Leah Cullis
Yoga Expert
Yoga expert, wholistic health coach and author Leah Cullis-Arvelo has extensive experience as a teacher, coach, and student. She has led yoga classes and immersions across the globe, including at the White House during the Obama Administration. She synthesizes practices of yoga and wellbeing, and makes them accessible and relevant for life today.
Austin
Texas
United States
- Power Yoga
- Wholistic Health and Wellbeing
- yoga
- asana
- movement
- health coach
- yoga teacher
- vinyasa yoga
- gentle yoga
- coach
- leadership
- healthy lifestyle
- wellness
- wellbeing
Testimonials
The EMPOWERED training was a life-changing experience. It helped me find and own my power. It helped me heal, so I can truly be of service to others. My teachers Leah and Shelby are incredibly humble, kind, and funny, and they helped me see my own light. Words cannot express the growth and wisdom this training has brought into my life. I feel confident. I feel ready. I feel empowered.
Student, Empowered Program
The Empowered Program with Leah has given me all of the missing pieces of information I lacked with other teacher trainings. I felt the entire program was beautiful and cohesive and surpasses other YTT programs I attended. Leah is an articulate and organized teacher who has clearly thought out the contents of the Empowered Program to give students a well-rounded education. She is just a beautiful and gifted teacher.
Student, Empowered Program
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Yoga as a Snack Break
Do you ever mindlessly browse your kitchen out of boredom or the need for a break? If you're not really hungry, try this soothing, stretchy yoga class instead. You'll spend the whole class seated or lying down, making it just as delicious as any snack.
Breathe. Move. Meditate. (Encore)
Sometimes we have to shake off some energy before we sit. In this full-spectrum practice, we’ll use breathwork and gentle yoga to prepare for a simple guided meditation. Previously recorded on May 21, 2022.
Flow with Your Feelings
If you're feeling caught up in an emotion, it can help to create space for it to flow through you. This gentle, stretchy flow features lunges and side body stretches to open your body and soothe your mind.
Yoga for a Parent’s Time-Out
Parents often give and give to the point of exhaustion. This soothing restorative yoga class will allow you to relax and focus on receiving.
Yoga Meets Mindfulness
Too restless for mindfulness? Well, it's just as effective in motion. In this steady vinyasa flow, you'll practice noticing what feelings arise without clinging or resisting.
Yoga Poses Inspired by Nature
From Tree to Eagle to Mountain — many of yoga's classic poses are inspired by the wonders of nature. In this refreshing vinyasa sequence, you'll embody the shapes of the great outdoors to awaken a sense of deep interconnection.
Yoga Before Sleep
Wind down for a restful night's sleep with a practice that moves slow and stays low to the mat. Enjoy relaxing twists and soothing forward bends before melting into a final dreamy Savasana.
5 Poses to Unwind Tension
Give your body full permission to relax. These restful, feel-good yoga poses — including Reclined Pigeon, spinal twists, and Viparita Karani (Legs Up the Wall Pose) — will ease any lingering tension from the day.
Why #iMeditate: Leah's Story
When a stressful and demanding job led Roundglass teacher Leah Cullis to meditation, it altered the course of her life.
Sun Salutations, Step by Step
Take a tour of the classic poses used in Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations) A and B — the heart of any vinyasa yoga practice. Discover a daily ritual to awaken your body while focusing your mind on the day ahead.
Yoga for Healthy Joints
Give stiff muscles and creaky joints some TLC. This full-body sequence features circular movements to help increase your range of motion and create a sense of ease.
10-Minute Yoga to Recharge
Quickly refresh your mind and body with a few rounds of sun salutations, followed by a deep stretch for the hips and lower back in pigeon pose.
Yoga for Better Posture
Give your posture a tuneup with a practice designed to open your chest while strengthening and lengthening your back. The goal is to step off your mat feeling confident, at ease, and maybe even a little taller.
5 Poses to Reset at Your Desk
Do you spend most of your day hunched over a desk? Join us as we count down five yoga poses to help you unlock tension in your hips and spine — without leaving your chair.
