About
Meet Julia Giurleo
RYT 200 · Founder & Teacher
I teach yoga live online, and private classes for groups. Groups stay small enough that I can actually see you. Certified, yes. Solemn about it, no. What I care about is whether you finish the hour feeling more like yourself than when you started.
Julia Giurleo
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The background
Trained, and still learning
I completed my two hundred hour training and teach as an RYT 200, registered with Yoga Alliance. That number is a floor rather than a ceiling. Most of what I actually use came after it, from teaching real people week after week and paying attention to what helped.
Most weeks I am teaching live online, in groups small enough that I can see every screen and use your name. The format travels better than people expect. You need a mat, a quiet corner, and enough room to reach your arms out without hitting a lamp.
I also teach in person, and I take private clients, both small groups and one on one. Private sessions are where the work gets specific. An old injury, a pose that has never once felt right, a body in the middle of changing. We build the hour around you instead of around a room, and we go at whatever pace that actually requires.
Small groups tend to suit friends who want to practice together, or a family that would rather not do it in front of strangers. If you are weighing up which of the three fits you, just ask me. I would rather send you somewhere useful than fill a class.
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The approach
How I teach
Three ideas the hour is built on. Nothing to learn in advance, and nothing to keep up with.
Slow is a skill
Moving slowly asks more of you than moving quickly, and it gives more back. We stay in things long enough for you to feel what is actually happening, which is usually not what you expected when you got in.
The pose is not the point
A shape your body will not make today is information, not failure. Some days that information is that you slept badly. We work with the body that showed up, and the one that shows up next week gets its own class.
You are the one deciding
Every cue I give is an offer. Take it, change it, or stay exactly where you are. Rest whenever you want it. I am not keeping score, and honestly it is none of my business.
nobody is watching you. i promise.
Off the mat
Water, mostly
Whenever I can, I find my way back to the water. It has always been one of the places I feel most grounded, somewhere I can slow down, clear my head, and feel a little more like myself.
The rest of life is a little less picturesque: more tea than any one person reasonably needs, a yoga mat that never quite makes it back into the closet, books left open around the house, and a husky who seems to think every quiet moment is an invitation to curl up right beside me.
Yoga fits somewhere in the middle of all of that. It has never felt like something that needs to be perfect or overly serious. For me, it is a way to slow things down, come back to myself, and make a little room to breathe.
That is the feeling I hope to bring into every class. Nothing performative. Nothing you need to be especially flexible, experienced, or good at. Just thoughtful movement, a little space from everything else, and an hour that feels like it belongs to you.
If that sounds like an hour you would want, the door is open. Come try one and see how it sits.
see you on the mat,
julia
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