Julianne was the senior teacher and manager of the Hatha yoga program at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose for over 25 years. This experience contributed greatly to her long-standing reputation as a gifted and dynamic teacher.

In addition to teaching hatha yoga classes at YIY, and Yoga ‘n Play classes at Harmony
Birth and the Santa Cruz Village, she teaches InterPlay interplay.org improv classes in
Aptos, teaches one on one private yoga sessions and leads annual Yoga retreats at the
Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel. This year her retreat is June 22-24. You can find
info about it at juliannerice.com

One of Julianne’s specialties is working with moms and babies. Over the past 7 years
she has developed a program called Yoga ‘n Play. These postpartum group classes for
moms with babies engage and uplift both parent and child. Julianne recently led a teacher
training teaching to train others how to implement this unique program. Yoga ‘n Play
classes serve moms with babies from 6 weeks old to 18 months old. You can read more
about these programs at harmonybirth.com

Julianne lives in Aptos, a few miles south of Santa Cruz, and commutes in over highway
17 for the love of yoga, the great studio and people at YIY In her free time, you can
find her walking her dog, Rosie – near the beach, in the redwoods or around the park
near to where she lives. She loves watching the surf, the surfers, ocean sunsets. On a few occasions you may also find her trying to keep up in a cardio kick boxing class at the
gym and/or dancing to her own music.

Morning Practices:
Friday June 22nd 7-9 am Conducted Morning Practice
Introduction to Sama, Vinyasa, Breath, Roots, and Core
We will go slowly and explore more details in the Sun Salutation and Standing poses. This will be a practice, rather than a workshop style class, so it will flow with a slower pace and more focus on correct inner work. “It is not important how far or how fast we go!”

Saturday June 23rd 10:00 to 12:00 Conducted Morning Practice
Morning Practice continues. We will review and continue to travel further into the series, making sure to carry forward what we have learned as we challenge our abilities to maintain that work in the more difficult postures.

Sunday June 24th 7:00 to 9:30 am Morning Practice, Led Primary Series
“It is not important how far we go nor how fast we go.” This will be instructed Ashtanga with a focus on methods of adapting the practice to the individual student. This is a great place to learn how to take care of yourself in a conducted class. There are options you can employ to stay in the flow and still work appropriately.
Recommended for one and for all, advanced and beginner.

Monday-Friday June 25^th  – 29th 6:30 to 9:00 am
Morning Practice. We continue with our morning practice.  I reserve the right to decide whether to do conducted or Mysore style!

Saturday June 30th 10:00 am to 12:00 am Morning Practice
Full Led Primary Series, Up to Speed
We will continue with our morning practice to focus on correct effort and intention as we’ll bring the practice up to speed. Come one, come all. Test your ability to work consciously as we challenge the pace.

Workshops:
Friday June 22nd 12:00 to 3:00 Shoulder Workshop
We use our shoulders a lot in Ashtanga. It is best if we learn how to take good care of them before we start demanding more from them in the more advanced postures. That is the intention in this class. We will use the ‘basic’ but not easy shoulder challenging postures of the Sun Salutations, Downward Facing Dog, Chaturanga Dandasana and Upward Facing Dog. The work we explore in those will inform many of our other postures as we move on.

Saturday June 23rd 2:30 to 5:30 Workshop
Samasthitihi and SuryaNamaskara: unwrapped and reborn….
As it sounds we will go deeper into Surya Namaskara and Samasthitihi. There is a set of Universal Actions we need to learn in these practices that are the heart and soul of the whole practice. This is the primary ground work of the whole practice.

Sunday June 24th 1:00 to 3:00 pm Standing Postures Workshop
The postures of the Standing sequence are very important, safe and therapeutic if done correctly. Let’s look at how to truly benefit from them and to learn how to challenge ourselves appropriately in these postures we practice everyday. Getting the legs stronger and learning how to use that strength to extend the spine will help us in backbends, forward bends, twists, and inversions.
Standing postures are the best hip openers.

Saturday June 30th 2:30 to 5:30 pm Back Bending Workshop.
Let’s learn to practice these poses as front stretching postures and not as back bends. We can do them in a fun and healthy way well into our old age if we do them correctly! There are a few simple things we need to focus on to make these asanas fun and therapeutic.

Teacher Intensive:

Monday -Friday June 25^th- 29th,1:30 to 4:30 pm. A 5-day Teacher Intensive for teachers and experienced students. Possible things to explore:
-common injuries and how to avoid them
-techniques to help us navigate in a Vinyasic way
-how to modify our effort to stay on the right path and work therapeutically
-hands-on adjustments to help us understand the Universal Actions of all postures
-time for questions and answers
-the unification of practice and philosophy in Ashtanga Yoga
-alternating between passive and active work to help find our way
-pranayama and meditation

Chuck Miller has been practicing yoga earnestly since 1971 and finally learned Ashtanga Yoga from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 1980. Studies with Pattabhi include numerous extended and familial encounters in America and nearly 2 years during 7 trips to Mysore , South India .

Chuck enjoys teaching with a focus on the wholistic nature of Ashtanga Yoga, teaching it as both a philosophical system as well as a strong practical method. Chuck is known for his gentle but deliberate hands-on adjustments which are both reassuring and challenging.

Teaching since 1988 Chuck was Director of Ashtanga Yoga and was a co-owner of the original Yoga Works in Santa Monica , CA , for over 16 years.

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***CANCELATION POLICY: If canceled two weeks or more prior to the worskhop, you will get full refund. No refund available if canceled less than two weeks prior to the workshop, we will be able to issue a refund or studio credit (less a $10 processing fee) if you are able to find a replacement for your reserved space.

