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Change occurs in every part of life, and Prana's schedule of classes is a perpetual reflection of impermanence and growth. Throughout the summer, Prana will continue to offer 7am classes. Awaken your spirit, body and mind with refreshing hatha, creating an energizing and flexible foundation for the rest of the beautiful day! Starting in July on Wednesday mornings at 9am, the summer teacher trainers will have an opportunity to share and develop their skills with the Prana community. Daniel will be teaching this class for most of July, and with time, the teacher trainers will take over, with a few teachers teaching throughout a class. Everyone is welcome to attend these all-level hatha classes, which will continue to be taught utilizing Prana's unique flow style. On Thursdays at 7:45 pm, join shakti mhi for satsang, a place for spiritual exchange between teacher and student. Satsang is by donation, with all donations going to food to be donated to Covenant House, an organization that gives relief to street youth. Other alterations to the schedule include the removal of the Sunday 12pm class (as of June 1st) based on a decrease in attendance as the summer unfolds. It will return in the fall. Enjoy the evolution and dynamic flow of life!
Awaken the questions within you, and pose them in a setting of spiritual discourse and meditation. Manifesting a balance between stilling the mind and contemplation, bring your attention and awareness to the ultimate observer; the one who sits motionless behind your eyes. Beginning in July on Thursdays at 7:45pm, Prana is offering a satsang, a form for any spiritual questions, with shakti Mhi, creating space internally and externally for collective meditation and insightful dialogue between teacher and student. Satsang will be by donation, with all proceeds being used to purchase food to be given to Covenant House.
Consider deepening your practice and expanding your inner space by exploring the benefits of this summer's Yoga Teacher Training Program. There is still space in the 200 hour one month intensive program running from July 16th to August 12th. The program will be located in Vancouver, with class being held at the beautiful Prana Yoga Studio in Yaletown. This is a fantastic opportunity to lift your yoga experience to a higher level, creating space within the experience of yoga to include a more thorough understanding of traditional posture, yoga philosophy and human anatomy. Learn to create flows to enhance your yoga practice and develop a unique style of teaching that emphasizes safety, attention to the body's capability, and the stilling of the mind by increasing internal awareness. 
Prana Yoga Teacher College is humbled to announce that we will be offering 4 bursaries for low-income individuals. For each applicant we are offering financial assistance of $1,400 off of the total program tuition (the total tuition for the Program would then be only $2,500 with the bursary). This incredible opportunity of gaining the 200hr yoga instructor certification is available to those who are able to submit an on-line application form along with an extensive bio and the required $100 application fee.
We are happy to announce that Swami Vivekananda will be a guest teacher in our College this fall. Swami Vivekananda is the brilliant exponent of a unique and modern trend of thinking in Yoga. Educated as an electrical engineer, he is a passionate and dedicated teacher of the true, ancient lines of Indian and Tibetan Yoga, rapidly becoming lost in today's "spiritual marketplace." Although he does not deviate in spirit from the traditional teachings of ancient masters, he has found the resources to present spirituality not as something dogmatic and dead, but as a living science, based on common sense and joy.
The Art of Dying workshop offers an enlightened approach to death and dying; explore the process by introducing into your perspective the Tibetan Bardo Thodol rites and training, lectures, initiations, meditations, practice, and hatha yoga. This workshop aims to give attention to and address a very important gap in modern times: the spiritual preparation for death, one of life's greatest passages.
Life is full of this moment, and this moment is a perpetual opportunity to choose new directions and to embrace the next phase of existence. Prana celebrates the decisions of two beloved Prana teachers as they flow down the rivers of their choice, leaving Prana in the process. Jolene Bayda is journeying to her roots, blending contemplation with origination as she perfects the Saskatchewan landscape with her energy and presence. Chris Tucker embarks to Shanghai to learn amid teaching yoga in a potent city with incomparable texture, people and colourful culture. Our love, and the subtle connection that always remains, abides with them throughout this transition as life continues to effortlessly unfold.
Yoga takes us on a journey we know not where. All of us are drawn to this practice for varied reasons. It really doesn't matter what those reasons initially are. They change, like everything else. Yoga came into my life and triggered a deep sense of knowing that I was into something good, something really good. And I've just followed that thread wherever it has taken me. Sometimes I thought I was practicing to save the world, sometime to save myself. It didn't really matter. What did was the practice and the honest journey we take. It just gets better all the time. What do I mean by better? I mean feeling and being open to other people and living in this present moment in this changing world. And looking back I realize that there is no way I could have communicated my present experience with this practice to that self that arrived at the yoga studio years ago. Likewise I doubt very much that my current interpretation of what life or practice is now will have much bearing two or twenty years down the road. But that little voice continues to speak and show the way. And all those illusions and perceived contradictions that caused me so much frustration have evaporated.
My experience in Prana was made complete with the warmth, love, and energy each of you shared over the past few years. Our many journeys through the pranic flow taught me the potential of humanity, the spirit of truth, and the nature of love. Even though my path leads to an unknown destination...... I accept wholeheartedly, and surrender to the guidance of the universe. I know in my heart our paths will cross again. Prana will remain my home as this wandering yogini takes a leap of faith into the brilliance of light.
As one small seed nurtures the forest in which it grows, so does Prana extend its energy and support to the community in which it exists. Covenant House is an organization that supports youth who leave or are driven from their homes. In whatever area energy is needed, be it a bed, a meal, or emotional support, those who need it receive it at Covenant House. Prana is aware of the effort it takes to maintain such an organization, as well as the open need for its existence. There are many ways in which members of the community can help Prana support Covenant House:
For those of us who grew up in healthy happy families, it is difficult to imagine what years of abuse and neglect can do to a child. Even those of us who had our "fair share" of family turmoil know how difficult it can be to transform ourselves from angry edgy teenagers to prosperous stable adults. Needless to say, the road from adolescence to adulthood can be a bumpy one.
Perhaps you've considered visiting a island of incomparable beauty, perhaps you've thought about experiencing a yoga teacher training program . . . now you can do both in one amazing journey to breathtaking Antigua, in the Caribbean, from November 13th to December 10th. This is an exclusive program, with limited enrollment spaces for ten students, in an intensive 200 hour introductory yoga certification course. The fantastic benefits of enhancing your yogic practice combined with an intimate retreat-style setting will provide an unequalled foundation for your aspirations as a yoga instructor. Experience the benefits of an intimate and creative learning environment with precise instruction, and dedicated teaching. Don't hesitate to embrace this opportunity to deepen your yogic connection and explore an exquisite paradise. 
Prana Yoga is now taking applications for the fall 500 hour Teacher Training program, which will be running from September 4th to November 30th, and will be held in heart of downtown Vancouver at the Prana Yoga Studio. As the seasons begin to change, what better way to rejuvenate your practice and connection to self than by tapping in to the universal inspiration of yoga? If you are contemplating yoga teacher training or are simply interested in exploring the corners of your own practice, consider listening and learning from a master on a level that encourages utilization of the tools within you to enrich the experience of yoga for yourself and others. Prana offers the most comprehensive training program in North America, with amazing guest teachers whom educate from experience and knowledge about yogic lifestyle, including cleansing, tantra, nutrition, meditation, history and philosophy, and traditional yoga postures. This is a diploma program that will provide an unforgettable foundation of yoga throughout your life. 
