A Jivamukti Yoga and Buddhist Meditation retreat. Practices for awakening vitality and a celebration of the spirit of renewal. Retreat practices include: Guided Daily classes and one-on-one sessions that focus on Asana, Meditation, Yoga Philosophy, building friendships, and cultivating joy in creativity.
HaChi Yu -co-founder of The Prana Life is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, and was the owner and founder of Jivamukti Yoga LaLaLå! building the first Jivamukti Yoga School on the west coast. (which sadly closed in 2020 due to the global pandemic).
HaChi was born and raised on the Lower East Side of NYC, and has travelled the world as a yoga teacher, performer and producer.
Formerly, HaChi served as the Program Director for Jivamukti Yoga® Teacher Training programs internationally and she remains on the senior teaching faculty for Jivamukti Yoga globally. Her career as a professional ballet dancer and performer has informed her evolving knowledge of movement practices and creates the foundation for these sacred teachings to be applied.
Through strength, intelligence, and fluidity HaChi’s classes focus on the various practices of yoga as an integration of ancient wisdom teachings applied into our modern day life- with joy and reverence.
Miriam Parker is a visual and performance artist, and has been working professionally in the New York City dance and visual art world for the past 25 years. Miriam’s deep and steady Buddhist spiritual practice is seamlessly intertwined with her creative identity.
Over the last 4 years, her personal practice has led her to complete over 35 weeks of solitary spiritual retreat. In 2019, Miriam completed a rigorous study of the 15 Foundational Buddhist Courses as offered through the Asian Classic Institute, which parallels the basic core of information that a Geshe (Doctor of Theology) learns at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Miriam has been teaching meditation in NYC studios, non-profit organizations, and corporate settings for nearly 10 years. She has been imparting yogic techniques and physical trainings, both individually and in group settings, for nearly 7 years. In sharing the gifts that her practice as offered her, Miriam believes that each of us are the architects of our own worlds, and that our inner landscape is the soil that needs tending in order to bear fruit. Miriam is beloved by her students for her authenticity, wisdom, and embodiment of joyful effort. Miriam is indebted to her teachers Dr. Lisette Garcia and Thupten Punstok among others; she has completed 200 hours of Meditation teacher training through Three Jewels NYC, where she now mentors for the MTT. She is a 300 hr certified Jivamukti Yoga® Teacher.
