When Julia took her first yoga class during her college years, it brought her home to her body. It was a quiet force in her life until her 40s when, after a divorce, she turned to yoga for healing. During that time Julia took several pivotal workshops with Judith Lasater, who inspired her to become a yoga teacher. By the time she was 50, Julia left her career as a successful acquisitions editor with Cambridge University Press, where she had developed books with many leading thinkers in the field of psychology. She trained to become a yoga therapist through Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and to teach yoga through Integrative Yoga Therapy. She took additional trainings in restorative yoga with Jillian Pransky, Yoga for Heart Health with Nischala Joy Devi, and experiential anatomy with Amy Matthews.
From 2009 to 2013, Julia taught a 200 hour yoga teacher training as an affiliate of Integrative Yoga Therapy, and from 2008 to 2022 she taught an annual two-day training for yoga teachers in chair yoga. She teaches workshops on a variety of topics, including back care, yoga for osteoporosis, healing through the chakras, and introduction to mudras. In her classes and private sessions, Julia draws from wisdom of the East – that healing happens through the energetic body – as well as clinical health research from the West.
“After a yoga session with Julia, I woke up for the first time in weeks and got out of bed without severe pain in my right knee. Not only can I move around so much more but with so much less pain! I’m really encouraged that I can heal these issues working with Julia and making more time for yoga.”—Diana Salter, New York, NY