Description
Ann has been practicing yoga for 30 years and teaching for the last 5 years. She offers Iyengar based classes, paying close attention to anatomical details and the alignment of each posture.
Explore yoga for the first time or deepen your existing practice with Ann over the course of 3 private classes. She can come to your home or you can practice in her Berkeley studio.
Her story:
I was introduced to yoga in 1978 in my freshman year at college in the theatre department.
For the next two decade after college, I continued to take yoga classes at the local YMCA's. In 1998, I became a student of yoga intructor Pretzel "Bija" France. I was living in SOMA and came to her studio on Potrero Hill. While taking her classes, I learned a method called "Pretzel's Yoga". Her teaching is a mixture of Iyengar, Bikrim, Pilates, music and laughter!
For the next 17 years, I practiced with Pretzel and learned techniques as she developed her own method.
We started with a deep understanding of Iyengar, which is the first love. Then we integrated Bikram in a warm studio, holding and balancing in our poses for 5 minutes.
Next we brought in Ashtanga, which includes warrior poses and found that we needed to stay on all 4 planes not just one! Lastly, we incorporated our love of Pilates. Pilates added focus on the core, the foundation of our bodies.
In 2013, Pretzel convinced me it was time to take her teaching training course. I am so happy she pushed me because in 2014, Pretzel died and she left me an amazing gift, "Pretzel's Yoga". I started teaching in 2014, and I have been refining my sequencing, my knowledge, my music, my studio, and my students. Each day my class teaches me something new. I know this is my path and Bija keeps me on my mat!
Item Special Note
3 private, individual classes. At your home or in Berkeley studio. Contact Ann Lefkovits to coordinate.
https://www.yogann.com