Please read this page before you book. It is the agreement between you and Rooted with Julia. Section 3 is the one that matters most: yoga is physical activity, you take part at your own risk, and nothing taught here is medical care.
1. Who this agreement is between
These terms are an agreement between you and Julia Giurleo, doing business as Rooted with Julia, a sole proprietorship based in Massachusetts, United States. "Julia", "we", "us" and "the practice" all mean the same thing below. "You" means the person reading this, and where you are booking for other people, it also means every person you book for.
They cover this website, rootedwithjulia.com, and everything bought or booked through it: single live online classes, monthly memberships, private group classes, celebration and event classes, corporate and workplace sessions, the email newsletter, and the journal.
2. Agreeing to these terms
You agree to these terms by using this site, by buying a class or a membership, by booking a private or corporate session, or by taking part in any class. If you do not agree to them, please do not book, and do not take part.
If you are booking on behalf of other people — a bridal party, a team, a family, a company — you confirm two things: that you have the authority to agree to these terms for that group, and that you will pass sections 3 and 4 on to every person who will be on the mat. You are responsible to us for your group's conduct and for the fees owed.
You must be at least 18 to buy a class, hold a membership, or book an event. Anyone between 13 and 17 may take part only in a private or family session, and only with a parent or legal guardian who has agreed to these terms and is present. Classes are not offered to children under 13.
3. Health, physical risk, and your own responsibility
This section is the heart of the agreement. Read it properly.
Yoga is physical activity and it carries risk
Yoga involves movement, stretching, bearing weight, balancing, and breathing exercises. Taking part carries a real risk of injury, including muscle strain, joint and ligament injury, falls, dizziness, fainting, aggravation of an existing condition, and in rare cases serious or permanent injury. That risk cannot be removed by careful teaching, and it exists whether you practise in a studio, in a hired venue, or in your own front room.
You take part voluntarily and you accept that risk yourself. You knowingly and freely assume all risk of injury, illness, loss or damage arising from taking part in any class, known or unknown, whether or not it is caused in part by anything we did or failed to do. To the fullest extent the law allows, you release Julia Giurleo and Rooted with Julia from any claim for injury, illness, loss or damage arising out of your participation.
Nothing in this section limits liability for death or personal injury caused by gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any other liability that Massachusetts law does not permit to be limited.
This is not medical care and it is not medical advice
Julia is a registered yoga teacher (RYT 200). She is not a doctor, a physical therapist, a nurse, a dietitian, a psychologist, or any other kind of licensed healthcare provider, and she does not hold herself out as one. Nothing said in a class, written on this site, sent by email, or published in the journal is medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or a substitute for care from a qualified professional.
You should speak to your doctor before starting any new physical practice, and you should certainly do so if you are pregnant or recently postpartum, recovering from surgery, injury or illness, living with a heart, blood pressure, bone, joint, back, neck or neurological condition, managing an eating disorder or a mental health condition, or taking medication that affects balance, blood pressure or awareness. Never ignore medical advice, or put off getting it, because of something you read or heard here.
If you feel pain, dizziness, breathlessness, or anything that frightens you during a class, stop. Seek medical help if you need it. The practice is built on the idea that resting is always allowed.
What you need to tell us
You agree to tell Julia about any injury, condition, pregnancy, or limitation that could reasonably affect your practice, before the class if you can and during it if something changes. She cannot offer you a safer alternative to a shape she does not know you need one for.
You also agree that you are physically able to take part, that you are not acting against medical advice, and that you are not under the influence of alcohol or anything else that affects your balance, judgment or awareness.
Cues are offers, and you choose
Every instruction in a class is an invitation, not a requirement. You decide what to attempt, how far to go, and when to stop. You remain responsible for your own body and your own choices throughout, and you should modify, rest, or leave a shape alone whenever you want to.
Your space is yours to make safe
Online classes happen in a room we have never seen. Before class you are responsible for making your own space safe: enough clear floor to reach your arms and legs out in every direction, a non-slip surface, nothing hard or sharp within falling distance, no furniture or lamps in the way, a stable device that will not fall on you, and no pets or small children underfoot. Julia cannot see your room, cannot assess your surroundings, and is not responsible for the space you choose to practise in or for damage to anything in it.
4. Classes, the schedule, and the Zoom link
Live online classes are taught over Zoom on the published schedule. When you buy a class, an email arrives with the Zoom link, usually within a minute or two. Each class on the schedule keeps the same recurring link, so the link you receive is the one to use.
Your link is yours. It is personal and non-transferable. Do not forward it, post it, share it on social media, or use it to bring other paying-age adults into a class you bought for yourself. One purchase, one membership, one participant. If a link is shared, we may remove the people using it, rotate the link, or close the account, and we are not obliged to refund anything.
