About Us
Meet the Founders:
Mark Berger & Caroline Chiesa are yoga teachers, community builders, and wellness enthusiasts with deep love for New Orleans. Together, they created the New Orleans Yoga Club to connect local and regional communities through shared experience and conscious movement.
Mark Berger
Influencing health has been not only Mark's passion but also his life's work. Over the past two decades in Louisiana, he has actively been a leader in health and wellness events, community engagement, and philanthropic efforts, while also competing as an athlete in the USA and internationally. Mark specializes in various disciplines, including yoga, functional fitness, nutrition, meditation, endurance training, pickleball, and life coaching.
Having extensively traveled to India, other countries around the world, and furthered his studies in the United States, his holistic technique towards health embodies a dharma-inspired approach that integrates physical practice with mental and spiritual well-being. He is dedicated to bridging the gap between Western methodologies and ancient Eastern traditions. In addition to his teaching, Mark serves as a retreat leader, performer, and event director, and has instructed yoga at numerous prominent music and health festivals around the globe.
Caroline Chiesa
Caroline Chiesa is an E-RYT 500, YACEP, Aerial Yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Sound Healer and Yoga Therapist. Caroline is known for having a unique blend of interests as it relates to yoga. Above all else, she values the importance of honoring the practice as it was originally intended: to transcend the human experience and to become one with the Divine.
Caroline has a deep reverence for the knowledge that has been passed down for millennia through the Vedas. Her Ayurvedic studies have taken her all the way to India to study at Dr D. Y. Patil University in Pune, Maharashtra, an invaluable experience which has given her a deep love and appreciation for all of the wisdom traditions derived from Mother India. In the finishing stages of an comprehensive 1000-Hour specialized Yoga Therapy training program, Caroline has done extensive training in classical application of pranayama, mudras, asana, meditation, kriyas, Ayurvedic lifestyle modifications, marma point therapy and just about everything else that might fall under the umbrella of a Hatha Yoga practice.
Caroline is trained in Vinyasa, Hatha, Restorative Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Yin, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra, and Yoga for Mood Management & Trauma. She is honored and humbled to have the opportunity to hold space for students.
