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JULIA began yoga at an early age by crawling around on a practicing mama in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. This was the beginning of a life-long study and curiosity. She was reared in a container that facilitated esoteric curiosity of all sorts. Exposure to music, art, and literature became a pointer for those parts of her psyche that she could not have otherwise accessed. The rich flora and fauna of the Appalachian forest informed her down to the bone and became life-long companions to her every hour. 

The path of a dancer left her at the door of some of the more vigorous practices and she enjoyed, for many years, the challenge of achieving the physically inconceivable. This took her around the world, as dancer, student, and then as teacher, studying at the feet of yogic masters from here to something like Timbuktu. 

When her father contracted cancer, her personal practice and teaching began to take a turn. She experienced first hand, the grounding and healing that was available through yoga, became certified in working with cancer patients and those facing end of life transitions, and went on to study extensively in the therapeutic arena. She then taught at The University of Penn Medical School, and in Penn Oncology. What she had gleaned as healing for herself and the cancer population, she began sharing with her other students and realized how hungry they were for stillness and re-balancing. 

She later went on to become deeply initiated by shadow work, ancestral trauma, and the collective unconscious which all came tumbling through and required of her a practice and a presence that was outside of anything she had previously learned. She cobbled together a path in and through that would be her saving grace, and then her greatest joy.

Julia's diverse performance background, small mountain-town upbringing, and unfolding life as rambler and curious investigator, infuse her teaching, coaching, and performance with a rich, artistic, patient, and nature-driven vision that inspires students of all levels. 

Specializing in creative vinyasa flow, restorative/ yin/ therapeutic yoga, practices to foster the divine feminine, women’s wisdom and seasonal alignment, wilderness and farm retreats, yoga for cancer care, pranayama, meditation, working with change agents, health-coaching/ health advocacy, palliative care, shadow dancers/dark night of the soul initiates, and mentorship for new teachers.

Read an article featuring Julia here.