”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 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 to slow down and look after myself, and 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. I went from practising Yoga as physical exercise to becoming a spiritual yogi and teacher passionate about sharing 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 Yoga’s ancient wisdom.
Om & Prem,
Shankara, aka Marc Leonard
