Grounded teaching style
I value clear instruction, thoughtful pacing, and practices that leave room for people to actually notice what they are experiencing.
A life shaped by practice, study and curiosity.
I'm a yoga and meditation teacher, a writer and a student of consciousness. My work explores how stillness, embodiment and honest self-inquiry help us become more present to our own lives.
I've spent thirteen years teaching yoga and meditation, including years running my own studios and leading international yoga teacher trainings. That experience, combined with my current graduate study in consciousness, psychology, and transformation, shapes everything I teach today.
I'm not interested in yoga as performance or perfect poses. I'm interested in what happens after you roll up the mat: how what you practice actually shows up in your body, your relationships, and your ordinary life.
That's the thread running through my in-person classes, my guided practices, and the book I'm writing now.
If you want the longer version, including why I closed my last studio and what it taught me, you can read that here.
I'm interested in what carries beyond the mat or meditation cushion: how we inhabit our bodies, relate to other people, respond when life becomes difficult, and live what we begin to understand about ourselves.
Some of the clearest noticing I've done lately has happened in a living room with the windows open, between a class and a car door. It didn't require me to create anything. It only required me not to fill it.
Relief is the doorway. Consciousness is the deeper work.
Meditation may begin as stress relief. Yoga may begin as movement. Savasana may begin as rest. Each one can become a doorway into greater awareness, and into a life you are more present for.
I value clear instruction, thoughtful pacing, and practices that leave room for people to actually notice what they are experiencing.
Yoga and meditation can open profound questions. I like exploring them without pretending there is only one tradition, theory, or explanation that holds all the answers.
What happens on the mat matters. What interests me even more is what happens afterward in our bodies, relationships, choices, and the way we meet ordinary life.
Nearly twenty years of practice, thirteen of teaching, and still a student.
Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the highest level of registration with Yoga Alliance.
Seven years leading international yoga teacher trainings, including immersive 200 hour trainings in Carlsbad, California and La Paz, Mexico.
Years of running my own studios and a yoga teacher academy, and learning what it takes to hold a community.
Currently in a master's program studying consciousness, psychology and transformation, including the consciousness of sleep and dreams.
Meditation, Yoga Nidra, sleep, sound and yoga practices, followed by more than 5,000 listeners around the world, with most rated 4.8 or higher.
For seven years I led yoga teacher trainings. These are a few of the reviews graduates left on Yoga Alliance.
Julianne is a real person, as opposed to a fake personality, who has a lot to teach and share in authentic and creative ways. It was not just about teaching yoga, but about how to live the yoga lifestyle in a heart-centered way aligned with one's own true passions.
The training far exceeded my expectations. Julianne is a patient, skilled, and inspiring teacher.
I feel well equipped and I feel I am part of the caring and compassionate community still.
Not only did I become a yoga teacher who feels completely confident with the skills I learned at [the academy], but I am a better human being than I was before.
They not only prepared me for my new career as a yoga instructor but also helped me in ways I never expected when I first set out on my journey in yoga teacher training.
Personal essays on practice, change and the parts of life that do not fit neatly on a mat.
Yesterday, my son started talking to me while I was on my laptop, and I closed it. That's the whole moment.
Around four o'clock most afternoons, my body gets ready to leave for a studio that isn't there anymore.
Lately I've been trying something that sounds too simple to write about. I sit down and don't do anything.
Start with stillness, with a class in person, or with a question worth sitting with.