Paula Lopez believes we are here to be healthy and happy. She is passionate about leading people back to their natural state of balance.
Paula brings over fourteen years of dedicated yoga practice to her teaching. She started taking classes at a local gym in Chicago, and soon it became a lifestyle and a dedicated spiritual practice. She earned teacher certifications from Chicago and New York, and has studied with several master teachers in a variety of yoga disciplines including Vinyasa Flow, Power Yoga, and Iyengar. In December 2010, Paula spent a month in India studying yoga at its source.
To complement yoga, Paula studied the leading barre method workout, Core Fusion™. She spent five years training closely with its co-creators, and went on to become a senior Core Fusion™ teacher. Paula is a certified Pilates mat instructor from the Kane School of Core Integration, and recently took part in the world-renowned FAMI program, an anatomy immersion for movement professionals at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.
Paula is a certified Food Therapist from New York City’s Natural Gourmet School and a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She continues to study holistic nutrition and disease prevention at the Kushi Institute. She is a certified meditation facilitator and has led a series of group meditations at Exhale Spa. Paula deepens her own meditation practice every year, with ten days of silence and continual meditation in an intensive training.
Paula continues to train with master teachers in yoga, Pilates, nutrition, and meditation. When not working, she utilizes her good health to take trapeze and dance classes, eat an occasional hamburger, and practice conscious living in New York City.