Jaina Portwood

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Jaina E-RYT, C.M.T. has been practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2002.  Jaina's classes are challenging, opening, and spiritually expansive. She uses pranayama, asana, nutrition, chanting, intuition, and insight to take students beyond the seen world and into cosmic consciousness. She has a wealth of yoga experience through over a decade of svadyaya (study of Self), bhaki (devotion), and has trained with phenomenal yoga masters all over the country. 

As a youth, Jaina accomplished incredible achievements as a competitive athlete. She consistently rose to the top, even as a young swimmer, breaking state records at the age of 7. This confidence and physical power has allowed her to see the world in a different paradigm, what some athletes call "the zone." Yoga is to go beyond the mind and body and into the infinite awareness of Self. Jaina has the ability to translate this ancient esoteric information as a spiritual guide. She also stands out as a powerful healer through hands on healing and intuitive work.

Jaina currently runs Radiant Life Yoga School, an intense and deeply profound Teacher Training Program in the Twin Cities. She leads alignment training, anatomy, biology, physiology, living foods, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, meditation, fasting, and explorations of consciousness. As a community leader Jaina's teachings have uplifted and inspired thousands. She is a renowned artist of great transformation.  She sees yoga available to us at all times during the day, whether or not you are on your mat. This integration of form, awareness, and intention opens doors to experience pure presence. Yoga is to go beyond the senses, and to merge the observer, the act of observing, and the ego-thought-stream into one luminous experience of life. May every moment of your day be dhyana, and every interaction sat sang. 

Jaina has led Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training to hundreds of students over the last decade, and touched tens of thousands more through daily classes. She also offers private yoga study, nutrition & clinical massage therapy. For more information on Radiant Life Yoga School visit www.radiantlifeyoga.com.
"Your life is sacred. Your actions are meaningful. The true magic in yoga is when we look beyond the small self....instead of, 'what can yoga do for me', find:  'how, through this set of practices, can I better serve others?' In this way we transform and are purified, washed, so we may give to the world. "