Shauna

Created on: 2009-12-17 11:22:06

Shauna grew up in Newport Beach, California where she dedicated most of her formative years to playing volleyball.  She took her first yoga class in 1988 when she was a student at the University of California Berkeley.  After completing her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, she traveled extensively throughout Latin America following her passion for international environmental work and continuing to explore various forms of yoga, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Kundalini, and Vinyasa. 

She returned to the U.S. in 2000 to complete her Masters of Science in Marine Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she met Kristin Cooper-Gulak.  Kristin studied with Shiva Rea and eventually formed her own signature style, Rhythmic Flow, combining live drumming + yoga.  Shauna found a new form of healing and delved more deeply into vinyasa flow ~ finding home and completing her RYT200.  She continued her advanced studies in Prana Flow with Shiva Rea + Twee Merrigan and will complete her RYT500 this year.  Additionally, she holds specializations in Pregnancy Yoga and Trance Dance TM.

Shauna lived in Washington D.C. for three years teaching yoga and consulting for NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program ~ managing projects in Florida, the Caribbean, and Micronesia.  After meeting her husband at a workshop in the Bahamas, she moved to Holland to start a family ~ baby Diego Kai was born in June 2008.  Shauna teaches in Nijmegen + Utrecht and continues to travel + assist her teachers globally.  She also manages Twee Merrigan's Global Soul Connections Tour which is in its second successful year!

Shauna's classes offer an exploration into who you are and how yoga is expressed in YOU.  Her teachings are rooted in her studies of yoga, massage + healing arts, music, salsa + Afro-Haitian dance, scuba diving + marine biology, Ayurveda, Krisnamacharyra's Vinyasa Krama, and the Khalsa Way (conscious childbirth).  She infuses music, meditation,  and pranayama with freestyle movement.  She feels so fortunate to have followed her calling and is forever grateful to her teachers (Kristin Cooper-Gulak, Gurumukh Khalsa, Twee Merrigan, Shiva Rea, and Mother Nature) for invoking the wave and shakti within!

Shauna recently launched WAVE YOGA, which was inspired by her many teachings...thousands of hours under water observing marine life and how organisms move in the water ~ Shiva Rea's teachings on fluid power yoga ~ the evolution of her own yoga practice through pregnancy and childbirth ~ and her academic understanding of the unique and healing properties of water, particularly the sea.   She says, "If we unlearn our rigidity, we will once again feel our fluidity, just like those first 40 weeks of life in the womb."

Everything comes in waves - our experiences, our relationships, our pain/sorrow/fear, our elation/happiness/joy, the sunrise + the sunset, the winter + the spring, the set of surf coming ashore, the crescendo of a song...WAVE YOGA is a celebration of our waves, our life, our connection with one another.   Please join Shauna in her upcoming classes or while she is assisting her teachers around the world.

"It is an honor to be able to pass on any of the tools I have gained for living a more fulfilling, balanced life full of love… my dreams have come true!" Shauna says as she kisses her little son, Diego Kai (which means "ocean" in Hawaiian). 

 

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