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About Us

Our Unique Approach

Body Alive classes focus primarily on yoga, and incorporate bodyweight strength training, mobility, spinal awareness, breath control, animal movement, and our signature ceiling hanging bars — a unique addition to yoga that builds grip strength and body intelligence.

Our yoga practice welcomes all ages and abilities, with the intention of enhancing longevity and vitality.

Expect technique, alignment, awareness, and a practice that grows with you.

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Rani Shah

Founder & Director

Rani Shah spent much of her youth and early adulthood challenged with health limitations such as adrenal fatigue, immune disorders, thyroiditis, and others. She turned to movement as a way to heal, listen to her body, and to reconnect with what it was communicating. Over time, she discovered a sustained inner vitality she hadn’t experienced before.

As she taught yoga across South-East Asia and Australia, Rani was continually inspired by other movement practices — Dance, martial arts, Qi Gong, animal locomotion, and strength training. Weaving these practices into yoga unlocked new layers of sensitivity, capability, and awareness.

On returning home to Adelaide in 2024, there was no local studio offering an integrated approach to movement. Body Alive Studios was created as a space dedicated to offerings that enhance vitality, longevity and quality of life. 

Rani holds over 12 years of teaching experience and a collective 900 RYT hours in Vinyasa, Hatha and Wild Lotus Yoga. Additional specialised training includes Zenthai Shiatsu Acupressure Massage, Embodied Movement, Calisthenics, functional training, Animal Flow, Salsa, Bachata and Belly Dance. She shares her experience internationally, guiding students across South East Asia and Australia.

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Testimonials

  • Working under Rani’s guidance my yoga practice improved, evolved and strengthened substantially. I began to understand the synergy working between my body and yoga. Her knowledge, patience, humour and compassion has given my yoga journey the best foundation I could ask for.

    Michelle

  • Beyond her beautiful asana flows, I appreciate that Rani lives and breathes the yogic principles -- that is, practices what she preaches! That kind of sincerity from a teacher makes it easier to embrace those teachings myself. I always left her classes feeling strong, uplifted, and inspired

    Maggie

  • I cannot know what Rani saw when I first walked into her class, but I do know how she made me feel. Rani made me feel like I was someone with possibilities, not a middle-aged woman who needed to maintain what she had, but someone with potential, someone who could fly - and now I can!

    Deana

  • I haven't truly been doing yoga for the past 2-3 years, I was simply moving into poses that resembled yoga asanas. I feel like I have only now started learning about yoga after attending Rani's classes and workshops

    Kam

  • Rani has changed my relationship with yoga in a way that no one else has. She’s an incredibly connected, wise and present teacher. She has helped to enhance my awareness of small adjustments that have had a huge impact on my postures.

    Bonnie

  • Rani has a way of allowing you to push past your mental barriers to strengthen your body and move safely through a strong practice. Her articulate descriptions of what your body needs to do in the poses allow you to go deep into your practice without thinking. She has a wisdom older than her years. I love her encouragement of free flowing movement that isn't always structured.

    Dee

  • I have been practicing yoga for over 15 years, across three continents, and Rani's quality instructions, innovative flows and insightful teachings are superb and honestly rare. She is a very well rounded yoga teacher with innate qualities that override her youth. I really love practicing yoga with Rani, and importantly, I always finish her classes with a smile on my face, a sense of gratitude and much juiciness in my joints.

    Gigi