Rani Chaves
Born in the fertile embrace of Tahiti, where ocean and sky speak in ancestral tongues, Rani walks the path of yoga as a sacred remembering.
A teacher, guide, and devotee, she embodies the living breath of ancient lineages, weaving the wisdom of Vedanta with the primal pulse of her multicultural roots.
Rani is the founder of Ipuāni Yoga & Lifestyle—a sacred container (Ipuāni meaning “sacred matrix of divine light”) for awakening, remembrance, and return.
For Rani, yoga is not merely a practice... it is the path, the prayer, the portal. It is the thread that has drawn her from the structures of the modern world into the vast, subtle realms of the Self.
After twenty years in global corporate systems, an inner calling arose—echoing from spirit and lineage—leading her to the sacred mountains of India. There, she was initiated into the Himalayan traditions of Kundalini and Kriya Yoga, entering a river of transmission and healing that would reshape her life into devotion.
Through breath, kriya, mantra, sound, and ritual, Rani opens liminal spaces—where the veils thin, and the divine is felt not as an idea, but as vibration, as remembrance, as truth. Her sessions are living transmissions where the soul is invited to rise, to feel, to return, empowered.
Fueled by a lifetime of travels, rooted in ancestral devotion, soul-listening and embodied experiences, Rani serves as a bridge between realms. Her offerings are deeply raw, integrating the intelligence of Ayurveda, the luminous heart of yoga, and the unspoken language of the land.
With each step, she honors the unseen currents of life, guiding others back to the sacred ground of their being—the source beyond name, form, and fear. Through her, yoga becomes not just movement or breath, but a reclamation of soul, a remembering of belonging and divine origin.
In 2025, Rani brings forth the first Tahiti Yoga Festival, a sacred gathering of spirit, tradition, and transformation birthed from a vision and a calling from the ancient worlds.
In our modern days, this festival comes as a return, a collective remembering of the light we each carry.