Yoga to Steady Your Attention
Tune out the day's distractions with a flow that keeps you moving. Focus on finding steadiness as you transition from pose to pose, and take on a few balance challenges.
Yoga to Wake Up Your Spine
Give your whole back some love with a yoga flow incorporating the six movements of the spine. This practice is perfect for easing any early-morning creaks or releasing tension after a long day at a desk.
Rise and Shine Yoga Flow
Greet the day with power and positivity. In this warming and awakening yoga flow, you'll move through several variations of sun salutations to brighten your energy and leave you glowing.
First Time on the Mat
Make your first time on the mat fun and pressure-free. Learn the basic building blocks of a yoga practice while trying out classic poses like Downward Dog and Warrior II.
Mood-Boosting Yoga Flow
Sometimes we have to shake off energy before we sit. This beginner-friendly practice of breathwork and yoga will prepare you for a simple guided meditation.
Power Vinyasa Flow and Meditation
Short on time? Get your daily movement and meditation in one powerful 30-minute practice. Start with a classic vinyasa sequence, then relax into stillness for the final 10 minutes.
5 Yoga Poses for Energy
Feel wide awake and ready for a productive day. In this invigorating sequence, Leah Cullis highlights five go-to poses to help you shake off fatigue and shine.
Playful Yoga Pick-Me-Up
Bust out of a midweek slump with a playful, energizing flow featuring Leap Frog hops. Warm up with Sun Salutations, move into gentle core work and balance poses, then prepare to hop and have some fun.
Yoga for Tight Shoulders
Give your shoulders a tune-up while also showing love to your neck, upper back, and chest. This yoga flow will help counteract tightness from being hunched over a desk.
Mood-Boosting Vinyasa Yoga
Feeling kind of “blah?” This vinyasa flow will help shift your perspective and brighten your mood with inverted poses like Ardha Pincha Mayurasana (Dolphin) and wide-legged forward folds.
Yoga to Kickstart Your Day
Need a motivation boost? This invigorating vinyasa flow will light your inner fire with heat-building Sun Salutations and squat variations.
Chill Out Yoga Flow
You've been working hard — now it's time to relax. This restful flow offers relief to tight shoulders and hips, helping you let go of tension and focus on feeling good.
Yoga to Power Your Productivity
Move over, caffeine. This revitalizing flow will help you get in the zone for the workday ahead. Start with seated stretches in your chair, move to the mat for standing poses, then finish with some long, luxurious reclining poses. Props needed: a chair.
Yoga for Better Digestion
This practice is like a nice massage for the digestive organs. Move through gentle side stretches and light twists to stimulate circulation and shift stagnant energy.
Everyday Go-To Yoga Flow
This compact, yet complete, yoga flow covers all the classics. Get your daily dose of sun salutations, standing poses, hip openers, and gentle backbends, then bring it down to the mat for a deeply restful Savasana (corpse pose).
Side Plank for Core Strength
Lift your energy sky-high by exploring Vasisthasana (side plank) — a classic yoga arm balance. In this vinyasa flow, you'll learn the basics of this powerful core and arm strengthener.
Energy Surge Yoga Flow
Get a boost that's better than coffee. This powerful vinyasa flow will wake up energy by flexing and stretching your spine.
Fierce Confidence Yoga Flow
Virabhadrasana (Warrior Pose) invites us to stand confidently in our power. This dynamic flow explores several Warrior Pose variations, helping you expand your chest and shoulders while staying fiercely rooted through your legs.
Yoga to Rest and Recharge
In our fast-paced world, rest and recovery are essential. Still, many of us resist slowing down. This gentle flow offers a combination of long holds and restorative poses, to help your body and mind recharge.
Yoga Binds to Unwind
Reverse the effects of gravity and long hours at your desk. In this stress-relieving yoga flow, you'll wrap your arms in various binds to get a deep stretch across your chest and shoulders.
Nonstop Vinyasa Flow
Get fired up for the week with a fast-paced, energizing flow. This practice is all about creating internal heat, so come ready to challenge yourself — then enjoy the afterglow.
