Blue Spruce Yoga Teachers:
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Leslie Bradley, Director of Blue Spruce Yoga, has taught yoga in
the Iyengar tradition since 1985. She is certified at the Intermediate
Jr. III level and is a recommending teacher in the certification
process. She has been an assessor in the teacher certification process
since 2003, was recently asked to assess at the Intermediate level, and
has conducted teacher training for over a decade. She has made five
trips to Pune, India to study directly with the Iyengars, most recently
in 2008. Leslie was chosen as one of 70 women from 18 countries to
attend the Women’s Intensive with Geeta Iyengar, learning much about the
application of yoga to women’s specific needs. She studies with and
assists senior teachers in America on a regular basis.  She has served as President, Vice President, and Secretary of IMIYA, the regional Iyengar association. Leslie
started yoga for the joy of the physical postures. Over the years of
practice and study, she has found yoga philosophy to be a source of
great comfort, inspiration and wisdom. B.K.S. Iyengar is of an ancient
and respected lineage in the yoga tradition, and Leslie is grateful to
have all the wisdom of her teachers and their teachers to inform her
practice and teaching. She is also grateful to have the opportunity to
share what she can with her students.
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Nancy Crum Stechert is an intermediate certified teacher in the
Iyengar Tradition and has practiced yoga for over 20 years. She studied
with the Iyengars every year from 1982 to 1989, most recently studying
there in January of 2001. She originally founded the Colorado School
of Yoga and also established the international Yoga Center of Tokyo. She
taught at the lyengar Institutes of San Francisco and New York and
Studio Yoga in New Jersey. Nancy just served as President of the local
Iyengar yoga association, IMIYA, and she has chaired three recent
Iyengar Teaching Assessments.
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Kelly Moore has studied yoga for 15 years and is certified at the
Introductory level. She has studied with the Iyengars in Pune India,
Manouso Manos, Patricia Walden, Swati and Rajiv Chanchani, John
Schumacher, Dean Learner, Gloria Goldberg, Elise Miller, Francois
Raoult, Gabriella Gubillaro, Nancy Stechert. The path of yoga guides
her to recognize and experience true joy and contentment in her life.
She has gratitude for her teachers who bring this ancient yet timeless
art of yoga to the present day (and gratitude to her students who are
also her teachers!)
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Diane Goldstein is certified at the Introductory level. She was
introduced to yoga while studying social work in the 1970s. After
graduation from law school, she moved to Colorado and began practicing
Iyengar yoga with Leslie Bradley. She has used yoga to strengthen a weak
back brought on by the demands of mothering three young children. Diane
has deepened her knowledge of yoga through the Advanced Studies and
Teacher Training Program taught by Nancy Crum Stechert and Leslie
Bradley, as well as training with various senior teachers who visit
locally. She enjoys helping students discover the strength and peace a
yoga practice can bring.
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