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Prana Vinyasa® Yoga Teacher Training Program

A Yoga Alliance Registered Program

Namaste! Welcome to our evolutionary Prana Vinyasa® Yoga Teacher Training Program. Prana Vinyasa® was created by Shiva Rea as a transformative and energetic approach to vinyasa based Yoga. Our unique program offers a dynamic approach to the art of living and embodying the flow of yoga.

In addition to completing your contact hours with our faculty, we have also created innovative, heart inspiring Self Study Projects and Programs to support your learning.

Our Prana Vinyasa® Certification Program is comprised of:

Contact Hours:

● 200 Hour: 180 Contact Hours (time spent with Shiva and faculty) ○ 54 hours (30%) max can be spent with approved Prana Vinyasa® Senior Teacher Trainers as an alternative to time spent with Shiva. ● 300 Hour: 270 Contact Hours (time spent with Shiva and faculty) ○ 81 hours (30%) can be spent with approved Prana Vinyasa® Senior Teacher Trainers as an alternative to time spent with Shiva. ● 500 Hour: 450 Contact Hours (time spent with Shiva and faculty) ○ 135 hours (30%) can be spent with approved Prana Vinyasa® Senior Teacher Trainers as an alternative to time spent with Shiva.

Non-Contact Hours:

● Required Readings for applicable modules ● Prana Vinyasa Asana Photos ● Teaching Demonstration ● Completion of Online Practices that correspond to modules attended ● Final Exam

You must complete:

● The 200 Hour program in a maximum of 2 years ● The 300 Hour program in a maximum of 3 years ● The 500 Hour program in a maximum of 3 years

Please note: If you have taken a required or elective module BEFORE applying to the Prana

Vinyasa® Teacher Training Program, you WILL receive credit toward your certification once you apply to the program if you have taken it within 3 years.

If there is an extenuating circumstance email the office at [email protected] to request an extension and we will review the situation.

To guide you in your evolutionary studies, this packet includes:

● Outline of the components needed to meet certification guidelines ● Project descriptions and requirements ● A Teacher Studies Tracking Checklist

Om Ganapataye Namaha! Auspicious beginnings and blessings upon your path!

Overview of the Requirements

For the 200 Hour Program: 180 Contact Hours Evolutionary Study Projects

Required Foundational Modules: Required Module Readings (when ● Art of Teaching Namaskar (also applicable) known as Embodying the Flow) ● Mandala of Asanas - (MOA Live) This Prana Vinyasa Asana Photos module is done with our foundational Art of Namaskar or Elemental Teaching Demonstration Video Vinyasa. Completion of Online Practices that Two or Three Advanced Modules (depending correspond to modules attended on hours and interest): ● Elemental Vinyasa Final Exam ● Chakra Vinyasa ● Rasa Vinyasa ● Other Optional Elective Immersions

For the 300 Hour Program: 270 Contact Hours Evolutionary Study Projects

Two or Three Advanced Modules (depending Completion of Online Practices that on hours and interest): correspond to modules attended ● Elemental Vinyasa ● Chakra Vinyasa Final Exam ● Rasa Vinyasa ● Other Optional Elective Immersions

For the 500 Hour Program:

450 Contact Hours Evolutionary Study Projects

Two or Three Advanced Modules (depending Sva Dharma on hours and interest): ● Elemental Vinyasa Completion of Online Practices that ● Chakra Vinyasa correspond to modules attended ● Rasa Vinyasa ● Other Optional Elective Immersions Final Exam

Overview of Certification Process

1. Complete all contact hours and put in Tracking Grid ● This can be found at www.shivarea.com/ttresources

2. Complete and submit Evolutionary Study Projects.

***To submit your projects, please create a folder on dropbox.com and organize your projects into a folder. Go to ‘Links’ in the left column and next to the file you have created there will be an image of a cog. Please click to get the link to your folder. You can paste this into an email and send to [email protected]. See image below for how to send link***

3. Pay $108 Certification fee ● Pay online via paypal at www.shivarea.com/ttresources

4. Complete Prana Vinyasa® Written Exam ● Once Contact Hours are completed and all projects are submitted, your final exam will be sent to you. You will then have 2 weeks to complete the exam. Allow 4 to 6 weeks for reviewing and processing time once you have completed the exam. We want to dedicate enough time to read and digest all of your hard work and dedication.

