Randi Schiffman
Randi is the founder of SuryaFlow: The Art of Sacred Movement and Co-Founder of Kula Collective. She turned to yoga for healing and its therapeutic benefits. The practice quickly evolved into a lifestyle that she honors, respects and is passionate about sharing. She sees conscious embodied movement as a powerful medicine that helps connect to ourselves in new ways leaving us feeling strong, empowered and free. Randi is playful, yet grounded in discipline.
Randi’s open heart, affectionate manner and infectious laugh create an instant environment of friendship and authenticity. A true pollinator of people, her direct communication, sense of humor and energizing, activating manner allow for deep work to be done with a sense of playful acceptance for what is.
Randi ERYT 500 has taught over 50 yoga teacher trainings since 2010. Her expertise is in sharing Holistic Yoga, a well rounded practice including meditation, pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, theme weaving and intelligent sequencing. A certified Thai Massage Therapist, she is especially known for her firm and intuitive based hands on assists. She facilitates with a strong energy and passion for the practice which supports her compassionate, graceful and empathic nature. She has an innate ability to take in knowledge, experience it, and share wisdom in an authentic way.
Always a student, Randi continues to study yoga on and off the mat and is inspired by the wisdom of the body to heal. She enjoys medicinal movement such as dance and martial arts along with other interests that include Ayurveda, Shamanism, Aromatherapy, Herbalism, Energy Healing, the Chakra System and Anatomy. Her classes are a fusion of these passions bringing alive the ancient teachings of Yoga in a modern and ceremonial way.
In her free time she loves spending it with friends and family laughing, connecting, playing, and “mushing”. She seeks out and is nourished by the sun and the ocean and finds balance nestling in the mountains. She loves staying active whether its surfing, running, hiking, dancing and of course all things Yoga creating harmony in her body, mind and spirit.
She is internationally known as a teacher of teachers. Her embodied and empowered approach to life provides an inspiration to students, encouraging all to access their inner wisdom through authenticity and radical self love.
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Our Guatemala 300-hr YTT explores a fusion of the practice and philosophy of the mystical traditions of Yoga, Shamanism, Ancient Wisdom, and Sound Healing. This training focuses on honing in on your essence as a teacher; following your greatest excitement towards the cultivation of your unique gifts. Through self-expansion and embodiment, we support you to radiate the teachings of yoga in your own powerful and distinct ways.
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Our Guatemala 300-hr YTT explores a fusion of the practice and philosophy of the mystical traditions of Yoga, Shamanism, Ancient Wisdom, and Sound Healing. This training focuses on honing in on your essence as a teacher; following your greatest excitement towards the cultivation of your unique gifts. Through self-expansion and embodiment, we support you to radiate the teachings of yoga in your own powerful and distinct ways.
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Join Randi Schiffman at Casa Kula in a Therapeutic Thai Massage training to develop more awareness of the physical and energetic bodies, more confidence and comfort with touch and to be able to increase the services they can offer to their students giving them more ability to create a sustainable life as a yoga teacher, massage therapist and healer.
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Thai Yoga Massage is a unique and powerful healing art that has been an integral part of Traditional Thai Medicine for thousands of years. Thai Massage blends elements of Acupressure, Yoga, Reflexology, Physiotherapy, Meditation, Energy Healing, Chiropractic and Ayurvedic wisdom.
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By: Randi Schiffman
"Remember, there is always a mental or emotional root cause that lies beneath the physical symptoms."
“The Five Rituals for transitioning spaces came to me based on a deep desire to honor the spaces I have spent time in without feeling like I’m rushing until the very last second of my departure so that I am not anticipating the predictable chaos that comes along with leaving a space I once called home. It means slowing down, setting intention and tapping into a feeling of grace, ease and fluidity.”
“When something “bad” happens to you like the end of a relationship or the end of a job, notice what perspective the mind takes you to initially. It takes awareness and work to cultivate a different way of looking at things.”
“By combining these practices I’ve enhanced my skills as a healer with greater awareness on the power of the energetic body and the stories our bodies hold physically. If we continue to do the work internally to unify with mind, body and spirit — Yoga — we will be able to maintain balance and health in the physical body — the ultimate goal of Thai Massage.”
“In Bali, riding freely on the back of a scooter, wind in my hair, breeze on my face and the beauty of the open road, I found myself present, connected, and one within me and everything around me. No thoughts, nothing; emptiness, or complete fullness if you will. That is until, I remembered I was supposed to be the one directing the driver, staying alert and letting him know when to turn right. So, we missed the turn. I looked down at my phone and it took me out of this precious present moment.”
“A big head spinner this season for me is commonly hearing the phrase “I am not the body” or “I am focusing my upper chakras”. Now, as a yoga practitioner and teacher, I understand the philosophy behind this phrase, but in my experience and here at the lake in San Marcos, they are not realizing also that….We are the body. “
“I came to Yoga thinking what most people in the West think: a convenient and trendy way to get a great workout and increased flexibility. I had no idea the practice would change me from the inside out.”
“For many of us, ‘doing yoga’ means getting on our mats, stretching out, strengthening our core, and relaxing in savasana. But where did this idea come from? What journeys does it present for us within? And what does it really mean to be steady and comfortable in your seat?”
“Here, we begin to introduce the concept of moving meditation, which is still meditation, since everything is moving all the time, we should work with the movement, not against it.”
By: Randi Schiffman
“When I do yoga, I want more...I crave more, like a drug. But, healthy addictions are still addictions and ultimately take me away from balance.”