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Offering 1-2-1 personalized and group yoga classes in the Lone Wolf Vision Studio at Ushaw Historic House. Hello, I am Julie… a freelance yoga practitioner and teacher drawing on ancient yoga and ayurvedic practices. I am here to guide your practice with subtle simplicity, bringing new healthful patterns into your life through asana/movement, pranayama/breath and meditation and more. Practising yoga is, by design, a deeply transformational experience. It involves embracing change over time, which means crafting space in your life for practice and showing up for yourself in the moment and with your future self in mind (a wonderful motivator!). If you are interested in group or individual classes please get in touch. I particularly love supporting individuals to start their yoga practice from scratch and offer a 1-2-1 beginner's programme. Or if you are seeking a more personalised practice, join my Svastha 1-2-1 programme.

28/07/2025

Wow, what a wonderful day at the British Wheel of Yoga, North East Yoga festival!

The guest teacher was Rajesh David (slides 2 and 3) who skillfully led us through Pratyahara to Dhyana with Nada Yoga.

Rajesh shared that Nada means sound, and that the essence of vibration is Nada / Brahma. Absolute consciousness is sound.

Through the Nada Yoga practice, we felt ourselves move from a state of scatteredness to state of integration and as a group found synchronization, just as starlings move with coherence while murmuring.

The essential gateway of the practice was pratyahara (with focus on Aum mantra) and ‘boom’ we were there, in dharana.

To quote Rajesh, through the practice, we “loose sense of individuality and become part of something whole.”

Steve meanwhile led an awesome ‘Fire and Flow’ session - ending with sound bath and deep release… just before lunch 🐺

The heart of my session came from Svastha Yoga and YSS and the intention of the practice was to deepen… “the feeling state of Balam / inner strength, to have courage to face challenges (fear and anxiety), with compassion, kindness and equanimity.”

A friend called me a ‘silent assassin’ since I chucked in a couple of plank practices 🤣 … while one lovely lady expressed appreciation by saying that she hoped I would be there next year 😊 🙏🏼. Let’s see what the universe has in store...

Thank you for an amazing day of yoga, NE British Wheel of Yoga 🙏🏼

16/07/2025

A monthly journey into heart-aligned yoga, designed to empower your personal practice

🔸 Ever wished you had a consistent home practice that actually fits your life?
🔸 Do you feel drawn to yoga but unsure where to start on your own?
🔸 Would you love to explore movement, breath and meditation in a way that evolves with you?

Then this monthly workshop is for you 🙏

This ongoing series is designed to help you build confidence in your own yoga practice, one that’s personal, powerful and deeply supportive. You’ll explore practices that can shift with your needs and support you in your real, everyday life.

✨ Who is this for?

✔️ You’ve dipped in and out of classes and want to build something consistent at home
✔️ You’re curious about a personal yoga practice that grows from your inner voice, not a strict schedule
✔️ You’ve attended my classes and love the accessible, compassionate approach
✔️ You’re ready to bring yoga off the mat and into your daily rhythm
✔️ You want to feel stronger, calmer and more connected, without having to do a headstand to prove it 😉

🧠 Busting the myths...

❌ “I don’t have time”
❌ “I’m not flexible enough”
❌ “I’m not a ‘real yogi’”
❌ “I can’t practice without being guided”

✨ Try these thoughts on instead:

💬 “My home practice can be 5 or 50 minutes — I get to choose”
💬 “I listen to my body and practice what feels right”
💬 “I’m excited to learn and build new patterns that nourish me”
💬 “Yoga is about connection, not perfection”

📅 Dates & Times - 3rd Sunday of the Month

🗓️ Sunday 20th July
🗓️ Sunday 17th August
🗓️ Sunday 21st September
🗓️ Sunday 19th October

🕘 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Includes a 20–30 min break with light refreshments

DM for booking link 🐺

10/07/2025

Breath & Movement
Celebrating 1 year of yoga classes up at Ushaw Historic House.
🙏🏼 Appreciating the moment and the journey… with a cup of green tea and slice of carrot cake.

A few of the reasons why I share Yoga…

🧘🏻‍♀️In my mind, I imagine our older selves thanking our younger selves for the benefits of our consistent and regular yoga practice…

🪷 the movement we brought into the body (mobility, stability, strength, balance, range of movement)
🪷 the connection with the breath (supporting our inner coherence)
🪷 the stillness and calmness we brought to the mind

🪷 Plus, we know that lifestyle factors can reduce our chance of developing noncommunicable disease. By lifestyle, factors I mean, movement/exercise, sleep, nutrition, etc. And Yoga definitely has the potential to support this.

