Dawn Curtis

Dawn is a full-time therapeutic yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist (E-RYT 500 and CYT) with 25 years of experience. Her goal is to help her students redefine what it means to be healthy. This means looking beyond health as simply the absence of disease to understanding it as the sum of physical, emotional, cognitive, metabolic, and behavioral factors. As a Wellness Lifestyle Coach, Dawn enjoys working with clients to help them achieve optimal health and well-being. She uses a functional medicine approach which includes lifestyle modification, nutritional supplementation, and cognitive therapy that considers the soul as integral to the whole picture of health. Dawn’s training includes Yoga of Recovery, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Yoga for Depression and Anxiety, Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors (through Duke Integrative Medicine) and Yoga of the Heart (cardiac and cancer) Therapeutic Yoga. She teaches group and private yoga classes in the Washington D.C. Metro area and is the founder and proprietress of East Meets West Yoga Center.