Heart-Opening Yoga for Courage
Dig deep and find the courage to follow your heart. Join us for a grounding and heart-opening vinyasa flow featuring lunging poses and chest openers.
Chill Out Yoga Flow
Harness the power of the seasonal transition — a time of celebration and new beginnings. In this spring equinox class, you'll cleanse winter stagnation so your intentions can bloom.
Vinyasa Yoga: Vibrancy Flow
Step onto your mat and into a brighter day. Join Leah Cullis for an invigorating flow to awaken energy at your core and leave you feeling vibrant.
Chaturanga 101
Generate presence, focus, and internal heat with chaturanga dandasana (four-limbed staff pose). Join Leah Cullis for a practice to build total-body strength while deconstructing the elements of this essential vinyasa yoga pose.
Yoga to Amplify Abundance
Open to the flow of abundance that comes from within. Join Leah Cullis for an introspective series of hip- and heart-openers to invite feelings of spaciousness and receptivity.
Yoga to Twist Away Tension
Wring out stagnant energy with a series of twisting poses. Leah Cullis guides this rejuvenating flow to unwind and strengthen your back and core.
Vinyasa Yoga for Core Strength
Your core is a deep source of inner strength. In this vinyasa flow, you'll work on strengthening your core from all sides, awakening new energy and power.
Yoga to Strengthen Your Foundation
A tree with strong roots can bend, adapt, and dance in the wind. Join Leah Cullis to activate the strength of your standing poses by gathering your power in your feet, legs, and core.
Virasana Variation Yoga Flow
Both calming and grounding, there's more to virasana (hero pose) than meets the eye. In this flow, featuring virasana variations, you'll stretch and strengthen your legs and feet.
Heart-Opening Gentle Yoga
Flow through a series of gentle backbends to radiate loving energy from your heart space. In this slow and stretchy yoga sequence with Leah Cullis, every pose is an act of self-love.
Lift Into Bow Pose
Flow through a series of chest, shoulder, and hip openers to prepare for dhanurasana (floor bow). Join Leah Cullis to explore this dynamic backbend that strengthens the back body while massaging the digestive organs.
Yoga to Unplug From Distractions
Tune out distractions so you can hear your inner wisdom. Join Leah Cullis for a meditative flow, helping you turn your attention inward with some longer forward folds.
Play with Triangle Pose
Explore trikonasana (triangle pose) from all angles with Leah Cullis. This expansive pose helps to stretch and strengthen your legs while opening your shoulders, chest, and spine.
Yoga to Inspire Creativity
Activate the creative energy that resides at the base of the spine. Join Leah Cullis for a dynamic, dance-like flow to light the fire of inspiration, then close with a few quiet moments to let your ideas bloom.
Upper Chakra Yoga Flow
Unlock the power of your upper chakras (energy centers), which influence self-expression, intuition, and communication. Leah Cullis guides this flow to awaken the upper body, followed by a brief meditation on connecting with your inner truth.
Vinyasa Yoga Basics
Find a sense of ease as you move through feel-good favorites like sun salutations and warrior variations. Join Leah Cullis for a flow featuring vinyasa yoga’s most essential poses.
Lower Chakra Yoga Flow
The lower chakras (energy centers) relate to your sense of stability and confidence. Join Leah Cullis for a yoga sequence focused on your legs, hips, and core to help you stay firmly rooted in your power.
Yoga to Nurture Burnout
Feeling overwhelmed? This vinyasa flow with Leah Cullis starts slow with tension-releasing stretches, then moves into steady movement to help you get out of your head.
Yoga for a Full-Body Reset
Get a deep release and natural stress relief from head to toe. Leah Cullis leads a gentle, stretchy yoga flow to target tension in your hips, sides, shoulders, and more.
Yoga to Unplug From Stress
Drop the stresses of the day by connecting with the earth beneath you. In this grounding yoga practice, you will focus on low lunges and forward folds.
Slow Flow for Inner Calm
Gradually move your way toward tranquility. Leah Cullis guides you through a slow, meditative flow leading into a rejuvenating series of seated and supine poses.
