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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 Instructor, Owner and Director Anusara Yoga Certified 2002 Nithya Yoga Certified 2007 Yoga Alliance 500




		Sri Ekan - has practiced yoga and meditation for 38 years in the traditions of Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, Sufism, Siddha Yoga, Nithya Yoga and Anusara Yoga. He has studied with John Friend since 1996 and was certified as an Anusara Yoga Teacher in 2002. He has been teaching yoga for 20 years and welcomes you to the transformative world of yoga at Lake Center Yoga with warmth, love and respect. His current teachers are John Friend and Paramahamsa Nithyananda.




		Nirgunavathi Ananda Instructor, Co-Director Anusara Inspired 2005 Nithya Yoga Certified 2007 Yoga Alliance 200 hours




		Nirgunavathi - studied yoga with yoga masters Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashrams in France, India and the U.S. for 32 years. She has studied Anusara Yoga with John Friend since 1998 and is completing her Anusara Yoga certification requirements. She was certified as a Nithya Yoga Teacher in the ancient lineage of Patanjali by yoga master Swami Nithyananda in 2007. She has been teaching yoga for 11 years and is delighted to offer the Yoga Sutras and other life enhancing themes along with the Anusara Yoga Universal Principles of Alignment in her playfully serious classes 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 Yogi Nithyananda, was born in South India and embarked upon his yoga journey at a young age. Through intense meditation practices and in depth study of Yoga, Tantra, Vedanta, and Shaiva philosophies, He attained the ultimate state of consciousness, the State of Nithyananda (Eternal Bliss). 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 (the “Father of Hatha Yoga) in The Yoga Sutras.


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