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YANA LEWIS

An advanced Iyengar Yoga practitioner with over 20 years of study, Yana  Lewis is an international ballerina and choreographer from the UK . She has performed leading roles in Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia and played a lead dancer in many BBC TV shows. She has a ballet school in UK and India and her own dance company. She is also the founder of 'The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet', a charitable trust to promote Classical Ballet in India and fund Indian dancers in full time vocational training in Europe. Her deep interest in yoga brought her to Pune where she trained with Shri B. K. S. Iyengar. With an RSA in anatomy and physiology combined with her deep understanding of movement and muscles, Yana brings new insights into yoga as well as dance. Yana combines Yoga with Pilates to help injured dancers and improve muscle strength and flexibility. With her vast teaching experience and natural ability to reach out to students at any level, Yana pushes her students to reach beyond their limitations & take them to new depths in yoga as well as dance.

CLASSES:   Awakening the Spine