Classes are not recorded, and you may not record them. Julia keeps no recording of any class. You may not record, screenshot, stream, broadcast, or otherwise capture a class or any part of it, by any means, without her written permission in advance. Other people are on those screens.
Your camera is always optional. If you choose to have it on, other participants will see you; that is your choice to make and to unmake at any point.
The schedule can change. Times, class names, teachers and format may be adjusted, and classes may occasionally be moved or cancelled — illness, family, weather, a failure at Zoom or at your internet provider. If Julia cancels a class you have paid for as a single class, you may use that payment for another class on the schedule or ask for a refund of that class. Memberships are not credited for individual missed or cancelled classes, because the membership opens every class on the schedule rather than reserving any one of them.
5. Single classes
A single class is $15 in US dollars, bought for one session. There is nothing to reserve and nothing to cancel. If you miss the week you meant to come to, the same link works the following week, so a missed class is not a lost one.
Single classes are non-refundable once the link has been sent, except where section 4 says otherwise or where the law requires a refund. Julia may choose to make an exception; if she does, it is a one-off kindness, not a policy, and it does not oblige her to do the same again.
6. Memberships
The membership is $79 per month in US dollars and opens every live online class on the published schedule, as often as you like. It does not include private classes, celebration or event classes, corporate sessions, or any one-to-one teaching.
It renews automatically. By starting a membership you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method $79 every month on the same date until you cancel. Each renewal is a new month of access, and each renewal payment is non-refundable.
You can cancel whenever you like, from your own Stripe billing page, in a couple of clicks and without asking anybody. There is no contract, no notice period and no cancellation fee. Cancelling stops the next charge; your membership runs to the end of the period you have already paid for and then ends. We do not refund part-months, and we do not pro-rate.
If a payment fails, Stripe will try again on its usual schedule. If it keeps failing, access can be suspended or the membership closed. Keeping your card details current is your side of the arrangement.
We may change the membership price. If we do, you will be told by email at least 30 days before it affects you, and the new price applies from your next renewal after that notice. Carrying on past that date is how you accept the new price; cancelling before it is how you decline.
7. Private, celebration and corporate bookings
Private group classes, bachelorette and wedding-day classes, birthday classes, retreat classes, and corporate and workplace sessions are arranged individually. The quote Julia sends — the date, the time, the length, the number of participants, the location or the online format, the fee, and anything agreed about travel — together with these terms, is the whole of that booking.
Confirming and paying. A booking is confirmed when Julia says so in writing and any deposit named in the quote has been paid. Deposits are non-refundable and hold the date. The balance is due by the date in the quote, and unpaid balances may mean the session does not go ahead.
If you need to move or cancel. Tell her as early as you can. Unless the quote says otherwise: cancel or move more than 14 days before and the deposit may be applied to a new date within six months; cancel or move 14 days or less before and the full fee is due, because the date was held and turned others away. One reschedule is usually accommodated without a fee where the diary allows.
If Julia has to move or cancel. Illness, emergency, weather that makes travel unsafe, or anything else outside her control. She will offer you the first available alternative date, or a full refund of everything you have paid, including the deposit, whichever you prefer. Beyond that refund she is not responsible for other costs you have committed to around the session — a venue, accommodation, travel, catering, or anything else. Book those with that in mind.
Your venue, your participants. For a session at a home, an Airbnb, a hotel, an office or any other space you have chosen, you are responsible for the space being safe, legal and suitable: a clear and level floor large enough for the group, a surface that is not slippery, somewhere to change if needed, permission from whoever owns or manages it, and no hazards. You are responsible for your guests' and employees' conduct, and for making sure each of them knows what section 3 says before they practise. Julia may decline to teach, and the full fee remains due, if the space is not safe or the group is not in a fit state to practise.
Participant numbers, equipment and travel. Please confirm numbers by the date in the quote; additional participants on the day may be charged at the rate in the quote, and fewer participants does not reduce the fee. Unless the quote says that mats or props are provided, participants bring their own. Travel beyond the area named in the quote is charged as set out there.
8. Payments, taxes and chargebacks
All prices are in US dollars. Payments are taken by Stripe, which handles your card details on its own systems under its own terms; we never see or store a card number. By paying you confirm you are authorised to use the payment method and that the details are accurate.
Prices do not include any sales or other tax that may apply, and any such tax is added where required. You are responsible for any fee your own bank or card issuer charges you, including foreign transaction fees.
If you believe a charge is wrong, write to Julia first and she will look into it. Raising a chargeback or payment dispute without giving her that chance is a breach of these terms; we may suspend access while a dispute is open, recover the amount disputed along with any fee charged to us, and decline future bookings.
