Paula D. Atkinson

PAULA D. ATKINSON Paula is a second-generation full time yoga instructor. Her yoga practice started in her home town of San Francisco, where she remembers going with her mother to “yogurt” classes often when she was very young. Fifteen years ago, Paula was finally able to overlook her mother’s interest in yoga and give it a try. She was instantly hooked. “I was NOT athletic at all, ever…but I was willing to be bad at yoga because it felt so magical and natural,” Paula recalls. She has been teaching classes and providing private instruction for over eight years now all over Washington DC and New York City. Her training started with Iyengar, moved onto Anusara, veered into Vinyasa and Ashtanga. She now enjoys Integrated Yoga Training Retreats on the west coast with her mother and attends as many workshops/trainings and classes as she can. A self-deemed “yoga-holic”, Paula is the perfect example of how opening to the continuous psychological, physical and spiritual growth that comes naturally with the practice of yoga can change everything about a person’s self concept and attitude and life.