Katherine Brewster, the founder and director of The ATMA Center of Yoga and Healing, has an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a hatha yoga teacher in the style of Svaroopa® Yoga, a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, a certified practitioner of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and, Embodyment®; a level 4Reiki Master; and, a devoted yogini. After 25 years in the corporate setting, during which time she worked in marketing, sales, business development and fund raising for a variety of corporations and not-for-profit organizations, including Citibank and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, she transitioned her life's passion into her work. For the last 13 years, she has immersed myself in the study, practice and teachings of yoga. As a teacher, she draws from the various styles of yoga she has studied – Urban Yoga, Kripalu, Iyengar and Svaroopa®. She leads yoga classes, stress reduction courses, body-oriented, experiential workshops, and, maintains a private practice in NYC, as well as being a workshop leader for Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. During her workshops and yoga classes, she invites people to experience the sense of wholeness that comes from integrating body, mind and spirit, and, to come within to the calm still point at one's center. She brings her knowledge and life's skills to her teaching with compassion and focus and a deep commitment to personal transformation.