Yoga teacher, influencer and online sensation Liv Townsend – better known to her many followers as Livinleggings – has taken the internet by storm. Liv has racked up an impressive 306k followers on Instagram and her YouTube videos of yoga classes and tutorials have been viewed more than 882k times. She is the author of eBook The Yoga Handbook: A Guide to Yoga Asana, which aims to help anyone learn yoga asana and shows how to practise with confidence.

Liv’s rise to fame has been swift, and it was only in 2015 when she begun to practise yoga after being inspired to improve her flexibility and learn some fun new skills after watching a girl on her Instagram feed doing a 3-leg Downward Dog. Liv was instantly hooked and went online to learn and read everything she possibly could about yoga. Although the Instagram star was self-taught in the early days of her career, she then took a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training course in London in 2016, as well as further Rocket & Vinyasa Training in 2020 and 500 hours of training in 2021 with Jason Crandell. The popular internet personality has also taken inspiration for the science of movement and mechanics of yoga from other disciplines including resistance training, gymnastics, martial arts and calisthenics.

It’s clear from watching any of Liv’s videos that her huge appeal lays in her likeability along with her ability to break down more challenging postures into easier, bite-sized chunks. As an influencer and a yoga teacher she also aims to banish any judgements that can be rife in the world of yoga about how anyone should speak, think or act.