{{cite book |last=Stephens |first=Mark |title=Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_5OAgAAQBAJ |date=3 June 2014 |publisher=North Atlantic Books |isbn=978-1-58394-784-5 |at=Foreword}}</ref> to Alanna Kaivalya's book ''Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition'',<ref name="Kaivalya2016">{{cite book |last=Kaivalya |first=Alanna |title=Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQAaDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 |year=2016 |publisher=Mandala Publishing |isbn=978-1-68383-023-8 |pages=8ff}}</ref> and to Lorin Roche's book ''The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight''.<ref name="Roche2014">{{cite book |last=Roche |first=Lorin |title=The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=er4dBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP9 |year=2014 |publisher=Sounds True |isbn=978-1-62203-166-5 |pages=9–15}}</ref>
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==Honours and distinctions==


The author and [[Yoga for therapeutic purposes|yoga therapist]] [[Janice Gates]] honoured Rea with a chapter of her 2006 book ''Yoginis''.{{sfn|Gates|2006|pp=120–126}} Rea contributed a foreword to mark Stephens's book ''Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques''.<ref name="Stephens2014">{{cite book |last=Stephens |first=Mark |title=Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_5OAgAAQBAJ |date=3 June 2014 |publisher=North Atlantic Books |isbn=978-1-58394-784-5 |at=Foreword}}</ref> She has been called one of America's leading yoga teachers.<ref>{{cite journal |last=White |first=Barbara Prudhomme |title=The effects of yoga on incarcerated individuals’ selfperception of life orientation (optimism/pessimism), perceived stress, and self-efficacy. |journal=International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences |date=2015 |volume=2 |issue=2 |page=85 |url=http://indianyoga.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/v2-issue2-article2.pdf |issn=2278-5159}}</ref>
She has been called one of America's leading yoga teachers.<ref>{{cite journal |last=White |first=Barbara Prudhomme |title=The effects of yoga on incarcerated individuals' selfperception of life orientation (optimism/pessimism), perceived stress, and self-efficacy. |journal=International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences |date=2015 |volume=2 |issue=2 |page=85 |url=http://indianyoga.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/v2-issue2-article2.pdf |issn=2278-5159}}</ref>
''The Library Journal'' described Rea as a "big name" and a "well-established instructor", whose DVDs embodied the "highest production values".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shorr |first=Manya |title=Yoga/Pilates DVDs: A Healthy Balance |journal=The Library Journal |date=1 September 2009 |page=29 |url=http://www.yogaforrunners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/YOGADVDS.pdf}}</ref> In 2009 she created Global Mala Day to coincide with the United Nations [[International Day of Peace]].<ref name="Koch2014">{{cite journal |last=Koch |first=Anne |title=Competitive Charity: A Neoliberal Culture of ‘Giving Back’ in Global Yoga |journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion |volume=30 |issue=1 |year=2014 |pages=73–88 |issn=1353-7903 |doi=10.1080/13537903.2015.986977}}</ref>
''The Library Journal'' described Rea as a "big name" and a "well-established instructor", whose DVDs embodied the "highest production values".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shorr |first=Manya |title=Yoga/Pilates DVDs: A Healthy Balance |journal=The Library Journal |date=1 September 2009 |page=29 |url=http://www.yogaforrunners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/YOGADVDS.pdf}}</ref> In 2009 she created Global Mala Day to coincide with the United Nations [[International Day of Peace]].<ref name="Koch2014">{{cite journal |last=Koch |first=Anne |title=Competitive Charity: A Neoliberal Culture of 'Giving Back' in Global Yoga |journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion |volume=30 |issue=1 |year=2014 |pages=73–88 |issn=1353-7903 |doi=10.1080/13537903.2015.986977|s2cid=144764754 }}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described her as one of "yoga's rock stars",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hontz |first1=Jenny |title=Yoga's rock stars |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-21-he-yogistars21-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=21 August 2006}}</ref> and her classes as feeling "more like a multicultural dance session".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Herman |first1=Valli |title=How Shiva Rea found yoga -- and how it changed her life |url=https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-shiva-rea-20151010-story.html |access-date=1 August 2022 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=11 October 2015}}</ref>

