We begin our 2008 teacher training year with a new name: Samudra Global School for Living Yoga.  Our evolutionary training program offers a teacher's study program that merges the great rivers of Tantra, Yoga and Ayurveda for embodied, ecstatic living.

Samudra Global School for Living Yoga

Samudra – an auspicious coming together, literally the ocean and waves of consciousness, rivers that flow to the sea, wisdom of the heart

Prana – "life-force of creation" Vinyasa –evolution, wave, cycle

Flow – the uninterrupted state of yoga, shakti within experience

We are inspired to offer you our Evolutionary Journey Foundation 200 and Advanced 500 hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Studies Program. Our program offers creative, synthesis-oriented, self-motivated yoga practitioners who want to evolve and integrate the diversity of their life experience under the Great Tree of Yoga.

We empower teachers with a broad and deep base of Vinyasa Flow to live and teach the flow of Yoga. The entire program offers teachers a base of over 20 sun salutations and 15 Prana Flow series that encompass the full range of yogic experience from meditation to advanced asanas to service in the world.  

Our unique program offers a dynamic, integrative approach to the art of living and embodying yoga. In addition to completing contact hours with our faculty we have also created innovative, heart inspiring “Om Work” to inspire your learning. 

Our emphasis is on practical and experiential studies that are transformative, inspiring, and in rhythm with the realities of our lives as householders and teachers. We seek the balance of being a grounding force for teachers to develop a body of integrated knowledge while leaving freedom for each teacher to follow their own path of evolution as they continue their studies with Shiva and other teachers.

This course is open to: students with a on-going practice of yoga who are ready for a 200 hour program; teachers who already have 200 course in another system and our ready to embark on the 500 hour program in prana flow yoga; teachers who have completed some of Shiva's courses in the past and are ready to embark on the 200 or 500 courses (previous modules can be credited); teachers who want to enjoy any of our modules. 

The 200 and 500 modules are based upon creating a program based upon your location, rhythm of completion and resources. The series of modules can be taken in any order over two years, with the foundation training suggested as the first module. Modules occur around the country and in Europe. Our Summer and Winter Immersion Program in Venice, California gives you the opportunity to receive the most training hours in a stimulating yoga environment and experience the transmission of flow through surfing or kayaking. 

Many teachers coming from a 200 hour program will experience the content and method of Prana Flow yoga different from their basic teacher training. Modules are available for both 200-500 programs with some courses created just for the 500 section. We offer different time commitments and locations around the country to be in the flow of your life and have created specific flow series for each module that gives you a foundation to adapt and explore in your practice and teachings.