Yoga to Raise Your Vibration
This feel-good flow features a variety of twists and backbends to awaken your spine and open your heart. Join Leah Cullis for a dynamic practice designed to awaken your true, fearless self.
Gentle Yoga for Neck Relief
If it feels like the week’s stress has settled in your neck, this series of gentle stretches may provide some relief. Join Leah Cullis for a soothing sequence to unlock tension in your neck and shoulders.
Yoga Flow for Confidence
Build confidence that shines from within by awakening your solar plexus chakra (energy center). Join Leah Cullis for a core-strengthening sequence to ignite your trust in your inner power.
Cleansing Vinyasa Yoga Flow
Clear out stagnation to create space for what’s to come. Leah Cullis guides a yoga flow full of cleansing twists, folds, and breathwork to help you wring out the old and welcome the new.
Vinyasa Yoga for an Energy Boost
Fire up your inner reserves with a yoga flow designed to activate your entire body. Join Leah Cullis for a dynamic series of breath-linked poses to help flood your body with life-force energy.
Gentle Yoga for a Deep Release
Let it all go with a series of deeply satisfying long holds. Leah Cullis guides this soothing yoga practice using gravity and the breath to release tightness and stagnant energy.
Yoga to Align with Your Intentions
Discover how every yoga pose is an opportunity to embody the energies you desire in your life. Leah Cullis guides a powerful practice to help you move in alignment with your intentions for the new year.
Yoga to Unwind Holiday Stress
Feel like you’ve been caught up in a flurry of invitations and to-dos? Join Leah Cullis for a soothing yoga sequence to help melt away tension and stress so you can focus on the true spirit of the season.
Yoga to Welcome the Winter Season
Welcome the new season with a vinyasa flow to ground and brighten your energy. Join Leah Cullis and explore balance poses to cultivate both steadiness and lightness.
Heart Chakra Vinyasa Flow
Unlock the power of your heart chakra (energy center) to access inner joy and peace. Take a break to enjoy this intentional yoga flow to open your chest, shoulders, and upper back.
Gentle Yoga for Inner Calm
Discover the richness within each pause as you move your way toward stillness. Join Leah Cullis for a gentle yoga sequence leading you deeper into a space of quiet and calm.
Vinyasa Yoga to Spark Joy
Revel in the pleasure of moving your body. Join Leah Cullis for an awakening sequence featuring lunging poses to uplift your energy and expand your heart.
Yoga to Clear Mental Clutter
Feeling distracted and unfocused? In this steady flow of standing poses, Leah Cullis guides you to let go of the chaos in your mind by getting fully grounded in your body.
Yoga to Shed Upper-Body Tension
Let go of what’s weighing you down and emerge reinvigorated. Leah Cullis guides this expansive sequence of chest and shoulder openers to help you shed stress and uplift your mood.
Gentle Yoga to Relax and Receive
What are you ready to receive in your life? Join Leah Cullis for a gentle yoga sequence to help you release tension and make space for the gifts from your practice.
Vinyasa Yoga to Awaken Intuition
Quiet your mind and let your inner wisdom speak. Join Leah Cullis for a meditative practice where you’ll drop below distractions and move in rhythm with your breath.
Yoga for Upper Back Love
These days, many of us spend a lot of time hunched over a screen, which can wreak havoc on our upper backs. Join Leah Cullis for a flow featuring gentle backbends to awaken the spine and unravel tension.
Power Pose Yoga Flow
Ignite your confidence with a steady flow of standing, balancing, and twisting poses. This powerful practice will help you feel strong and grounded.
Gentle Yoga to Hit Reset
Give yourself an energetic reset with a soothing series of twisting poses. Join Leah Cullis for a gentle practice designed to wring out tension and restore balance in your body and mind.
Slow and Spacious Yoga Flow
Slow down and make space to hear and feel your body. This meditative flow will help you tap into your center and return to balance.
Playful Balance Pose Flow
Give yourself permission to play at the edge of your comfort zone. Join Leah Cullis for a flow featuring standing balance poses to help you tune out distractions and strengthen your foundation.
