VOTED “BEST YOGA INSTRUCTOR ” 2014! Wash DC City Paper After trying many styles of yoga, in 1994 it was the Ashtanga method that grounded Denese. She began to teach after her very first step on the mat. As she puts it "we are our own gurus". Denese is a full time E-RYT 500 yoga teacher/ therapist. " Teaching helped me open to yoga and found it an invaluable way to enrich my life as well as the lives of others".Her yoga transformation is rooted from workshops with masters Shri Pattabhi Joi, Manju Jois, David Swenson, Beryl Birch, Cyndi Lee and contemporary masters such as Kino Macgregor. Denese creates a yoga community wherever she goes. She leds local and international workshops-studied yoga in regions of India and owned two studios in Italy. In 2011, she created Mala Flow(TM). Learn more about Denese at www.denesecavanaugh.com