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Les Smith
Les began a daily practice of Buddhist meditation and Iyengar yoga in 1987 which radically changed his life and around the same time started a 3-year study of shiatsu which gave him a new approach to understanding and dealing with health and disease.
HealsofellinlovewithAstangavinyasayogaandavidlyattendedmanyworkshopsandtrainings. He eventually finished the Astanga practice as it was giving him imbalances and injuries.
After completing 2-year Iyengar yoga teacher training, Les now is an enthusiastic teacher of Iyengar yoga! He finds it to be a more mature and complete form of asana and pranyama practise. It is not stressful on the body, and it is extremely useful in treating disease, misalignment and imbalance of the body. Les has continued his Iyengar yoga studies and has attained the level of Junior intermediate 2.
His yoga classes inform and enthuse students so they can develop and refine their own yoga practises and heal their own injuries, ailments, posture problems and imbalances. His classes are friendly and relaxed. He likes them to be fun, informative, healthy, challenging and imaginative, and overall, not too serious.
He has a light hearted, pragmatic and down to Earth style of teaching, which students respond well too.
Les leads popular workshops and yoga holidays with many yoga students returning year after year