9. How to behave in a class
Classes are meant to be steady, unhurried and open to every body, and that holds only if everyone helps. You agree not to harass, abuse, threaten, insult or discriminate against anyone in a class; not to disrupt a class; not to use the chat or your microphone or camera for anything inappropriate, commercial or sexual; not to appear in class under the influence of anything that makes you unsafe; and not to photograph, record or share anyone else.
Julia may remove you from a class, suspend your access, or close your account and membership, with or without warning, if you break these terms or behave in a way that makes a class unsafe or unpleasant for other people. Where that happens because of something you did, we are not obliged to refund anything.
10. What belongs to whom
Everything on this site is owned by Julia Giurleo or used with permission: the writing, the journal articles, the photographs, the illustrations, the sequences and class plans, the name "Rooted with Julia", the logo, and the design and code of the site itself. It is protected by copyright, trademark and other law.
You may read it, and you may share a link to a page. You may not copy, republish, sell, licence, adapt, scrape, or use any of it to train a machine-learning model, and you may not use it to teach or sell classes of your own, without written permission. You keep whatever you send us — an enquiry, a question, a reply to an email — but by sending it you allow us to read it, store it and act on it in order to answer you and to run the practice. If you send a compliment that would read well on the site, we will ask before using your name.
11. Email and messages
When you buy a class or a membership we will email you about it: the Zoom link, receipts, schedule changes, and anything else needed to provide what you paid for. Those messages are part of the service and cannot be turned off while you hold a membership or a booking.
The newsletter is separate and entirely optional. It goes only to people who asked for it, every issue carries an unsubscribe link, and using it takes effect immediately.
12. Other people's services
Running the practice relies on a handful of other companies — Stripe for payments and billing, Zoom for the classes, Resend for the emails, Vercel for hosting this site. Each has its own terms and its own privacy policy, and your use of them is subject to those. We choose them carefully but we do not control them, and we are not responsible for their failures, outages, security incidents, or changes to what they offer. If one of them goes down during a class, section 4 says what happens.
Links from this site to anywhere else are offered for convenience and are not an endorsement of what you find there.
13. What we do not promise
Classes, the site and everything on it are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
In particular, we do not promise that the site will always be available or free of error, that an email will always arrive in your inbox rather than your spam folder, that Zoom will always work, or that yoga will produce any particular result for you. Flexibility, strength, weight, sleep, pain and calm all depend on far more than a class, and nothing here is a guarantee about your health.
14. The limit of what we are liable for
To the fullest extent Massachusetts law allows:
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunity, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of these terms, this site, or any class, however caused and on any theory of liability.
- Our total liability to you for all claims taken together will not exceed the greater of the amount you actually paid us in the three months before the event complained of, or one hundred US dollars ($100).
These limits apply even if we were told that such damages were possible, and even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose. They do not apply to liability for death or personal injury caused by gross negligence or wilful misconduct, to fraud, or to anything else that cannot be limited under Massachusetts law. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you; the rest still does.
15. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Julia Giurleo and Rooted with Julia from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your breach of these terms, your participation in a class, the conduct of anyone you booked for, the venue you chose for a private or corporate session, or your misuse of this site or of a Zoom link.
16. If something goes wrong between us
Talk to her first. Before starting any formal proceeding, write to hello@rootedwithjulia.com setting out what has happened and what you would like done about it, and give her 30 days to put it right. Most things end here.
If that does not resolve it, these terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any claim must be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Massachusetts. You and we each consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection to that venue.
Claims are brought individually. To the fullest extent the law allows, you and we each agree to bring any claim only on your or our own behalf, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative action. You also agree that any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is waived, except where a longer period is required by law.
17. The rest of the small print
Changes to these terms. We may update these terms. The date at the top changes with them, and the version on this page at the time you book is the one that governs that booking. If a change materially affects people who already hold a membership or a confirmed booking, we will tell them by email rather than quietly editing the page. Carrying on using the site or your membership after a change means you accept it.
Privacy. What is collected, why, and what you can ask to have done about it is set out in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.
If a part fails. If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and everything else stays in force.
Not waived by patience. If we do not enforce a term straight away, that is not a waiver of it or of anything else.
Transfer. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. We may transfer ours to a successor if the practice is sold or reorganised.
Outside anyone's control. Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by something genuinely beyond our control: illness, severe weather, power or internet failure, the failure of a third-party service, government action, or a public health emergency.
The whole agreement. These terms, the privacy policy, and any written quote for a private or corporate booking are the entire agreement between us about their subject, and they replace anything said earlier.
Where we are. The practice is run from Massachusetts, United States, and the site is intended for people in the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with your own local law.
18. Getting in touch
Questions about these terms, or anything in them, go to hello@rootedwithjulia.com. Julia reads every one.
Rooted with Julia
Julia Giurleo, sole proprietor
Massachusetts, United States
hello@rootedwithjulia.com