Ara is the owner of Shala, Living Yoga in Spokane Washington. Her certifications include a 200hr certification through The Yoga School of Spokane, a 350hr certification through Yarrow Hot Yoga and Wellness Studio, a private Baptiste training with Rhea Slichter, a 500hr Radiant Body Kundalini certification from Kia Miller, a 200hr KRI and Kundalini Certification with Guru Singh and sound healing certifications with Geoffrey Torkington. Ara has lead and assisted in many 200hr teacher trainings, retreats and workshops. Her trainings specialize in Hot 26&2, Vinyasa and Kundalini yoga. She is currently working on her 600hr Ayurvedic councilors certification.
Ara’s initial experience with yoga was very physical. In 2002 after experiencing painful tendonitis in her hamstrings, she began practicing yoga for pain relief. Within her first month of regular practice, she knew yoga would always be a part of her life. While her practice started as a purely physical one, she began to realize there was a lot more to yoga than exercise. She learned that yoga philosophy and its sister science, Ayurveda, hold powerful teachings to achieve personal freedom, radiant physical health, inner joy, creativity and a life of contentment. Ara has spent the last 20 years healing herself and in turn also helping others become "unstuck" and create new habits through a fusion of hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, sound healing and Ayurveda.
In Ara’s classes, personal sessions, workshops and teacher trainings, you can expect intuitively themed sequences that relate to yoga philosophy, to connect to the power of your voice with mantra, to learn good body mechanics for a safe and transformative physical challenge, to learn many methods of breath work to access the transformative power of your prana, and to connect deeply to Self in meditation.