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Essentials Of Yoga

 

A comprehensive course to establish a healthy, lifelong, spiritually-infused yoga practice.

“Bringing yoga back to its whole context of Unity, this course speaks with clarity and grace. I've practiced yoga inconsistently for twenty years, and this course gave me courage and permission to have a "beginner's mind," to start fresh, to be open, without judgement. Julia's course has revived in me an inner strength and a belief that improvement comes with discipline and practice. I am also seeing how important it is not to separate the yoga practice from living. The same principles of care and attention to the body/mind I learned in her course, I am slowly integrating off the mat."

__ Ana J.

"After practicing yoga for 20 years I found this course to be helpful in stimulating my personal practice as well as a guiding hand in my Yoga Teacher Training. By taking a beginner's seat and time to really absorb and integrate Julia’s many lessons my practice has become stronger and more loving. Thank you thank you thank you for this lovely gift."

__ Kristi A

 

 

“[Julia] combines an impeccable knowledge of alignment and physiology, with an intuitive, artistic approach. I've never walked away from her class without learning something new, feeling both mentally and physically relaxed and refreshed. Julia's yoga is a big and wonderful part of my life, and I advocate it to anyone looking to begin a yoga practice, or find more depth in their current practice.”.

__ Meredith W. 

“When I first met Julia, about 10 years ago in Brooklyn, I was immediately drawn to her energy. At the time I had been practicing yoga very sporadically since the mid-90s but had trouble committing to a consistent schedule. Julia sets a tone and pace which is gentle and methodical and deeply spiritual and it spoke to the grace I was seeking. Her method appreciates every detail, every movement and asks us to slow down and honor the body and the routine as a ritual. This class series has allowed me to reconnect with Julia’s talents and gifts as well as to reset and refresh all that I thought I knew about yoga and to distill it to its foundation. She is a master of alignment, an advocate of compassionate discipline, and a nurturing spirit. This series is an essential tool for a lifetime practice." 

__ Tucker S.

About this course

 

This comprehensive course is designed to set you up with a life-long, physically healthy and spiritually rich yoga practice. It will allow you to learn the essentials of yoga privately, so that you can feel more confident and self-assured in any class you attend.

After completing this course, you’ll be equipped to begin a healthy home practice,
or to attend classes in your area while bringing the insights from this course with you wherever you go.

While this course is designed for absolute beginners, many experienced yogis have enjoyed it as well, finding it to be a source that has grounded and strengthened their existing practice. 

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This course is for you if

 

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  • You want to learn the basics of yoga in a private setting from a teacher with solid training and extensive teaching experience.

  • You want to establish a yoga practice that is as good for the mind and the soul as it is for the body.

  • You want to bring the deeper, more traditional philosophies of yoga to your current yoga practice.

  • You never learned the fundamental principles of alignment and want to bring them to your practice now.

  • You want a yoga practice that will guide you both on and off the mat.

My personal yoga journey

 

When I wandered into an Iyengar yoga class at a stinky little gym in San Francisco in 1993, I had no idea that I was actually stepping into a meadow of enormous psychological, philosophical, and emotional wisdom. It wasn’t obvious at first. And in 1993, yoga was far from a household word. But despite the grumpy teacher and the dark and clangy environment, and though I didn’t know what I was doing or why, I kept going back. Something inside me knew yoga was something I needed. Twenty-nine years later, my yoga practice is in everything I do. It’s in the way I walk, the way I wait, where I walk, how I think, how I listen, and the words I speak. I couldn’t untwine it from my everyday life if I tried. Yoga was the beginning of the end of emotional pain for me. It connected me to my body, from which I had previously felt quite disconnected. Connecting to my body connected me to a sense of self and ultimately back to self-trust. After about ten years of personal practice, I earned my certification to teach from Alison West of Yoga Union in New York. I’ve been teaching, studying, and sharing this practice consistently ever since. Yoga is something rich and deep, and in the beginning you can only see so much. You can only see what somewhere inside you are ready to see. But then through the practice, you begin to change, and what you are ready for begins to expand. You see deeper, and deeper, and deeper. I hope you might step into this meadow of wisdom yourself. Let it transform you. And may you apply the poetry of the teachings to all aspects of your life. 

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How this course works

 

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  • The traditional "Sun Salutation" sequence in yoga includes a little bit of every type of pose there is in yoga. It contains mild forward bends, back bends, standing poses, arms balances, etc. 

  • This course uses this common sequence to thoroughly breakdown the fundamentals of alignment and approach for all of these pose types.

  • This course also offers you valuable teachings on a healthy spiritual approach to yoga so that you may develop a lifelong practice that is good for your mind, body, and soul.

  • This course includes more than 26 teaching videos.

  • It also includes my fundamental physical, practical, and philosophical guiding principls of practice, which I have gathered, refined, and clarified over my 30 years of practice.

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