Join us for a life changing Energy Healing Clinic. Each session will be 45 minutes long, as you rest on a table, fully clothed and covered with a blanket. Reiki, Healing Touch, or Access Bars will be facilitated by experienced practitioners Kathy Rule, Mojdeh, Aska Yoshizu, Sharon Knight, Nancy Carino and Kathleen Kronenwetter. Benefits of Energy Healing include:

• Reducing stress
• Decreasing pain
• Calming anxiety and depression
• Strengthening the immune system
• Balancing the body’s energy system
• Easing acute and chronic conditions
• Enhancing recovery from surgery
• Supporting cancer care
• Creating a sense of well-being

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I am the mother of two children, both of whom, I am lucky to say, live within 45 minutes of me. One is a gifted social worker. The other creates magic in furniture.
That means I get to have the luxury of time with my four grandchildren. What a gift! My own grandmothers helped form my life. I can only hope that I can be the same presence for my three granddaughters and one grandson. I certainly try.

I was raised in a large Cincinnati family of six children, one of whom died tragically in a road accident in his early twenties.

Family life in abundance, therefore, has helped shape my outlook on life.

In the 1960s, I felt a call to be of service. I joined VISTA (volunteers in service to America), now part of AmeriCorps. My brother was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia, so I had some understanding of what full-time volunteering might entail. VISTA was called the domestic Peace Corps. I trained in Chicago, and was assigned to Appalachia and later to Spanish Harlem in Manhattan.

I also met my husband in VISTA and we have had a magical ride together (including lots of twists and turns)  for over 44  years in Ohio, New York, Washington, DC, and California. I marvel at all that he has accomplished  (www.statsky.blogspot.com) and am deeply grateful in his support of my journey of discovery.

Since I was a young teen I felt drawn to learn yoga but there were no classes for me in Cincinnati.  In the early years of our marriage in New York City, 1968, I saw an ad for a yoga class.  There I met Swami Satchidananda, the originator of Integral Hatha Yoga.   I felt a dramatic awakening from my first encounter. I felt the physical challenge of yoga because I was stiff, yet left class feeling ecstatically happy.  Little did I know then that yoga would breathe new joy into every aspect of my life.  As it is still doing.  Yoga has brought me strength and flexibility and helped me avoid back surgery.  Yet, the most precious aspect of yoga for me is meditation.

In 1990 I met my Guru.   The peace and calm gained from this practice is my life line.

In 1995  I began training as a yoga instructor  and have completed other trainings as well,  including Pre-natal, and Restorative, and  Healing Arts such as REIKI.”

Also check out our Tuesdays and Thursdays Lunch Time classes with Mojdeh, Wednesdays Pilates with Darcy. Regular price applies.

Thanks to all of you, for choosing us for your yoga!

She started practicing yoga in 1996, unable to touch her toes. After five years of practice she set off to India where she had the honor to study with Shri K Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath in the intimacy of the original shala. After four additional trips to India over nine years, and many years of daily practice, she had the honor of receiving the authorization to teach this method from Shri K Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath, an honor currently granted to less than 100 people in the United States. She has been teaching mysore style ashtanga classes in the manner she was taught in India for over ten years, and she has witnessed first hand the powerful transformation and healing available to practioners of ashtanga yoga with patience, practice, and time.

In her desire to further bring a sense of the depth and beauty of this practice to south bay practioners she has  brought many amazing senior teachers to Yoga is Youth for special workshops, including Dominic Corigliano and Saisha Peterson, David Roche, David Garrigues and Nancy Gilgoff. She has further helped to bring Lino Miele, Tim Miller, and Peter Sanson. She is thrilled to have seen so many folks return again and again to the special ashtanga community that exists at this studio. You can find her own website at www.sattva-yoga.com, and most days you can find her at Yoga is Youth.

About Tim Miller:
Tim Miller has been studying and teaching Ashtanga Yoga for over thirty years and was the first American certified to teach by Pattabhi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. Tim has a thorough knowledge of this ancient system, which he imparts in a dynamic, yet compassionate and playful manner. “My goal as a teacher is to inspire a passion for practice. The practice itself, done consistently and accurately, is the real teacher.” Tim teaches workshops and retreats throughout the United States and abroad.
To read more about Tim go to http://www.ashtangayogacenter.com/tim.html

PAYMENT
Workshops fill on a first come, first served basis. Your spot is not guaranteed unless you prepay for it.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
Cancellations 7 or more days prior to start of a workshop will receive a full refund.

For cancellations less than 7 days before the workshop, we will only be able to issue a refund or studio credit (less a $10 processing fee) if you are able to find a replacement for your reserved space.

Cancellations within 48 hours of the start of the workshop, if you do not show up, or if you leave an event early for any reason, no credit or refund is available.

Yoga is Youthfulness reserves the right to cancel any program at any time if this is necessary, we will issue a full refund.

Rebecca Snowball is a certified Vinyasa  and licensed Anusara-Inspired yoga teacher.  She received her first teaching certificate from Ganga White and Tracy Rich of the White Lotus Yoga Foundation  and is continuing her education to become certified, by John Friend, in Anusara yoga.

Rebecca teaches Anusara yoga, a hatha yoga system founded by John Friend.  Anusara became an official yoga system in 1997 and is now the fastest growing yoga in the world.   Rebecca was drawn to this system due to the elegant Universal Principles of  Alignment, which created exceptional strength and  freedom in her yoga practice. In 2008, after a profound teacher training with Stacey Rosenberg, followed by Teacher Training level II, with John Friend, Rebecca committed to teaching this amazing, loving, and heart-opening yoga.

After her first yoga class, Rebecca found her passion and began her quest to share what she is learning with the world. In the year 2000, she created Yoga Soul, her yoga business. She currently teaches group, private and corporate classes. Rebecca enjoys blending yoga, dance, and live music in special events and workshops.