Julia’s practice began in 2002 and has been teaching yoga since 2005. She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education, but deviated from this path due injuries she picked up during her years in college playing Rugby. Gym workouts furthered her imbalances to injuries and were far too mundane. She discovered amazing weight management and strengthening through Vinyasa yoga and has furthered her studies since then to discover incredible flow and lightness, and depth that is truly all around us and especially within.
Since 2002 she has practiced various styles ranging from Restorative yoga to Ashtanga to Vinyasa to Power, but she has found her passion to be in her eclectic style with the desire to bring the student into his or her own body.

When this awareness is activated, many wonderful things can and do happen. She has realized the calm and peace yoga brings after a continued practice and wants to share this magic with as many as she can. Each class is based on the energy of the moment, and Julia enjoys bringing fun and lightness to her challenging class. Sometimes music is included only to enhance a particular class, but always there is emphasis on the breath. Although her class may be challenging, the intention behind them is to encourage the students to honor their body by resting when they need, and adversely pushing when they feel they should. She always teaches to the beginner…. as we are always just beginning.

Julia’s Yoga education includes her 200H training and Study with Taylor and Phillipe Wells among others in the beginning, and many fabulous and amazing in between because she is (first and foremost) always a student. Just in the last few years however, She has also come to learn and appreciate Thai massage and it’s dance of energy and lazy-mans-yoga that it is. She completed her 500H certification with Daniel Orlansky (and company!) in the spring of 2014 alongside the blessing of many wonderful teachers from Jennifer Yarro, Jennifer Reis, to Doug Keller and many more. As a Reiki Master and teacher, she brings energy work into the classroom (perhaps from a distance if not on contact). including Metta (loving kindness energywork) throughout her classes and her life. She has done a deep dive into the deep core line with Sadie Nardini, and completed Kundalini Yoga Training in June of 2018. She has also recently completed trainings in a new way at looking into opening the body through training hours in Somatic stretch and Somatic Core work.  Her currently studies and certifications as of March 2022 continue in with Functional Anatomy to tie it in effectively with the somatic understanding of opening ("melting"/activating/releasing) the tissues of the body. In addition, she is studying anatomy of movement with Doug Keller.