In 2007 ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' called her "the [[Madonna]] of the yoga world" in a desert photo shoot; the photographer, Michael O'Neill portrayed her in Dancer pose ([[Natarajasana]]) wearing bikini briefs and an outsize bead necklace, with two tigers in a featureless flat landscape. The article said she was "the best-known instructor of Vinyasa flow yoga" and famous for "Yoga Trance Dance". It stated that she visits up to thirty-five countries every year on her teaching tours.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Collins |first1=Amy Fine |last2=O'Neill |first2=Michael (photographer) |title=Planet Yoga |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/06/Planet-Yoga |access-date=28 July 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=15 June 2007}}</ref>

==Controversy==

In 2017, Bizzie Gold of Buti Yoga published "An Open Letter to Shiva Rea", criticizing her claim to be teaching traditional yoga.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gold |first1=Bizzie |title=An Open Letter to Shiva Rea |url=https://butiyoga.com/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-shiva-rea |publisher=Buti Yoga |access-date=28 July 2020 |date=13 December 2017}}<!--this is the primary source, the actual open letter published by Buti Yoga, so it is reliable on this one matter at least--></ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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===Videos===
===Videos===
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* 2006 Sun Salutations: awakening the flow
* 2006 Sun Salutations: awakening the flow
* 2006 Yoga Shakti
* 2006 Yoga Shakti
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* 2016 Creative Core Abs: Water Core
* 2016 Creative Core Abs: Water Core
* 2016 Creative Core + Lower Body - Creative Roots
* 2016 Creative Core + Lower Body - Creative Roots
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== References ==
== References ==


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{{Reflist|28em}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
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* {{cite book |last=Gates |first=Janice |author-link=Janice Gates |title=Yogini: Women Visionaries of the Yoga World |date=2006 |publisher=Mandala |isbn=978-1932771886 }}

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* {{cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Janice |authorlink=Janice Gates |title=Yogini: Women Visionaries of the Yoga World |date=2006 |publisher=Mandala |isbn=978-1932771886 |ref=harv}}


==External links==
==External links==
{{official|http://www.shivarea.com/}}
{{Official website|http://www.shivarea.com/}}


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{{Yoginis}}
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{{Modern Yoginis}}
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Latest revision as of 16:08, 24 October 2024

Shiva Rea is a teacher of Vinyasa flow yoga and yoga trance dance. She is the founder of Prana Vinyasa Yoga. She is one of the best-known yoga teachers in America, and around the world.[1]

Shiva Rea
2007-08-24_Hawaii_Shiva_Rea
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born1967
Hermosa Beach, California
Sport
SportYoga, trance dance

Life

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Shiva Rea was born in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1967; her father, liking the image of Nataraja, dancing Shiva, named her after that Hindu deity.[2] She started practicing yoga when she was 14 years old, learning from a library book.[1] She studied dance anthropology at UCLA, completing her master's thesis in 1997 on "hatha yoga as a practice of embodiment".[2] She studied under yoga and tantra masters including Swami Sivananda Saraswati and Daniel Odier.[2]

She practised the vigorous Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga for ten years, adopting a more restorative style when she became pregnant.[2] She teaches Vinyasa flow yoga, having created her own style called Prana Vinyasa, and yoga trance dance.[2][3] She teaches in the USA and many countries around the world, touring each year.[2] Teachers are similarly trained in the USA and around the world in 200, 300 and 500 hour courses in her Prana Vinyasa yoga, which claims to combine tantra, yoga, and ayurveda.[4][5] She has contributed to publications including Yoga Journal[6][7] and Yoga International.[8]

Rea's father liked the image of Dancing Shiva (Nataraja), and named his daughter after the god.[2] Chola bronze, 12th century, Tanjore, India

Honors and distinctions

[edit]

The author and yoga therapist Janice Gates honored Rea with a chapter of her 2006 book on women in yoga, Yoginis.[2] Rea has contributed invited forewords to Mark Stephens's book Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques,[9] to Alanna Kaivalya's book Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition,[10] and to Lorin Roche's book The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight.[11]

She has been called one of America's leading yoga teachers.[12] The Library Journal described Rea as a "big name" and a "well-established instructor", whose DVDs embodied the "highest production values".[13] In 2009 she created Global Mala Day to coincide with the United Nations International Day of Peace.[14] The Los Angeles Times described her as one of "yoga's rock stars",[15] and her classes as feeling "more like a multicultural dance session".[16]

