Testimonials

I started taking yoga classes at Leslieville yoga about a year ago, I found Lesliville Yoga’s website and found out that the studio was just around the corner from my house and decided to make a change in my non excising habits. I had never taken a yoga class before and I was very interested. The selling point for me to come and try out yoga at Leslieville yoga was the convenience and the price. The first class was FREE!! What did I have to lose!

I went to my first class and since then I have been hooked! The convenience of location and the very reasonable prices are great, but what makes that even more worth it is the Instructor. Anita is a hands on patient, highly knowledgeable Yoga instructor. With the intimate atmosphere of Leslieville Yoga’s studio, Anita is able to give a more hands on approach to teaching Yoga; if you cannot do a certain posture she offers the students modifications to enable them to do the postures and still gets the benefit of doing the posture properly. She is always walking around ensuring that you are doing the postures correctly to avoid any strains to your muscles or body. You would not be able to get that in a bigger studio, and that’s why the small intimate classes that Leslieville Yoga offers are very beneficial. She also offers advice to what postures and stretches you can incorporate in day to day work and home environments, for those days that you can not dedicate time for yoga. Anita also focuses on breathing while doing stretches and postures, which makes you feel like you are just sinking into you mat and feeling completely relaxed. I find when I come out of the class I am more energized then when I went in. When I first started my form and balance were horrendous. But with the small classes and hands on approach my form and balance has improved immensely. Also not to mention when under stress I remember what breathing techniques I learned in class and apply it when I do feel overwhelmed and it calms me to down focus on what is at hand and to deal with it. When those days come for me to attend my yoga class I am always excited to attend, relax and learn even more! Leslieville Yoga is truly an educational, relaxing and spiritual setting to just completely let go of the day and focus on you and the present. Namaste.

~Stephanie Korzeniewicz

Dear Anita,

Thank you so much for your beginner classes that I started this summer—I’m now up to class #10. I believe that my taking your gentle, consistent, no-pressure class has been THE perfect opportunity for my back to heal in what I can only describe as “a miraculous way.” As you know I came to you as a stiff and inflexible student with chronic lower back compression. I looked like an inactive senior doing yoga for the first time —and I’m only 44.
Coming once per week has been just what I needed---a gradual “easing into” the yoga class. This has helped me immeasurably. Even though I had to be patient during the transitions between poses (my disks would have to re-inflate or compress before I could perform the counter posture), I have found that my progress has been leaps and bounds with each class. And I didn’t feel that I had to hurry up and look good to impress you or anyone else who was there, or progress to the advanced yoga moves.

Three years ago I was given exercises by a physiotherapist, but I did them inconsistently and not only that they were hard to do—especially on my own! I have noticed that your basics class almost mirrors exactly the kind of exercises recommended to me to improve my spine. What a happy coincidence. I am enjoying the benefits—now several weeks later I can frequently bend over and pick up a fallen piece of paper or a sock and do so without holding a shelf or my leg for support. Not all the time, but it’s happening more and more. Incredible!
So, I will be coming on a regular basis to your beginner’s class with no shame and a lot of joy. Thank you very much for your wonderful class and your lovely reassuring voice.

~Katherine Hardie