Gentle Yoga to Unravel Tension
Take time to unwind any physical and emotional knots. This gentle yoga practice with Leah Cullis is an invitation to release effort and relax into your flow.
Yoga to Refuel Your Energy
Consider this your refueling stop. Leah Cullis guides a slow, grounding flow where you will breathe, balance, surrender, and restore.
Fluid, Full-Body Yoga Flow
Flow is the absence of resistance. In this fluid yoga sequence with Leah Cullis, you will engage your whole body and move in coordination with your breath for an experience of meditation in motion.
Core-Strengthening Vinyasa Flow
Tap into the vibrant energy that comes from feeling fully in your power. Join Leah Cullis for a core-activating yoga flow to fuel your body and mind for the week ahead.
Slow and Spacious Yoga Flow
Escape from the fast-paced world with a practice to help you slow down and turn inward. This soothing, grounding yoga flow uses breath and movement to deeply nurture your body.
Hip-Opening Yoga Poses
Flow is the embodiment of water — the perfect blend of strength and softness. Leah Cullis guides this graceful sequence featuring hip-opening poses to loosen areas of tightness and get your energy flowing.
Sweet, Gentle Yoga Flow
In Sanskrit, “Sukha” means “soft, sweetness, or ease.” In this gentle flow, you’ll invite, honor, and embody the sweetness that’s born from moving with ease and intention.
Feel-Good Vinyasa Flow
Join Leah Cullis for an awakening yoga flow to help move stagnant energy, ease areas of tightness, and leave you feeling renewed in mind, body, and spirit.
Slow, Grounding Flow
Allow tension to melt away throughout this grounding yoga sequence with Leah Cullis. After warming up with flowing movement, you’ll transition into longer holds that may illuminate holding patterns within.
Vinyasa Yoga to Set Intentions
Set an intention for your flow, guided by Roundglass yoga teacher Leah Cullis. Each posture in this invigorating sequence is an opportunity to align your energy with how you want to feel.
Gentle Yoga for Renewed Energy
Join Leah Cullis for this gentle practice using mindset, mantra, and yoga poses to lovingly renew your energy before the week ahead.
Soulful Flow for Intuition
Join Leah Cullis for a soulful, energetic flow to help you tap into your creativity, awaken your intuition, and embody your light.
Slow Flow to Quiet Your Mind
Go for a slow and meditative inward journey in this calming flow. Practice using breath and movement to drop into your body, helping you tune out stress and restore inner calm.
Energizing Balance-Pose Flow
Balance poses teach us how to remain centered through challenge and turbulence. This energizing flow will play with balance, helping you find your center and soar.
Heart-Opening Yoga Flow
The upper body surrounds and protects the heart — a major energy center. Join Leah Cullis for this gentle, heart-centered practice, using props and longer holds to open your shoulders, chest, and arms while aligning closer with love.
Yoga to Uplift Your Energy
Flow with purpose to align with your higher intentions and awaken your energy. Join Leah Cullis for an uplifting practice for mind, body, and heart.
Grounding Yoga for Strength
The strength of your pose begins with what’s touching the earth. In this practice, Leah Cullis teaches how to fortify your foundation with your feet and legs, empowering your poses to be more stable and centered.
Yoga to Fuel Your Intentions
Embody your highest intentions by creating your poses with purpose. Join Leah Cullis for an energizing flow to help you practice putting your intentions into action.
Slow, Nourishing Yoga Flow
Taking time to rest and nourish the mind-body connection is essential. Join Leah Cullis for a soothing practice designed to slowly open your joints, helping you recharge and relish the moment.
Vinyasa Yoga for Positive Energy
Awaken your energy and give thanks for the blessings in your life. Join Leah Cullis for a joyous yoga practice designed to be a celebration of body and breath.
Free-Flowing Vinyasa Yoga
Free yourself from distractions and ground down into what’s important to you. Join Leah Cullis for a practice that taps the power of the breath, longer holds, and active surrender — so you can release what was never yours to carry.
