About Lee Atwell
Yoga Teacher • Meditation Guide • Retreat Facilitator
I’ve been teaching yoga since 1996, and after owning ’The Yoga Studio in Magnolia,’ Seattle, for over 20 years, my husband and I moved to the beauty of the heartland to live more organically with open space, a garden, endless views of the distant hardwood forest and the starry night skies above. It is from here I’m now able to share my yoga offerings online.
What the Covid closure of our studio for over 2 years allowed me to realize is the importance of going with the flow in the midst of uncertainty, and that through the internet web of sharing, meaningful and limitless connections can be made, and that my studio space itself can now become limitless in it’s reach, also.
I hope that you will join me and our online community.
What sees me through?
Daily yoga, breathing, meditation. Riding my bike down country roads. Hiking with my dog and snuggles with my cats. Picking wildflowers.
Gratitude.
I am grateful for my parents who introduced our family to yoga, including the path of meditation when I was just a child in the early 1970s and for my yoga teacher, Baba Hari Dass who has guided me since 1995.
I am grateful for the challenges in my life where I learned that yoga could help me delve deeply into a path of self-enquiry and help me ride out the difficult times.
Yoga became my path toward an ever increasing sense of inner freedom by continually nudging me to lean in towards the light.
I’m grateful for the healers and poets who have graced my journey.
What else?
Acknowledging that which I love; yoga and being in the natural world by sharing it with others through teaching and photography.
What inspires me?
Kindness.
Other people’s life stories of resilience.
My yoga students and their dedication to their practice and self care. And as a teacher, witnessing both small shifts as well as life transformative positive changes in my students.
Poets, free spirits, other yoga teachers, and the wisdom of elders such as my yoga teacher Baba Hari Dass, and the writings of Thich Naht Hahn.
My hopes?
Peace.
Peace for all beings. Everywhere.
Presently?
Yoga continues to support all aspects of my life - relationships with friends and family (including our 2 cats and rescue dog), and activities that feed my soul such as photography, hiking, biking, cooking and juicing, tending flowers and learning to grow veggies.
