About Yoga Yay!

Stilling the fluctuations of the mind.

~ love Lesley...  

 
Lesley Lotto began practicing yoga three decades ago in Los Angeles where she grew up. It wasn't until she moved to Montana for her radio career that she began a regular and very personal yoga practice.  In Missoula, Lesley tried Hot Yoga (because it's freezing there!), then moved into a sincere appreciation for all styles and lineages of yoga.  At that time, one of Lesley's teachers brought a 200 hour certification training to a yoga studio in Missoula through Prana Mandir Yoga of New York.  It was a year of intense study into the history and philosophy of yoga,  proper sequencing and learning to lead classes and events. Yoga Yay! was born in that training with three besties who loved practicing and "geeking out" on yoga so much, we would say, "Yoga... Yay!". Since then Lesley has done a 300hr. Bhakti Yoga training, Yoga Nidra training, Restorative training, became Reiki 1&2 certified, certified in Thai Yoga Bodywork, Kundalini Yoga and "Untrained and Retrained" answering the call of the Black Lives Matter movement through trauma-informed yoga, and most recently Mat Pilates, Animal Flow® & Yoga Shred®.  Lesley has also studied Non-Violent Communication, Medical Qigong and EFT Tapping to quiet anxiety and stress. She has practiced or studied with Sondra Loring, Kelly Kamm, Guru Singh, Seane Corn, Rolf Gates, Bryan Kest, Sri Dharma Mittra, Sadie Nardini, Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman-Yee and Guru Jagat.  Lesley practices daily and offers private and public classes (in person and virtually). Lesley is keen to do Karma Yoga whenever possible, and produces newscasts for radio stations across the country for her other baby, Remote News Service, she also hikes, dances, moves her body and plays guitar. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.