Shauna is originally from Newport Beach, California where she spent a lot of time at the beach... swimming and playing volleyball. She has always felt a deep connection to the ocean which eventually led her to study Marine Science, in particular coral reefs. She spent about a decade dedicated to marine conservation, conducting scientific research, teaching marine ecology and scuba diving in places dear to her heart, like the Yucatan coast of Mexico. Shauna has logged thousands of hours underwater and holds a deep appreciation for marine life, the water element and how we have adapted to living on land.
She took her first yoga class in 1988 when she was a student at the University of California Berkeley and also studied massage and dance while she lived in the Bay Area. 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, Bikram, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Kundalini, and Vinyasa.,
She moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 2000 to conduct her graduate work in Marine Science which she completed in 2003. This is where she met Kristin Cooper-Gulak. Kristin studied with Shiva Rea and eventually formed her own signature style of yoga, Rhythmic Flow, combining live drumming and yoga. Shauna found a new form of healing and delved more deeply into vinyasa flow ~ finding home and completing her 200 E-RYT. She continued her advanced studies in Prana Flow® with Shiva Rea + Twee Merrigan and now holds her 500 E-RYT in Prana Flow®. Additionally, she holds specializations in Pregnancy Yoga, Postnatal Yoga, Birth Preparation, Infant Massage, and Yoga Trance Dance™.
Shauna is a global citizen, having lived and worked in Latin America, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Europe, and now Australia! She is married and has two sons, Diego and Milo. Shauna offers workshops, teacher intensives, weekly classes and private sessions. She is an assistant and mentor in Shiva Rea's Prana Flow® Teacher Training Program and also guides teachers in pre- and post-natal training. Shauna managed Twee Merrigan and her international tour from 2008 to 2011 and will continue to offer consulting services to people and businesses who are raising the evolutionary consciousness in our global environment.
WAVE YOGA embraces all of Shauna's teachings and travels abroad...hours spent underwater studying marine life, her experiences and participation in the Prana Flow® tribe, the evolution of her own yoga practice and life through pregnancy and childbirth, and her academic understanding of the unique and healing properties of water, particularly the sea. Wave Yoga offers special sequencing of yoga classes, based on Shiva Rea's wave theory, which helps students progress to more "advanced" asanas and deepens the overall yoga experience. Shauna incorporates her love of music, dance and massage into her classes and encourages movement meditation as a daily practice. One of her greatest passions is helping women in their journey through motherhood and parenting, the most honorable yet challenging job in the world!
Some of Shauna's teachers include...Kristin Cooper-Gulak, Francoise Freedman, Gurmukh Khalsa, Michelle Maniaci, Twee Merrigan, Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Anna Verwaal, and Mother Nature.
Everything comes in waves - our experiences, our relationships, our pain/sorrow/fear, our elation/happiness/joy, the sunrise and the sunset, the winter and 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.
Twee Merrigan
My Teachers
Shiva Rea and Gurmukh Khalsa
Kristin Cooper-Gulak
Wave Yoga - fluid vinyasa yoga
Diego Kai
Milo
All the situations in our lives, from the insignificant to the major, teach us exactly what we need to be learning.
