Teresa Principe

Teresa Principe – Certified Prana Flow Energetic Vinyasa Yoga Teacher

Teresa first began practicing yoga in 2002 while working out in a fitness center. It was soon after that experience that she decided to continue on the yogic path after realizing its benefits mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. “Yoga has changed my life on so many levels …I am surprised and reminded daily what getting on the mat and regularly practicing can do for me and how it influences my relationships towards others and life”. Teresa decided to become a teacher for many reasons but mainly to support others on their journey and share her experience and teachings with others both openly and freely to get whatever they need or desire out of class.  Teresa works to continuously evolve her practice through education within a diverse range of yogic and other natural healing influences from the roots of Hatha lineage, with main teachings in Prana Flow; to Iyengar, Restorative Yoga, Kundalini, Ashtanga, Power Vinyasa, Anusara, Kriya yoga, and a number of other diverse styles and teachings within Yoga, Ayurveda, Shamanism, Christianity, Spiritualism, and Charka& Energy Healing. Teresa has trained with the Garth Fagan Dance School with techniques  including modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, and more. Through practice Teresa continues to learn and grow and her extensive training allows her to better serve her students and offer healthy options for their individualized practice and body.

After a month long teacher training intensive in Venice Beach, CA in 2007 with world renowned teacher Shiva Rea; Teresa successfully completed 200hours of certification. She then went on to receive her 300hour certification in 2011 including certification in 2008 for Shiva’s revolutionary dance movement called YogaTranceDance™ and is now working on her 500 hours Certificate. Teresa enjoys applying the teaching and principals influenced by Shiva Rea; who is grounded in the great tree of yoga and tantric roots of Hatha Yoga, Krishnamacharya’s Vinyasa Krama, Ayurveda and Tantric studies, Shiva also holds an MFA in Dance and uses some of these movements and evolved kramas in her teachings, yoga flow and other applications within the movements.

Prana Flow Yoga is the emerging name that speaks to the integration of Shiva’s studies in Tantra and Ayurveda to offer an energetic approach to the evolution of flow. Every aspect of yoga is explored as the underlying movement of conscious life-force or prana-shakti. Teresa’s classes are based on many aspects including the “bhavana” or “feeling state” of the class with the basic understanding of the eight limbs of yoga, the yoga sutra, chanting, pranayama, meditation and asana (practice). Expect a challenging, yet gracefully mindful flow.