The Beauty of Prana Flow Yoga with Coral Brown

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Dania

When Coral Brown isn’t busy traveling the world educating her students on their path to mastering the body and mind, you can find her in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Coral, a successful yoga instructor that attracts various yoga students and centers for her style of teaching, practices Prana Flow Yoga created by Shiva Rea. She received her MA, 500-eRYT in Prana Flow Yoga, and hosts 200-eRYT and 500-eRYT teacher trainings.

Coral’s teaches Prana Flow Yoga, Heated Prana Flow, and Vinyasa flow. The definition of Prana Flow Yoga, Coral’s specialty, can be broken down as “Prana” signifying life force creation, and “flow” as “the state of unified consciousness.” Prana Flow Yoga focuses on empowerment and is described as “the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence- as navigating source of yoga practice and vital living,” by the creator of the practice, Shiva Rea.

This internationally known yoga instructor revolves her work around “uniting the body, mind, and spirit to transcend into physical asana and create space for conscious evolution.” Continue reading →

According to a student testimonial, Coral’s teachings help you find “Freedom on your mat.” Her teachings also appeals to many because her students feel as if they increased their connection with the universal life force by honoring the “river of Prana” through breathing practices, increasing ones own capacity for compassion and self revelation.

Coral’s deep understanding for Prana Flow Yoga is what keeps students coming back. According to the experts, Prana Flow Yoga is good for creating strength and fluidity of the body and mind, great for finding vital energy and the relaxed being inside of you. More specifically, it is a cultivation of the art of yoga through movement, music, sound, visual arts and Vinyasa. (To learn more about the benefits of Prana Flow, visit this page!)

Coral Brown will be attending the 2013 Burlington Yoga Conference! We are very excited to have her as a returning instructor because Coral has similar ethics as we do here in Vermont. She is conscious about serious matters such as the environment, sustainability, and for supporting local businesses. Also, it will be fun to learn more about Prana Flow with Coral, you will end up leaving empowered and revitalized!

Kreg Weiss: Yoga, Food, and Living

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dania

If yogi Kregg Weiss, could describe the mission of his work, it would be described as “Exploring vitality through yoga. Food. Living.” This Canadian Native studied Kinesiology and Health Sciences at University of British Columbia, where he learned valuable information about the human body. Kreg is a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher, International Presenter and Kinesiologist. He travels all over the globe, including Dubai, Canada, and the USA educating his students on how to heal the body and mind.

As a blogger of his own personal website, Kregg has been highly successful in reaching out to yogis. In fact, his blog is one of the most looked at pages in the yoga world. His passion to teach yoga and belief that one must practice consistently has led to the success of his website. Kreg posts online yoga videos, because he realizes that people are busy and do not have time to practice yoga everyday at the same. His yoga video blog posts enable people do yoga when they have time, and still keep a consistent practice.
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Kreg uses three approaches into finding a way to rejuvenate and heal the body and mind. Using asana, pranayama, and mediation and his background in Kinesiology, Kreg helps his students reach their goals in finding control and vital energy. Empowering students is the main goal for this outstanding yoga instructor whether you are a beginner or expert. Not only does Kreg empower students through practice, but Kreg also posts on his blog about nutrition and the importance of healthy food.

Kreg’s blog is empowering to students all over the globe because of the positivity found in his posts. He looks at yoga as just more than a practice, it is about being healthy and conscious of our bodies. In his post titled, Empower Your Nutrition by Reading Food Labels, Kreg writes about food items that should be avoided to due negative health impacts. Other blog posts look at using yoga as an aid to weight loss, but encourages people to look at it as “healthy living” rather than losing weight. His positive attitude and views on sustainability are characteristics that fit into the lifestyle of people living in Burlington, Vermont.

Read some testimonials about Kreg! He will be presenting a Yoga Anatomy Workshop at the 2013 Burlington Yoga Conference.

Meet Sudha: Kripalu Multi-Award Winner

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dania

Take a look at Sudha’s FREE online yoga video! Perhaps it will encourage you to see and learn more about her teachings personally, at the Burlington Yoga Conference on May 2013.

The unique Sudha Carolyn Lundeen is a yogi that sounds out from the crowd. As a certified holistic health nurse, Sudha has a great understanding of the human body and mind. Her expertise in health arts is attributed to her eclectic personal work as an Ayurvedic Health & Lifestyle Coach, Yoga Instructor, and Senior Kripalu teacher.

