E-RYT500
Leigh has been practicing yoga since 2004 and teaching since 2016, following the completion of her 200-hour teacher training and later her 300-hour advanced training in 2020. She is the founder of House of Yoga in Cape Town, established in 2018 as a space for practice, learning, and inner exploration. Alongside her regular classes, workshops, and retreats, Leigh leads the studio’s 200-hour teacher training.
Leigh’s path into yoga was shaped by a background in dance and over a decade spent in the corporate world across the financial, real estate, and renewable energy sectors in London and Cape Town. Throughout these years, yoga became more than a physical practice – it was a steady anchor for the nervous system and a lens through which to meet the complexities of life with greater awareness. This lived experience continues to inform her teaching and her approach to holding space for others.
Drawing from a wide range of lineages – including Hatha, Vinyasa, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Yin, and Restorative yoga – Leigh’s teaching is both structured and intuitive, rooted in tradition yet responsive to the individual. She places strong emphasis on developing awareness through the body, cultivating a relationship with the breath, and learning to listen inwardly with honesty and sensitivity.
At the heart of Leigh’s teaching is the belief that yoga is a practice of remembering – of coming home to oneself. In the context of teacher training, she is passionate about supporting students not only in learning how to teach, but in embodying the practice in a way that is authentic and sustainable. Her approach encourages inquiry over perfection, presence over performance, and depth over external form.
Leigh sees the role of a teacher as one of facilitator rather than authority – someone who creates a space in which others can explore, connect, and discover their own inner intelligence. Through the training, she invites students to develop both the practical skills and the self-awareness needed to share yoga in a way that is grounded, compassionate, and relevant to the world we live in.
