Curriculum Vitae

Prana Regina Barrett, BS, MIA, ERYT, CYT

www.pranaheals.com
info@pranaheals.com
207.632.6698 cell

2007 – Present Tantra Educator (WorldWide Workshops and Retreats) and Private Practice in Portland, Maine

Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Trainings, Tantra Yoga Mentoring, Private Tantra Instruction for Couples, Yoga Therapy, Private Yoga, Workshops and Retreats in Portland, Maine & worldwide

Winter 2006 Yoga Business Consultant, Bocas Yoga, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Assisted in start up of new yoga studio (Bocas Yoga), while owner was away for a month. Provided life coaching to owner, facilitated studio set up & created first teaching schedule.

Winter 2006 Yoga Instructor, La Fluente del Futuro, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Provide weekly yoga classes for families in indigenous village, assisted Directors with organizational development & with English & art classes.

2005 – 2007 Private Practice & Yoga Instructor, Northampton, MA area

Same private services offered above. Taught at Shelburne Falls Yoga & Northampton Athletic Club (4 – 5 classes/week)

2004 – 2005 Therapeutic Yoga Instructor & Yoga Therapist, Boulder BodyWorks, Boulder, CO

Offered 5 classes per week including mixed level hatha, prenatal, Baby & me & restorative. Provided yoga therapy sessions to clients receiving physical rehab treatment at this clinic.

2003 – 2004 Yoga Instructor, Good Karma Garage, Nederland, CO
3 mixed level hatha classes per week

2002 – 2004 Private Practice, Nederland, CO
Life Coaching, Spiritual Counseling & Yoga Therapy

Winter 2003 (3 mos) Yoga Instructor, Bosque Encantada, Nosara Costa Rica
Offered my own daily a.m. mixed level hatha classes in this outdoor studio.

1999 – 2003 Owner & Director of Gaia Center for Transformational Healing, Conway, MA

Private Practice of Life Coaching, Spiritual Counseling and Yoga Therapy, offered daily mixed level hatha classes, hosted and facilitated a wide range of holistic health workshops & retreats, including priestess path apprenticeship, moon circles, sweat lodges, kirtan, JourneyDance & breathwork.

Tantra Workshops

co facilitate with husband John Rene Berard, BS, MBA,CMT

Mar 2011 Sacred Sexuality~Intro to Tantra Yoga, Kripalu, Lenox, MA

Feb 2011 Intro to Tantra Practices, Virtual Yoga and Meditation Conference, World-Wide

Feb 2011 Therapeutics~ Blend of Tantra Yoga, Qi Gong and PRYT, Portland, Maine

Dec 2010 Therapeutic Yoga & Qi Yoga Series, Portland, Maine

Fall 2010 Intro to Tantra, Spiritual Horizons, Portland, Maine

2010 Karma Sutra (yoga & energy movement flows), Portland, Maine

2010 Intro to Tantra (Sacred Sexuality) , Portland, Maine

Break due to relocation back to east coast & breast cancer healing

2004 Opening to Love, Solstice Institute, Boulder, CO

2004 Opening to Love, Northampton, MA

2004 Opening to Love, Dreamtime Festival, Paonia, CO

Sample List of Workshops Conducted

Prana has 25 years of workshop facilitation in holistic health & environmental education

  • Baby and Me Yoga (Postnatal and Baby Yoga)
  • Breast Cancer Surgery Recovery
  • Corporate Self Care Workshop: 10 Simple Ways to Work Effectively and Feel Great!
  • Emotional Healing
  • Gentle and Restorative Yoga
  • Law of Attraction
  • Meditation…Empty the Mind…Come into Stillness
  • Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Groups
  • Pranayama…Yoga of Breath
  • Prenatal Yoga
  • Tantra Yoga
  • Therapeutic Yoga for Injuries, Illness, Trauma, Immobility and/or Surgery Recovery
  • Therapeutic Yoga Instructors Workshops for CEUs
  • Therapeutics~A Blend of Tantra Yoga, Qi Gong and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
  • Yoga for Healing Breast Cancer
  • Yoga for Strengthening your Center
  • Yoga Retreats (gentle and strenuous options, as well as tantra)

Festivals

2008 – Present Dance New England Dance Camp, Poland, Maine and Ossippee, NH

Conducted Therapeutic Yoga Classes & gave private sessions

2008 & 2009 SpiritFire, secret location, NY

Conducted daily yoga classes & Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Workshop, as well as offered private sessions

2008 Belly & Womb Conference, Shutesbury, MA

Conducted Yoga for Strengthening your Center workshop

2004 & 2005 Dreamtime, Paonia, CO

Conducted yoga classes on Main Stage & Opening to the Love Tantra Workshop

Education/Training

2000 – 2010 Tantra & Spiritual Counseling Mentoring with Sylvia Brallier, www.sylviabrallier.com

1997 – 2007 Tantra Yoga Instruction Mentoring, with Satya Marga, Middleton, CA

2009 Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Recertification

2006 – 2009 Tantra, Couples Counseling & Spiritual Counseling Mentoring with Gabrielli Lachiara, www.gabrielli.com

2004 – 2007 Sangah Member of Eldorado Mtn. Ashram, Boulder, CO (“White” Tantra Yoga & Meditation practiced here)

2005 Tantric Massage with Steve and Lokita Carter www.ecstaticliving.com

2004 Intro to Tantra with The Muirs

2004 Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy 650 hrs., Stockbridge, MA

2003 Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor Certification 200hrs., Nosara Institute

1998 – 1999 Priestess Path Apprenticeship with Alisa Starkweather www.alisastarkweather.com

1996 Master in International Administration, School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT

1987 Bachelors of Science & Certification to Teach High School Biology, Umass, Amherst

Affiliations

2003 – Present Yoga Alliance

2000 – Present Kin Yoga Yahoo Group List (International Yoga Teachers)

2009 – Present Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Yahoo Group List (International Yoga Therapists)

2009 – Present BellaLunaYoga.com (International Yoga Teacher Travel)