Lake Center Yoga Instructors

We are dedicated to serve each student and help them unveil their innate goodness, worthiness, and Supreme nature. We are committed to empowering each student, while inspiring light-heartedness, play, and joyful creativity within the yoga practice. We deeply respect and honor each student's various unique abilities and limitations.

Current Teachers of the LCY Instructors

John Friend is one of the most charismatic and highly respected hatha yoga teachers in the world. Blending an uplifting Tantric yoga philosophy with an entertaining sense of humor and a profound knowledge of biomechanics, John's teaching style guides each student to live every moment fully from the heart. Students often comment in amazement that they can perform their yoga poses under John's guidance with a level of creative freedom and inner power that they have never experienced before. Above all, John respects and honors his students with a great deal of loving-kindness and inspires them to see their own unique beauty and divine goodness. In 1997 John founded Anusara Yoga^® to promote his innovative vision. Today, Anusara Yoga is one of the most popular and fastest growing schools of hatha yoga in North America with an expanding presence in the UK, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Paramahansa Nithyananda

Paramahamsa Nithyananda, an Enlightened Master is quietly bringing about a Yogic renaissance for the contemporary times.  He is on a mission to re-establish the science of inner bliss across the globe

Born in Tiruvannamalai, South India, he attained self-realization at a young age, after enduring years of intense penance through single-minded pursuit.

His spiritual quest started seamlessly as a child. At the age of 12, he had his first deep spiritual experience. At 17, he left home on a journey of self-realization and wandered the length and breadth of India and Nepal. He studied Yoga, Tantra and other Eastern metaphysical Sciences and had many profound spiritual experiences. Of the 70,000 miles that he covered visiting great shrines and practicing intense meditation, many thousands of miles he covered by foot.

Through intense study and deep meditation, he has emerged as an inspiring personality for millions of people worldwide. From his own experience, he has formulated the Technology of Bliss to explode the Individual Consciousness and awaken man to the divinity and bliss within.

Through powerful words and simple meditation techniques, he provides life solutions to individuals. Scores of people around the world have experienced radical transformation in short periods of time. He says, 'Meditation is the master key that can bring success in the material world and deep fulfillment in your space within'.

He devises numerous meditation techniques for every conceivable type of man to experience inner silence and outer peace. Offering a gamut of social services world wide, he enriches lives and provides healing at the physical, mental and spiritual levels.

Life Bliss Foundation is a worldwide movement for meditation and healing founded by Nithyananda and run 100% by volunteers. The foundation works towards transformation of humanity and global peace through transformation of the individual.

As a dynamic young enlightened leader he inspires people to understand, appreciate and imbibe the utility value of the Vedic sciences to enrich their lives.