About Leslie Snow

Yoga Alliance #116533, E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®

Leslie came to yoga through meditation, which she began after a near fatal car accident when she was eighteen. That accident was the result of a single moment of unawareness, yet affected every moment that followed. She started to meditate and read in order to understand what was going on inside of her—consciousness—and outside of her—reality. And over the next 40 years, she started to understand the big questions. Yoga helped.

After moving to rural North Carolina after 18 years as a graphic artist, Leslie became a personal fitness trainer, started practicing traditional Okinawan Karate, and began teaching yoga. She took exercise physiology classes at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A couple of years later, in 2013, Leslie pursued yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India.

When she returned, Leslie continued to see firsthand how yoga improved her senior students’ physical problems, improving their osteoporosis and other problems with aging, helped their mental state, giving them courage to try difficult postures, and improved their lives.

Wanting to teach more, Leslie volunteered to teach yoga at the medium security prison. Seeing that the physical and mental training of a yoga practice helps even those that live in stressful, unhealthful, and even dangerous prisons—confirmed that life lessons are learned the hard way. Yoga was the salvation for many there; prisoner yogis had to accept the notion that good comes through suffering. Yoga helped them deal with loss, boredom, guilt, and depression. It gave them courage and helped them understand the existential “why.” Is there a message in your own pain, whether physical, mental, or emotional, that life is trying to tell you?

Relocating near Woodstock, New York in 2016, Leslie teachings seniors both privately and in group classes. She continues her martial arts, now practicing Aikido. Leslie also became a Reiki Master, volunteering with Health Care is a Human Right.

In India, my fellow yoga students and I would laugh because the guru taught us that yoga was good for every malady! Now I know it’s true. If you suffer the affects of aging, or the misfortunes of living, stuck in unhealthy physical and mental habits that lead to suffering, a change is required. Don’t wait for an accident. Let that change be yoga. Yoga can give you the tools for physical and mental health and happiness. Contact me for information on yoga programs for graceful aging.