Julie is a dedicated student and teacher of yoga and meditation, deeply impassioned by yoga’s innate power of transformation. Teaching for 20 years, she’s been called “a burst of prana”, and leads public classes, workshops, teacher trainings, annual retreats to Costa Rica, and has taught at Festivals from Bali to Nantucket.
Living through Covid times has reinforced Julie’s commitment to creating and supporting local yoga communities to thrive and appreciates that a neighborhood yoga studio is a haven for connection, friendship, practice, and sacred communion.
Known for giving clear instruction, intelligent sequencing, and offering ancient wisdom with a practical approach, Julie helps students redefine what it means to live an essential life of yoga. She believes yoga is a powerful medium for activating spiritual connection, physical health, and collective awareness.
As a teacher with diverse interests, talents and influences, Julie offers refined technique, philosophy, mythology, mysticism, and a little humor in every class. Certified in Anusara Yoga and Yoga for All, she is committed to making yoga and meditation accessible and understood as practices for any willing student.
It is widely understood that meditation is the heart of yoga and Julie has been a deep practitioner for nearly 15 years, offering valuable instruction and insight from her depth of practice. Known as a teachers teacher, Julie created the highly acclaimed Shaktiyoga New York 200 hour Teacher Training, a comprehensive and complete Yoga Alliance registered program to guide experienced and enthusiastic students to bloom in a non-dogmatic way as knowledgeable, creative, and confident yoga instructors.
Julie’s been most inspired and influenced from dedicated study with her meditation teacher, renowned scholar Paul Muller-Ortega of Blue Throat Yoga, as well as almost 20 years studying Sri Vidya and Rajanaka traditions with Prof. Douglas Brooks.
Julie lives in Brooklyn with the tiny and adorable Sammy and sweet cat Blue.
