Opening Minds and Hearts in the Midwest
Cultivating Cultural and Intellectual Humility Through Contemplative Practices
Shane Ledford, CMT-200, CYT-200
Shane is a certified mindfulness and yoga teacher offering classes online and in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. After many years of being on the planet as well as sitting behind a desk in a sales job, Shane went on a search for that “something that was missing.” By good fortune he felt he found that something when he walked into his very first yoga class at a studio in Tokyo. Upon returning to the States, he immediately searched for and found classes in yoga and meditation. Shane has read numerous books and attended many mindfulness workshops with prominent teachers. He received his 200-hour yoga teacher certification with advanced training in Yin Yoga, and has been teaching yoga and mindfulness since 2014. He has also studied walking meditation (“Kinhin”) and Forest Therapy (“Shinrin-Yoku”). In December 2020 he received his 200-hour Mindfulness Teacher Training certification from the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness. Email Shane
The “Show Me State” is named after the indigenous Missouria (Niúachi) People of the River Mouth tribe who continue to call this place home. Now more than six million people live within this 19th most populous state in the US. Missouri is known for many things, but maybe most famously for its Jazz music and barbecue. It is home to the Mark Twain National Forest, Taum Sauk Mountain, Table Rock Lake and Bennet Springs from which more than 100 million gallons of clear, cool water gush forth each day.
