“We should be talking about all of our activity classes as mind-body-spirit classes but it's all about how [the instructors] are teaching them,” she continues. “We're a very young industry… hopefully we're getting smarter and realize that all three (mind, body and spirit) are necessary. We're losing people who come in [to the club] for just getting their endorphins handled.”

MBS is “about a connection to slowing down,” says Leeann Carey, president of Planet Yoga, whose flagship studio is located in Hermosa Beach, Calif. “Most of us have a very intense lifestyle, especially in L.A. — I'm looking out the window right now and there is a movie being shot across the street. What I really like about yoga is you're not just told how to do something but why. Why it's good to take a breath.”


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Discovery Yoga with Leeann Carey

By Cara Jepsen

California yoga teacher Leeann Carey began practicing in 1981. Like Donna Farhi and Erich Schiffmann, Leeann was certified to teach Iyengar yoga and gradually moved away from the strictness of the tradition. Studying Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy was a major turning point for Leeann. "I became more of an authentic yoga teacher-teaching my kind of yoga as opposed to someone else's-not that I don't still use that technique," she said at an October workshop at Moksha Yoga Shala.

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