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Creator and Creative Director: 

Sanieh

 Lululemon Ambassador, Certified & Registered Yoga Teacher

Based out of Austin, TX

BIO: When a sequence of life changing events guided Sanieh Patricia CYT, RYT to sell off most everything she owned and move from Austin, TX to live on the remote healing Big Island of Hawaii, she was faced with stillness, surrender, and a calm abiding for the first time ever. Not until being uprooted from all that she had ever known to spontaneously follow the whisper of the Universe that landed her to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was Sanieh able to open herself to the possibilities of growth and a new direction of life which she began to embrace early on in her initial yoga studies. Sticking with it despite the initial challenges, she was able to connect with her thirst, rich love and inherent passion for what would later become an everyday joy and living experience. Although the practice of yoga didn't begin as a spiritual one, the continued path has been the guiding light to the union of self and the return home.

Registered with Yoga Alliance, Sanieh is certified through The Living Yoga Program in Austin, TX at the 200 hour level and has also completed 500 hours of advanced studies in Prana Vinyasa Flow tm with senior teacher and yoga master, Shiva Rea, whom she continues to travel all over the country to study with and learn from. With an existing heartfelt gravitational pull, it was Sanieh’s continued studies and self observation that inspired her to commit to deepening this personal journey thus taking her practice to the next level by studying the graceful living art and teaching example of Shiva Rea. Being a student of the ancient practice first, Sanieh credits and gives humble pranams to her first mentor and teacher, Cori Martinez, along with the many others who she has practiced and studied with who have been of inspiration including Nadia Toraman, Charles MacInerney, Jim Turner, Baxter Bell, Saul David Ray, K-Lea Gifford, Seane Corn, Micheline Berry, Chris Chavez, and the many students whose paths she continues to cross on this endless journey never forgetting the teachers of life and the practice itself. Today, she continues her love and Sva Dharma creating saniehyoga.com in its seed form.

Sanieh’s unique teaching style is drawn from the most sacred of all spaces where she expresses from the heart her ability to genuinely practice love and compassion while teaching, safely encouraging, and gracefully guiding individuals to find their intelligent edge within. A Vipassana meditation practitioner, lifelong singer and born expressive; kirtan and bhakti yoga (devotion) are  organic in Sanieh's teaching transmission as she guides students off into the chambers of their own core beings incorporating chanting and singing of sacred mantras in Sanskrit and Hindi during classes and workshops. While living, teaching, practicing, and breathing yoga is Sanieh’s continued contribution to shanti or peace, her mission and vision is to live up to and lead by the example of “being” and breathing yoga in all areas of her life experience. In January of 2008, she reached her one thousandth hour of actual teaching time and is ecstatic about the potent possibilities that await the near future!

Sanieh is also a part of a unique and liberating collective of individuals who lead Yoga Trance Dance™, a natural creation of senior teacher, Shiva Rea. "Yoga Trance Dance™ is an exploration of the eternal flow of natural movement through yoga. Beginning with sahaja prana yoga or the experience of prana initiating yogasanas, yoga trance dance flows into an exploration of free-form, breath driven movement to liberate one's creative life-force and cultivate embodied freedom.

Yoga Trance Dance™ is a meeting of two great rivers, yoga and dance, which come from and are united at the source. That infinite creative source is the One, uniting us all. Yoga and dance are two of the oldest paths back home. We dwell in a moving, living, dancing universe; a flow which is continually shifting around us, through us, and inside us. Through the use and combination of yoga postures and free-form, breath driven movement we will explore ways to liberate our creative life-force and cultivate embodied freedom through a veritable dance. Yoga Trance Dance™ is an exploration, a chance to touch the essence of our heart, our soul, the opportunity to embrace our true freedom. "

Currently, Sanieh travels and works with students nationwide and abroad. When away from the mat, she lives her yoga with continuous svadhyaya (self study), enjoying her longtime love of singing, chanting, and kirtan, playing her guitar and writing music, hiking, contemplating poetic arts and breathing/being in the beauty of nature while embracing each moment and enjoying the dance from a place of deep love.