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Julia hails from England and
moved to the US in 1989. She has lived in Sacramento ever since and
teaches regular yoga classes and workshops at the Shakti Temple.
In 1994 her comfortable suburban
life fell apart. She got divorced, went bankrupt and lost her house
all in one year. It was then that she met her yogi and started
seriously the study of yoga, in the Standing Wave tradition.
She led her first retreat
weekend in 1992, to Lake Tahoe and her first yoga vacation in 1994
to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Since then Julia had become one of the
most prolific retreat leaders in the country, offering the student a
wide variety of week-long and weekend events in beautiful places
around the world.
Julia expanded her yogic
practice beyond hatha yoga and became passionate about jnana yoga.
It was this self-inquiry that helped her pull her life back
together. She started running jnana yoga groups in 1999 and
developed her own systematic approach to the subject. Influenced by
Gangaji and Leslie Temple-Thurston, Julia went on to write her own
book on jnana yoga, “ 20 Questions for Enlightened Living” and
develop a Jnana Yoga Teacher Training Program.
Julia is above all a
heart-centered person and was naturally drawn to the path of tantra
yoga. She did teacher training with Margo Anand and has taught her
own brand of Tantra to ecstatic students since 2001.
Julia loves skiing, hiking,
tennis, travel and great musicals. She also throws a mean party! Her
passion is to build community through fun events and activities. If
you live in the Sacramento or Bay area and wish to be on her
personal email list for events please contact her below. |