Website

https://www.vayuaerialyoga.com/

About

Ana Prada was born and raised in Colombia. She’s an aerial dancer and yoga practitioner since 1998. She studied contemporary dance in New York City, where she started to explore aerial apparatuses like dance trapeze and rope. She then moved to Montreal where she specialized in aerial silks and hoop. Ana has worked with companies and shows like La Esquina Desplazada, Triknia dance company, Colombia, Cirque du Soleil, “El despertar de la Serpiente” for the Expo 2008 in Spain, the show ‘Ulalena (Maui, Hawaii) working as an acrobat, dancer, and aerial coach.

She also has developed her own solo work, presented in different festivals and venues.

She developed the Vayu Aerial Yoga® system thru her movement journey and her studies,  Yoga (since 1998) , She’s a GYROKINESIS®, GYROTONIC® certified trainer and Pre-trainer, Dancer, Aerial Dancer and Craneo Sacral therapy practioner. All of this movement methods, as well as her experience in the Air, as a Performer and Aerial dance teacher, for the last 18 years and her own movement and somatic research influence and are part of this work.

  She’s has apply all of this knowledge to the Aerial Dance technique creating a project called The sustainable body project. 

She has shared her talents performing and teaching at many different studios in Montreal, Costa Rica, Brazil and also at several international workshops and festivals like ADF in Boulder, Colorado, EADF in UK (European Aerial Dance Festival) , Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne - France, Air to Floor Aerial Dance festival in Santa Barbara and workshops in places such as Hawaii, British Virgin Islands, Greece, Miami, Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia.

 In 2017 Ana was delighted to received the Roser Grant –Artist in Residence from the dance department at the University of Colorado in Boulder, teaching and coreographing with her Aerial Approach to the Grad students of the program.

In her work, she is always interested in finding a deeper balance and a real organic connection: “aerial roots” to be grounded wherever she goes.

Now she lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica where she continues her research in Aerial Movement, practices Craneo sacral theraphy and teaches intensive workshops, teacher trainings and master classes.