Sudha who originally works in Lenox, Massachusetts, is a yoga instructor at Phoenix Rising Yoga. As a Senior Kripalu teacher and expert, she leads 200 and 500- hour level Kripalu Yoga Teacher Trainings. Sudha works with people from all different walks of life by hosting group classes, workshops, and trainings. She travels around the country spreading her teachings and mission behind her work called “Body Paths.”
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Using ancient modern art, and healing techniques for self-discovery, one can use “body paths” to heal and open their minds. Sudha states “Body paths embodies that place of deep centeredness residing within each of us, that axis (wellspring) from which our authentic wholeness emanates, reflecting the world around us.”

Sudha’s personal mission reflects the heart of her work; it considers that every individual is unique and sacred. Through her mission she helps lead a path for her students own unique lives. To many, Sudha’s mission appeals to her students because her yoga teaching approach differs from student to student. She realizes that no one is the same, and therefore she has a unique plan for each of her students.

Her reputation is known for her gentle, humorous, and healing attitude. As a person who experienced the battling stages of breast cancer, she has healing powers through her teachings. A highlight as part of her work includes her specialty in helping women combat breast cancer every step of the way. Other highlights of her work include restorative yoga, stress management, pre and post surgery preparation, and integrative approaches to health and vitality through Ancient teachings of Ayurveda.

BYC Teacher Feature: Shakti Sunfire in Yoga Journal

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Burlington Yoga Conference

BYC is so excited to see this creative image of Shakti Sunfire on the cover of this month’s Yoga Journal, May 2012!

Shakti is an incredible yogini and leader of the worldwide Hoop Movement. We can’t to see Shakti’s performance at the Liberate Spring Gathering! Learn how to hoop with Shakti At BYC!

BYC Teacher Feature: Coral Brown on Yoga Journal cover

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Burlington Yoga Conference

We love this picture of Coral Brown on the May 2011 issue of Yoga Journal, which captures the liquid nature of Prana Flow. Come study with Coral at BYC!

1. Saturday, May 5, 11 am-12:30 pm
Chakra Namaskar:
Accessing the chakras through our yoga practice can provide us with a deeper connection to our energetic centers. Chakra Namaskar, a Prana Flow® sequence allows us to steep in specific movement patterns correlating to each chakra. Through awareness combined with movement we will balance the energy body, as well as the physical and mental bodies.

2. Saturday, May 5, 2:30- 4 pm
Collective Flow
We will flow in a creative, dynamic method based upon vinyasa krama (stages of evolution). Therefore, this practice is open to yogis of all levels. Within this class,multi-dimensional sequencing will allow us to integrate standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists and hip openers. Using the movements of Prana to provide the experience of energetic alignment within the flow will lead to the cultivation of the fluid body. Please join in the collective journey along the river of prana that flows within us, and all around us.

BYC Yoga Teacher Feature: Meet Jill Campbell

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Burlington Yoga Conference

Jill Campbell: Instructor, AcroYoga Montreal

1. When was your first introduction to yoga? I had my first yoga class at the kinsmen centre in Edmonton, Alberta. I was 19. I remember feeling thrilled when we went into a shoulderstand, challenged, yet calm. Yoga has been present in my life ever since.

2. How did you get into teaching yoga? How many years have you been teaching, and where can people find your classes?
I was living in Beijing for a time from 2005 – 2007. I met a teacher from India and was immediately intrigued by his style of practice. He and I spent a Saturday together every month and so was born my first teacher training. I began sharing what i knew with fellow teachers and parents at the primary school I was teaching at. I offered a free class on Tuesdays after school and we had a fantastic group. It was also in Beijing that I began to explore Acroyoga with a circus base. When I moved to Montreal shortly after returning to North America I found Jessie and Eugene of Acroyoga Montreal and immediately there was a perfect fit.

I currently teach yoga in Montreal at Studio Bliss, Vert Prana and Acroyoga at Ashtanga Yoga Montreal. I recently traveled teaching in Costa Rica and Mexico and I’ll be heading to the Burlington Yoga Conference soon!

3. What do you love most about teaching yoga?
I get to share what I love.

4.What do you love most about practicing yoga and yoga itself?
It never ends.

