”Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of the future.” – Swami Sivananda
Hello, my name is Marc Leonard. I am a loving father of two adult children and have been married to my wife since 1996. YOGA found me when we moved from Germany to London in 2013, when I was 45. I had several burnouts, a major one and a physical breakdown in 2009, which ended in a severe car accident. My near-death experience (I was knocked out for a couple of minutes) and the fact that I survived this accident without physical injuries changed my life! I learned the lesson to slow down and look after myself – I gradually lost more than five stones by changing my lifestyle and habits.
After being made redundant from a successful corporate IT Management position, I took the long-sought opportunity to graduate as a traditional Hatha Yoga Teacher at The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram London in June 2019. I graduated as a Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) after a one-month Advanced Yoga Teachers’ Training Course (ATTC) at the Ashram de Yoga Sivananda, Orleans, France, in July 2023.
This intense Teachers’ Training and a month in seclusion changed my life. From practising Yoga as a physical exercise, I became a spiritual yogi and teacher passionate about sharing the 5,000-year-old yoga science and wisdom with lovely students and like-minded people, regardless of their ethical or religious background or gender. Thus, I truly embrace Unity in Diversity!
I founded Leoprana Ltd. to provide IT Consultancy focusing on Change Management and transformational coaching through Yoga. I teach at several Better UK leisure centres in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel, YOGA with MARC, to learn more about the ancient wisdom of Yoga.
Om & Prem,
Shankara, aka Marc Leonard
