Leigh Blashki

Leigh was drawn to meditation and yoga in the late 1960s and commenced teaching in the 1970s and practising yoga therapy in 1991. Leigh is an iRest supervisor/mentor and the (voluntary) Associate Director of the iRest Institute in Australasia. His most influential teachers include A.G. Mohan, Dr. Richard Miller and Swami Gitananda. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), a Past-President of Yoga Australia and has served the on the IAYT Standards, Accreditation and Certification committees He was also a founding member of the Global Consortium on Yoga Therapy and is one of the organizers of the annual Global Yoga Therapy Day. Leigh’s life has been dedicated to the establishment of high credible standards of education and professional practice for the fields of yoga, yoga therapy and meditation. He is passionate about people developing an authentic, personal and experiential understanding of what yoga and meditation are and what they are not. He has presented extensively across the world in recent decades. In 2013 and 2017 Leigh was conferred IAYT awards for “extraordinary service to the field of yoga therapy”. As of late 2017, Leigh transitioned into vanaprastha the third stage of life according to the Vedic tradition, in which more time is spent in deep svadhyaya (self- reflection), personal practice and mentoring, while stepping back from many previous professional roles.