Om Shanti! I am Leigh Anne Neal. My teaching is a harmonic blend of inspired alignment and creative vinyasa and my classes are warm-hearted and full of spirit. I enjoy opening minds and bringing students toward oneness within themselves. As a yogi, my goal is to teach from a place of openness. This means incorporating many forms and styles in class to give the student what they really need, which may not fit into one “type” of yoga.

As an ongoing student, I have studied with experienced teachers like Sean Tebor, Kathryn Budig, Kristin Chirhart, Stephanie Keech, Dana Flynn and TKV Desikachar, the son of Sri Krisnamacharya.

I began studying yoga and meditation 8 years ago, and have since received my RYT 200 from Kashi Ashram Atlanta in 2005. I also hold a certificate from the Asheville Yoga Center in Pre and Post Natal Yoga. I graduated from the 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training at Peachtree Yoga in Sandy Springs with Graham Fowler and Ursula Nix in 2008. In April 2006, I opened Nirvana Yoga in the heart of Cabbagetown and have since opened a larger studio location in Grant Park. I am also the director of teacher training at Nirvana Yoga studios.

I am also an avid reader, an aspiring novelist and a musician who teaches private piano and clarinet lessons in the community. I am a passionate yogini and teach always from the depth of my heart.

“Let go of all that you know and be open to discovery!”
Bhagwanji

Alan's love for yoga came later in life - albeit just in time - and grew out of the natural intersection of his deep appreciation for movement, respect for the rhythm of all things, admiration for the power of the body to heal itself, and belief in the divinity of the individual. Having grown up the youngest of four children in a conservative military family somewhere in Europe, Alan remembers well how all he really ever wanted to do was dance. He tried figure skating, roller skating, even a little gymnastics. And yes, at long last and many years later, finally a dance class or two. While he admits that he wasn't that "good" at any of it, he nonetheless felt connected to movement, to rhythm, to others. It wasn't until his first vinyasa yoga class in 2006, though, that he reached a pivotal crossroad in bringing it all together, "...and that has made all the difference."

Alan received his 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification from Nirvana School of Classical Yoga in 2009. His teaching style has been described as relaxed and calm, but he encourages students to build strength and flexibility through mindful awareness even in the most restorative of classes. He believes that yoga is as much a spiritual practice as it is a physical one, and that gentle, reflective classes offer as much transformational energy as power vinyasa sequences. His classes therefore emphasize discovery from the inside out at a pace that is comfortable for the student.

Angela Beaver-Harris gained her 200-hour teacher training certification early in 2012 through Leigh Anne Neal.

She believes that the purpose of yoga is to bring self-awareness to light on many levels. It can break through barriers you have built up during your years on earth and will challenge you on a healthy level.

Angela's classes are a healthy, playful balance of effort and ease. She teaches classic Hatha Yoga with a focus on Vinyasa flow.

When not practicing yoga, Angela is also a Holistic Health Coach. She is the owner of Remedy, an Atlanta based business. Angela is also a local photographer. She enjoys spending time with her husband, friends, and family (especially her furry babies).

Laura spent her first 18 years believing she was destined to a sedentary life, thanks to traumatic experiences in phys ed classes, but that all changed with her first yoga class in college. Laura dabbled in yoga for the next few years, but began her practice in earnest in 2008. It was then that she began to notice that yoga (well, along with medication) was the antidote to her anxiety, depression, and history of an eating disorder. Yoga quieted her mind and gave her a new perspective on her body and what it could do. Laura completed her 200 hour teacher training at Nirvana Yoga in 2010, and she currently teaches classes that challenge what the body can do and what the mind thinks are limitations, and encourages her students to laugh at themselves (and at her corny jokes), meet themselves where they are, and know THAT is perfection. Off the mat, Laura reads voraciously, rock climbs when she can afford it, is elated when people call her an athlete, and is beginning the (very) long journey to becoming a nurse. Tina Fey is her spirit animal.

Sherri Copeland teaches an accessible and inclusive style of yoga for all body types and levels of fitness. She has studied yoga for nearly five years, finding it to be a crucial spiritual and emotional practice for living a healthy and sober life. Finishing teacher training at Nirvana Yoga last year, Sherri has been teaching Rise 'n Shine yoga and started a Yoga and Addiction class with Emily Wright. She also loves to teach Yin, Gentle and Restorative Yoga. She loves being a living example that yoga is for everybody and every body!