In 2007 Vanity Fair called her "the Madonna of the yoga world" in a desert photo shoot; the photographer, Michael O'Neill portrayed her in Dancer pose (Natarajasana) wearing bikini briefs and an outsize bead necklace, with two tigers in a featureless flat landscape. The article said she was "the best-known instructor of Vinyasa flow yoga" and famous for "Yoga Trance Dance". It stated that she visits up to thirty-five countries every year on her teaching tours.[17]

Controversy

[edit]

In 2017, Bizzie Gold of Buti Yoga published "An Open Letter to Shiva Rea", criticizing her claim to be teaching traditional yoga.[18]

Works

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Books

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  • 1997 Hatha Yoga as a Practice of Embodiment, UCLA thesis
  • 2014 Tending the Heart Fire: Living in Flow with the Pulse of Life. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1604077094

Videos

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  • 2006 Sun Salutations: awakening the flow
  • 2006 Yoga Shakti
  • 2006 Yoga Trance Dance
  • 2007 Fluid Yoga
  • 2007 Fluid Power
  • 2007 Radiant Heart Yoga
  • 2007 Fluid Yoga Spinal Stretch
  • 2007 Fluid Yoga Standing Strength
  • 2008 Flow Yoga for Beginners
  • 2009 Surf Yoga Soul
  • 2009 Daily Energy - Vinyasa Flow Yoga
  • 2009 Creative Core + Upper Body
  • 2009 Daily Energy Flow - Yoga Upper Body Core Stretch
  • 2011 A.M. Energy Yoga
  • 2011 More Daily Energy
  • 2012 Daily Energy Collection
  • 2013 Yoga in Greece - Deep Lunar Stretch
  • 2016 Creative Core Abs: Spontaneous Core
  • 2016 Creative Core Abs: Water Core
  • 2016 Creative Core + Lower Body - Creative Roots

References

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  1. ^ a b Collins, Amy Fine (15 June 2007). "Planet Yoga". Vanity Fair.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Gates 2006, pp. 120–126.
  3. ^ "Shiva Rea". Gaia. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Welcome to the Evolutionary Global Prana Vinyasa Teacher Studies Program!". Shiva Rea. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Prana Vinyasa Global Training". Shiva Rea. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Shiva Rea". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  7. ^ "About Shiva". Yoga International. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  8. ^ Rea, Shiva. "Introduction to the Dosha Series". Yoga International. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  9. ^ Stephens, Mark (3 June 2014). Yoga Adjustments: Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques. North Atlantic Books. Foreword. ISBN 978-1-58394-784-5.
  10. ^ Kaivalya, Alanna (2016). Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition. Mandala Publishing. pp. 8ff. ISBN 978-1-68383-023-8.
  11. ^ Roche, Lorin (2014). The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight. Sounds True. pp. 9–15. ISBN 978-1-62203-166-5.
  12. ^ White, Barbara Prudhomme (2015). "The effects of yoga on incarcerated individuals' selfperception of life orientation (optimism/pessimism), perceived stress, and self-efficacy" (PDF). International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences. 2 (2): 85. ISSN 2278-5159.
  13. ^ Shorr, Manya (1 September 2009). "Yoga/Pilates DVDs: A Healthy Balance" (PDF). The Library Journal: 29.
  14. ^ Koch, Anne (2014). "Competitive Charity: A Neoliberal Culture of 'Giving Back' in Global Yoga". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 30 (1): 73–88. doi:10.1080/13537903.2015.986977. ISSN 1353-7903. S2CID 144764754.
  15. ^ Hontz, Jenny (21 August 2006). "Yoga's rock stars". Los Angeles Times.
  16. ^ Herman, Valli (11 October 2015). "How Shiva Rea found yoga -- and how it changed her life". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  17. ^ Collins, Amy Fine; O'Neill, Michael (photographer) (15 June 2007). "Planet Yoga". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  18. ^ Gold, Bizzie (13 December 2017). "An Open Letter to Shiva Rea". Buti Yoga. Retrieved 28 July 2020.

Sources

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Official website

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