Julia's Story

JULIA discovered yoga's transformative benefits at age 17 when she picked up a book by Richard Hittleman and practiced from the book in the backyard of her family’s home in Southwest Florida. Yoga remained a quiet and constant presence until life’s inevitable stresses, aches, and pains, led her back to the mat in 2005 in search of relief and balance. It proved, once again, to be a transformative and stabilizing practice. Julia continued her yoga practice through breast cancer treatment in 2009 and credits the practice with helping her through the treatment and with recovery.

In 2014, Julia enrolled in yoga teacher training with We Are One Flow, Reno. This training ignited Julia’s interest in the study of yoga therapy. In 2015 this interest led her to study at Yoga Tree San Francisco under Harvey Deutch and other wonderful teachers. In 2016 she completed the 500-hour, Yoga Alliance-recognized, Yoga Teacher Training certification with a focus on Yoga Therapeutics. In the fall of 2017, Julia enrolled in an 800-hour training with Stress Management Center of Marin to become a certified yoga therapist.

Julia’s mindful, gentle approach to yoga is accessible to everybody. Julia works with those needing to reconnect with their bodies. Whether aging, living with chronic illness, recovering from injury, joint replacement surgery, cancer, or trauma, all levels are welcome.

 

Where Julia Trained

• 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training (WE are one Flow, Reno)

• 500 hours Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Tree San Francisco)

• 800+ hours IAYT Certification (Stress Management Center of Marin)

• 35 hours Pelvic Floor Yoga Teacher Training (Leslie Howard Yoga)

• 30 hours Yoga for 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR - Yoga International)

• Julia is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). She completed her IAYT Level II Training in June 2020.

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Yoga Credentialing and Oversight

• The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

  IAYT supports research and education in yoga and serves as a professional organization for yoga teachers and yoga therapists worldwide. Our mission is to establish yoga as a recognized and respected therapy. -- From IAYT's Mission Statement.

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• Yoga International

  Yoga International is an organization with over 300,000 members that offers various types of multimedia content for learning and practicing yoga. Online courses are offered by over 500 professional teachers.

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• Yoga Alliance

  Yoga Alliance® is the largest nonprofit association representing the yoga community. Our mission is to promote and support the integrity and diversity of the teaching of yoga. -- From Yoga Alliance's Mission Statement

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