Meditative Vinyasa Flow
Step onto the mat for an experience of meditation in motion. This energizing sequence will link body and breath to clear old energy and physical tension.
Hip-Opening Yoga Flow
Our hips are like emotional storage closets — they often hold tension, stress, and even memories. Join Leah Cullis for a practice using gentle postures to open the hips and the breath to surrender old energy that no longer serves you.
Strong and Centered Yoga Flow
Yoga is all about finding the balance between effort and ease. Learn to embody these opposing energies on your mat so you can bring the same sense of steadiness into your everyday life.
Strong and Grounded Yoga Flow
With strong roots, a tree can bend, adapt, and dance in the wind. Join Leah Cullis for this grounding flow, where you will establish a firm foundation in every pose to enjoy more freedom and flow in your practice.
Invigorating Vinyasa Flow
Join Leah Cullis for a dynamic and invigorating flow. This energizing practice will encourage you to amplify your breath, move with intention, and expand your body and mind.
Gentle Yoga to Unwind Tension
Join Leah Cullis for a soothing yoga class featuring slow movement, longer holds, and satisfying shoulder-openers. Accept this invitation to slow down and unwind your body, mind, and heart. Please have a cushion/bolster, yoga blocks, and a strap or towel.
Let It Go Yoga Flow
Release what's no longer serving you as you ground down into what matters most. Join Leah Cullis for a 30-minute yoga flow where you’ll tap into the power of the breath, longer holds, and active surrender poses.
Dance-Like Vinyasa Flow
Balancing poses teach us to root down and stay centered no matter what comes our way. Learn to find your center and soar through the unexpected with this 30-minute asana practice from Roundglass yoga teacher Leah Cullis.
Gentle and Slow Yoga Flow
Sometimes you must slow down to get where you need to go. In this tension-relieving yoga sequence, Leah Cullis will help you get deep into your hips while finding ease in motion. Please have a cushion/bolster, yoga blocks, and a strap or towel.
Feel-Good Yoga Flow
In Sanskrit, sukha means “sweetness, ease, or limitless joy.” In this gentle asana practice, Leah Cullis invites us to honor and embody the sweetness and joy that’s born from moving with intention and ease.
Vinyasa Yoga to Support Healing
Practicing yoga is an invitation to create space and find freedom from the severe stress of everyday life. Join Leah Cullis for a 30-minute asana practice that invites you to make room for deep breathing, healing, and centering.
Vinyasa Yoga: Find Your Rhythm
The breath creates the pathway for your body to flow. Join Roundglass yoga teacher Leah Cullis for this 30-minute asana practice that will teach you to honor your natural rhythm as you celebrate your breath and nourish your body.
Yoga to Expand Your Energy
Uplift your body, mind, and heart with this elevating asana practice. Join Leah Cullis to align with your intentions and flow with purpose as you wake up to your highest self.
Fiery Vinyasa Yoga Flow
Stoke your inner fire with warming sun salutations, invigorating standing poses, and detoxifying twists in this practice designed to help you fuel your expansion.
Training
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Yoga Alliance
Founder of the Empowered Yoga School, 500-hr EYRT, YACEP Aug 2007 - Present (17 years) -
Baptiste Power Yoga Institute
Power Yoga Training Aug 2008 - Nov 2016 (8 years) -
Jonny Kest
Vinyasa Flow Training Aug 2009 - Sep 2013 (4 years)
Education
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Lightyear Leadership
Coach Training 2021 - Present -
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Holistic Health Coach 2012 - 2012 -
University of Iowa
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design 1998 - 2002
Experience
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Author, Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer, and Holistic Health Coach
Leah Cullis Yoga and Wellness Jan 2009 - Present (16 years) -
Teacher Training Lead and Yoga Teacher
BFree Yoga Austin Mar 2011 - Present (14 years) -
Teacher Training Lead and Yoga Teacher
Wanderlust Yoga Austin May 2012 - Feb 2019 (7 years) -
Director of Strategy, Development and Community
Baptiste Power Yoga Institute Aug 2009 - Jan 2013 (3 years)