Martha Atkins

Martha found yoga during a time when she felt stress affecting her on every level and the coping mechanisms were not effective. It’s amazing how yoga has perfect timing. She started with a DVD first, having no idea what yoga really was and realized how easily you can hate and love something so fiercely at once! “It was SO challenging!” Love took over as it does and yoga continues to unfold, reveal, heal, release, challenge, balance, and make her feel alive more and more everyday.  Her burdens feel lighter when she practices. Martha is learning to and accept who she is a little more graciously. She believes “we can only shine as bright as the flame in our humanity is nurtured”.

Martha completed her 500 hr Teacher Training in 2012, her Modo Flow Training in 2022, and is trained in various specialties including Trauma Informed Mindfulness/Yoga where she works through New Leaf Foundation within Youth Custody working with youth affected by trauma and who are often from marginalized and oppressed places in society.

Teaching ignites her as she shares her love for this practice and students love of yoga spark into a flame – these transformations are magical  The hot room especially has become a space where Martha sees stress dissipate, bodies become stable and strong, sweat and tears becoming puddles on a mat, and peace spreading like fire on parched ground spreading the glow!

From Martha – “Let’s keep glowing together igniting each other to spread peace!”