Julia is a 550 hour registered yoga teacher and holds an ACA stand up paddleboard yoga instructor certification. She has also been trained in pilates, barre, & meditation as well as guided whitewater rafting & canoeing, backpacking, hiking, and climbing. Her unique life experience gives her the skills to build nurturing yoga classes both in the studio and in nature while her down-to-earth teaching style creates a safe place for individuals to connect with their bodies, cultivate inner resilience, and make space for the most vibrant version of themselves to blossom.

Julia grew up on a farm in rural NC and moved to the mountains in 2010 to study Spanish education at UNC-Asheville. She taught middle school Spanish, worked as an outdoor guide in the summers, completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Asheville Community Yoga in 2017, taught yoga part-time, and in 2022 was forced to resign from her job due to chronic migraines. Having been diagnosed with Lyme disease, this physical burnout forced her to reckon with this illness and its consequences. Julia spent the next two years experiencing almost daily migraines and, unable to work, she found herself in a very dark night of the soul. 

Eventually the migraines came less frequently and it was yoga that supported Julia as she clawed her way back to stable mental, physical, and spiritual health. She began teaching yoga again at a private retirement community and rekindled her light through sharing the magic of yoga.

In 2024 Julia completed her 300 hour yoga teacher training in Costa Rica with Pranaluz Conscious Living and returned to WNC with a renewed sense of her dharma, life purpose. Through navigating decades with chronic migraines and Lyme disease, Julia has developed a deep understanding of how yoga and meditation can support us as we move through life’s challenges. She knows first hand that movement is medicine and is passionate about helping others to access the potency of these practices.