🪷 And, if we are suffering from an illness, Yoga can help us to face that challenge with inner balance and kindness to self.

30/06/2025

Melting! (Our feeling state!)

Phew, last week the sweltering heat reached an unusual 42° (for the time of year) and we were all feeling it!

My 23 years of ‘life training’ in the Middle East led me to cover up from head to toe:

✅Tilly hat, and loose clothing…
✅plus the scarf to create extra shade when needed.
✅And I doused my hat with fresh mountain water to keep my head cool under the fixed gaze of the sun.

Someone asked if I was accustomed to the heat and a could cope better, but no, that’s not the case because living in the Middle East is often accompanied with air-conditioning and very little need to step outside of this, unless the desire is there.

Following our short walk, we entered the coolness of a vine strung courtyard, appreciating the shade and the opportunity to learn about wine growing (and tasting)… remembering to drink plenty of fresh cold water.

31/03/2025

Notes from a yoga retreat (Jan 2025)

You know that Mohanji is saying something important when he says:🔥 “I repeat”

Whatever practices you do check:
1. Vidya / right knowledge
2. Purushakara Prayatna / right effort
3. Apramada / mindfulness

With right knowledge and effort you can create new samskaras... a new, lighter ways of being...

➡️ This month's theme is going to be an interesting one!
☸️ In February we looked at Svastha
☸️ In March we explored Namaha
☸️ In April we'll be looking at…

Join my group classes to find out what April will bring!!
➡️ Tuesday 11 a.m. and Thursday 6 p.m.

➡️ Or reach out to start a 1-2-1 practice... 3 levels...

1. Foundation programme for beginners (4 week course)
2. Inner Growth Yoga Programme... build on your foundation skills (4 week course)
3. Inner Balance Svastha Yoga Programme... personalise your practice (4 week course that explores the Svastha domains)

24/03/2025

Notes from a retreat… words of A.G.Mohan (Jan 2025)

☸️ We all need happiness and peace
☸️ This is the state of Svastha

There are 2 states…
1. The state of peace that is not permanent
2. And when the object is seen clearly and the person is in a state of peace

☸️ The person is in a state of Svastha when they are in a state of balance.

➡️ Imbalance is a-svastha
When we don’t receive our desires we experience anger and anxiety. Balance is lost.
A-svastha arises because of avidya.
Avidya is the wrong knowledge.
Viparyaya is the opposite to the right knowledge.

❤️

23/03/2025

Weekend read… browsing my bookshelves… full of books read, half read and never read (I have my very own book fairy) and this weekend this one caught my attention:

➡️ Stopping: How to be still when you have to keep going by David Kundtz (pub 1998).

☸️ It’s a book written for those caught up in the whirlwind or roller coaster of existence (most of us); and especially those who feel that they are rushing from one thing to the next gasping for breath.

☸️ It’s a book that invites us to find moments to pause in each day. (‘Impossible’, you might be saying as you read this).

☸️ This is not a book about meditation or how to meditate. (David defines himself as a failed meditator)…

☸️ However, it is a book about how to pause (for short or longer periods of time) and how to contemplate (which is a form of meditation - perhaps not so failed), so that your choices, decisions and direction come from your heart, and so that you are not pulled along by life.

🙈 You may be thinking… ‘I’m too busy, I don’t have time to pause / stop’.

☸️ David helps us to see that there are micro moments in each day where we can pause, take stock and contemplate, before we move into the next ‘thing’ that needs to be done.

☸️ ‘Stopping’ could be for seconds or minutes at a time.
Or, with practice, it could be for a whole afternoon, a whole day (remember lazy Sundays?), a whole week…

☸️ He argues that ‘stopping’ is a way to cope with a ‘too-busy life’ and it sounds like the sort of book I should have been reading in my 40s.

☸️ The purpose of stopping, is to ‘awaken us’, so that we act with intention, remembering the important things in our lives... by design, it may improve the quality of our lives, because we remember our values, our goals, our desires, our passions… and we re-evaluate, and maybe change how we show up, or even if we show up at all.

🏃🏻‍♀️Of course, after ‘stopping’ we may need to speed up again… but we speed up with awareness and intention. Knowing that there is a power within us that will enable us to press pause and recalibrate at any time.

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