S u z a n n e     L e i t n e r   —   W i s e

IYEA, E-RYT 500, BWY, AYT, BYTA, RCYT, Direc­tor of US1Yoga

A fully cer­ti­fied Yoga teacher, Suzanne under­took a two-year Iyen­gar Yoga Teach­ers Train­ing Diploma course in Sur­rey, Eng­land *), is a cer­ti­fied British Wheel of Yoga teacher (who are rec­og­nized by the Sports Coun­cil as the Gov­ern­ing Body for Yoga in Great Britain) and cer­ti­fied Advanced Yoga teacher. She is a Reg­is­tered Yoga Teacher and Expe­ri­enced Reg­is­tered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance in the U.S.A., which pro­vides stan­dards and recog­ni­tion for Yoga Pro­fes­sion­als. Suzanne is cer­ti­fied in teach­ing the Pri­mary Series of Ash­tanga Yoga (through David Swen­son) and is also a cer­ti­fied Radi­ant Child Yoga Teacher (through Shakta Kaur Khalsa). Suzanne attended Yoga Phi­los­o­phy classes for 1 1/2 years and has received her per­sonal Mantra for med­i­ta­tion from the Himalayan Insti­tute in Eng­land.  She has also received a Med­i­ta­tion Teach­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the British Yoga Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion.  Hav­ing taught exten­sively and held work­shops in Eng­land, she now lives in Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia, and con­tin­ues to study and teach her love of yoga, both locally and internationally.

Suzanne has been direct­ing yoga teacher train­ing pro­grams since 2003 and is Direc­tor of the US1 Yoga Teacher Train­ing pro­gram; a Reg­is­tered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance.  She also holds retreats and work­shops inde­pen­dently, and teaches daily at var­i­ous loca­tions in and around Alexandria

C o n t i n u i n g   E d u c a t i o n   C r e d i t s   ( C E U ’ s ) are avail­able for atten­dance at Suzanne’s classes, work­shops and retreats. Suzanne has writ­ten var­i­ous arti­cles for com­pa­nies such as the BWY, MAYA and Yoga Network.

Suzanne’s teach­ing style is a union of dif­fer­ent influ­ences; the pre­cise pos­tural align­ment in phys­i­cal asanas (pos­tures), pranayama (breath­ing tech­niques) and ther­apy of Iyen­gar Yoga; the move­ment and flow of Vinyasa Krama; the strength and sequences of Ash­tanga and many other styles in order to obtain the best pos­si­ble prac­tice for each student.

Hav­ing stud­ied with many dif­fer­ent teach­ers and styles, both in Eng­land and the U.S.A., Suzanne has a nat­ural abil­ity to adapt pos­tures to suit each individual’s capa­bil­ity and teach pranayama and med­i­ta­tion accord­ing to the require­ments of the indi­vid­ual or class.

Suzanne offers yoga tuition in a friendly, pro­fes­sional, fun, car­ing and enthu­si­as­tic manner.

Suzanne is also a pub­lished artist and poet, a PADI-certified diver and mother of two won­der­ful sons.

*) The Sur­rey Iyen­gar Insti­tute was founded by Ruth & John White, who were taught & cer­ti­fied by BKS Iyen­gar.  Dur­ing Suzanne’s train­ing period the cen­ter was renamed ‘Karuna’.  Although the teach­ings are com­pletely in the style of BKS Iyen­gar, with some adap­ta­tions made to pos­tures, Iyen­gar gave his bless­ing to con­tinue teach­ing but not to call the cen­ter Iyen­gar. BKS Iyen­gar is still the Pres­i­dent of Karuna Yoga.

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