La Source Teachers

Denise Pesch

Practicing yoga since 1967 and teaching since 1984, Denise has experienced the feeling of easiness, lightness, joy and health in life and wishes to impart this wonderful experience to all her students in the varied styles of yoga that she teaches - Ashtanga, Sivananda, Pregnancy and Hormone yoga.

Fredric Bender

Fredric has been teaching yoga for 20 years and has been co-director of Centre de Yoga - La Source since 1995. He started yoga in 1987, took the Sivananda teachers training in 1990 then taught at the Los Angeles Sivananda center for several years. Due to his own back injuries before yoga, he developed a sequence of yoga variations that form the cornerstone of his popular yoga for the back program.

Claudia Schlegel

Receiving her yoga teaching certification in 2002 and meditation teaching certification in 2005, Claudia would like to help her students develop a proper sense of their physical body in order for them to access the more subtle inner self. This would enable a greater possibility for spiritual awakening to take place.

Eva Fischer

Eva has practiced various forms of yoga for 15 years, but when she was introduced to Sivananda's teachings in 2006, it provided her with the enthusiasm and discipline to turn her yoga practice into an important part of her daily life and and to live her passion, yoga! After a formal Sivananda teacher training course in Budapest, she received her diploma in 2009.

Marta Krawczyk

Marta's experience with yoga started in Warsaw, Poland in 2003 with Iyengar Yoga and continued with Ashtanga yoga in Luxembourg with Peter Taylor and Denise Pesch. She recently became a certified yoga teacher to further share her passion for yoga.

Malou Schleimer

Practicing yoga since 2002, Malou's passion to further deepen the yogic approach to unify body and mind motivated her to earn her yoga teacher diploma in 2006.

Guest Teachers

Andre Riehl

Desiring to participate in the transmission and the preservation of the yogic culture, Andre dedicates himself to transmit authentic teachings combining ancestral knowledge with contemporary attitudes through courses, seminars, and trainings as well as accompanying groups to traditional India.

Kathy Cooper

Kathy brings an informed, deep, long-time practice of 36 years to her Ashtanga teaching, supporting practitioners to strengthen their core/breath/alignment to correct and avoid injuries and move from the inside. Her style is practical and hands on. You will receive individual attention, adjustments, and insights to help you deepen your practice.

Swami Atma

Originally from France, Swami Atma directed the Chicago and Los Angeles branches of the Sivananda Yoga organisation and led Teachers' Training Courses in California, New York, Bahamas, Canada and India. In December 2000, he founded the Advaita Yoga Ashrama (AYA) and continues to teach internationally.