The teacher training faculty of the Atman Yoga School® are compassionate, authentic, and experienced teachers and dedicated practitioners of yoga. In addition to the core faculty, each training is supported by various local teachers who are acknowledged for being inspirational standouts in their community. Each member of the core teaching staff has taken yoga teacher training at the 500 hour level or above, and has done hundreds of hours of additional trainings, workshops, and studies. The Atman Yoga School® faculty has taken advanced studies with master teachers such as Shiva Rea, Tias Little, Dharma Mittra, Noah Mazé, and Elena Brower, among others. We are a multi-lineage Vinyasa Flow training school, and we live by the philosophy that we are students first and teachers second, and we strive to consciously live our yoga off our mat and in all areas of our life.  




 And beyond being deeply rooted in the practice, all of our core faculty members bring a strong experience of the business and industry of yoga to our trainings. Our faculty has opened and operated several successful yoga studios, created and launched extensive programming world-wide, led international yoga retreats, served a multitude of ambassadorships, taught at yoga festivals, hosted various workshops, and have collaborated on, and taught, yoga in a variety of settings.

Jessica Muir Winderl

Jessica lives and breathes her practice of yoga in every aspect of her life, and she believes that embracing the chaos (and magic) of being human is a radical act of spirituality.

After years spent working in law firms (and moonlighting as a ski bum in Colorado and Utah), Jessica took the leap to teaching yoga full-time. Throughout her yoga career of almost two decades, she has taught thousands of students internationally, worked as a brand ambassador for some of the biggest names in yoga, taught at large festivals across the US and Europe, written an Ayurveda book, hosted a podcast, and inspired countless students on their journey of yoga. In 2015 she founded the Atman Yoga School®.

Modern yoga is a lived practice, which has supported Jessica through the treatment of a rare cancer, immigrating to a foreign country, navigating a traumatic birth during the Covid lockdown, and the re-arrangement of identity during motherhood. It has also provided the framework for gratitude and trust in her life - from her dedication to passing along the wisdom of yoga, to meeting her future husband in a ski gondola in Switzerland. Her current favorite practice of yoga is exploring the limitless love between a mother and child. She has also found that her daily practice of patience in parenthood is the most hard-core yoga around!

Jessica lives in Hemsedal, Norway in the Scandinavian Alps with her beloved son, husband, and husky dog.

To learn more about Jessica, visit her website www.jessicawinderl.com.

  


MEET THE FOUNDER

“I want to thank you, Jessica, for being a wonderful mentor to me. I learned so much from you and admire you and your passion for the yoga practice. I hope one day I can be as much of an inspirational yoga leader as you are. Thank you for your patience and the time you have spent enhancing my teaching ability. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!”

// Megan S.