Leslie Cranston

Leslie is an experienced and skilled teacher who has been studying and practicing yoga for over 30 years, and sharing her love and knowledge of yoga with others since 2007.

Leslie is a natural leader whose warmth, patience and passion for yoga combine to provide instruction that is deeply nourishing, inspiring and personally fulfilling. She has been offering her renown retreats for over 8 years now, often multiple times per year, throughout Ontario, and her 4-day, 3 night summer retreats in particular are famous for their ability to bring participants to a state of relaxation that even retreat centre staff would comment on – that, of all retreats, this was the most relaxed and blissful they’d seen guests become on retreat at their resort.

Leslie studied under Master yoga teachers Ron Reid and Diane Bruni at the Downward Dog in Toronto in 2007 to become certified with Yoga Alliance International and the Canadian Yoga Alliance. After completing her initial 200 hours of training, she studied an additional 100 hours of advanced training in Yoga Therapy, philosophy, prenatal yoga and Ayurveda. Since then, she has been certified to teach Restorative Yoga (Advanced Relax and Renew(R) training with Judith Hanson Lasater), Seniors Yoga (with Monica Cordes) and Flowyoga (with Bibi Rahim-Hahn).

Leslie is the founder and director of the Yoga Grove studio in Toronto, where she instructs a wide variety of classes as well as offers highly sought-after Restorative Yoga training and Flowyoga Teacher Training.