Carson Efird, Prana Flow Certified, E-RYT 500

Carson Efird began meandering down the yoga path when she was sixteen as a compliment to her modern dance training. While pursuing her BA in Dance and Theater at Bennington College, VT, Carson completed her 200-hour ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training with Alan Finger at Be Yoga, NYC as well as her initial Prenatal Yoga certification. After freelance yoga teaching for a year between Vermont and North Carolina, the opportunity emerged for Carson to open YogAsana South which later developed into EVOLVE Yoga. During this time Carson met her teacher, friend and inspiration Shiva Rea, and enrolled in her 300-hour Prana Flow Teacher Training. Carson continues to serve as an assistant and mentor for Shiva’s Prana Flow Teacher Training Program, she is also the director of yoga programming for EVOLVE where she offers Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow Teacher Training program. Carson practices, teaches and lives Prana Flow yoga as an evolutionary approach to an ancient form. In her classes she creatively integrates breath and movement through a full spectrum of Hatha yoga asanas, pranayama and meditations dynamically arranged to offer the practitioner a fully embodied transformational experience. Through the practice, Carson encourages you to live in the flow of your breath, heartbeat and spanda shakti – spontaneous creative energy. Carson is excited to be obtaining her MFA in Dance from UCLA, in Los Angeles, CA.  Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 since 2011, Director of EVOLVE Yoga Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training , RYS 200 since 2009. Assistant and Mentor for Shiva Rea’s Samudra: Global School for Living Yoga since 2009. Carson believes that as we continue to breathe, grow, blossom and evolve, yoga is the source that sustains our personal transformation and reveals our natural essence. Yoga itself is a living breathing evolutionary system, may we honor its roots while transforming in the flow!  In her words: “I love the moment in class when everyone’s breath and movement begins to syncopate like a cosmic school of dolphins surfing waves of consciousness, all in the same ocean but unique expressions of the source. It is in this moment of unification that we dive deeper into ourselves and our practice for a truly transformational experience. There is nothing better than serving people through yoga, and witnessing the light in their eyes when they transform their own ideas of what is possible. Through the flow, I love creating opportunities for people to broaden the horizon of their own body, minds and hearts and reach for the limitless.” Carson’ favorite quotation: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique.  And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions.  It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to stay open and aware to the urges that motivate you.  Keep the channel open.” – Martha Graham on Spanda Shakti
Visit Carson’s website: www.flowgirlyoga.com