5. Receive your Prana Vinyasa® Teacher Certification and share your yoga knowledge and love with the world! Upon completion of all above, we will send you your certificate.

**Please note: Once you have completed Shiva Rea’s Prana Vinyasa ® Teacher Training and would like to receive your Yoga Alliance RYT®, you must apply online at: http:// www.yogaalliance.org/. **

Evolutionary Study Projects

The following projects comprise the non-contact hour requirements for certification. We strongly recommend that you begin these projects as you are completing your contact hours to support your training and learning. They are listed in recommended order for completion.

● Corresponding Online Practices ● Required Reading for application modules ● Prana Vinyasa Asana Photos ● Teaching Demonstration

Completion of Online Practices

For each live module that you attend, please also complete the corresponding online program. These programs will help you greatly deepen your understand of the live teachings. Below you find a table that shows which programs that correspond to each live module.

Live Module Online Practices Required Reading

Art of Teaching Roots Prana Vinyasa: Foundation Levels ● Tending the Heat Fire by Shiva Namaskar (also known Rea as Embodying the Flow) Namaskar Foundations: Classical to ● Heart of Yoga by Desikacher Core Required Dancing

Mandala of Asanas Art of Teaching Vinyasa - Mandala of ● Tending the Heat Fire by Shiva Asanas Rea ● Heart of Yoga by Desikacher Core Required Mandala of Asanas Energetic Alignment with Prana Vinyasa

Elemental Prana Elemental Pathway of Prana Vinyasa ● Encyclopedia of the Subtle Vinyasa body by Cyndi Dale

Core Required

Chakra Prana Vinyasa Chakra Pathway of Prana Vinyasa ● Encyclopedia of the Subtle body by Cyndi Dale ● Tending the Heart Fire by Shiva Rea

Rasa Prana Vinyasa Vira Rasa Prana Vinyasa ● The Dance of the Shiva by Ananda Coomaraswami Rasa Vinyasa Tending your Inner Fire

Kalari Vinyasa Flow like a River: Introduction to ● When the Body Becomes all Kalarippayatu in the Tradition of the CVN Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, Kalari and Practices of Powers in Kalarippayatu, a South Indian Martial Art by Phillip Zarrilli

Soma Prana Vinyasa Soma Prana Vinyasa (Coming Soon) ● Soma by David Frawley

Prana Mandala Vinyasa Chakra Pathway of Prana Vinyasa ● Mandala by Jose Arguelles

Optional for advanced studies: Chakras Unveiled with Christopher Tompkins

Prana Mandala Vinyasa (Future Online Course)

Prana Danda Yoga Prana Danda with Demetri Velisarius (Future Online Course)

Fluid Power Fluid Power (Future Online Course)

Required Reading List (Please always check required reading list for each event participating for most up-to-date required list)

Art of Namaskar ● Tending the Heat Fire by Shiva Rea (also known as Embodying the Flow) ● Heart of Yoga by Desikacher

Mandala of Asanas ● Tending the Heat Fire by Shiva Rea ● Heart of Yoga by Desikacher

Elemental Prana Vinyasa ● Encyclopedia of the Subtle body by Cyndi Dale

Chakra Prana Vinaysa ● Encyclopedia of the Subtle body by Cyndi Dale ● Tending the Heart Fire by Shiva Rea

Rasa Prana Vinaysa ● The Dance of the Shiva by Ananda Coomaraswami

Kalari Vinyasa ● When the Body Becomes all Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Powers in Kalarippayatu, a South Indian Martial Art by Phillip Zarrilli

Soma Prana Vinyasa ● Soma by David Frawley

Exam Preparation Reading Please choose one of the following books to read in preparation for the exam. Be prepared to answer questions on the text:

● Bhagavad Gita (any translation) ● Upanishads Translations by Eknath Easwaran ● Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (any translation) ● Yoga Spanda Karika by Daniel Odier ● Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Tranlation by Daniel Odier (in back of Yoga Spanda Karika)

Prana Vinyasa Asana Photos

As yoga teachers, we need to take responsibility for the transmission that occurs through our body as it is viewed by our students. In plain speak: our students will take on our “alignments and misalignments.” If your shoulders collapse in chaturanga dandasana, your students will mirror the weaknesses in your body and practice as well as – and most importantly– what is integrated and radiating consciousness.

Upload 10 photos of yourself in a Prana Vinyasa Asana and write a brief description of ‘how I got to this point so far in my asana evolution.’

