Chandra namaskar shiva rea youtube

by Kara-Leah Grant

She&#;s sometimes referred to as &#;the Madonna of Yoga&#; &#; at least, that&#;s what Vanity Fair called Shiva Rea when she did a desert photo shoot for them in  But magazines love catchy monikers and as someone who grew up idolising Madonna and has studied with Shiva&#; the two women are nothing alike.

&#;I&#;m not sure what exactly what they were referring to, whether it was my boldness, but I&#;m not into being a yoga celebrity at all.

At all! Humility for me is a really important value.

Chandra namaskar shiva rea youtube videos

In a yoga class, I try to create a circle for us to practise in. It&#;s not me up there on the stage, and like &#; here I am.&#; (Source: )

Named Shiva by her artist father, it was perhaps destiny that yoga would end up a major part of her life.

But it didn&#;t start that way.

Shiva graduated from UCLA in anthropology and was an academic &#; living ver