5. What advice do you have for people who have never tried yoga?
There is yoga for everyone. If you try a type of practice and it doesn’t jive with what you’re looking for, try another style. You will find exactly what you need. There is a teacher for everyone. If a teacher doesn’t jive with what you’re looking for, try another one. Your perfect teacher is out there waiting for his or her new student!

BYC Yoga Teacher Feature: Meet Sukha Stephano Pandavas

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Burlington Yoga Conference

Sukha Stephano Pandavas, Babaj’s Kriya Yoga
Sukha’s teaching at BYC on Sunday, May 6, 11 am- 12:30 pm: Learn the 18 Postures of Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga

1. When was your first introduction to yoga?

My first encounter with yoga and Indian culture was through the music and philosophy of the Beatles and the sixties counter culture movement revolution….

2 . How did you get into teaching yoga? How many years have you been teaching, and where can people find your classes?

I have been involved with Kriya Yoga for about 8 years now… have been studying , working , and recently teaching, in Babaji Kriya Yoga Center in Southern Quebec, Canada, where we give free yoga classes to the local community. There are also initiations and specific retreats here at the ashram…

3. What do you love most about teaching yoga?

It s the transmission of wisdom and energy and giving and sharing with all people alike, which for me is essential in the yoga philosophy. Helping people to understand their body and their environment through a yoga perspective …

4. What do you love most about practicing yoga and yoga itself?

Yoga helps me so much to see through the fog of life… it gives me tools to work with on a daily bases, to cope with the
hardship of ever day dilemmas. Yoga helps me to LET GO of so unimportant things related to my day to day living and to focus more on the important things of life…

5. What advice do you have for people who have never tried yoga?

Yoga is a tested scientific method that can help you in your everyday living condition. What’s fun about yoga is that it’s NOT a competitive sport and it’s NOT rigorous training activity. Yoga can be practice alone or with people sharing, at your own pace. Yoga allows you to slowly evolve through your everyday situations by working on your body but also your mind and awareness. It’s a complete system; proven throughout time by masters who’ve practiced yoga … it can be gentle or rigorous. You set you own limits, always trying to reach further as you go along the pathway … WOW YOGA IS JUST FANTASTIC …DONT YOU THINK? !!!!!!.

Much love to you all!
- Sukha.

BYC Yoga Teacher Feature: Meet Myra Lewin

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Burlington Yoga Conference

Myra Lewin: MA, ERYT-500, Advanced Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner

1. When was your first introduction to Yoga?

My first introduction to Yoga was in 1972 when a friend took me to a class. I had no idea what it was. The teacher was a man with a very smelly beard. We did some breathing and body movements that scared me and I got out of there as fast as I could. It wasn’t until 1987 that I heard about it again. I was going through some challenges in life and a friend suggested a weekly meditation class with Jack Kornfield. My life really started changing from that point on.

2. How did you get into teaching Yoga? How many years have you been teaching, and where can people find your classes?

As a teen I taught swimming, then accounting and behavioral management at the university levels. Teaching is in me. My first time in India I was so attracted to a carving of the goddess Saraswati (goddess of the arts, creativity, and teaching) that I bought and mailed it back to the states. I had no idea who she was at the time.
After my first Yoga asana class in 1989, the teacher said “you should be a teacher.” It seemed incredible that she would say that since I was sitting on 6 blankets and could not bend over more than one quarter of the way. Even though I was in terrible pain and felt tortured through the entire class, I knew I was coming back!
I started teaching classes and private sessions full time in 1994. These days I focus on training teachers, private sessions, workshops and retreats. My Ayurveda practice is now at the basis of all of my teaching. It is my intention to reach as many people as possible to spread the word of Ayurveda and Yoga.
I currently live on Kauai in the Hawaiian islands.

3. What do you love most about teaching Yoga?

I love the opportunity to be with people as they experience more of themselves in their practices. Seeing people make that inner connection touches me in a deep place of knowing.

4. What do you love most about practicing Yoga?

Having a foundation to remind me of who I am as eternal Spirit; especially pranayama and meditation that have me continue to develop my relationship with my innermost Self.

5. What advice do you have for people who have never tried Yoga?

It is a vast tradition with many practices and techniques. Work with a chunk that appeals to you and take small steps. It is about your direct experience, not what someone else tells you it should be.
Remember that it is a state of being that you are moving toward. Yoga is union of body, mind, and spirit. With this ultimate goal in mind, be kind and gentle with yourself.

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