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Nancy Leigh-Smith, M.A., has been teaching yoga classes since 1999. Her background includes degrees in
music and education, and experience studying and teaching in Europe, Asia, Australia and India as well as the United States.
While in India for sixteen months, she studied yogic philosophy, meditation, and devotional music. She taught education classes
in hatha yoga teachers' training programs, and also conducted classes and workshops for musicians, meditation teachers and
monks! Following an automobile accident in 1997, she began to focus on the practice of asana and is awed by the opportunity
yoga affords for healing mind and body, and renewing the spirit. She has studied primarily Iyengar-style hatha yoga, and has
been influenced and inspired by her classes with Donald Moyer, Mary Lou Weprin, Judith Lasater, Roger Cole and John Friend,
as well as her ten-month apprenticeship with Gay White and classes with Sandy Blaine. She is a graduate of the three-year
Advanced Studies Program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, holds a California State Teaching Credential in Health and Safety/Physical
Fitness, and is an Advanced Relax and Renew Trainer. Nancy's teaching is deeply connected to her own experience of practicing
yoga in the middle years of life.
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