About Leigh

Certified Wellness Coach, Meditation/Mindfullness & Yoga Practitioner, Shamanic Healer and Trained Nature Guide

Leigh Shand is a Wellness Coach – trained in Canada and India – with more than 15 years’ experience in Yoga, Meditation/Mindfulness, Ayurveda and more recently, Shamanic Healing and Nature Guiding. Over her tenure Leigh has worked with 100s of clients and teaches from personal experience on how to live a balanced and fulfilling life, offering practical tools, motivation and support. Popular topics include: diet, exercise, sleep, stress and how to prioritize what’s most important.

Through classes, workshops and talks, retreats and one-on-one sessions, Leigh supports individuals, corporate and non-profit clients throughout Southwestern Ontario and beyond. She also has trauma-informed training which she applies to all of her work, collaborates regularly with the Indigenous community and always leads from the heart.

 

Leigh is well versed in working with corporate groups as she has an extensive background in public relations and communications across all sectors. She translates her deep understanding of the day-to-day stresses of the corporate world into workplace wellness programming for all types of businesses.

In her spare time, Leigh is a competitive masters’ swimmer and coach, avid hiker and enjoys spending time with her family. Leigh is also a strong believer in volunteerism and is an active volunteer with the London Silver Dolphins Masters Swim Team and Thames Talbot Land Trust.

Background – Holistic Healing:

Leigh offers Wellness Coaching where she helps clients in life balance with practical tools, empowering them to make real, sustainable change. Her one-on-one sessions and workshops are steeped in the teachings for Ayurveda – a time-tested healing modality (it’s over 5000 years old) recognized by the World Health Organization. Leigh also teaches Gentle Yoga Classes throughout the city of London.

Leigh received her Yoga and Ayurveda training in London, Ontario under the tutelage of Jackie (Shankari) and Greg (Yogesh) Van Acker of AT THE CORE and via distance learning with the American Institute of Vedic Studies (AIVS) in New Mexico. She also travelled to India to study directly with Vamadeva (Dr. David Frawley) and Shambhavi Devi – co-directors of AIVS. Leigh has acquired more than 2,000 hours of training in courses, classes and retreats since 2010. She continues to study and to deepen her practices, as she firmly believes she will always be a student, as well as a teacher.

Leigh also completed a year-long training in Shamanic Healing - a form of meditation and energy work that has been used by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years. She studied under Daniel Léonard of The Medicine Circle, a student of Sandra Ingerman for over 15 years. This lineage uses percussion (drumming) as means to heal, uplift and empower. Leigh offers several different services under this profound, life-changing modality.

BACKGROUND – LEADERSHIP & NATURALIST

A life-long learner, Leigh is a graduate of Fanshawe College’s Adventure Expeditions and Interpretive Leadership Program where she finished at the top of her class and earned the Faculty Award for outstanding commitment to academic excellence and personal growth.

Throughout this unique, rich and comprehensive program, Leigh:

  • Earned 16 different outdoor education and leadership certifications (including Wilderness First Aid)

  • Focused on environmental sustainability and environmental law, ecology, geology, marketing, leadership, management and more

  • Completed 3 major expeditions

Leigh is already living her vision of combining both her passions - wellness and nature - to create a unique offering. She is currently collaborating with public and private schools, corporations and non-profits leading nature/wellness hikes, teaching workshops, yoga in nature and more. Leigh is also honoured to work closely with the Indigenous community in Southwestern Ontario.

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