julie, yoga therapist and anatomy nerd.
I have scoliosis and since I was 14 I went to the physiotherapist every week to
improve my posture and reduce my back pain. I lived many years abroad as a
humanitarian worker. I started my journey with yoga in India in 2009, which
changed my life. At that time, I was living in Chennai and to take care of my
back pain, I took private yoga classes for 2 years. Thanks to my teacher, I no
longer needed to go to the physio, I had my practice to manage my pain. I did my
first teacher training in 2012 at the Sivananda Ashram in Orléans. When I
started teaching, people with different pathologies came to me, and I was afraid
of hurting them, or to do the wrong think. I then began my journey in anatomy
with Blandine Calais Germain and her team in 2013. In June 2017, I was one of
the very first Yoga teachers to receive her Anatom'Yoga diploma (more than 300
hours of training in anatomy applied to Yoga). My dissertation focused on the
link between the spine (obviously) and breathing. My other anatomy teachers are
Leslie Kaminof (New York) author of the Bestseller Yoga Anatomy and Thomas Myers
(USA) author of the very famous Anatomy Trains and fascia specialist. Today I
deepen my knowledge by following personalities such as Gil Hedley (Dissection
and Fascia - US), Robert Schleip (fascia research in Germany), Julian Baker
(Functional Fascia- UK) and Jaap Van Der Wall (Embriologist - NL).
