CHEUK NA has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 2002 under the guidance of Yogasana director, Michel Besnard. In 2004 she completed the Yogasana's Teacher Training Course and is qualified to teach Yoga Asanas – Pranayama as set out by registered Yoga Alliance Teachers Association (USA).
She also counts Alex Medin, one of the very few certified Ashtanga Yoga teachers to have great influence on her in both practice and teaching.
In 2009 & 2010 she also completed 200 Hour Teacher Training with John Scott, renowned Ashtanga Yoga teacher, whom have greatly deepen her understanding in The Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system and fine tuned her practice and teaching. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. 
Well known for her dedication to the practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga first as practitioner and now as a teacher, Cheuk Na also has a personal practice that is steeped deeply in Chinese Buddhism and her spiritual mentor is Master Nan.
For Cheuk Na, Ashtanga Yoga is a powerfully spiritual practice in itself. The seemingly strong physicality of the practice serves to harness the life force, the "Prana" or Chi, which in turns, facilitate controlling the fluctuating mind.

LINDZAY studied dance at the Royal Ballet School in London. Upon returning to Hong Kong, she joined the then newly-established Hong Kong Ballet Company, rising through the ranks to become principal dancer and assistant to the artistic director. Her career as a stage and film actress has won her Taiwan's Golden Horse award, and Portugal’s Bronze Camellia award, for best actress. Lindzay has been practising yoga for 15 years but it was not until she was introduced to the Ashtanga Vinyasa system in 2001, under the guidance of Yogasana director, Michel Besnard, that she found her direction in yoga. In 2007 Lindzay released a CD “Searching for the Sun”, inspired by the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga system.

JOLENE is an avid practitioner of Buddhism since 1994. She follows the teachings of Master Nan Huai Chin (www.nanhuaijin.net), one of the most renowned and remaining Zen Master. Master Nan's teaching draws from major schools of Chinese thought - Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zen and Tibetan.
Jolene took up Yoga practice with Master Nan's encouragement, in order to facilitate, develop and deepen one's meditation practice. Jolene feels that it is through the cultivation of the mastery over the body/mind phenomena one can advance on the path of spiritual wisdom. Master Nan is Jolene's father-in-law and her spiritual mentor.
Jolene has been faithfully practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 2002 under the guidance of Michel Besnard, Director of Yogasana, and had also completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hours Teacher Training with him in 2006, and she is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.  She teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa Led classes regularly since then.

LILY (www.lilygolightly.com) has completed Teacher Training with Yoga Works, USA, and has been practicing yoga since 2002. Her approach to the physical practice integrates the alignment principle of Iyengar Yoga, the restorative aspects of Desikachar's teachings, and the meditation-in-movement of Ashtanga-Vinyasa, which is her love. Lily provides in her class a safe environment and compassionate guidance for the student to explore their strength, to play at their edge,and to breathe into the calm within. Her instructions, her adjustments, her teaching aim to remind the student, "It's all good".

Originally from New York, Lorie Torpey has been practicing yoga for seven years, and Mysore for the past five years with Michel Besnard in Hong Kong. She was a competitive swimmer in college and believes that while all sports can help improve your physical condition, yoga can help you develop patience and perspective on your journey through life.

Denise studied Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the financial industry upon graduation.  To achieve a more balanced lifestyle and to relieve the stress and tension from work, she began her journey into yoga in 2001 when she took the Art of Living course, and in 2004 she started practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Michel Besnard. Denise found stillness and space through the dynamic practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and feels blessed to be studying with John & Lucy Scott, who continues to show her the way of yoga and are dedicated to passing on this scientific method as they learned it from Shri K. Pattabhi Jois.  Denise has completed the 200-hours teachers' training with Michel in 2007 and with John & Lucy Scott in 2010 and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.  She is committed to exploring all aspects of yoga and had the opportunity to study with Manju Jois, Sharath Rangaswamy, Chuck & Maty, Eileen Hall, Nancy Gilgoff, Alex Medin among others.  Denise is truly grateful to all the teachers, especially John, Lucy and Michel, for their dedication in sharing their knowledge and experience.  It is with the greatest respect that she attempts to pass on a little of their teachings.

Ken Pang's cultivation path:
Study with Master Nan Huai Chin since 1992, and act as one of his English interpreters.
Hold Buddhism classes twice a week in the Hong Kong Buddhist Library since 1999 at the order of Master Nan.
Hold weekly meditation classes for young inmates between 18 and 21 since 2004.
Buddhist Sutras: Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Surangama Sutra.


A full-time working mother of two grown children, Miranda first discovered yoga in 2002 and was amazed by the wonderful calming, yet energizing effect it had on her. Later, encouraged by her teacher Frances Gairns she undertook a teacher training course with Michel Besnard in 2005, and despite many setbacks that included a traumatic lower back injury and major surgery, completed all the requirements to graduate 8 months afterward. Miranda is a caring, attentive teacher, very much influenced by the compassionate teachings of Frances and the meditation practice she maintains through her Buddhist studies at the Vipassana meditation center in Chi Lin Nunnery. The practice of yoga and meditation are blessings in her life and she hopes to be able to share this with all her students. As Miranda likes to remind herself and others, when we are able to do yoga, we are all so lucky.

Yoga found Christina when she was still working as a flight attendant in South Korea. Needing grounding in her life, she tried her first yoga class at a local gym. Curious and motivated to learn more about yoga, she found a quaint nondescript yoga shala in the heart of Manila, which teaches Ashtanga yoga. Unbeknownst to her, she was embarking on a life journey that is enduring, formidable, magnificent and gleeful. She never looked back. After moving to Hong Kong, Christina carried on with her yoga journey in Yogasana under the guidance of Michel Besnard and other Yogasana resident teachers. Christina completed her 200-hour teacher training with Yogasana in Koh Samui in April 2009. Christina is now teaching in Discovery Bay, Sai Ying Pun and is a cover teacher at Yoga Mala. Her classes provide a fun, friendly atmosphere where a good laugh is always encouraged.

Ivan Lam, coached by Mr. Michael Besard in Hong Kong and Mr John Scott in New Zealand, has been practising Yoga since 2004 as a stretching and conditioning component of his exercise plan. Realizing that Yoga is much more than physical exercise but in fact a way of life, disciplines and calming one’s life, Ivan has become deeply devoted to Yoga.


Joe Chan, a devoted yoga practitioner, has been practicing yoga since 2004. Completed 100 hrs teacher training with Yogasana's director Michel Besnard and start Ashtanga practice in 2007. Yoga not only improve the physical body, it also increases spiritual strength through consciousness, observation and awareness during asana practice. Find out that " Meditation in Movement ". Through regular practice, not just only a healthy physical body, but also benefit of stillness, patience, and breathing.

Winsome is an experienced professional beauty therapist. She loves various sorts of sports in her childhood. Since she had her first Ashtange Vinayasa Yoga practice with Cheuk Na in 2006, she is totally devoted to it and she completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hours teacher training with Michel Besnard in 2007. Through the practice these years, she is conscious that yoga not only improves her health, enriches her live but even purifies her spirit and mind. There is no doubt that yoga will be one of her best companion throughout the rest of her life.