Client Comments;

K-Lea has the heart and skillful means of a healer. Her instructions are clear and concise. She is an intense, precise and committed teacher. Her depth gives her a grounded maturity allowing for a safe environment. She is spontaneous and playful and has warm compassion for her clients at all levels.

K-Lea has the ability to give a wide range of Yoga class experiences from gently nurturing you in a restorative class to the intense precision of intermediate classes. She has wisdom beyond her physical years and her intuition reveals that. She is a truly gifted teacher and has much to offer.

About K-Lea

K-Lea and teacher, Abhay Javakhedkar, in Pune, India

As a young teenager K-Lea was surrounded by Yogis via her mother, June LaSalvia, who was her first teacher in 1983. She narrowed her focus to only Iyengar Yoga when she was pregnant with her daughter, Chelsea. Seeking to dive deeper into the minutia of alignment, K-Lea began training for Iyengar certification and teaching full-time in 1990. She is Iyengar certified at the Intermediate Junior Level II.

K-Lea has studied with the Iyengar family in Pune, India several times and continues her professional education through ongoing studies with many inspiring teachers, including Chris Saudek, Patricia Walden, Mary Obendorfer and Eddy Marks. Her instructor in TN is Jan Campbell of The Yoga Center of Nashville.

K-Lea teaches classes for all levels from new beginners to advanced pratitioners and teachers. She enjoys instructing special needs classes such as pregnancy, restorative, and back care classes. She has taught retreats and workshops in the United States and Canada, specifically Hollyhock in British Columbia.

K-Lea was the founder/owner of two yoga studios in Nashville, Yoga Source and 12South Yoga, both of which are still successfully sharing the art of Yoga. She appears in the Gaiam Living Arts Video "Living Yoga". K-Lea has modeled for Redbook and Fit Magazines and appeared on both local and national television in the United States. She has taught at several Yoga Journal Conferences, New Age Journal's Body & Soul Conference and The Southeast Yoga Conference.