Asanas to include: Tadasana, Uttanasana, Utkatasana, Adho mukha svanasana, Urdhva mukha svanasana, Vira 1, Vira 2, Parivritta Anjaneyasana, Urdhva dhanurasana, Chaturanga

Teaching Demonstration Project

Make a video while teaching oneself demonstrating:

1. (200/300/500hr) All of the namaskars that you have learned (1 round each) from each required modules you have taken (in groups of 5 namaskars) - Art of Namaskar, Mandala of Asanas, Elemental Vinyasa, Chakra Vinyasa, Rasa Vinyasa. a. For example, for Art of Namaskar and Mandala of Asanas, you demonstrate:

i. Rhythmic Vinyasa A

ii. Rhythmic Vinyasa B iii. Dancing Warrior One iv. Dancing Warrior Side Waist Opening v. Dancing Warrior Hip Opening vi. Dancing Warrior Backbending 2. (300/500hr) One wave of a Prana Vinyasa arm balance sequence that you have been given in your training and is reflected in the online sadhana. (Bhujapidasna, Bakasana)

3. (300/500hr) One wave of a Prana Vinyasa backbending sequence that you have been given in your training and is reflected in the online sadhana. (Urdhva Dhanurasana)

Your video will show that you embody the namaskars and sequences that are represented in the live teaching, as well as online. It will allow us to hear you cue the asanas as your move through the flow. This is not to show variation of the namaskars or sequences but that you embody and can teach alignment in the flow through the three-part vinyasa method and that your cueing reflects a naturalness, ease and integration to lead people into flow.

Sva Dharma: Development of a Personal Project (500/1008Hr only) Sva - Essential Self Dharma - Inherent Purpose

Develop an inspiring and practical personal project that deepens, expresses and manifests your inherent purpose.

Summary: Create and provide a 2 page summary/mission statement of your Sva Dharma project. Once you are enrolled in the program, you will begin to develop a personal project that can be nurtured as an extension of your studies and process of becoming a yoga teacher. This project is for inspiring, developing and anchoring the evolutionary seeds within you and is a service to your Self, and our service to you. It is experiencing the pure joy and satisfaction that comes through the creative process of manifesting who you are. Therefore, this project does not count for any extra contact or non-contact hours, but is purely for your self development. You can put as much energy as you like into these projects as well as network and co-create with other members of our Teacher Study Community or beyond.

You may want to sound off some of your ideas to your mentor or other members of the Prana Flow Community before honing your project. Send your summary to your mentor within the first three months of your studies. Follow the spanda...tend your inner flame...manifest your living dream. Suggestions of Sva Dharma Projects to fuel the fire of developing your own project:

Teaching:

● Develop and implement a plan for teaching and developing local classes (group classes, private, corporate,seva). ● Develop a class theme fully with poetry, philosophy, support materials for your students. ● Develop a workshop if you have been teaching for a minimum of three years. ● Develop a children’s yoga class at a local school or community.

Karma!Yoga/Activism: ● For those who have completed the Yoga Trance Dance Teacher Training, lead a Yoga Trance Dance benefit for our Dance for Life Program to plant 1,080,000 trees. ● Green your home and become carbon neutral. ● Volunteer in any way that serves people, creation and the sacred Earth.

Teacher Self Care: ● Go deeper into your understanding of your constitution in Ayurveda and the application of Dinacharya or daily self care. ● Experience Pancha Karma and journal your experience. ● Learn to cook delicious seasonal food for yourself, friends and family.

Writing Projects: ● Develop an article that you would like to write for online or print magazines related to yoga or a related pathway to your passion within yoga. ● Develop flyers or postcards to advertise your classes.

Travel Projects: ● Develop your India pilgrimage or join us in Kerala and plan a trip around the Ayurveda retreat.

Empowerment: ● Learn to surf, rock climb, salsa dance if that liberates your prana in a powerful way. ● Climb a mountain as pilgrimage.

Office Contact Information:

Teacher training and certification process, please email:

Natalie at [email protected]

For questions regarding online courses, please email:

Valerie at [email protected]

For questions regarding our affiliate programs, please email:

Karyn at [email protected]

For questions regarding our Malibu retreat site, please email:

Karyn at [email protected]

For questions regarding our international retreats, please email:

Karyn at [email protected]

For all other questions, please email: [email protected]

For feedback please email: [email protected]

Updated 3/13/2018