Julie spent over two decades working in corporate marketing before deciding to follow her passion and become a yoga teacher. Her purpose: to help people feel strong in body and calm in spirit. Julie first found yoga over 15 years ago, and throughout the subsequent years as she tried to balance a career with motherhood, she found that her yoga practice - however short - was the only time her anxious mind was calm. She slowly realized that the asana (physical) practice was not a competition to master every pose. Instead, it is more about the intentional placement and action of the body. “As I learned to listen to my body, I began to free myself from expectations of what a pose should look like and what I “should” be able to do. I now readily reach for props or choose a different posture to protect my muscles and joints.” For Julie, yoga strengthens and centers her body, allowing her to breathe deeply amidst the swirl happening around her. This led her to complete her 500 hours of yoga teacher training through YogaWorks® and earn the Registered Yoga Teacher 500 (RYT® 500) designation with the Yoga Alliance. Julie believes in a joy-infused, alignment-based yoga practice where everyone has a place and is supported for wherever they are in their yoga journey. “I hope to create a space that helps others experience what yoga unlocks for them: improved health, greater strength, deeper contentment, or simply feeling better in their own skin.”
