Instructors

DEVON DEDERICH
Contact:  via email (yoga At clear spring studio.com) or telephone 512-448-0086.
Devon is the director of Clear Spring Studio. She holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in geography from the University of New Mexico, and is nationally certified to teach in the Iyengar tradition. Devon began formal practice of Iyengar Yoga in 1978, and since then has studied with senior-level Iyengar teachers both here and abroad, as well as with Mr. Iyengar, his son Prashant and his daughter Geeta in Pune.  She has taught since 1980 in New Mexico, Africa and Texas.  Teachers who have profoundly influenced Devon over the decades include Ramanand Patel, Manouso Manos, Mary Dunn, Patricia Walden, John Schumacher, Ed Marks and Mary Obendorfer.  I am also really starting to like Patanjali.  Outside the Iyengar Community,Buddhist teachers and other Contemplative writers and practitioners inspire me:  Flint Sparks, Reb Anderson, the writings of Sogyal Rimpoche, Pema Chodron and the especially interesting research into the mind and emotions by Dalai Lama.   

FULL TIME STUDENTS (with ID) are offered a 25% discount off all Devon’s classes.

FOR THOSE IN FINANCIAL NEED:  I will never turn an earnest student away who lacks the means to pay for classes.  If you need a reduction in your fees, just ask.  Yoga is supposed to work like this; it is my job and my joy to offer this to you. 

ANNE SCHULTZ

Contact: via email (anne bowery At yahoo.com) or phone 512-468-2808.  Anne's blog:  IyengarYogaInAustin.blogspot.com

Anne is a Certified Iyengar Yoga instructor.  She has practiced yoga since 1994 and has taught yoga since 1997. 

She currently studies locally with Devon Dederich.  Anne-Marie regularly attends workshops and teacher training sessions with senior instructors in the Iyengar tradition.  She studies most closely with Eddy Marks, Mary Obendorfer, Laurie Blakeney and George Purvis.  She recently spent a month studying at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India. 

Anne is also a professor of Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco.

CHARLY PIVERT

Contact: via email (charly pivert At gmail.com)  or phone 512-476-2901.  Charly's website is here

Charly  is a Certified Anusara Yoga instructor who has studied with John Friend for the past 14 years.  With over 20 years of teaching experience, Charly brings a deep understanding of how the physical practice of Yoga can connect to one’s heart and have the power to transform our lives  Charly also offers Senior Yoga classes, workshops, teacher training, and private and therapeutic sessions.  For more information visit his website (link above).

MATEO DANIEL
Contact: via email (mateo At playful warrior.com) or phone 512-619-6010  Mateo's website is here

Mateo is a globally recognized Stress Management Expert with over 20 years of experience in the field.  He started his meditation and bodywork practice at the age of 8, and along the way he’s enriched the meditation/yoga/bodywork foundation with extensive forays into the fields of Improvisation, Tantra, Theatrics, acting, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Musical Performance and Competetive Jackassery.

His worldview has been shaped by meditative inspiration peak moments, and a handful of favorite authors including Rumi, Joseph Campbell, Hafiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carlos Castaneda, Tom Robbins, Mantak Chia and Del Close.

Though he’s most grateful for his guidance from the Most High, Mateo gives MAD PROPS to the earth-bound, beautifully human teachers who have helped him get this far, including Lynn Daniel, Gil Sharpe, Kenn Stilson, Psalm Isadora, Francisco Bermudez, Manu Malasquez, Rick Solner, and Adam Noble Roberts…just to name a few.

ARIEL DAUNAY
Contact: via email (ariel daunay At gmail.com) or phone 347-824-8326.  Visit Ariel's website here

For over 20 years, Ariel has traveled different parts of the world leading workshops, holding women’s groups, and working privately with clients. She currently lives in Berlin, studies the Grinberg Method, has a private practice, and travels within Europe and the U.S. teaching Workshops and programs. She has just completed 2 international women’s programs in Sweden and Denmark.

Her desire for knowing led her to study with many teachers including  Richard Strozzi Heckler, Darrell Caulkins, Julio Ollala, Paul Ortel, Sofia Diaz and David Deida. She also trained extensively in yoga, living in India for a time in order to do so.  She is currently a Stage I student of the Grinberg Method ™ and is available for practice. 

Since 1997, Ariel has taught and continues to teach within women’s groups in weekly classes, weekend workshops, week-long retreats and month-long programs.

Synthesizing all of her experience, Ariel teaches from a deeply somatic point of view – not following idealistic ideologies, but listening to what the students themselves bring to a room or a moment, and then guiding their attention to aspects of themselves they may have forgotten to notice – guiding them back to Themselves