Lea is an experienced certified Teacher of Vinyasa, Kriya, and Hatha Yoga, Meditation  and Pranayama (Breathwork). She is a Yoga Therapist specializing in working with clients with chronic and life-threatening conditions and a Teacher Trainer in Vinyasa, Hatha, and Kriya Yoga as Therapy. 

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Lea began her professional career as modern dancer and choreographer in NYC in the 1980's and 90's, studying at Peridance Center, the Limon Institute, and Martha Graham School of Dance. Her choreography was presented in and around NYC at venues like DIA Center for the Arts, Yale University Dancers in New Haven, CT. Lea performed with NYC area modern dance companies at the Joyce Theatre, La Mama, etc., and internationally in Tokyo, Japan and South Korea.

 

Her early influences in yoga were at Jivamukti Yoga and with Sri Dharma Mittra. She sought out Tibetan Buddhist teachings through the Nechung Monastery in NYC and in Dharamsala, India.

 

Lea was first certified in Kundalini Yoga in 1997 and was a Teacher Trainer in that system until 2005. She traveled to study Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and was a Hatha Yoga teacher at a major international ashram, offering seva for many years as co-director of the NYC Ashram. Lea became a student of classical ayurveda with Kerala Ayurveda in 2007.

 

Since 2001, Lea has offered the AGNI Intensive in Kriya Yoga as Therapy, held in NYC, and now in LA. She also designed PRANA MANDIR Yoga's Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training and is sought after as a Teacher Trainer with schools in California and on the East Coast.

 

Lea founded PRANA MANDIR Yoga in 2002, with a NYC studio that ran for over ten years. PRANA MANDIR was the first center in the U.S. to present Kerala Ayurveda's practitioner training and certification from India. The Studio’s outreach involved research into the application and effects of Yoga at NYC area hospitals, where Lea mentored teachers, lead group classes and research studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Continuum Center for Health and Healing and St. Lukes Hospital. She developed yoga protocols for wide ranging programs such as Diabetes Prevention, and Stroke recovery . 

 

Lea currently lives in El Segundo, California and is the director of Yoga Therapy at Live Your Best Life. A session with Lea offers alignment principles for the physical body as well as the inner most self.  Yoga Therapy practices are dynamic and compassionate healing  sessions, honoring the unique balance of each individual.