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Hollywood star joins yoga classes for Lavender Hill learners

Lesley-Ann Brandt helped raise money for Levana Primary School

On Tuesday, Hollywood star Lesley-Ann Brandt joined a yoga class at Levana Primary School in Lavender Hill.

Hollywood star Lesley-Ann Brandt joined Lavender Hill school children on Tuesday in a yoga class hosted by the Earthchild Project, of which Brandt is an ambassador.

Brandt, who lives in the USA but grew up in Athlone, has helped raise over R670,000 to build a classroom at Levana Primary School in Lavender Hill. Santam contributed R300,000 to the school.

“It’s so beautiful to see children practising yoga. I didn’t grow up with yoga and I didn’t grow up with any kind of tool to deal with what was happening around me,” she said.

Earthchild Project has programmes at eight schools in Lavender Hill and Khayelitsha. They teach yoga, mindfulness and life skills, worm farming and organic gardening. They take the children on hikes, offer leadership training to older learners, and also teacher training.

Blanche Leukes from Lavender Hill has been a yoga teacher at Earthchild for the last year. The learners can “discover a lot about themselves” doing yoga, she said.

 

Learners can “discover a lot about themselves” doing yoga, says Blanche Leukes, a yoga teacher at Earthchild.

 

Earthchild Project has programmes at eight schools in Lavender Hill and Khayelitsha.

 

Along with yoga, the children also learn mindfulness and life skills.

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