Julie is a dedicated student and teacher of yoga and meditation, deeply impassioned by yoga’s innate power of transformation. Teaching for almost 25 years, she’s been called “a burst of prana”, and leads public classes, workshops, teacher trainings, yearly retreats to Costa Rica and Europe, and has taught at Festivals from Bali to Nantucket.

Known for her clear instruction, intelligent sequencing, and ability to teach ancient wisdom with a practical approach, Julie helps students redefine what it means to live a life of yoga. She believes yoga is a powerful medium for activating spiritual connection, physical health, personal growth, and collective awareness.

Julie created the acclaimed Shaktiyoga New York 200 hour Teacher Training, a comprehensive and complete program to guide experienced and enthusiastic students to bloom in a non-dogmatic way as knowledgeable, creative, and confident yoga instructors.

As a teacher with diverse interests, talents, and influences, Julie is an asana technician, a philosopher, mythologist, storyteller, mystic, artist, and a New Yorker with grit. Certified in Anusara™ Yoga since 2005 she is committed to making yoga and meditation accessible and understood as practices for any willing student.

Julie’s been most inspired and influenced from dedicated study with her renowned meditation and philosophy teachers, Paul Muller-Ortega of Blue Throat Yoga, and 20 years studying Sri Vidya and Rajanaka with Douglas Brooks.