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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.




	Sri Ekan (Isaac) Instructor, Owner and Director Anusara Yoga Certified 2002 Nithya Yoga Certified 2007 Yoga Alliance 500




		Sri Ekan has been practicing yoga and meditation for 35 years in the traditions of Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, Sufism, Siddha Yoga and Nithya Yoga. He has been been studying with John Friend since 1996 and was Certified as an Anusara Yoga Teacher in 2002. He was ordained as a Nithya Yoga Archarya in the ancient lineage of Patanjali by enlightened Yogi Paramahamsa Nithyananda in 2007. He has been teaching Yoga since 1991 and welcomes you to the transformative world of yoga at Lake Center Yoga with warmth, love and respect.




		Nirgunavathi Ananda (Diana) Instructor, Co-Director Anusara Ceritified in process since 2001 Nithya Yoga Certified 2007 Yoga Alliance 200 hours




		Nirgunavathi has studied yoga with Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashrams in France, India and the U.S. since 1979. She has been studying Anusara Yoga with John Friend since 1998 and is finishing up her Anusara Yoga Certification requirements. She is honored to have met and experienced deep inner transformation with enlightened Yogi Paramahamsa Nithyananda, to have completed the Nithya Yoga Teacher Training and to have becom a Nithya Yoga Acharya in 2007. She is delighted to teach Nithya Yoga and Anusara Yoga as complementary yoga systems at Lake Center Yoga.


	Current Teachers of the LCY Instructors




		John Friend




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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, was born in South India and embarked upon his spiritual journey at a young age. Through intense meditation practices and indepth study of Yoga, Tantra, Vedanta, and Shaiva philosophies, He attained the ultimate state of consciousness, the State of Nithyananda (Eternal Bliss). Patanjali,, an Enlightened Yogi, is universally acknowledged as the Father of Yoga. He was an inner scientist, who created a technology to reproduce in others the inner space of enlightenment that he had experienced. With an enlightened insight into the core of human nature, and his own experience of the science of yoga, Nithyananda has brought to life the original essence and teachings of Patanjali through the system of Nithya Yoga.


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