Nianna Bray

Nianna Bray is an international tantra yoga and meditation teacher born and raised in Santa Monica, CA. She studied yoga and meditation at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Pacific Palisades, CA and followed the teachings of its founder, the great Paramahansa Yoganandya. Her devotion to His teachings lead her across land and sea on many spiritual adventures. Her love of humanity and innate curiosity has led her to over 40 countries. She trained for 11 years as an assistant to Shiva Rea and was well versed in the Prana Flow ™ style. For the past couple years Nianna has incorporated the teachings of Bowspring ™ directly from the founders, Desi Springer and John Friend, into her distinct dissemination of embodied spiritual practice. 

Nianna studied yoga, dance therapy, art and ritual performance at the World Arts and Culture Department at UCLA, University of Southern California Los Angeles, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree. She studied yoga philosophy and traditional hatha yoga at the University of Hyderabad in India where she met her living Guru and was initiated into Kriya Yoga. Nianna has studied tantra, yoga and movement arts for the past 22 years with master teachers the likes of Gabrielle Roth, Max Strom, Emilie Conrad, Erich Schiffmann, Mark Whitwell, Paul Grilley, Annie Carpenter, Simon Park, Micheline Berry, Daniel Odier, Paul Muller Ortega, Douglas Brooks, David Frawley, Chris Wallis, and Pema Chrodran among others. Her study in Hindu and Buddhist Tantra practice and philosophy is rooted in the lineages of Sri Vidya and Vajryana. Her study in vinyasa yoga is in the lineage of Krishnamacharya.

Over the years she has been blessed with a living global community of powerful yogi friends, mentors, students and teachers. She has been teaching globally for the past 7 years and has taught trainings, festivals and retreats in New Zealand, France, Holland, Tibet, Nepal, India, Mexico, Bhutan, Bali, England, the USA and many more. She is the embodiment of a free spirit with a fierce yet playful love for humanity, an affinity toward authentic, useful teachings and a commitment to self-realization and liberation for herself and her students. Her style is uniquely her own, based on results and efficacy of practice. Her translations of the teachings are derived from years of personal spiritual experience steeped in tradition applied to modern life. Her greatest desire is to help you discover your truth and joy, to watch you shine and evolve through your own awakening into your highest expression. Her life is in service to the light that shines within you.

Nianna has been blessed with amazing teachers, assisted Shiva Rea for 10 years and has been teaching for nearly 13 joyful years. Her dedication to her students is evident as she lives her life in service. Nianna has a special connection with India, having traveled to over 30 cities and has made numerous yatra (pilgrimages) to special holy sites and temples. It is clear to Nianna that relationship, our human connection and our ability to be vulnerable, give and receive love is what gets us through even the most challenging times. Nianna is an international yoga teacher born in Santa Monica, CA, USA and her classes are taught in English

Learn more at www.niannayoga.com