Customized Yoga Practices
Because relationships matter and experience is everything.

​Leila A. Fortier is an E-RYT® 500, YACEP® certified yoga teacher and founder of ANANTA YOGA | Forgotten Coast Ashtanga specializing in customized private yoga sessions and small crafted offerings.

Leila holds over 30 years of experience in health and wellness. She received her training in both Okinawa, Japan and Rishikesh, India under the guidance of Krishna Sikhwal emphasizing her studies in yogic philosophy and Ayurveda. With over 1,000 hrs. of continuing education, she holds advanced certifications in Yin Yoga, SUP Yoga, the Prison Yoga Project, Yoga2Life certified Life Coach, Advanced Pranayama, and Healing Sound Therapy. After living and teaching abroad, Leila returned to America in 2016 completed the Ashtanga Primary Series Teacher Training Intensive with luminary, Tim Miller. In 2019, Leila initiated the Atman Project: A photographic exhibition illuminating the diversity of Ashtanga practitioners and communities across the country, revealing the deep and soulful inner-work of the physical practice.

​After teaching and traveling nationally and internationally leading classes, workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats, in 2020 Leila established roots in Port Saint Joe, Florida as home for ANANTA YOGA | Forgotten Coast Ashtanga with the desire to create more meaningful connections through customized private offerings. Leila is committed to upholding the yogic traditions of India as originally intended balanced with intelligent applications of modern technologies.

Leila believes that yoga is a lifelong practice and study. She continues to deepen her practice in Sthira Bhaga, the Advanced Ashtanga series and the newly forged Black Lotus system of internationally renowned teacher, Ty Landrum. She gives thanks to her beloved teacher, Ty and to the many great teachers who continue to inform and enrich her practice and teaching, including: Krishna Sikhwal, the late Sharath Jois, Tim Miller, Mary Taylor, Tim Feldmann, Kino MacGregor, and breath master, Dan Brulé. In the latest of unfolding pursuits in the healing arts of yoga, Leila is currently completing her intensive studies in Thai Massage and Osteopathy under the esteemed guidance of Pau Castellsagué in the lineage of Asokananda. 

Leila offers all thanks and praise to her Beloved Satguru, Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda for opening her heart to the Bhakti path of spiritual devotion and whom is the guiding force behind all of her heartfelt aspirations and endeavors, leading her to the development of Ananta Yoga: Bhakti Flow, Shakti Flow, Prana Flow, Nada Flow, OsteoFlow Therapeutics systems, and a variety of Bhakti offerings for the enrichment of her student's experience.

Leila specializes in Black Lotus, Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Ashtanga, and OsteoFlow Therepeutics with special attention to the unique offering of customized yoga experiences and traditionally steeped practices. She advocates intelligently designed yogic practices that can heal and align body, heart, and mind for complete health and wellness in the belief that yoga is for EVERY-body. She is passionate about her role as mentor to students and burgeoning teachers in devotion to their continued development through the art of teaching yoga. In her spare time, Leila is also a globally published author, artist, and photographer: www.leilafortier.com