About Us
Yogalift® and Learn to Be Lean were founded by Shannon Leavitt.
Shannon’s calling is to show others an alternative path to achieve lifelong health with a body-mind-spirit approach. By addressing the whole person (body, mind and spirit) sustainable results begin to take shape.
Shannon teaching in Mexico
Shannon Leavitt
As the founder of Yogalift®, Shannon Leavitt is passionate about healthy living. Her expertise spans 30 years of being immersed in the health and fitness arena. She is a licensed dietitian, hatha yoga instructor, NASM-certified personal trainer and a professional health coach with a certificate from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing.
Yogalift® and Learn to Be Lean are her lifework — the culmination of 30 years of experience helping people realize better health by focusing internally and spiritually. It is a program that believes wholeheartedly in the innate wisdom and wholeness in each of us. Through specially designed programs and exercises – including both outer and inner body work – Shannon shares her wisdom, motivation and gentle prodding to help others make and sustain lifelong changes.
Shannon is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach – NBC-HWC. She is also the creator of Yogalift®, the official exercise of the Learn to Be Lean practice.
Media Appearances
Radio / Podcasts
Be More Mindful & Slow Down (Which Way Is Life)
Articles
Minneapolis coach helps others lose weight through yoga (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
June 7, 2017 : Aging Without Wrinkles with Harriet Tramer
(interview begins at the 30 minute mark)
Four Steps to Get Lean in Today’s Fattening Society (Daily Cup of Yoga)
“Falling Through the Cracks” with Dr. Rebecca Risk
Listen to the entire interview or the Mindful Eating portion that begins at 38:20
Experts Explain How to Get a Better Night’s Sleep (Observer)
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide an alternative path to health and weight loss; one that addresses the whole person — body, mind and spirit. Our core belief is that through transforming your life you will transform your body.
Your body is just one point on the body, mind, spirit triangle and it’s all connected. That’s why we believe that wellness is a spiritual path and that reaching optimum wellness and a healthy weight is a spiritual practice, not a diet.
By discovering the divine wisdom within, you develop a transformative practice that starts with the body and integrates the whole being for both sustainable weight loss and lifelong healthy living.
The goal of Yogalift® and Learn to Be Lean is to help you realize your innate wholeness and to help you create a new path, a new vision of yourself, a new life.
Yogalift® believes wholeheartedly in the innate wisdom and wholeness in each of us.
Our mission is to help our practitioners discover that divine wisdom through a transformative practice that starts with the body and integrates the whole being for both sustainable weight loss and lifelong healthy living.
Our Values
Privacy – We will never sell your information and assure you of complete confidentiality.
Your spiritual path – We honor that your path is your own, unique to you.
Sustainability – We invest in things that last, from weight loss and healthy living to the environment.
Balance – We strive for and promote balance in all things.
Compassionate discipline – We believe embracing a compassionate discipline reveals personal and universal truths. Make it a sacred commitment to yourself!
Inner peace – We want to help you on your journey to the end of all spiritual paths.
Community – We foster healthy communities, within our practice as well as our cities and towns.
Service – We believe in the spiritual path of service, to our practitioners, our employees and affiliates throughout the world.
“It wasn’t until I tried the “holistic” approach presented to me in the Transform Your Life and Body that I realized what had been missing from all of my other attempts at weight control. Once I enlisted my spirit and mind to focus on the same things as the physical I began to actually see and feel results. Food has never tasted better, I am not concentrating constantly on calories and points and my entire family is learning through me. Being a “big picture” type of person I felt this program took a unique yet effective path to health and well-being. I would recommend it to anyone who has tried the alternatives.”
— Sue B.